The development team behind the Arch Linux-based CachyOS published today a new ISO snapshot for August 2026 that includes the latest package updates, new features, and improvements.

For those with an ASUS ROG Ryujin III all-in-one CPU liquid cooling setup catering to gamers, there are now patches pending to enable this AIO liquid cooling setup to work under Linux for monitoring...

Polychromatic 0.9.8 is out with Razer Blade 16 (2023) support, a smoother brightness slider, improved icon lookups, and several fixes.

DietPi 10.6 has been released today as a new stable version of this Linux distribution for single-board computers, adding support for new SBCs and updating the DietPi-Software, DietPi-Benchmark, and DietPi-Config tools.

It's been another busy week in the Linux kernel camp with increased patch activity continuing due to AI/LLM coding agents / bots continuing to uncover different defects in the open-source codebase. The hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem saw many fixes this week for issues mostly raised by the Sashiko AI bot with the issues being described as mostly critical or high severity bugs...

KDE Plasma 6.8 will bring faster remote desktop performance, lower latency on poor connections, reduced memory usage, and several UI refinements.

Thanks in part to the power of Claude Opus 5 and Claude Fable 5, a new Windows DirectX 11 driver for QEMU has been created to help improve graphics acceleration for Microsoft Windows guests running under QEMU virtual machines...

See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from August 3–7.

Making its debut this Saturday rather than the usual bi-weekly Friday release regiment, Wine 11.15 is out today as the newest development release for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications to run on Linux...

Nostalgia brought me back to my old Octopus Conky theme from the Solus days. I revisited it, explored Conky's Wayland support, and created Pure. Discover both themes.

It's been another busy summertime week of KDE developers working toward a great Plasma 6.8 desktop release in October...

ClamAV 1.5.4 is now available with fixes for eight CVEs affecting ZIP, PDF, Mach-O, XAR, UnRAR, PE processing, and other components.

For those with newer, high-end Logitech input devices, coming with Linux 7.3 is support for the re-programmable button support of the HID++ 2.0 protocol...

The Debian Project released a new kernel security update for Debian 13 “Trixie” users on August 6th, 2026, just a week after the previous kernel update, addressing new flaws in the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel.

Fastfetch 2.67 adds an experimental browser-based config editor, interactive TUI generation, watch mode, and multiple Linux-related fixes.

The latest high profile open-source project to commit to an AI coding policy is NetworkManager, the widely-used software for Linux network configuration...

Proxmox VE gains its first official Arm64 edition, bringing KVM, LXC, ZFS, Ceph, clustering, and enterprise support to Arm servers.

While the Linux WiFi/wireless maintainer just announced taking a stand against AI/LLM generated slop patches with a new "three second review" rule, the broader Linux networking subsystem continues to be bombarded with AI-generated patches...

Two months after proposing the changes, several Rust teams have officially adopted a policy restricting AI-generated contributions.

A set of patches providing fixes for the Apple Silicon NVMe driver for the Linux kernel were sent out today due to new issues cropping up when running newer Apple firmware. Firmware shipped by macOS 15+ is causing issues with the current Apple NVMe open-source Linux driver developed by the Asahi Linux crew...