Mullvad Browsers testers get faster access to updates as the interface has just transitioned to the Firefox Rapid channel

Sentry is one of the few vendors that systematically maps its dependency tree and then actually cuts checks to the people maintaining that stack, as opposed to just talking about "giving back." Sentry is on to something. We have the Linux Foundation to manage commercial open source projects, the Apache Foundation to oversee its various open source programs, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) to coordinate open source licenses, and many more for various specific projects

It's FOSS interviewed a software engineer whose long-running open source contributions include Python code for the Arch Linux installer and maintaining packages for NixOS

Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman tells The Register that AI-driven code review has "really jumped" for Linux

Recent systemd updates store user birth dates for age verification, causing debate across Linux distros over legal compliance and privacy concerns

This week, Devindra and PCWorld Senior Editor Mark Hachman discuss Microsoft's surprising plan to "fix" Windows 11 by refocusing on customization and core features, instead of bringing Copilot AI into tons of apps. Is there any enthusiasm left for Windows? Or will most people be better off considering macOS or Linux? Subscribe! iTunes Spotify Pocket Casts Stitcher Google Podcasts Topic Microsoft hits the reset button on Windows 11, de-emphasizing Copilot AI 1:03 OpenAI pulls the plug on its Sora video generation app after just 5 months 25:23 Metas terrible week in court, part 1: $375 million ruling in New Mexico child engagement case 33:58 Metas terrible week in court, part 2: Meta and Google lose landmark social media addiction suit 38:49 OpenAI puts erotic chat on hold indefinitely 43:49 Update your iPhones: iOS exploit Darksword released on GitHub 46:39 Epic games lays off 1,000 workers after Fortnite engagement dips 47:48 Honda and Sony kill off their Afeela EV collaboration 49:26 Listener Mail: Which Mac Mini to get for a budding pro photographer 55:15 Pop culture picks 57:52 Credits Host: Devindra Hardawar Guest: Mark Hachman Producer: Ben Ellman Music: Dale North and Terrence OBrien This article originally appeared on Engadget at ...01592.html?src=rss

Graphical apps and improved storage access are two highlights in One UI 8.5

Greg Kroah-Hartman can't explain the inflection point, but it's not slowing down or going away Interview I was at a press luncheon at KubeCon Europe this week when, to my surprise, who should sit down next to me but long-term Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman

In other browser news, Opera now caters to penguinista gamers Firefox 149 is here, and although we've already talked about one of the big new features on the way, the release version has some others that will be very welcome.

The latest Canary build brings new Advanced settings to the Linux Terminal on Android

Linux gamers are seeing massive performance gains with Wine's new NTSYNC support, "which is a feature that has been years in the making and rewrites how Wine handles one of the most performance-sensitive operations in modern gaming," reports XDA Developers

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

Plus: Still supports 32-bit hardware or VMs AntiX Linux is a heavily cut-down version of Debian 13, with a choice of init systems and ultralightweight GUIs

While Rust can reduce entire classes of bugs, it often depends heavily on external crates, which can introduce complexity and auditing challenges, especially in enterprise environments. Canonical appears aware of that tradeoff and is positioning itself to influence how the ecosystem evolves, as Rust continues to gain traction across Linux and beyond

Broader platform coverage lands, if developers can tolerate the rough edges AvaloniaUI 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.

System76s Thelio Mira Linux desktop offers Ryzen 9000 CPUs, up to 192GB DDR5, and supports Nvidia RTX 5090 GPUs

The bigger picture here is less about new features about fixing what already exists. Microsoft is talking about fewer forced restarts, quieter notifications, and a more predictable experience overall, along with improvements to Windows Subsystem for Linux for developers

After one too many of you threatened to switch to Linux, Microsoft has published a long list of changes it plans to make to Windows 11

Meanwhile, WINE and OpenGL tweaks speed Windows apps on 64-bit hosts Whatever OS you run, you have a better chance to run non-native apps. Running Linux virtualized on Windows is set to speed up slightly, and so is running Windows apps on top of 64-bit Linux and macOS

Also, we dive into what's next for Xbox with Project Helix. Subscribe! iTunes Spotify Pocket Casts Stitcher Google Podcasts Topic NVIDIA announced DLSS 5, the disgust was immediate (with Anshel Sag from Moor Insights & Strategy) 0:51 Arizona attorney general sues Kalshi for operating an illegal gambling business 36:22 Polymarket users threaten the life of a reporter at The Times of Israel over accurate reporting 36:59 Apple announces AirPods Max 2 with improved noise cancellation 44:33 Elon Musks xAI faces class action suit over facilitating CSAM dsitribution 47:38 Samsung stops selling Galaxy Z TriFold after 3 months because components got too expensive 51:22 Around Engadget: Apple Studio XDR review, Dell XPS 16 review 53:49.346 Listener Mail: Stick with iPhone on Linux? And are there any good Android tablets? 55:41 Pop culture picks 58:46 Credits Hosts: Devindra Hardawar Guest: Anshel Sag Producer: Ben Ellman Music: Dale North and Terrence OBrien This article originally appeared on Engadget at ...ing-121335918.html?src=rss

BrianFagioli writes: Opera GX has officially landed on Linux, bringing its gamer-focused browser experience to Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE-based systems

Beats getting roasted on the mailing list AI is coming to the Linux kernel in the form of a code review system - not code submissions.

Opera brings its gaming browser to Linux users enabling better system control performance tuning and a highly personalized browsing experience

Rabbits Cyberdeck revives the Vaio P concept, offering a portable, Linux-based vibe coding device with affordable pricing and customizable hardware

Good luck with that The latest release of the most widely used Linux init system is here, and between dropping init script support and AI-assisted coding, we feel sure that this release will win it yet more admirers.

Big Tech donates $12.5 million to get things rolling Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects to cope with AI slop bug reports.

Linux still can't mount or read APFS volumes by default ..

Slashdot reader SysEngineer does embedded/IoT work, but "I want to pick a single system-on-a-chip architecture family and commit to it across multiple product lines sensor nodes up through edge gateways... I've been on one platform for years and want to know what embedded engineers are actually running in production before I commit!" And "the family needs to scale cheap and small at the low end, capable of running Linux on the bigger variants!" Their requirements? WiFi + BLE required LoRaWAN a nice-to-have

Linux gaming "has gotten to the point where some people claim that Linux runs their games better than Windows does," according to the Android site XDA Developers

"A few developers found a way, for now, to turn a few of these increasingly mediocre Amazon Show devices into friendly, useful, open computers," writes the co-founder of the gaming/tech news site Aftermath. For under $50 each, he bought some used versions of the devices and tested their instructions, partly to escape the full-screen ads Amazon began showing late last year, and also to overwrite Amazon's locked down Android fork "Fire OS" (and "a similarly neutered version of Linux called Vega OS") Customers who bought these devices and used them for several years were not used to them showing full screen ads, and now they do

Vague language has been a recurring problem with new state age-verification legislation. Richell pointed out later that "In one proposed bill, Garmin would have to verify the age of their watch customers at device setup." Richell also sees New York's bill as "unlikely to be applicable to Linux distributions," since its language calls for "commercially reasonable age assurance" that free operating systems could use and Richell isn't sure one exists as described by the bill

Someone, somewhere, ticked a box on a build farm. The wait is over Chrome is finally coming to ARM64 Linux devices, years after it turned up on macOS and Windows on Arm.

The 15-year-old malicious network was finally taken down, servers and domains were seized

Zram versus zswap two ways to get a quart into a pint pot Linux has two ways to do memory compression zram and zswap but you rarely hear about the second

Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis Opinion A new wave of age verification laws requires kids and teenagers to register before they can use a computer.

BrianFagioli writes: Google says it will finally release Chrome for ARM64 Linux in the second quarter of 2026, bringing the company's full browser to a platform that has existed for years without official support

Chrome is on its way to ARM64 Linux PCs.

Engadget will have to try outthe Steam Machine to really know what it's capable of, but there's nothing to suggest it couldn't be as flexible as the Steam Deck, especially with more power to play with. What games will be able to run on the Steam Machine? Valve Any game that runs on SteamOS, Valve's Linux-based operating system, will run on the Steam Machine, provided the device's technical specs will support it

The idea here is to make a device that's powerful enough it won't feel slow when it's communicating with Anthropic and OpenAI's servers, but affordable enough to make it a no-brainer purchase for developers. The company confirmed Project Cyberdeck will run Linux

Don't celebrate yet more states are considering them As more US states push to mandate OS-level age checks, System76 is taking its fight directly to lawmakers.

Private equity firm EQT AB is reportedly exploring a sale of SUSE that could value the open-source Linux pioneer at up to $6 billion, roughly doubling the valuation since EQT took the company private in 2023

Digital freedom needs a Kali Linux for the rest of us Opinion The hacker mind is a curious way to be

Last year, Qualcomm acquired Arduino, a company known for its tinker-friendly microcontroller kits and single board computers (SBC). The first product to follow was the Uno Q, which was powerful enough to run Linux

System76 isn't the only one criticizing new age-verification laws. The blog 9to5Linux published an "informal" look at other discussions in various Linux communities

"In November Steam on Linux use hit an all-time high of 3.2%," reports Phoronix

This is analogous to the early days of fuzzing; there is likely a substantial backlog of now-discoverable bugs across widely deployed software. "In the time it took us to validate and submit this first vulnerability to Firefox, Claude had already discovered fifty more unique crashing inputs" in 6,000 C++ files, Anthropic says in a blog post (which points out they've also used Claude Opus 4.6 to discover vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel)

This is analogous to the early days of fuzzing; there is likely a substantial backlog of now-discoverable bugs across widely deployed software. "In the time it took us to validate and submit this first vulnerability to Firefox, Claude had already discovered fifty more unique crashing inputs" in 6,000 C++ files, Anthropic says in a blog post (which points out they've also used Claude Opus 4.6 to discover vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel)

If Sony's allegedly going to take away the ability to play its PlayStation exclusives on PC, you can rebel by converting the PS5 into a straight-up PC. That's what Andy Nguyen, a security engineer, did by porting Linux over to the console and running GTA V on it via Steam

AMD's VP of AI software vibe coded the driver entirely using Claude Code, but it's meant for testing, not for deployment to users

In a blog post on Thursday, System76 CEO Carl Richell criticized new state laws in California, Colorado, and New York that would require operating systems to verify users' ages and expose that information to apps, arguing the rules are easy for kids to bypass and ultimately undermine privacy and freedom more than they protect minors. "System76's position is interesting given that they sell Linux-loaded desktops, workstations and laptops plus being an operating system vendor with their in-house Pop!_OS distribution and COSMIC desktop environment," adds Phoronix's Michael Larabel, noting that they're also based out of Colorado

The timing aligns nicely with the purported launch of Nvidia's N1/N1X SoCs that are also Arm-based. The role also involves future development for Linux/Proton

Whether you want a beast of a machine with dedicated graphics or a light, easy-to-upgrade PC, we have the perfect rig for you.

Qualcomms latest system on a chip for wrist wearables is here, and it jumps on the Elite naming scheme with more power and on-device AI capabilities for the agentic AI era. Its set to power the next-generation of flagship WearOS smartwatches as well as upcoming AI wearables like pins and pendants with added support for Android and Linux

Release lays the groundwork for going Wayland, if that's your sort of thing BunsenLabs Linux is a lightweight, Debian-based distro forked from CrunchBang, and seven months after Debian 13 "Trixie" arrived, the project has released its latest version, dubbed Carbon .

The Finnish company Jolla is back with the Linux-powered Jolla Phone

The legislation might prove to be a real headache for some Linux distros

If you want to use Android's Linux terminal on a Galaxy S26, this is the hardware to get.

An anonymous reader shared this report from the blogIt's FOSS: Greg Kroah-Hartman has updated the projected end-of-life (EOL) dates for several active longterm support kernels via a commit. The provided reasoning? It was done "based on lots of discussions with different companies and groups and the other stable kernel maintainer." The other maintainer is Sasha Levin, who co-maintains these Linux kernel releases alongside Greg

The law's broad definition of an "operating system provider" pulls in not just Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS, but Linux distributions and Valve's SteamOS