Ubuntu developers at Canonical are looking to strip the signed GRUB bootloader features to the bare minimum for the Ubuntu 26.10 release later this year. Dropping support for XFS, ZFS, Btrfs, LVM, md-raid (except RAID1), LUKS-encrypted disks, and other features is being looked at in the name of security...

FreeCAD 1.1 has been released today as a major update for this open-source, free, and cross-platform 3D parametric modeler with numerous new features and UI improvements.

Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems enabled a new feature called BTP+BTI RCC Keying. You may be wondering what it means or stands for, but long story short it helps with the performance of Direct3D 12 (DX12) games running on Linux by way of Valve's Steam Play with Proton + VKD3D-Proton...

ShellGPT makes the terminal user-friendly, saving time by generating commands, automating scripts, and guiding me through tasks.

Kali Linux 2026.1 ethical hacking and penetration testing distribution is now available for download with 8 new tools, fresh new artwork, Kali NetHunter updates, a BackTrack mode, and other changes.

Flatpak may be next, and the lobbying behind it is raising eyebrowsAfter weeks of debate, code to record user age was finally merged into the Linux world's favorite system management daemon.…

Hot on the heels of Firefox 149, the Mozilla Thunderbird open-source email, news, chat, calendar, and addressbook client has been updated today to version 149 with various new features and bug fixes.

GNOME 48.10 is out as the last maintenance update in the GNOME 48 lifecycle, focusing on fixes across core components like Shell, GTK, and Mutter.

Days after Oracle celebrated their RHEL-based Oracle Linux distribution turning 20 years old, today they announced Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.2 "UEK 8.2" as their alternative to the RHEL-clone kernel with Oracle Linux...

Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained governmentinterview The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group's executive director when Cohn departs this summer.…

While having the new System76 Thelio Mira desktop in the lab, I took the opportunity to run some benchmarks to see how Pop!_OS 24.04 is currently performing relative to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for which it is based as well as looking ahead at how Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in its current near-final development form is looking on the same hardware.

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Radxa, in collaboration with DEEPX, has introduced the AICore DX-M1M, a compact AI acceleration module designed for edge inference workloads. The module uses the DeepX DX-M1M NPU and integrates through an M.2 interface for use in embedded and single-board computer platforms. The AICore DX-M1M follows Radxa’s earlier AICore DX-M1 module introduced in late 2025, which […]

Building off the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux beta driver that brought DRI3 v1.2 support and new Vulkan capabilities, the NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux driver released this morning as the first stable Linux driver build in the R595 release branch...

Arm announced their first silicon product in history with today's AGI CPU. The Arm AGI CPU complements their existing IP offerings into a production-ready silicon product for AI data centers...

AMD and CIQ jointly announced today that AMD-optimized Rocky Linux builds are being worked on for this RHEL-derived operating system. The AMD-optimized Rocky Linux will focus on AI and HPC workloads and be nicely integrated with ROCm...

NVIDIA released today the stable version of the NVIDIA 595 graphics driver for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems, introducing various new features and improvements.

Krita 6.0 debuted today as the Qt6 port of this digital painting program aligned with KDE/Qt development. Krita 6.0 also brings improved Wayland support while Krita 5.3 is being simultaneously released for running on the mature Qt5 toolkit...

Broader platform coverage lands, if developers can tolerate the rough edgesAvaloniaUI has previewed MAUI support for Linux and WebAssembly browser applications — platforms Microsoft's own cross-platform .NET framework lacks — but low adoption and persistent bugs are likely to constrain uptake.…

The GTK 4.0 toolkit released in December 2020 while the GTK3 toolkit has continued to be maintained given a lot of software still relying on that older version. GTK 3.24.52 was released yesterday and with this version it's now shifting its release cadence to just one new update per year...