Linux and Open Source news headlines
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Wed, 06/03/2026 - 22:20
There are nine new security vulnerabilities impacting the X.Org Server as well as the XWayland component. Yep, more than a decade after X.Org Server security issues began coming to light with a security research acknowledging it's a disaster and "it's worse than it looks", it continues holding true...
Wed, 06/03/2026 - 22:20
Valve’s latest Steam Client update adds a Linux workaround for Steam Controller gamepad emulation and fixes several input-related issues.
Tue, 06/02/2026 - 22:20
Shotcut 26.6 is now available in beta form as this latest feature update for this popular, open-source and cross platform video editor...
Tue, 06/02/2026 - 22:20
Jensen Huang used his Computex keynote today to formally announce RTX Spark as their new superchip for compact desktop PCs and laptops...
Tue, 06/02/2026 - 22:20
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 202 hardened Linux firewall distro is now available for download with OpenVPN 2.7, security patches for Dirty Frag and Copy Fail vulnerabilities, and other changes.
Tue, 06/02/2026 - 22:20
Yesterday AMD kicked off Computex 2026 in announcing the Radeon RX 9070 GRE alongside a number of other product announcements. With the Radeon RX 9070 GRE going on sale today, the review embargo has now lifted on this new RDNA 4 consumer graphics card slated to be priced around $549 USD. Here is an initial look at the Linux performance benchmarks of this new AMD graphics card offering.
Tue, 06/02/2026 - 22:20
Nginx Proxy Manager 2.15 updates Debian, OpenResty, Certbot, Python, and Node dependencies, with caution advised before upgrading.
Tue, 06/02/2026 - 22:20
Ahead of Intel Diamond Rapids server processors launching in 2027, the Linux kernel continues getting into shape for these next-gen Xeon processors. The latest enablement work taking place for Diamond Rapids is readying the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) driver support for propagating memory errors/correction information under Linux...
Tue, 06/02/2026 - 22:20
Ubuntu maker Canonical launched today a new tool for developers called Workshop, which lets you launch sandboxed development environments on Ubuntu with a single command.
Tue, 06/02/2026 - 22:20
Intel open-source software engineers have been busy beginning to prepare their upstream IWLWIFI wireless driver in the Linux kernel for supporting their next-gen WiFi adapters supporting the WiFi 8 "Ultra High Reliability" standard...
Tue, 06/02/2026 - 22:20
Arch Linux’s June installation image lands with Linux kernel 7.0.10, Pacman 7.1, systemd 260.2, and updated desktop packages.
Tue, 06/02/2026 - 22:20
After more than a quarter century at the helm of key digital rights battles, Cindy Cohn hands leadership to veteran ally Nicole Ozer while plotting a return to the courtroom.
Tue, 06/02/2026 - 22:20
Olimex’s USB-LTE4G-EU is a compact USB modem designed to provide 4G LTE connectivity for IoT, industrial, telemetry, and embedded Linux applications. The device is based on the Quectel EG800K-EU cellular module and supports LTE Cat 1 bis technology, which is increasingly being adopted in connected devices requiring moderate data throughput, low power consumption, and long-term […]
Tue, 06/02/2026 - 22:20
The Linux kernel's AF_ALG interface for user-space applications to directly access the Linux kernel's built-in cryptographic engine is proceeding with a quick deprecation cycle due to a "massive attack surface" with increased vulnerabilities coming to light due to AI/LLM-based tooling...
Tue, 06/02/2026 - 22:20
blackdevice, a Spanish hardware engineering company and Raspberry Pi Design Partner, has shared details of Hive, a modular compute platform built around the Raspberry Pi CM5. The platform is designed to scale from small homelab installations to rack-mounted infrastructure deployments through interchangeable compute nodes called “beenodes”. According to the company, each beenode integrates a Raspberry […]
Tue, 06/02/2026 - 22:20
The 294th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending May 31st, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.
Tue, 06/02/2026 - 16:07
Rust Coreutils 0.9 adds TOCTOU-resistant copy logic, recursive traversal fixes, and broader GNU compatibility updates.
Tue, 06/02/2026 - 16:07
Shelly developer Zoey Bauer released Shelly 2.3.2 today as a new stable update to this open-source graphical package manager for Arch Linux-based distributions that adds new features and improvements.
Mon, 06/01/2026 - 22:20
Sixfab has unveiled two Raspberry Pi 5 expansion products based on DEEPX NPUs: the AI HAT+ and the Edge AI Expansion Board. Both platforms are designed to accelerate computer vision workloads locally on Raspberry Pi 5 systems, but they target different deployment scenarios. The AI HAT+ is intended for prototyping and development, while the Edge […]
Mon, 06/01/2026 - 22:20
The Audacious 4.6 open-source, free, and cross-platform media player has been released today with several exciting new features, new plugins, and many improvements.