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FreeType 2.15 Released With Apple HVF Driver, ISO Open Font Format Edition 513 October 2026, 12:24 am FreeType 2.15 is now available for this widely-used font rendering library used across many different operating systems and software applications......
Intel Announces The GPU D Series For Crescent Island12 October 2026, 8:53 pm Intel announced today the GPU D Series for the enterprise-focused, inference-optimized GPU accelerators known to now as Crescent Island......
Ubuntu's Myna Speech-To-Text Now Available In Tech Preview12 October 2026, 5:31 pm A few months ago Canonical announced Myna as a speech-to-text solution for Ubuntu 26.10 as part of their effort for building a context-aware desktop. Myna as of today is available in "tech preview" form not only for Ubuntu 26.10 but also the LTS releases......
ROCm 10 OpenCL vs. Mesa 26.3-dev Rusticl Performance On AMD Strix Halo12 October 2026, 4:32 pm With all the recent progress on Mesa's Rusticl driver as a Rust-based OpenCL driver working across the different Mesa Gallium3D hardware drivers, a Phoronix Premium supporter inquired about seeing some fresh benchmarks of this open-source OpenCL solution. Here is a look at how the Mesa 26.3 Rusticl driver is looking against AMD's official OpenCL driver within ROCm 10....
Firefox 158 Now Available With JPEG-XL Support By Default12 October 2026, 12:25 pm With Mozilla's bi-weekly release cycle for Firefox, the Firefox 158 release binaries are now available. Making Firefox 158 particularly notable is finally having JPEG-XL support enabled by default......
Linux 7.4 To Upstream Support For Three Snapdragon X2 Elite Laptops12 October 2026, 11:16 am For those looking to run Linux on new Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 hardware, there are laptops from ASUS, HP, and Lenovo that are powered by the X2 Elite and will be supported with the mainline Linux 7.4 kernel......
Linus Torvalds "Did What I Preach", Used AI To Make Code Decipherable & Uncovered More Bugs12 October 2026, 10:03 am After using Claude Code to draft code to help make a fundamental improvement to the Linux kernel, Linux creator Linus Torvalds continued using AI this weekend and talking up its benefits. Beyond generating initial patches and a test program for that noted I/O enhancement, he separately talked up using AI/LLMs for making patches more decipherable to understand in the process the AI noted more long-standing bugs within the Linux kernel......
Intel Posts Updated Linux Driver Code For HDMI 2.1 FRL On Meteor Lake & Newer12 October 2026, 9:44 am Following AMD completing their HDMI 2.1 implementation for the open-source AMDGPU Linux driver after beginning with HDMI FRL patches earlier in the year, Intel's open-source driver developers are following in their footsteps......
EXT4 Introducing IOmap Buffered I/O Path With Some Performance Gains12 October 2026, 9:27 am EXT4 with the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel looks like it will introduce opt-in support for IOmap buffered I/O in replacing the file-system's buffer_head usage with IOmap......
Linux 7.3-rc7 Released With Linux 7.3 Hopefully Out Next Weekend12 October 2026, 8:44 am Linus Torvalds has made available what is hopefully the final release candidate before Linux 7.3 is ideally minted next Sunday......
[$] The 2026 Maintainers Summit12 October 2026, 3:27 pm The Maintainers Summit is a one-day, invitation-only gathering of about 30
kernel developers; it is held once each year to discuss policy-related issues
that are not always amenable to resolution via email. The 2026 event was
scheduled for October 8 in Prague, Czechia. Unsurprisingly, the discussion
there was dominated by large language models (LLMs) and their effect on the
development community, but some time was also found to talk about security
bugs and long-term succession planning....
LineageOS 24 released12 October 2026, 1:13 pm The LineageOS project, which produces an
Android-based distribution for mobile devices, has announced the release of
LineageOS 24.0.
We're a bit sentimental about this release, as it precedes a really fun
upcoming milestone.
On December 24, 2026, LineageOS will celebrate 10 years. It's a remarkable
milestone for a project built by a passionate community of developers,
maintainers, contributors, and users who have kept so many devices alive along
the way.
[...] We've been hard at work rebasin...
Security updates for Monday12 October 2026, 1:00 pm Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cjose, compat-openssl10, compat-openssl11, curl, dogtag-pki, dovecot, emacs, glibc, kernel, openssl, python3.12, python3.14, and sssd), Debian (chromium, ghostscript, tor, and vips), Fedora (kernel, libical, markdownlint-cli2, openbao, openvpn, php-getid3, python3.10, python3.11, and python3.13), Mageia (capnproto, chirp, flatpak, freetype2, hamlib, mingw-pcre2, pcre2, openssl, tomcat, tomcat-native, and xdg-dbus-proxy), Oracle (bind, cjose, dogtag...
Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc712 October 2026, 3:31 am The 7.3-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. According to Linus: "As always, I would have preferred to see a smaller
rc, but it's not like anything in here looks like a reason to delay
the final release. So that's still set for next weekend unless
something new comes up."
One notable change that slipped into the mainline this week is the deprecation
of the ext4 data=journal mode; it will be removed entirely at the
beginning of 2028....
Stable kernels 7.2.10 and 6.18.5611 October 2026, 2:35 pm The 7.2.10 and 6.18.56 stable kernels have been released.
Each contains another several hundred important fixes....
Python 3.15 released9 October 2026, 5:15 pm Version
3.15 of the Python programming language has been released. Notable changes
in this release include the addition of the sentinel and frozendict built-in types,
the use of UTF-8 encoding by default, package
start-up configuration files, as well as improvements in the experimental
JIT compiler. See the "What's new in Python
3.15" article for an in-depth look at new features in this release, and the
changelog
for a full list of changes.
...
[$] Adding kernel control-flow-integrity checking to GCC9 October 2026, 5:06 pm While many developers are struggling to keep up with the flood of
vulnerability reports, others are still focused on preventing those reports
from happening in the first place. Control-flow integrity (CFI) is the
term for preventing (or at least detecting) exploits that divert the flow
of control from its intended paths. At the 2026 GNU Tools Cauldron, Kees Cook
presented his changes to the GCC compiler suite to support forward-edge CFI
for the kernel....
[$] The state of systemd: 2026 edition9 October 2026, 2:58 pm At the 2026 All Systems Go!
conference, systemd maintainers Luca Boccassi and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
delivered the traditional "state of the project" session with an overview of the
systemd project's accomplishments in the past year. That was followed by a
maintainer round table where Boccassi, Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Daan De Meyer, and
project leader Lennart Poettering fielded questions about systemd's size,
health, and if it might replace Kubernetes. (It will not.)...
Let's Encrypt moving to 64-day certificate lifetimes in 20279 October 2026, 2:02 pm Let's
Encrypt, the nonprofit that provides free TLS certificates for millions of
sites, has announced that
it will be moving to certificates with 64-day lifetimes on February 10,
2027:
This means that any certificate we issue or renew on and after that date will
have a 64 day validity period, and we expect the last 90-day certificate to
expire on May 11, 2027. We will not revoke valid certificates as a part of this
process.
This is the second stage of Let's Encrypt's plan, announced in 2025...
Security updates for Friday9 October 2026, 1:08 pm Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, bind9.16, freerdp, glibc, kbd, mod_auth_openidc, openssl, perl-DBI, python3.12, python3.14, and tftp), Debian (rails and twitter-bootstrap3), Fedora (barman, cockpit, hcloud, libmodsecurity, nginx-mod-modsecurity, perl-DBI, sudo, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (libxfont2), Oracle (bind9.18, firefox, kernel, nodejs24, perl-DBI, and vim), Red Hat (kernel, libreswan, opentelemetry-collector, osbuild-composer, rhc, and runc), SUSE (alloy, ...
Linus Torvalds Says He Likes Using AI, While His New Kernel Branch Credits Claude Code12 October 2026, 4:50 pm His eight-patch series takes advantage of AI assistance to cut the extra work the kernel does when many threads read the same file....
openEuler is Revamping the Development Experience of the Open Source Community With an AI Toolchain12 October 2026, 2:04 pm AI now reviews code and fixes CVEs in the community's pipelines, DevStation moves to a 2-week update cycle, and openEuler is layering an agent-native OS on top....
Linux May Get a New Home for AI Agent Skills12 October 2026, 12:39 pm A proposed agents directory would hold skills and other resources for coding assistants, starting with one that finds the commit behind a bug....
BentoPDF Handles PDFs Locally, So You Don’t Have to Upload Them to Websites10 October 2026, 8:01 am This open source, browser-based PDF toolkit is free to use and ships with a surprisingly long list of tools....
FOSS Weekly #26.41: Open Source Trouble, More Rust in Ubuntu, Adobe Photoshop's Linux Clone, Rich CLI Tool and More8 October 2026, 3:27 pm Open Source projects are facing infrastructure trouble....
Gentoo Needs Your Help! Several Sponsors Have Pulled Out8 October 2026, 9:17 am They will accept VMs, physical servers, rack space, donated machines, or funds for hosting....
Vinix is Not a Linux Distro, But it Can Run Games, Docker, and QEMU7 October 2026, 1:48 pm The project has been around since 2021, runs its own kernel, and is written in V....
Google Has Shut Down Part of its Open Source Bounty Program7 October 2026, 10:46 am Submitting product vulnerability reports is no longer possible. You can thank AI for that....
Red Hat's Lightwell Doesn't Wait for Upstream Maintainers to Act6 October 2026, 4:43 pm A status update shows it clearing 400 vulnerabilities from Java libraries and a key service now being generally available....
Siemens Abruptly Takes Down OpenRadioss, But a Fork is Already Live5 October 2026, 3:00 pm Another reminder of why open source saves software from being lost forever....
NexPhone, the multi-OS smartphone, delayed until 202712 October 2026, 8:47 pm The multi-OS NexPhone went up for pre-order at the start of 2026, 14 years later than initially planned. Fitting, then, to hear the handset’s arrival has been delayed until 2027. Nex Computer CEO Emre Kosmaz says devices won’t begin shipping until March 2027 because of issues with antenna placement and casing issues. Given that it took 14 years for this to go from vapourware to tangible product, I doubt long-time fans of the concept will see a delay from Q3 2026 to Q1 2027 as a comparative b...
Ubuntu 27.04 codename revealed as ‘Tenacious T-Rex’12 October 2026, 7:01 pm Canonical has confirmed the codename of next year’s Ubuntu 27.04 release as Tenacious T-Rex. It follows Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray, which is out on 15 October, both sequentially and alphabetically. The previous T release was Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr. Quite a contrast in creature between the two, no? As you likely know, every Ubuntu release has an alliterative codename coupling combining an adjective with an animal (or, on rare occasions, a mythological beast like a minotaur, werewolf o...
Ubuntu releases tech preview of Myna, its AI voice dictation tool12 October 2026, 5:27 pm Canonical announce that Myna, its AI-powered speech-to-text tool for Ubuntu desktop, is available to install as a technology preview.
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Firefox 158 released with JPEG XL support12 October 2026, 2:19 pm Firefox 158 is now available to download, providing out-of-the-box support for JPEG XL images. JPEG XL is said to have better compression than other image formats, including WebP, PNG and regular ol’ JPEG. It supports wider colour gamut, HDR and high bit-depth, as well as animation, alpha channels and lossless and progressive encoding. Mozilla has spent several months testing JPEG XL support in Firefox, providing an opt-in toggle to try it out via the browser’s Labs page. Other changes and f...
Ubuntu’s App Center makes it easy to install missing media codecs11 October 2026, 7:41 pm Ubuntu 26.10’s new Add-ons page in App Center can now install restricted media codecs as well as hardware drivers. The new flow should make things simpler for those who don’t select the opt-in to “install restricted codecs” in the Ubuntu OS installer (not everyone thinks they need it) and for those who install without an active internet connection, as that box is greyed out. While apt makes it easy to get the relevant codecs if you know the right gstreamer-* , App Center doesn’t show s...
Ubuntu now has official desktop images for RISC-V10 October 2026, 12:09 am Installing the Ubuntu desktop on RISC-V hardware is made easier with 26.10, as Canonical is now building official riscv64 desktop images. Experimental versions of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release are out for testing on a SpacemiT K3 – the board Canonical has been working on with SpacemiT. One ISO ships the standard GNOME desktop, and the other is built around Xubuntu minimal. Canonical’s Valentin Haudiquet says both of the ISOs are “experimental” and “carry no official support” yet....
The Document Foundation gets its own logo after 16 years9 October 2026, 8:04 pm The Document Foundation, the non-profit steering the development of LibreOffice, has unveiled a new logo. The change means that, for the first time since its inception in 2010, TDF no longer shares the same logotype and wordmark as LibreOffice. “The Document Foundation” is now the sole wordmark, written in a different font, Inter, and a refreshed set of brand colours complement it. Unveiling the design, TDF’s Italo Vignoli made the case for a decoupling of the two brands, noting “the fou...
Calibre can now read ebooks aloud without sounding like a robot9 October 2026, 4:27 pm A new update to the Calibre ebook manager is out and it brings more natural sounding text-to-speech (TTS) voices, as well as AVIF image support and better handling of PDFs that put text in columns. Calibre v9.16 adds support for Kokoro, an open-weight TTS model, to its Read Aloud feature (which to state the bleedin’ obvious, will read the content of books to you). The new voices are sound to sound ‘much more natural’, especially in English. Kokoro voices aren’t preinstalled or included i...
PhotoCraft is an open-source, AI-built clone of Photoshop8 October 2026, 7:25 pm ...
Ubuntu websites offline due to ‘sustained’ DDoS attack [Resolved]8 October 2026, 4:08 pm Canonical reports a 'sustained distributed denial of service attack' on its websites, leading to outages. It says its teams are working to get them back online.
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Mozilla Firefox 159 Enters Public Beta Testing with Wayland Improvements12 October 2026, 6:22 pm Firefox 159 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with Wayland improvements, better support for importing Google Chrome bookmarks, and other changes....
Ubuntu’s Myna Speech-to-Text App Is Now Available as a Technology Preview12 October 2026, 5:34 pm Ubuntu’s Myna local speech-to-text application is now available for public testing on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.10....
October 2026 Microsoft Mass Layoffs and the Demise of Windows12 October 2026, 4:37 pm The US with its bizarre, treasonous flirtations (with Putin, the US President acts as if the problem is Ukraine, not Russia) will embolden Europe to dump Microsoft and Windows even more urgently...
OpenSSH Ships on Every Mac, Linux Server and Windows PC. Its Creator Trusts No One.12 October 2026, 3:22 pm OpenSSH creator Theo de Raadt was pushed out of NetBSD, lost a DARPA grant and fought half of open source. Now his paranoid code guards the world's servers....
KDE Plasma 6.8 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing12 October 2026, 3:09 pm KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environment is now available for public beta testing with various new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!...
The best thing about Debian is how old all of its software is12 October 2026, 3:01 pm Debian’s old software is often discussed as its biggest weakness when compared to other distros...
KDE Plasma is getting its own "safe mode," and it'll start appearing sometime in Q412 October 2026, 2:52 pm It's no secret that I love KDE...
Proprietary Software, Windows TCO, Security, and More12 October 2026, 1:22 pm more leftovers...
Android Leftovers12 October 2026, 1:20 pm Someone ported Pixel 11’s Rambler voice-to-text to other Android phones...
Ubuntu 27.04 “Tenacious T-Rex” Is Slated for Release on April 22nd, 202712 October 2026, 1:19 pm Canonical’s next major Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 27.04 “Tenacious T-Rex,” has been slated for release on April 22nd, 2027, and it’s expected to come with the GNOME 52 desktop environment and Linux kernel 7.6....
The Impact of Digital Sovereignty on Open Source Companies25 September 2026, 12:55 pm By Philipp Reisner, CEO LINBIT® Sovereignty is a word borrowed from statecraft. A sovereign country is independent in its decisions. The term “digital sovereignty” is a more recent invention that applies to organizations and even individuals. In this article, I discuss what the push for digital sovereignty implies for Linux-focused, open source developers and companies. […]
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Docker Commits to Bringing the Sandbox Kit Spec to the CNCF24 September 2026, 4:00 pm Docker and the CNCF will partner on an open spec to make agent permissions portable Docker Sandbox Kits let you package an AI agent together with exactly what it is allowed to do, so anyone can pull the same agent with the same limits, review changes to those limits, and enforce them. Now, Docker has […]
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Why Your Backups Are Too Big: A Practical Guide to Content-Defined Chunking26 August 2026, 12:50 pm By Gilles Chehade You change one line in a large file. Your “incremental” backup re-uploads the whole thing anyway. Nine times out of ten, it’s not the network, and it’s not your storage backend. It’s the algorithm deciding where to cut your data into pieces. Every deduplication system works the same way: split data into […]
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Building Autonomous ML Experimentation with Tangle and Tangent9 July 2026, 3:49 pm Tangent is an autonomous agent that automates the ML experimentation loop on top of Tangle, building pipelines, running them, and analyzing results with minimal hand-holding.
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Implementing Secure Zero-Touch Provisioning in AI and Edge Infrastructure11 March 2026, 1:00 pm By Juha Holkkola, FusionLayer Group How DHCP Changed Connectivity In the late 1990s, the DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) quietly catalyzed a revolution in digital connectivity. Before DHCP was introduced, connecting devices to a network involved manual entry of IP addresses, DNS servers, subnet masks, and gateways. Networks were fragile, prone to errors, and severely […]
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From DHCP to SZTP – The Trust Revolution25 February 2026, 2:00 pm By Juha Holkkola, FusionLayer Group The Dawn of Effortless Connectivity In the transformative years of the late 1990s, a quiet revolution took place, fundamentally altering how we connect to networks. The introduction of DHCP answered a crucial question, “Where are you on the network?”, by automating IP address assignment. This innovation eradicated the manual configuration […]
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Celebrating the Second Year of Linux Man-Pages Maintenance Sponsorship15 January 2026, 2:29 pm Sustaining a Core Part of the Linux Ecosystem The Linux Foundation has announced a second year of sponsorship for the ongoing maintenance of the Linux manual pages (man-pages) project, led by Alejandro (Alex) Colomar. This critical initiative is made possible through the continued support of Google, Hudson River Trading, and Meta, who have renewed their […]
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Disaggregated Routing with SONiC and VPP: Lab Demo and Performance Insights – Part Two29 October 2025, 1:45 pm In Part One of this series, we examined how the SONiC control plane and the VPP data plane form a cohesive, software-defined routing stack through the Switch Abstraction Interface. We outlined how SONiC’s Redis-based orchestration and VPP’s user-space packet engine come together to create a high-performance, open router architecture. In this second part, we’ll turn […]
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Disaggregated Routing with SONiC and VPP: Architecture and Integration – Part One22 October 2025, 1:44 pm The networking industry is undergoing a fundamental architectural transformation, driven by the relentless demands of cloud-scale data centers and the rise of software-defined infrastructure. At the heart of this evolution is the principle of disaggregation: the systematic unbundling of components that were once tightly integrated within proprietary, monolithic systems. This movement began with the separation […]
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Kubernetes on Bare Metal for Maximum Performance14 October 2025, 1:00 pm When teams consider deploying Kubernetes, one of the first questions that arises is: where should it run? The default answer is often the public cloud, thanks to its flexibility and ease of use. However, a growing number of organizations are revisiting the advantages of running Kubernetes directly on bare metal servers. For workloads that demand […]
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Ultimate 2026.10.1212 October 2026, 8:08 pm Ultimate Edition, first released in December 2006, was a fork of Ubuntu and Linux Mint though recent versions (starting in 2024) have been based on Arch Linux. The goal of the project is to create a complete, seamlessly integrated, visually stimulating, and easy-to-install operating system. Single-button upgrade is one of several special characteristics of this distribution. Other main features include custom desktop and theme with 3D effects, support for a wide range of networking options, inc...
OSINT VM 2026.1012 October 2026, 1:47 pm Trace Labs OSINT VM is a Debian-based Linux distribution with specialist open-source intelligence (OSINT) tools to help find missing persons and reunite them with their families. It is provided as a set of pre-built images for VMware and Virtual Box virtual machines. The OSINT tools, which need to be downloaded separately via a helper script, include Email Search (to perform email searches via social media, breach info, and other sources), Multi Search (to perform searches over multiple sources...
ShredOS 2025.11_3212 October 2026, 1:26 am ShredOS is a small live Linux distribution whose sole purpose is to securely erase the contents of disks. It can boot from a USB device, CD or DVD and it supports both BIOS and UEFI booting. The system boots directly into nwipe, a program that securely erases the contents of block devices; it can wipe a single drive or multiple disks in parallel. After booting the system, the user can select a disk to erase, together with one of the various erasure methods, such as "Fill With Zeros", "Fill With...
extrox 2026101111 October 2026, 7:52 am extrox is a set of Linux distributions based either on MX Linux or Arch Linux, featuring custom art and theme, careful application selection, various user-friendly improvements, and an audio filter (developed in-house) for enhanced sound quality in music playback and streaming. The distribution uses the Xfce desktop with the Compiz compositing window manager....
StratOS 2026.10.0610 October 2026, 4:06 pm StratOS Linux is an Arch-based Linux distribution which uses scripts from Bedrock Linux to include various packages and repositories from other Linux distributions. It provides several desktop variants featuring the GNOME desktop as well as the Hyprland and the Niri Wayland compositors. The project also develops several custom tools, such as StratVIM (a fork of the Neovim text editor), Rockers (a custom package manager wrapper able to fetch and install binary and source packages from other Linu...
Infinity 2026.10.210 October 2026, 7:04 am Infinity Linux is an Arch-based, rolling-release Linux distribution featuring the KDE Plasma desktop. Its primarily focus is on speed, flexibility, compatibility and ease of installation. The distribution uses the Calamares system installer and provides out-of-the-box support for Flatpak packages....
SmartOS 202610099 October 2026, 9:53 pm SmartOS is an open-source UNIX-like operating system based on illumos, a community fork of OpenSolaris. It features four technologies - ZFS (a combined file system and logical volume manager), DTrace (a dynamic tracing framework for troubleshooting kernel and application problems), Zones (a lightweight virtualisation solution), KVM and bhyve (two full virtualisation solutions for running a variety of guest operating systems, including Linux, Windows, BSD and Plan9). SmartOS is designed to be pa...
ZEPHIX 99 October 2026, 1:29 pm ZEPHIX is a live Linux operating system based on Debian's stable branch. It runs totally from removable media without touching any files stored on the user's system disk. The aim of Zephix is to provide a free modular operating system that users can carry with them and use wherever there is a laptop or a desktop system available. The default ISO image used to come without any graphical interface, with several desktop modules made available separately; however, starting with version 8 the projec...
Valtux 1.39 October 2026, 10:44 am Valtux OS is a desktop Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch and featuring the KDE Plasma desktop. Developed in Switzerland, it provides out-of-the-box support for all official languages (French, German, Italian and Romansh) and keyboard layouts used in the country. The distribution includes many popular productivity and multimedia software and is intended for all types of users - from complete Linux beginners to experienced power users....
Noid 202610099 October 2026, 9:30 am Noid Linux is a Void-based minimalist Linux distribution with Xfce as the preferred desktop. It includes a long-term supported Linux kernel, the Calamares system installer, the Brave web browser, support for Flatpak packages, and a custom Welcome screen. The project also provides its own repository for Void's XBPS packages with additional software....
Q4OS 6.10 “Andromeda” Is Out with KDE Plasma 6.3.6 and Trinity Desktop 14.1.512 October 2026, 11:48 am The Q4OS team announced today the release and general availability of Q4OS 6.10 as the tenth update to the Q4OS 6 “Andromeda” series of this Debian-based Linux distro featuring KDE Plasma and Trinity Desktop Environment....
Zymbit ZYMKEY 5 Security Module Offers 640 Key Slots for Raspberry Pi12 October 2026, 10:16 am Zymbit’s ZYMKEY 5 is a compact hardware security module for Raspberry Pi systems, offering 640 key slots, filesystem encryption, device authentication, and physical tamper detection. It also supports additional cryptographic algorithms compared to its predecessor. The ZYMKEY 5 measures 39 × 14 × 5.3mm and uses a mini-HAT form factor that connects to the first […]...
Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 41, 2026 (October 5 – 11)12 October 2026, 8:45 am Catch up on the latest Linux news: Python 3.15, COSMIC Desktop 1.10, OpenSSH 10.6, Tmux 3.8, NVIDIA 615.78.08, Flathub reverses AI-generated app ban, and more....
What is SystemD on Linux?12 October 2026, 7:13 am This article will teach you what systemd is and why it replaced SysVinit; what systemd unit files are; how to list all and specific unit files; and how to view the content of a unit configuration file....
Pebble Round 2 Open-Source Smartwatch Finally Starts Shipping12 October 2026, 5:42 am Pebble Round 2 begins shipping after production delays, bringing its circular e-paper display, PebbleOS, and updated battery life to users....
Blender 5.3 Enters Public Beta Testing with Vulkan Backend by Default on Linux12 October 2026, 4:10 am The Blender Foundation released today the beta version of the upcoming Blender 5.3 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform 3D computer graphics software suite....
LineageOS 24.0 Open-Source Mobile OS Released with Android 1712 October 2026, 2:39 am The open-source mobile OS LineageOS 24.0 launches with Android 17, a new photo editor, improved updates, and redesigned system applications....
Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code12 October 2026, 1:07 am Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been known to use AI to help with kernel debugging and outside of the kernel tree has also done some vibe coding with Google's Antigravity. He has previously said he views AI as a useful tool. It turns out he's even now using Claude Code for working on new Linux kernel features......
Linux Landing Kernel Workaround For AMD TLBI Erratum #171811 October 2026, 11:26 pm AMD TLBI Erratum #1718 was worked around in CPU microcode for addressing a defect in certain Zen CPUs where the Translation Lookaside Buffer Invalidate Instruction use could lead to to stale translation entries. But for those on affected AMD CPUs and not running the updated microcode, a kernel workaround is being introduced with today's Linux 7.3-rc7 kernel and to be back-ported to prior kernel versions......
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 11th, 202611 October 2026, 9:54 pm The 313th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending October 11th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world....
Perfect Server Automated ISPConfig 3 Installation on Debian 12 and Debian 13, Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.0431 January 2026, 10:01 am This tutorial shows you how to easily set up a web, email and DNS server with ISPConfig 3 using the ISPConfig auto-installation script....
How to install PHP 5.6 and 7.0 - 8.4 with PHP-FPM and FastCGI mode for ISPConfig 3.2 with apt on Debian 11 to 123 November 2025, 9:28 pm In this guide we will take you through installing additional PHP versions (5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, and 8.4) on a Debian server with ISPConfig....
How to install PHP 5.6 and 7.0 - 8.4 with PHP-FPM and FastCGI mode for ISPConfig 3.2 with apt on Ubuntu 22.04 - 24.043 November 2025, 9:26 pm When using ISPConfig, by default, you only have the main PHP version for your distribution. This guide will show you how to install additional PHP versions (5.6, 7.0 - 7.4, 8.1 - 8.4) on an Ubuntu server with ISPConfig....
Update the ISPConfig Perfect Server from Debian 11 to Debian 123 November 2025, 9:24 pm This tutorial will take you through updating a server managed by ISPConfig from Debian 11 (bullseye) to Debian 12 (bookworm). This guide works for both single- and multiserver setups....
How to Install CSF (Config Server Firewall) on Debian 126 October 2025, 10:58 am CSF or Config Server Firewall is a Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall based on IPtables and Perl. it provides a daemon process that will monitor your services for failure authentication....
How to Install Wiki.js on Debian 1226 June 2025, 8:04 pm Wiki.js is free and open-source wiki software based on Node.js, Git, and Markdown. In this article, we'll show you how to install Wiki.js on a Debian 12 system....
ISPConfig Perfect Multiserver setup on Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian 1219 June 2025, 5:43 pm This tutorial will take you through installing your own ISPConfig 3 multiserver setup with dedicated servers for the panel, web, DNS, mail, and webmail using the new ISPConfig auto-installer. This tutorial is compatible with Debian 12 and Ubuntu 24.04....
Securing your ISPConfig 3 managed mailserver with a valid Let's Encrypt SSL certificate19 June 2025, 5:18 pm If you're running your own mailserver, it's best practice to connect to it securely with a SSL/TLS connection. You'll need a valid certificate for these secure connections. In this tutorial, we'll set up a Let's Encrypt certificate for our mailserver that renews automatically....
How to Install OpenEMR on Ubuntu 24.04 Server29 May 2025, 4:19 pm OpenEMR is an open-source health records and medical practice management solution. It is a fully integrated electronic health record and practice management, scheduling, electronic billing, and internationalization support....
How to Install Moodle LMS on Debian 12 Server29 May 2025, 4:15 pm Moodle is an open solution for the Learning Management System (LMS). It is a platform for educational purposes, from creating online courses, managing online schools, managing content, and offering collaborative learning....
Download of the day: GIMP 3.0 is FINALLY Here!18 March 2025, 3:45 am Wow! After years of hard work and countless commits, we have finally reached a huge milestone: GIMP 3.0 is officially released! I am excited as I write this and can't wait to share some incredible new features and improvements in this release. GIMP 2.10 was released in 2018, and the first development version of GIMP 3.0 came out in 2020. GIMP 3.0 released on 16/March/2025. Let us explore how to download and install GIMP 3.0, as well as the new features in this version.
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Ubuntu to Explore Rust-Based “uutils” as Potential GNU Core Utilities Replacement16 March 2025, 12:17 pm In a move that has sparked significant discussion within the Ubuntu Linux fan-base and community, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has announced its intention to explore the potential replacement of GNU Core Utilities with the Rust-based "uutils" project. They plan to introduce new changes in Ubuntu Linux 25.10, eventually changing it to Ubuntu version 26.04 LTS release in 2026 as Ubuntu is testing Rust 'uutils' to overhaul its core utilities potentially. Let us find out the pros and cons a...
Critical Rsync Vulnerability Requires Immediate Patching on Linux and Unix systems15 January 2025, 6:04 pm Rsync is a opensource command-line tool in Linux, macOS, *BSD and Unix-like systems that synchronizes files and directories. It is a popular tool for sending or receiving files, making backups, or setting up mirrors. It minimizes data copied by transferring only the changed parts of files, making it faster and more bandwidth-efficient than traditional copying methods provided by tools like sftp or ftp-ssl. Rsync versions 3.3.0 and below has been found with SIX serious vulnerabilities. Attackers ...
ZFS Raidz Expansion Finally, Here in version 2.3.014 January 2025, 9:19 am After years of development and testing, the ZFS raidz expansion is finally here and has been released as part of version 2.3.0. ZFS is a popular file system for Linux and FreeBSD. RAIDz is like RAID 5, which you find with hardware or Linux software raid devices. It protects your data by spreading it across multiple hard disks along with parity information. A raidz device can have single, double, or triple parity to sustain one, two, or three hard disk failures, respectively, without losing any d...
lnav – Awesome terminal log file viewer for Linux and Unix16 June 2024, 11:04 am It is no secret that whether you are a developer or sysadmin, you need to use log files to troubleshoot errors on your Linux and Unix systems. You use tools like grep, tail, cat, or journalctl to view log files. However, you may need help with so many log files. These essential Unix tools are suitable for basic text but fall short when dealing with many log files. You can get tired from sifting through endless lines of log files. The lnav utility is here to the rescue! It is a powerful log file ...
sttr – Awesome Linux & Unix tool for transformation of the string24 May 2024, 9:17 pm
sttr demo
The sttr is a free and open-source command-line tool in Golang that lets you easily change and modify text. You can perform transformation operations on the string, such as hashing text, string manipulation, and more. sttr is beneficial for developers and *nix users requiring swift modification to strings or files directly via the command line or TUI. It is helpful in your scripting, data processing, and automation tasks at the CLI.
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How to block AI Crawler Bots using robots.txt file29 September 2023, 8:40 pm Are you a content creator or a blog author who generates unique, high-quality content for a living? Have you noticed that generative AI platforms like OpenAI or CCBot use your content to train their algorithms without your consent? Don't worry! You can block these AI crawlers from accessing your website or blog by using the robots.txt file.
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Debian Linux 12.1 released with Security Updates23 July 2023, 9:30 am Debian Linux project announces the first update of the Debian project's stable distribution, Debian 12 (codename "bookworm") named Debian 12.1. This update mainly addresses security issues and significant problems. Security advisories have been published and are now available to download.
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Setting up VSCode for Ansible Lightspeed AI in Ubuntu 22.04 desktop22 July 2023, 2:01 pm Red Hat launched the Ansible Lightspeed Code Assistant Generative AI with IBM Watson Code Assistant in May 2023. This preview is now available to all Ansible users, allowing them to explore the technology, provide feedback to Red Hat, and further train the AI model. In this brief blog post, I will share my personal experience with installing and utilizing Ansible Lightspeed AI to create playbooks in VSCode using Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS desktop.
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How to upgrade FreeBSD 13.1 to 13.2 release12 April 2023, 1:55 am The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is announcing the availability of FreeBSD version 13.2-RELEASE on 11/April/2023. It is the third release of the stable/13 branches. I updated my FreeBSD version 13.1 to 13.2 using the CLI over an ssh-based session. Here are my quick notes.
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PaloAlto init-cfg.txt Bootstrap Config file Layout with Examples19 May 2022, 3:30 am When you install and configure the PaloAlto firewall, when the firewall boots up for the first time, it does the bootstrapping process. PaloAlto uses the settings defined in the bootstrap files, including the init-cfg.txt and bootstrap.xml under the config folder to configure the initial state of the firewall. For example, during the bootstrap process, it […]...
21 Examples to Manage Secrets using AWS Secrets Manager CLI16 March 2022, 2:00 am Using AWS Secrets manager you can store, retrieve, rotate and manage secrets such as database credentials, API keys and other sensitive information used by your application. Secrets are rotated without any disruption to your application, and you can also replicate secrets to multiple AWS regions. You can manage secrets from AWS console, SDK, CLI, or […]...
13 Examples to Manage S3 Bucket Replication Rules using AWS CLI9 December 2021, 3:30 am Using S3 replication, you can setup automatic replication of S3 objects from one bucket to another. The source and destination bucket can be within the same AWS account or in different accounts. You can also replicate objects from one source bucket to multiple destination buckets. If you want to have a second copy of your […]...
5 Python Examples to Read and Write JSON files for Encode and Decode1 April 2021, 4:00 am JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation, which is a format for structuring data that is very similar to the concept of maps in computer programming. Maps consists of keys and corresponding values. A key has to be unique within a map. JSON is light-weight format of representing data as text in a file, whose syntax […]...
8 Examples to Add Static Routes in PAN-OS PaloAlto from CLI and Console10 March 2021, 4:00 am Managing routes is an essential configuration task for network admins who are managing firewalls. If you are using the PaloAlto firewall, this tutorial explains how to add static routes using both the PAN-OS command line interface and from the PaloAlto Firewall Console. 1. CLI – View Current Routes Before adding a route, view all current […]...
3 Methods to Create Jenkins Pipeline – Classic UI, BlueOcean, Git7 January 2021, 3:30 am Jenkins is a DevOps tool which can be used to automate your build, test and delivery of software code. If you are new to Jenkins, this tutorial will help you to understand how to create Jenkins pipeline using one of the following methods: Classic Jenkins User Interface Jenkins Blue Ocean User Interface which reduces clutter […]...
12 Examples to Manage AWS Transit Gateway Route Table from CLI7 October 2020, 3:00 am Apart from the default route table that gets created when you create a transit gateway, you can also create additional route tables. This helps you to associate a specific attachment with a specific route table. The attachments can propagate their routes to one or more route tables. You can also add static routes to the […]...
10 Examples to Manage PaloAlto Firewall Users from PAN-OS CLI23 September 2020, 3:00 am This tutorial explains how to manage PaloAlto users from CLI. You’ll learn about user and role related functionalities including how to create a new user, assign a role to an user, make regular user as an admin user, list all existing users, delete an user, etc., 1. Enter PaloAlto CLI Configuration Mode First, login to […]...
24 Examples to Manage AWS Transit Gateway and Attachments from CLI16 September 2020, 3:00 am AWS Transit gateway acts as a hub to connect multiple VPC and on-prem networks. Apart from attaching a VPC to transit hub and routing traffic, you can also attach a VPN connection or Direct Connect gateway to your transit gateway. You can also peer two transit gateways and route traffic between them. In a multi-account […]...
5 Steps to Upgrade PaloAlto PAN-OS Firewall Software from CLI or Console9 June 2020, 3:30 am PaloAlto releases software updates on an on-going basis. It’s essential that you stay current with the latest stable release of firewall. On a high-level the following are 5 easy steps to upgrade PaloAlto firewall: Pre-install: Verify current software version Check Available Software Versions Download Latest Version of PaloAlto Install the Latest version of Firewall Software […]...
Don't recycle that CRT yet—these 4 uses beat any flat panel for retro games and TV13 October 2026, 12:00 am A desk-side time machine delivering smoother anime breaks and crisp 4:3 music videos through thick glass and nostalgia....
The 4 hidden costs of buying a cheap GPU board tier12 October 2026, 11:00 pm Cheaper cards often skimp on cooling quality and ports so the savings can quickly evaporate under real world use....
My jailbroken Kindle is the ultimate distraction-free writing terminal12 October 2026, 10:30 pm From read-only to write-enabled....
3 excellent Paramount+ movies to watch this week (October 12-18)12 October 2026, 10:00 pm Paramount+ movies this week: McLovin, a masked rebel, and the red stapler....
Steam Deck's GPU is completely outdated, and this cheap AMD mini PC proves it12 October 2026, 9:30 pm A 2022 handheld exposed by newer mini PCs that deliver far more RDNA performance while staying compact and affordable....
7 Docker containers that I leave running 24/712 October 2026, 9:00 pm I never shut these Docker apps down. Here's why....
Your Samsung Galaxy's side button can do a lot more than you think12 October 2026, 8:30 pm What used to be a power button is now a versatile shortcut key....
I turned Claude prompts into Windows taskbar icons that do the work for me without opening Claude12 October 2026, 8:00 pm How I turned my most-used Claude prompts into taskbar buttons that read my clipboard and hand back the answer....
These 3 apps and tools are wearing out your SSD without telling you12 October 2026, 7:30 pm Wearing your SSD to death is pretty hard, but these practices can get you closer faster than you think....
Ryobi batteries rarely die without warning, and these 3 signs show up first12 October 2026, 7:30 pm It's the little things....
From zero to agent builder: Running kagent on your laptop12 October 2026, 11:30 am If you have seen a demo of a no-code agent builder, you know the moment. Someone types one sentence, waits a minute, and there it is: a new agent, running, with tools. It is impressive. For......
Join Platform Engineering Day at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 20269 October 2026, 12:00 pm As organizations accelerate their adoption of AI and cloud native technologies, platform teams are being asked to solve a growing set of challenges. How can developers access new capabilities such as AI safely and efficiently? How......
Making the Golden Kubestronaut a little more golden9 October 2026, 11:30 am When I became a Golden Kubestronaut, I wanted to celebrate the achievement in a way that felt lasting. Like most technical achievements, certifications usually live digitally. You receive the badge, update your profile, and eventually move......
Who owns NIS2 and DORA on a Kubernetes platform team9 October 2026, 8:07 am There is a meeting that repeats across a lot of European engineering organizations right now. Someone from legal or risk brings a NIS2 control, a DORA article, or a “can we evidence this” request into the......
Don’t give AI agents root. Make them propose the next system state.8 October 2026, 10:21 pm The uncomfortable question In the past few months, I’ve been hearing different versions of the same question: under what conditions can we safely allow an autonomous system to operate a machine? It comes up when my......
CiliumCon is back at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 20267 October 2026, 10:38 pm Mark your calendars. On Monday, November 9, CilliumCon kicks off at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Salt Lake City. It’s the eighth time the event has run, and this year’s agenda goes straight at the......
BackstageCon comes to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 in Salt Lake City7 October 2026, 9:59 pm BackstageCon takes place all day on Monday, November 9, 2026, the day before KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America opens in Salt Lake City. We’re excited to bring together Backstage adopters, contributors, and maintainers to share how......
Kubernetes on Edge Day returns to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 20267 October 2026, 9:33 pm Kubernetes on Edge Day returns to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 on November 9 in Salt Lake City, Utah, bringing together developers and adopters from across the cloud native ecosystem to share experiences and insights......
Meshery becomes a CNCF Incubating project7 October 2026, 12:05 pm The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Meshery as a CNCF incubating project. Meshery is used by organizations spanning aerospace, telecommunications, networking, and enterprise software as a single cloud native management plane that gives......
CNCF Welcomes OVHcloud, One of Europe’s Largest Independent Cloud Providers, as a Platinum Member7 October 2026, 7:00 am Upgrade builds on OVHcloud’s decade-plus commitment to open infrastructure, interoperability and cloud portability Key Highlights PRAGUE – Open Source Summit Europe – October 7, 2026 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems......
The Shift to cgroup v2 in Kubernetes: What You Need to Know6 October 2026, 6:00 pm In Linux, cgroups (control groups) are a kernel feature used for managing system resources.
Kubernetes uses cgroups to allocate resources like CPU and memory to containers,
ensuring that applications run smoothly without interfering with each other.
With the release of Kubernetes v1.31, support for v1 cgroup management moved into
maintenance mode.
Support for v2 cgroup management has been stable since Kubernetes v1.25.
Compared with cgroup v1, cgroup v2 provides a single unified hierarchy,
a mor...
Scaling Kubernetes Workloads with Node Swap5 October 2026, 6:00 pm Memory is often the first hard limit a Kubernetes cluster hits.
Nodes run out of RAM long before they run out of CPU, and the new wave of agentic AI workloads makes this worse.
These workloads demand large memory footprints to start up and run untrusted code, then sit idle waiting for the next prompt.
That idle but resident memory is expensive, and it caps how many pods a node can hold. This is where swap helps. Kubernetes support for running nodes with swap enabled reached General Availability ...
Spotlight on SIG Apps22 September 2026, 6:00 pm As Kubernetes adoption has grown, the conversation has shifted beyond running containers to managing increasingly complex application lifecycles. Modern platforms support stateless web services, stateful databases, batch processing, AI workloads, and platform services. At the same time, they must remain reliable during upgrades, scaling events, and infrastructure failures.
Every Kubernetes user relies on SIG Apps, whether they realize it or not. Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs, and C...
Kubernetes v1.37: Tracking When a PersistentVolumeClaim Was Last Used (Beta)21 September 2026, 6:30 pm Kubernetes v1.37 promotes the PersistentVolumeClaimUnusedSinceTime feature gate to Beta (enabled by
default). With this feature, the PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) protection controller adds an Unused
condition to each PVC, telling you whether any running pod currently references it — no custom
tooling or cross-referencing required.
For the API definition of PVC conditions, see the
PersistentVolumeClaim API reference.
Read on to learn how the Unused condition works and how to use it.
Why track PV...
Kubernetes v1.37: Hardening Container Storage with Bind Mount Options and EmptyDir Permissions16 September 2026, 6:30 pm Kubernetes v1.37 brings important storage security features: emptyDir permission modes and bind mount options. They help application programmers and security professionals implement rigorous security policies, for example, prohibiting deletion of files across containers or execution of arbitrary binaries from writable volumes, directly in Kubernetes without any complicated circumvention.
Linux storage and permission fundamentalsBefore diving into the new Kubernetes features, let us briefly revie...
Kubernetes v1.37: Pod-Level Resource Managers graduated to Beta15 September 2026, 6:30 pm With the release of Kubernetes v1.37, the Pod-Level Resource Managers
feature has graduated to Beta status (disabled by default)!
First introduced as an Alpha feature in
Kubernetes v1.36,
this enhancement builds on
Pod-Level Resources by
equipping Kubelet's Topology Manager, CPU Manager, and Memory Manager to use
Pod-level resource declarations (.spec.resources) directly when making
hardware placement decisions.
Bringing pod-level resources to node managersBefore this feature, obtaining exclusiv...
Kubernetes v1.37: Memory QoS Graduates to Beta14 September 2026, 6:30 pm Memory QoS has graduated to Beta in Kubernetes v1.37 and is now enabled by
default. On Linux nodes running cgroup v2, the feature uses the memory controller
to give the kernel better guidance on how to treat container memory. It was first introduced as
Alpha in v1.22, and expanded in v1.36 with tiered memory reservation.
This post covers what changed in v1.37, what the Beta promotion means for
cluster operators, and how to configure the feature.
What changed in v1.37Memory QoS is Beta and enable...
Kubernetes Changed Block Tracking API - Beta Differences14 September 2026, 6:30 pm Changed Block Tracking (CBT) support for CSI drivers
shipped as Alpha in
September 2025. With the March 2026 v1.0.0 release of the
external-snapshot-metadata
project, the feature moved to Beta.
If you aren't yet familiar with changed block tracking for storage in
Kubernetes, the
Alpha announcement covers
the motivation, the three primary components (the CSI SnapshotMetadata
gRPC service, the SnapshotMetadataService CRD, and the
external-snapshot-metadata sidecar), and a walkthrough of how to use...
Kubernetes v1.37: Native Histograms Graduates to Beta11 September 2026, 6:30 pm I'm excited to announce that native histogram support for Kubernetes metrics is graduating to Beta and is enabled by default in Kubernetes v1.37!
Native histograms (previously introduced as Alpha in Kubernetes v1.36 under KEP-5808)
bring high-resolution, low-cardinality observability to Kubernetes metrics.
By adopting Prometheus Native Histograms, Kubernetes components now expose latency and duration metrics with far greater accuracy while significantly reducing telemetry storage and scraping ov...
Kubernetes v1.37: Scheduler Preemption for In-Place Pod Resize (Alpha)10 September 2026, 6:30 pm In Kubernetes, resource allocation has historically been a static decision made during a Pod's initial scheduling and placement. With the graduation of the core in-Place Pod resize feature to General Availability in v1.35, application developers and cluster operators gained the powerful ability to dynamically adjust CPU and memory allocations of running containers without incurring disruptive restarts or application downtime.
However, in-place resizing introduced a unique resource scheduling gap...
Docker Hub security advisory: personal access tokens transferred during account-to-organization conversions12 October 2026, 4:00 pm CVE-2026-105445: Docker Hub account conversion could re-assign personal access tokens to a new owner. Read what happened, who was affected, and the fix....
Trust Docker for the agents you don’t1 October 2026, 6:26 pm At WeAreDevelopers, Docker introduced Cloud Sandboxes, the open Sandbox Kit specification, and a commitment to bring Kits to the CNCF for neutral governance....
Manufacturing Trust for AI Agents | Docker’s WeAreDevelopers Keynote24 September 2026, 5:15 pm Docker's WeAreDevelopers keynote shows how Sandboxes, Kits, and Cloud Sandboxes give AI agents strong isolation and reproducible authority....
Introducing Cloud Sandboxes: Start on Your Laptop, Finish in the Cloud24 September 2026, 4:00 pm Run agents on your laptop, in the cloud, and move between them with one command, all safely. Earlier this year we launched Docker Sandboxes: microVM environments where coding agents can work autonomously in a safe way....
Docker and CNCF partner on an open spec for agent permissions24 September 2026, 4:00 pm Docker is bringing the open source Sandbox Kit Spec to the CNCF, so AI agent permissions become a neutral, vendor independent standard built on OCI....
From Dockerfile to Kit: the Docker Sandboxes Kit Specification24 September 2026, 4:00 pm Docker's Sandbox Kit Specification v3 packages an AI agent's network rules, credentials, and volumes as an ordinary, pinnable OCI image....
Meet the Ecosystem: Partners and Customers at WeAreDevelopers with Docker22 September 2026, 3:06 pm Meet the partners and customers bringing practical AI, security, and development sessions to the Docker Pavilion at WeAreDevelopers. The post explains why a strong ecosystem matters to developers, announces the sessions and speakers, and invites attendees to connect with the teams building and using these technologies....
6 Benefits of Sandbox Environments (and How Docker Sandboxes Delivers Them)8 September 2026, 11:05 pm Learn about the key benefits of sandbox environments with Docker including isolation, definable controls, secrets credential handling, and more....
YOLO Mode: Agent Autonomy Without the Guardrails3 September 2026, 6:00 pm YOLO mode lets an AI agent run without asking permission. Learn what it is, why it's risky, and how to run it safely....
Building Reproducible AI Evaluation Workflows with Docker Sandboxes2 September 2026, 1:00 pm Learn how Docker Sandboxes can make AI evaluation workflows more reproducible with consistent execution, structured artifacts, and runtime evidence....
Building a Scope-Constrained AI Agent for Automated CI Failure Repair12 October 2026, 7:00 pm CI failures often expose a narrow defect through a broad stream of evidence such as compiler output, test reports, stack traces, changed files, dependency metadata, and build logs. Large language models can turn that evidence into candidate repairs, and recent industrial research has shown that LLM-assisted CI repair can resolve a meaningful share of compilation failures when the model receives carefully selected context.
The difficult part is not generating a patch. It is ensuring that automa...
The Jobs Matrix for AI: Four Boxes Instead of 40 Tools12 October 2026, 6:00 pm TL;DR: A 2×2 Matrix on AI for Agile Practitioners
You probably think making sense of AI means keeping up with every new tool, agent, and pricing tier. Steve Jobs faced a similar mess at Apple in 1997, with a dozen versions of the Macintosh, and he fixed it with a two-by-two grid on a whiteboard. Almost 30 years later, the “Jobs Matrix for AI” sorts the AI tool market and, more usefully, the AI use cases of Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Agile Coaches, and anyone else in agile product develo...
Columnar Formats for AI Telemetry: Parquet vs Vortex With DuckDB12 October 2026, 5:00 pm An AI inference service makes a model available to an application through an API. When you ask an inference API a question, the application sends your prompt to the service. The service processes it and generates a response, often streaming the answer back in batches. Producing a correct answer is only part of the job. The service also needs to respond quickly, handle many requests, and use GPU compute resources efficiently. Measuring each incoming request helps services understand what users ex...
Kafka With Spring Boot: Introduction12 October 2026, 4:00 pm Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform that enables real-time data ingestion, storage, and processing of continuous event streams. To do that, Kafka has a complex internal structure. In this part, I will try to cover an overview of the full internal structure.
Overview
Kafka uses a publish-subscribe model where producers produce events and consumers consume messages. Kafka producers publish events to the broker, and consumers consume the events from the broker. In the meantime, the brok...
Running TypeSafe AI's Jev Inside Neo4j for Confidence-Aware Sentiment Decisions12 October 2026, 3:00 pm This is Part 3 of a series on running sentiment analysis inside Neo4j.
Part 1, Running Sentiment Analysis Inside Neo4j With a Java Plugin, used the VADER lexicon via a pure Java UDF – rule-based, fully local, high throughput.
Part 2, Wasm Inside Neo4j: Building the Example That Didn't Exist, embedded a Wasm runtime inside a Java UDF using wasmtime-java — sandboxed, still local, lower throughput.
Part 3 takes a different approach. Instead of bundling a scoring model inside the plugin JAR,...
The Code Generation Bottleneck Is Gone. The Maintenance Bottleneck Isn't.12 October 2026, 2:00 pm As AI-generated code expands across production systems, provenance becomes essential for tracing where each change originated, which model or prompt influenced it, and what evidence supports its review, ownership, and trustworthiness. AI-assisted development changes the economics of software creation. Source code can now be produced faster than many engineering organizations can review, understand, test, secure, and maintain it. The resulting risk is not simply "bad AI code."
Recent research i...
Production RAG and LLM Systems: A Simple Q&A Guide12 October 2026, 1:00 pm Building a RAG application is relatively easy. Scaling it for millions of users and millions of documents is a different engineering problem.
At production scale, the architecture matters. Ingestion, search, indexing, permissions, latency, and updates all need to work independently without slowing down user requests....
From Legacy ETL to Modern ELT: Engineering a Governed dbt and Databricks Architecture12 October 2026, 12:00 pm A few years back, I sat through a production incident review where the root cause turned out to be a single stored procedure nobody on the team had touched in four years. The original author had left the company. Nobody knew why a particular join filtered out cancelled orders, only that removing it broke three downstream reports. That afternoon summed up, for me, everything wrong with how a lot of organizations still build their data pipelines.
Legacy ETL was never really about "extract, transfo...
Why Standardized Connectivity Is Only Half the Enterprise AI Equation9 October 2026, 7:00 pm An AI agent can understand a request, develop a plan, and still fail for a mundane reason: It cannot reach the system where the information — or the ability to act — lives.
Enterprise context is scattered across customer relationship management (CRM) platforms, ticketing systems, document repositories, analytics tools, and internal applications. Connecting them has traditionally required organizations or software vendors to build and maintain separate integrations for every system....
Does a Bigger Context Window Mean Better Memory: Understanding Context Windows, Model Memory, and RAG9 October 2026, 6:00 pm The Confusion Starts With the Word Memory
Imagine giving an AI assistant a large software repository, several months of incident reports, and a complete set of operating procedures. All of it fits inside a million-token context window. It is tempting to say that the model now remembers the repository. That description hides three different mechanisms.
The model may already contain general knowledge in its weights. The current request may temporarily expose it to your documents. A retrieval syste...
Epic Games Delays Disney Project, Asks Developers To Use More AI12 October 2026, 10:00 pm An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Epic Games delayed the release of an upcoming video-game collaboration with Walt Disney and told its developers to use more artificial intelligence tools to finish the game, according to people familiar with the project. The title had been slated for release in March, but is now delayed with no new date communicated, said the people familiar, who asked to not be identified because they weren't authorized to speak publicly.
Developers on the g...
Mark Zuckerberg Says Meta Has Reached AI 'Frontier', Rejects Calls For Slowdown12 October 2026, 9:00 pm Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company has reached the AI "frontier" with its new Muse Wonder model and will be offered as a closed, paid product for businesses. Zuckerberg also rejected calls for an industry-wide slowdown, arguing that AI can be managed with conventional guardrails as Meta continues spending heavily on models, infrastructure, and talent. The Financial Times reports: Speaking with the FT as Meta releases its Muse Wonder AI model on Monday, the billionaire chief executive clai...
Google's Fitbit Edge Debuts a Replaceable Battery, Brings Back the Screen12 October 2026, 8:00 pm Google has introduced the $179 Fitbit Edge, a new fitness tracker with a 1.34-inch OLED display, built-in GPS, ECG support, week-long battery life, and Fitbit's first user-replaceable battery. "And unlike the Pixel Watch, it's compatible with Android and iPhones via the Google Health app," reports Wired. From the report: The Edge has a user-replaceable battery, a Fitbit first, aligning with Google's efforts to make its Pixel Watch more repairable. (Likely also due to new battery regulations set ...
Russia Was Not Ready For the Data Center War It Started With Ukraine12 October 2026, 7:00 pm An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When Russia began attacking Ukrainian data centers and telecommunication infrastructure, it apparently failed to prepare for possible retaliation. Now Russia's digital services are facing widespread outages after Ukrainian drone strikes knocked out three of the largest data centers owned by Russian tech giant Yandex within several days. Pro-Kremlin bloggers are warning that Russia's centralized digital economy could collapse because the coun...
Hackers Heat French Supermarket Fridges, Sparking Fires and Spoiling Food12 October 2026, 6:00 pm Hackers remotely manipulated connected refrigeration systems at hundreds of French supermarkets, reportedly pushing some fridges and freezers to 50C (122F), spoiling food and even sparking fires. According to Reuters, French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu ordered a cybersecurity investigation into the hacks, with similar incidents reported in Spain, Portugal, Poland, Germany, and Belgium. In France, Carrefour reported 80 affected stores, Monoprix said 5% of its locations were hit, and Les Mous...
AI Coding Agents Generate More Code, But Not More Software12 October 2026, 5:00 pm A study of more than 700 software firms found that AI coding agents significantly increase the amount of code developers produce, but not the amount of software companies actually ship. Ars Technica reports: A recent study (PDF) of actual coding practices across hundreds of firms finds that human code review forms a significant "bottleneck" for the overall efficiency of AI coding tools, resulting in "little evidence that firms increase software output or reduce employment" by using them. Any eff...
Amazon In Talks To Buy AI Startup Decart For Around $7 Billion12 October 2026, 4:00 pm Amazon is reportedly in talks to acquire AI startup Decart in a deal that could value the company at up to $7 billion. Decart's DOS software helps developers optimize AI models for different processors in weeks rather than months, a capability that could be particularly useful to AWS as it pushes its own Trainium chips. SiliconANGLE reports: The company has developed software called DOS, which can help developers to speed up AI training and inference workloads by optimizing their neural networks...
Q3 2026 Was Historically Bad For PC Shipments12 October 2026, 3:00 pm PC shipments fell 20.1% year over year to 62.7 million units in the third quarter of 2026, the worst Q3 decline IDC has recorded. "The top three PC makers -- Lenovo, Dell, and HP -- also saw their shipments fall by over 20% year over year," reports PCMag. From the report: "If looking at all quarters, then we have seen other quarters in recent years with larger declines, such as 2022Q4, which was -28.2%, and 2023Q1, which was -28.7%. Both were coming off pandemic highs," IDC Director Jitesh Ubran...
Should We Beware of Other License Plate Surveillance Companies Besides Flock?12 October 2026, 11:34 am NPR reports:
Police officers in cities across the U.S. are quick to extol the virtues of real-time crime centers as a game changer that helps them find missing children, monitor large events from the skies and scope out dangerous scenes before putting an officer in harm's way. Hundreds of police departments have one of these central hubs, which have existed for years. But many are now being powered with AI software, such as Fusus, from the public-safety technology giant Axon... synthesizing th...
How the US Nuclear Plant Fleet Is Leaning Into AI12 October 2026, 7:22 am "This year, nearly the entire fleet of 94 U.S. nuclear reactors has been offered the chance to integrate AI into its operations, and most have taken it," reports IEEE Spectrum:
In August, California-based Atomic Canyon launched NIVA, the Nuclear Industry Virtual Assistant, which was developed in cooperation with nuclear-industry groups. The assistant was pilot-tested in nuclear plants run by Constellation Energy and is now available to the United States' entire fleet of reactors.... Meanwhile,...
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Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP12 October 2026, 11:21 pm Comments...
GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle12 October 2026, 11:07 pm Comments...
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Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch12 October 2026, 9:39 pm Comments...
Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X12 October 2026, 9:35 pm Comments...
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Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser12 October 2026, 9:03 pm Comments...
Ubuntu 27.04 will be called Tenacious T-Rex13 October 2026, 1:57 am ...
I just made something to make my Win/Linux dual-boot smoother.13 October 2026, 1:31 am ...
Plasma on the web: a real Plasma 6 desktop running entirely inside Chrome (no streaming)12 October 2026, 11:16 pm ...
evdev-forward: toggle your keyboard and mouse between your desktop and a second X server (Linux)12 October 2026, 11:15 pm ...
Torvalds says he loves using AI, and also that AI bug reports are stressing kernel maintainers “to the point that it’s a problem”12 October 2026, 10:43 pm ...
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PSA - AMD GPU - RDNA3 / 7000s GPU users - bug in current firmware12 October 2026, 6:57 pm ...
Linus’s “just a hobby” post got no replies for 20 years. Then, starting in 2011, 78 people wrote back.12 October 2026, 6:19 pm ...
spotatui 0.45: the terminal Spotify client now also has a desktop app (deb, rpm, AppImage), and it no longer needs a Spotify developer app12 October 2026, 4:44 pm ...
sxwm v1.8 release12 October 2026, 4:09 pm ...
We're having sysadmins in our organization pass away at unsettling rates. These guys were all fairly young. Is anyone else having this happen? What gives?13 October 2026, 1:48 am ...
Server Refresh Considerations - VMware vs Hyper-V13 October 2026, 12:30 am ...
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Space Analysis Benchmark Showdown13 October 2026, 12:18 am ...
If you use Microsoft Security Baseline then you may want to read this. September Preview - KB5124010 - Unable to Apply GPOs13 October 2026, 12:09 am ...
Hackers raise fridge temperatures at hundreds of French supermarkets to spoil food12 October 2026, 11:08 pm ...
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NASA Releases Data from Artemis II Moon Mission, Calls It 'Sights and Sounds of Science'11 October 2026, 11:34 am "What did four astronauts see, notice, and document as they traveled around the Moon during NASA's Artemis II mission?" asks a new NASA web page, offering some fascinating pictures and video:
Through photographs, spoken observations, drawings, and annotations, the Artemis II crew created a unique scientific record — one that is now available to the science community and the public for further study... As part of the mission science plan, lunar scientists asked the Artemis II crew to watch for...
UK Vegetables 20-50% Less Nutritious Than In the 1960s11 October 2026, 1:34 am The Telegraph reports that the nutritional value of fruit and vegetables has fallen by up to 50% since the Sixties, according a new study from researchers at startup studio Deep Science Ventures.
The study "found that humans needed to consume twice the number of vegetables to get the same level of minerals such as potassium, magnesium or copper as would have been present in their food 60 years ago."
The study found that many crops had lost 20% to 50% of several key nutrients... The decrease...
First Thorium Nuclear Clocks Begin to Tick10 October 2026, 7:34 am Researchers in Vienna and Beijing have independently built the first nuclear clocks based on oscillations inside thorium nuclei, marking a major milestone for a field that could eventually produce highly portable, ultra-precise timekeepers. The clocks are already precise enough to lose only about a second over millions of years. The New York Times reports: The first nuclear clocks are not going to immediately supplant the worldwide network of atomic clocks, whose steady ticking we rely on for GP...
A 1960 Paper Published In Science Predicts World Will End Next Month9 October 2026, 11:00 am sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: A physicist has put a definite date on Doomsday," The New York Times wrote on November 4, 1960. "He calculates that it will come on Friday the Thirteenth in November, 2026 A. D. On that date, or thereabouts, the human population will have expanded so far as to approach infinity and thus will automatically annihilate itself." The newspaper was right -- but the prediction was wrong. That week, Austrian American physicist Heinz von Foerster and tw...
Apollo Software Pioneer Margaret Hamilton Dies at 909 October 2026, 7:00 am "Margaret Hamilton, the groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA's Apollo astronauts on the moon to win the 20th century space race, has died," writes longtime Slashdot reader Veeru. "She was 90." MIT News reports: A computing pioneer who authored over 130 publications, Hamilton helped to establish software engineering as a dedicated discipline. She worked at MIT from 1959 until the mid-1970s, after which she became a successfu...
Female AI Agents 'Paid' Less Than Males, Study Finds8 October 2026, 3:00 pm Ancient Slashdot reader williamyf writes: If you thought the gender pay gap was not real, and that there were no biases in the workplace, think again: A recent study from the University of Limerick found that, in a VR office setting, AI agents -- not even humanoid robots -- that presented themselves as "male" were paid more per task and perceived as more "human-like" than their "female" counterparts, even though both were using the same underlying technology (LLM model, agent, guardrail, and har...
OpenAI Unleashes Hundreds More Math Results Upon a Field Already In Shock8 October 2026, 7:00 am OpenAI says an unreleased internal model has produced 372 results that either resolve or make substantial progress on open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science. The company says almost all were generated by a single AI agent from a single prompt. "This would be a striking difference from OpenAI's earlier blockbuster solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, which was produced through the collective efforts of a 10,000-strong agentic swarm that cost millions of dollars in computi...
Francis Halzen Wins Nobel Physics Prize For Antarctic 'Ghost Particle' Hunt7 October 2026, 11:00 am University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist Francis Halzen has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to understanding astrophysical neutrinos. Halzen led the development of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory beneath the Antarctic ice, which has helped trace high-energy neutrinos back to cosmic sources such as supermassive black holes and opened a new era of "multi-messenger" astronomy. Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from UW-Madison: Embedded in a cubic ...
Canadian Analysis: Permanent Daylight Saving Harms Sleep and Mental Health6 October 2026, 11:00 pm "With the push to eliminate the twice yearly clock change, Permanent Daylight Savings Time has emerged as the favorite for most states and provinces," writes longtime Slashdot reader kbahey, sharing the findings from a recent analysis published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Sci.News reports: "Ending the clock change solves one problem, but it creates another decision: which time should we live on year-round?" said University of British Columbia's Professor Raymond Lam, lead author...
Old Hearts Become Biologically Younger When Transplanted Into Younger People6 October 2026, 7:00 am alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: It might be reasonable to think that there's an indelible link between the heart and the body it resides in -- the processes that affect one inevitably affect the other. But a new preprint, uploaded to bioRxiv and yet to be peer-reviewed, suggests that this may only be true up to a point. Take the heart out of the body and put it in a new one, and something incredible happens. The transplanted heart begins to take on the biological age of its ...
Binary digits Matrix effect16 September 2026, 10:15 pm $ perl -e '$|=1;print" "x rand 35,rand 2|0 while 1'
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Terminal border traversal animation powered by bash and raw escape codes.14 September 2026, 10:31 pm $ p(){ printf "\e[$1;${2:-1}H";sleep .01;};while :;do L=$LINES C=$COLUMNS;for((i=1;i<=L;i++));do p $i;done;for((i=1;i<=C;i++));do p $L $i;done;for((i=L;i>=1;i--));do p $i $C;done;for((i=C;i>=1;i--));do p 1 $i;done;done
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Identify GUI binaries in /usr/bin via ELF dynamic section inspection19 August 2026, 8:11 pm $ for b in /usr/bin/*; do [[ -f "$b" && -x "$b" ]] && readelf -d "$b" 2>/dev/null | grep -qE 'libQt[0-9]?(Gui|Widgets)|libgtk-|libgdk-|libSDL|libforms|libfltk|libwx_' && echo "GUI: $b"; done
Detects true graphical applications (Qt, GTK, SDL, FLTK, wxWidgets) by parsing ELF dynamic tags with readelf -d instead of relying on .desktop files or executing binaries. It ignores protocol-only CLI utilities (like xset or xrandr) by targeting widget toolkits directly rather than...
ASCII Chart13 August 2026, 7:42 am $ for i in {1..256};do printf '%3d %b\n' $i \\0$((i/64*100+i%64/8*10+i%8));done|cat -t|column -c$((${COLUMNS:-80}/2))
Display a compact, columnized reference of printable ASCII characters and their shell-compatible octal escape sequences.
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xorshift32 RNG in Bash31 July 2026, 3:42 am $ n(){ s=$[s^s<<13];s=$[s^s>>17];s=$[s^s<<5];echo $[s&2**32-1]; }
The xorshift32 PRNG written by George Marsaglia in Bash, code golfed. Bash already has the $RANDOM and $SRANDOM environment variables, so this isn't all that useful. The seed "s" must be non-zero.
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Show top 100 DJ's on DJMAG17 July 2026, 4:30 pm $ elinks -dump https://djmag.com/top100djs | awk '/^[0-9]+$/ { rank=$0; next } rank && /^\[[0-9]+\]/ { gsub(/^\[[0-9]+\]/, ""); gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/, ""); print rank ". " $0; rank="" }'|sort -u
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Quick regional screen recording to MP4 via slurp15 July 2026, 4:44 am $ gpu-screen-recorder -w "$(slurp -f "%wx%h+%x+%y")" -f 60 -o "$HOME/rec_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S).mp4"
A lightweight and dependency-minimal way to record a selected region of your Wayland screen.
By using `slurp`'s custom formatting directly (`%wx%h+%x+%y`), we eliminate the need for piping through helper tools like `sed` or `awk` to construct the geometry argument for `gpu-screen-recorder`.
Requirements: slurp, gpu-screen-recorder
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Ensure an EOF-newline for every git-tracked text file (that changed since the main branch), except for .meta files23 June 2026, 3:50 am $ git diff --diff-filter=ACMRTUX --name-only main -z | grep -zvE '(.meta)' | xargs -0 dos2unix --add-eol
Ignores deleted files since main. dos2unix already skips binary files. Safely NUL-delimited. Add -i for a dry run.
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Extract GitHub repository URLs from BlackArch tools pages12 February 2026, 8:38 am $ curl -sL blackarch.org/{tools,recon}.html | awk -F'"' '$4 ~ /^https:\/\/github\.com\// { print $4 }'
Downloads BlackArch tool pages and prints only GitHub links using pure awk filtering.
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Import a wireguard configuration into networkmanager11 February 2026, 8:31 pm $ nmcli connection import type wireguard file wireguard_config.conf
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openKylin 3.0 Released with Expanded AI Integration12 October 2026, 6:09 pm The latest release features a pre-installed AI agent to help perform tasks....
DigitalOcean Ends Open Source Credits Program12 October 2026, 4:48 pm In a change that has surprised many open source developers, DigitalOcean has decided to sunset its Open Source Credits Program....
Office 365 Available for Testing on Linux via Bottles7 October 2026, 1:58 pm Linux users can now test the official Office 365, thanks to Mirko Brombin's work on Bottles....
Dutch Government Turns to Open Source for Digital Sovereignty1 October 2026, 4:33 pm Following in the footsteps of other European countries, the Netherlands is looking to increase its sovereign digital infrastructure with open source software....
Linux May Soon Work on Snapdragon X2-Based PCs29 September 2026, 6:49 pm If you're thinking about buying a Snapdragon X2-based desktop or laptop, Linux may soon be an option....
Blocking Ads and Malware with the Technitium DNS Server29 September 2026, 2:44 pm The Technitium DNS server helps you get rid of web ads and other browsing annoyances....
Zero-Config Secure Remote Access on Linux29 September 2026, 2:44 pm Traditional SSH requires public IP addresses, port forwarding, and constant key management. Tailscale offers a modern alternative built on WireGuard that eliminates open ports while providing zero-trust remote access....
Making the Most of Cloud-Init on the Raspberry Pi29 September 2026, 2:44 pm When booting a newer Raspberry Pi OS version, you might notice some cryptic cloud-init messages flash across the screen. We explain what they mean and how you can put them to good use....
Breaking Away29 September 2026, 2:44 pm AI sure has been dominating the tech news. I guess I should admit, the fact that AI insiders are predicting that this technology will soon destroy humanity is probably news worth covering. But is it the only news?...
Faster Python Development with Astral Tools29 September 2026, 2:43 pm The ecosystem for Python developers has evolved remarkably during the past few years. Much of this is due to three new tools created by Astral: uv, Ruff, and ty....
Linux Moves Closer to Retiring the x32 ABI After Years of Limited Adoption8 October 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
Linux kernel developers are renewing efforts to retire the x32 application binary interface (ABI), a little-used compatibility feature that attempted to combine the advantages of 64-bit processors with the smaller memory footprint of 32-bit applications. A revised patch series submitted on October 8, 2026, proposes the first steps toward disabling the interface, potentially ending support for an architecture ex...
Google's Kage Project Rethinks Linux Kernel Security With Isolated Device Drivers6 October 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
Google is exploring a new approach to Linux kernel security that could significantly change how device drivers interact with the operating system. The experimental project, known as Kage, uses compiler-based sandboxing to isolate drivers inside the kernel, potentially limiting the damage caused by memory corruption, programming errors, and exploitable vulnerabilities without requiring drivers to run as separate...
Speech Synthesis on Linux: Adding a Voice to Scripts and Systems1 October 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
Linux users have long had a pragmatic relationship with text-to-speech. The classic open-source engines have been available for years, wired into accessibility tools and the occasional script, dependable but unmistakably robotic. They do the job where the job is simply to convert text to some kind of speech, but the mechanical output has kept them out of anything where the voice actually matters. The arrival of...
Archinstall 4.5 Released with AArch64 Support, Real-Time Kernels, and Major Installer Fixes29 September 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
The Arch Linux project has released Archinstall 4.5, the latest version of its guided text-based installer, bringing expanded AArch64 support, new real-time Linux kernel options, additional translations, security improvements, and numerous fixes for installation workflows.
Archinstall 4.5 was released on September 29, 2026, roughly three months after Archinstall 4.4. The new version arrives just ahead of Arch ...
systemd 262 Released with Static PID 1, Intel TDX, TPM Improvements, and New Container Features24 September 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
The systemd project has officially released systemd 262, delivering another substantial update to the system and service manager used by most major Linux distributions. The final release was tagged on September 22, 2026, following three release candidates earlier in the month.
Systemd 262 introduces improvements across service management, containers, virtualization, encrypted storage, TPM security, networking,...
Ubuntu Container Escape Vulnerability Gets Public Exploit Before Kernel Patch Arrives22 September 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
Ubuntu administrators running containerized workloads have a new Linux kernel security problem to watch closely. Public exploit code is now available for CVE-2026-80521, a Linux kernel use-after-free vulnerability that can allow an unprivileged process inside a container to escape and obtain root privileges on the underlying host.
Security firm DepthFirst published its research and exploit on September 22, 202...
Fedora Linux 45 Beta Released with Python 3.15, GCC 16.2, and Major Security Changes17 September 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
The Fedora Project has officially released Fedora Linux 45 Beta, giving users an early look at the technologies expected to form the foundation of the final Fedora 45 release. The beta became available on September 15, 2026, after Fedora's Quality team approved Release Candidate 1.3 for publication.
Fedora 45 Beta brings significant changes throughout the operating system, including Python 3.15, GCC 16.2, glib...
Thunderbird 156 Released with OAuth Improvements, OpenPGP Updates, and Major Linux Fixes15 September 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
The Thunderbird team has officially released Thunderbird 156, bringing another round of new features, security improvements, authentication enhancements, and reliability fixes to the popular open-source email client. Released on September 15, 2026, the update is available for Linux alongside Windows and macOS.
Thunderbird 156 is not a dramatic redesign of the desktop mail client. Instead, it concentrates on im...
KDE Plasma 6.7.5 Released with Discover, KWin, Wayland, and HDR Fixes10 September 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
The KDE Project has officially released KDE Plasma 6.7.5, delivering another round of bug fixes and stability improvements for the Plasma 6.7 desktop series. Released on September 8, 2026, the update contains roughly a month of fixes and updated translations contributed since Plasma 6.7.4 arrived in early August.
Unlike a major Plasma release, version 6.7.5 doesn't introduce a large collection of new desktop f...
Slackware 16 Alpha 1 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS, GCC 16.2, and Plasma 68 September 2026, 4:00 pm
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One of Linux's oldest surviving distributions is moving closer to its next major release. Slackware 16 Alpha 1 became available on September 5, 2026, marking the first formal alpha milestone on the road toward Slackware Linux 16. The release follows a major rebuild of Slackware-current using a substantially newer GNU toolchain and brings together several upgrades that have accumulated since Slackware 15.0 arriv...
Cisco Announces Webex AI Agents for Meetings and Customer Service12 October 2026, 8:10 pm Cisco announces Webex AI agents for meetings and customer service. Learn what IT teams should check about availability, integrations and access controls.
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Apple HomeView Expected in November: What Buyers Should Know12 October 2026, 7:42 pm Apple HomeView is reportedly due in November. Explore its expected designs, colors and Siri features, plus the compatibility questions buyers should ask.
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Googlebook Adds Samsung Galaxy Support: Here’s What Changes for Users12 October 2026, 7:24 pm Googlebook adds Samsung Galaxy support with app casting, file sharing, and notification syncing. Here's what Galaxy owners need to know about compatibility.
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PC Prices Could Stay High Through 2027: What Buyers Should Know12 October 2026, 6:27 pm PC prices could stay high through 2027 as IDC forecasts an 18.3% increase in average selling prices. Here's what PC buyers and IT teams should know.
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Anthropic Draws a Line on Claude Abuse: What Counts as Going Too Far?12 October 2026, 5:53 pm Anthropic’s new Claude policy prohibits extreme, repeated abuse. Learn what remains allowed, how enforcement works, and what changes for workplace users.
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5 Google Chrome Features for Studying, Including Gemini Quizzes12 October 2026, 5:53 pm Google Chrome offers five tools for studying, from Gemini-generated quizzes and podcast summaries to split view and reading mode. Here's what works and where.
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TIOBE Index for October 2026: Python Rises as Julia Rejoins the Top 2012 October 2026, 5:43 pm October 2026 TIOBE Index sees Python rebound, Java narrow the gap with C++, R pass SQL, Rust hold No. 10, and Julia return to the top 20 after three years.
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Google Adds Android Enterprise AI Controls: What IT Teams Can Manage12 October 2026, 3:19 pm Google has announced new Android Enterprise policies for controlling AI automation, alongside stronger work-profile protections and additional device-management features.
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Volkswagen’s China Partner Taps UBTECH to Test Humanoid Factory Robots12 October 2026, 3:07 pm UBTECH and FAW-Volkswagen plan new humanoid robot trials for factory logistics in China, building on earlier tests as manufacturers explore automation.
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Tesla Drops Full Self-Driving Name in Europe Amid Regulatory Scrutiny12 October 2026, 2:53 pm Tesla has renamed Full Self-Driving in Europe as regulators question its branding and safety. Here's what the change means for drivers and EU approval.
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Rajeesh KV: ICFK 2026: Calligraphy Festival12 October 2026, 11:58 am
This year’s edition of International Calligraphy Festival Keralam was yet another great experience, consisting of workshops, demonstrations and talks surrounding calligraphy & typography, much like the last time. Eminent calligraphers of about a dozen scripts shared their expertise and experience.
Pictures of a sample collection of the calligraphy works at the exhibition below.
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Akashdeep Dhar: Maintainer Summit - IndiaFOSS 20269 October 2026, 6:30 pm
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ExperienceMarking the second Indian FOSS event for me, day zero of IndiaFOSS 2026 by FOSSUnited Organization had the Maintainer Summit planned for it. This had a separate registration apart from the main conference and hence had a smaller footfall at Samagata Foundation. As the invitation email required us attendees to be at the venue at 0900am Indian Standard Time sharp, I decided to get a head start to beat the Bengaluru traffic on Friday, 25th Septem...
Remi Collet: 🎲 PHP version 8.4.27RC1 and 8.5.12RC19 October 2026, 5:00 am
Release Candidate versions are available in the testing repository for Fedora and Enterprise Linux (RHEL / CentOS / Alma / Rocky and other clones) to allow more people to test them. They are available as Software Collections, for parallel installation, the perfect solution for such tests, and as base packages.
RPMs of PHP version 8.5.12RC1 are available
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Kamil Páral: Heroes of Fedora Quality for Q3 20268 October 2026, 1:28 pm
The third quarter of 2026 is over, and so in this post we’d like to highlight the top Fedora Quality contributors who helped us maintain the quality bar for Fedora during this time period. Fedora wouldn’t be a high-quality distribution without its community. Every single person who helped us detect and resolve issues, or verify that things work as expected, deserves our gratitude, thank you!
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Fedora Magazine: Podman Test Week: Help test the Rust-based conmon v37 October 2026, 4:25 pm
The Podman and Fedora Quality teams are organizing a test week from Monday, October 12, through Sunday, October 18, 2026. We want your help testing conmon v3, the Rust-based container monitor used with Podman. If you use Podman, try the same containers and commands with conmon v3 and report any differences.
Why we’re testing conmon v3
Conmon is the small process that keeps watching a container after the Podman command that started it has finished. P...
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System Design pro-tip: force yourself to create a viable second design.12 October 2026, 9:46 pm This is an interesting practice I’ve picked up over the years to challenge my own thinking.Continue reading on ITNEXT »...
One of my favorite aspects of gRPC isn’t the performance.9 October 2026, 9:36 pm I’ve shared a lot about the benefits of gRPC, and most of that focuses on what makes it fast and reliable. One of the biggest benefits has…Continue reading on ITNEXT »...
Message queues are great for handing off work, but how do you know the work actually happens?2 October 2026, 3:31 pm Continue reading on ITNEXT »...
Some architecture principles should be rules. Others should be guidelines.25 September 2026, 5:31 pm Not all architecture principles should be treated the same.Continue reading on ITNEXT »...
Mishandling concurrency is one of the most common root causes of software bugs18 September 2026, 5:16 pm Of all the software bugs I’ve seen, mishandling concurrency is one of the most common root causes.Continue reading on ITNEXT »...
At what point does better performance stop being worth it?11 September 2026, 8:41 pm Photo by Scott Rodgerson on UnsplashContinue reading on ITNEXT »...
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Finding Top Exim Queue Abusers by cPanel Account13 May 2026, 11:07 pm A spiking Exim queue is one of those early warning signs that something on a cPanel server has gone sideways. Sometimes it is a compromised account blasting out phishing mail. Sometimes it is a legitimate client running a poorly throttled newsletter. Sometimes it is a contact form with no captcha that a bot has discovered. […]...
AutoSSL Let’s Encrypt Rate Limiting7 March 2026, 12:42 am You’ve just completed a cPanel server migration. The accounts are transferred, DNS is propagating, everything looks good… until you check the AutoSSL logs and see this staring back at you: WARN AutoSSL failed to create a new certificate order because the server's Let's Encrypt account (https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/acct/XXXXXXX) has reached a rate limit. (429 urn:ietf:params:acme:error:rateLimited) Every domain […]...
How to Fix CSF/LFD “Excessive Resource Usage” Floods for PHP-FPM and dbus on AlmaLinux 95 March 2026, 12:41 am If you have recently migrated to AlmaLinux 9 (or any RHEL 9 derivative) and run ConfigServer Security & Firewall (CSF) with Login Failure Daemon (LFD), you have probably noticed your inbox filling up with alerts like these: Time: Wed Feb 19 03:14:22 2025 Account: root Resource: Virtual Memory Size Exceeded: 384 > 256 (MB) Executable: […]...
Why AutoSSL Fails Under Cloudflare Proxy2 March 2026, 12:38 am If you manage domains behind Cloudflare’s proxy and run cPanel with AutoSSL, there’s a good chance you’ve woken up to an email like this: AutoSSL did not renew the certificate for “example.com”. You must take action to keep this site secure. DNS DCV: No local authority: “example.com”; HTTP DCV: “cPanel (powered by Sectigo)” forbids DCV […]...
MariaDB Sandbox Mode Is Silently Breaking Your Database Migrations28 February 2026, 12:34 am If you have recently tried to migrate a cPanel server and watched every single database import fail with ERROR at line 1: Unknown command '\-', you are not alone. This error has been quietly biting sysadmins for the better part of a year, and cPanel still has not published a word about it. Here is […]...
Maildir to mdbox Conversion Silently Drops Emails for Date Ranges27 February 2026, 6:24 pm If you have ever run a cPanel migration or triggered a mailbox format conversion in WHM and found that users are missing emails from specific date ranges, you are not alone. This is one of those issues that does not announce itself with a clear error. It simply leaves gaps in the mailbox, and unless […]...
Bulk PHP-FPM Pool Tuner for Existing Accounts26 February 2026, 7:16 pm WHM only applies PHP-FPM settings to new accounts, and as we know, the cPanel defaults may not be appropriate for higher-traffic sites. This script updates all existing accounts. #!/bin/bash # bulk-phpfpm-tuner.sh # Updates PHP-FPM pool settings for all accounts based on server RAM TOTAL_RAM_MB=$(free -m | awk '/^Mem:/{print $2}') RESERVED_MB=2048 # Reserve for OS/MySQL ACCOUNTS=$(whmapi1 […]...
PHP-FPM pm.max_children Reached on cPanel Servers26 February 2026, 6:24 pm See Also: Bulk PHP-FPM Pool Tuner for Existing Accounts If you manage cPanel servers, you have almost certainly encountered this log entry at some point: [pool username] WARNING: server reached pm.max_children setting (5), consider raising it It looks simple enough. PHP-FPM is telling you it ran out of worker processes to handle incoming requests. But […]...
The cPanel/WHM Autofixer26 February 2026, 4:38 am Cpanel 11.24 comes with an Autofixer that allows you to fix common problems that may prevent access to certain parts of your system....
PCI DSS Compliance Cookbook for cPanel Servers26 February 2026, 12:20 am If you’re running cPanel servers that process, store, or transmit credit card data, or even connect to systems that do, PCI DSS compliance isn’t optional. It’s a requirement that carries real financial and legal teeth. With PCI DSS v4.0.1 now fully enforced (the March 31, 2025 deadline for all “best practice” requirements has passed), every […]...
Sunsetting Developer Web (User Web)9 August 2025, 7:16 pm SourceForge will be sunsetting developer web hosting for user accounts (unrelated to project web hosting) in 60 days on October 10th, 2025. If you are using developer web ...
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ProjectLibre Major Release: Day One downloads in 150+ countries… replacing Microsoft Project2 May 2025, 3:00 pm Today marks a watershed moment for the global project-management community—and our 10-year partnership with SourceForge! We’re proud to unveil ProjectLibre Desktop 1.9.8, the most powerful update in years, delivering a ...
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Display an Interactive Demo on your SourceForge Business Software Listing2 April 2024, 11:20 pm Big News: SourceForge Just Got a Major Upgrade with Cool Demo Tools! Hey everyone! We’ve got some awesome news to share that’s going to make showcasing and exploring ...
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Project Web Hosting Database Upgrade Notice20 October 2023, 1:13 am The purpose of this blog post is to announce our scheduled maintenance window for project web hosting. We will be upgrading the database used by project websites on ...
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GitHub is Ending Subversion (svn) Support: Subversion and SourceForge19 September 2023, 12:47 am Earlier this year, GitHub announced that it would be sunsetting Subversion support on January 8th, 2024. Since then, SourceForge has seen high volume of projects that use Subversion migrate ...
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Welcoming OSDN Projects to SourceForge31 July 2023, 9:30 pm —- OSDN.net has been having extended service outages since it was recently acquired. Some users are reporting that OSDN has been down on and off for over a ...
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ProjectLibre Recognized With Open Source Excellence Award on SourceForge2 March 2022, 12:50 am — We are happy to announce that SourceForge has recognized a number of exceptional projects on SourceForge with awards based on the value these projects provide to the ...
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Does SourceForge have malware?8 March 2021, 10:17 pm SourceForge does not have malware or viruses. All projects, downloads, and releases served from SourceForge are scanned for malware and viruses, so you can rest assured that your ...
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Projects of the Week, December 21, 202021 December 2020, 5:01 am Here are the featured projects for the week, which appear on the front page of SourceForge.net: plantumlPlantUml allows you to quickly create some UML diagrams using a simple ...
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Today in Tech – 200316 December 2020, 5:46 am On this day in 2003 the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing, better known as the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 was signed into law in the ...
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Mkinitcpio >=42 requires manual intervention for TPM2-based unlocking of LUKS devices22 September 2026, 9:09 am Starting with package version 42-1, the mkinitcpio systemd hook now includes systemd-pcrosseparator.service (as intended by systemd v261).
This affects the measurements of PCR values 0-7, 9 and 12-14.
If you configured the systemd hook and unlock LUKS partitions, that depend on these values, you need to re-enroll the TPM2 in use.
For guidance, please refer to systemd-cryptenroll(1), or the ArchWiki article on systemd-cryptenroll, when using pinned values.
Refer to systemd-pcrlock(8), when relyin...
virtualbox-ext-vnc >= 7.2.12-2 requires manual intervention21 July 2026, 1:01 pm Previously, we installed its contents in a way that made pacman not
aware of the files (using VBoxManage extpack install ... from an
install script). To mitigate issues during upgrade, you can use one of
the following methods:
Uninstall virtualbox-ext-vnc before upgrading the system, then
installing it again.
Run VBoxManage extpack uninstall 'VNC' as root before upgrading the
system.
Instruct pacman once to overwrite the existing files:
pacman -Syu --overwrite '/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPac...
Active AUR malicious packages incident12 June 2026, 6:41 pm We are currently experiencing a high volume of malicious package adoptions and updates in the Arch User Repository.
We are actively working to track down existing malicious commits and attempting to prevent additional malicious commits from being pushed.
While this is happening, and while we work to create a more permanent solution, users may see issues with the following:
Creating new accounts on the AUR
Pushing package updates
Adopting or creating new packages
We continue to encourage all us...
Arch Linux 2026 Leader Election Results4 June 2026, 12:27 pm Recently we held our leader elections and after a lively discussion period on the (internal) mailing lists and voting phase with two candidates Levente "anthraxx" Polyák was re-elected as Arch Linux Project Lead.
As per our election rules he is re-elected with the term lasting two years.
The role of of the project lead within Arch Linux is connected to a bunch of
responsibilities regarding decision making (when no consensus can be reached), community leadership, Code of Conduct enforcement, han...
Breaking changes for all users of `varnish`, which is renamed to `vinyl-cache`25 May 2026, 4:58 am The Varnish project has renamed itself to Vinyl Cache.
We followed this rename with a new vinyl-cache package.
This upgrade results in breaking changes and users are advised to study these changes and how it affects them before following the replacement.
All references to "varnish" have been changed to "vinyl" in all binaries and directories.
At minimum, users will have to:
rename /etc/varnish to /etc/vinyl-cache
rename /var/lib/varnish to /var/lib/vinyl-cache
fix up ownership of files inside /...
kea >= 1:3.0.3-6 update requires manual intervention7 April 2026, 4:50 pm The kea package has moved all services to run as a dedicated kea user (instead of root) for improved security. This change requires permission updates to the runtime files created by the kea services.
Users upgrading from an existing kea installation should therefore run the following commands after the upgrade:
chown kea: /var/lib/kea/* /var/log/kea/* /run/lock/kea/logger_lockfile
systemctl try-restart kea-ctrl-agent.service kea-dhcp{4,6,-ddns}.service
Accounts that need to interact with kea se...
iptables now defaults to the nft backend5 April 2026, 6:28 pm The old iptables-nft package name is replaced by iptables, and the
legacy backend is available as iptables-legacy.
When switching packages (among iptables-nft, iptables, iptables-legacy),
check for .pacsave files in /etc/iptables/ and restore your rules if needed:
/etc/iptables/iptables.rules.pacsave
/etc/iptables/ip6tables.rules.pacsave
Most setups should work unchanged, but users relying on uncommon xtables
extensions or legacy-only behavior should test carefully and use
iptables-legacy if r...
NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support; main packages switch to Open Kernel Modules20 December 2025, 6:53 pm With the update to driver version 590, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs or older. We will replace the nvidia package with nvidia-open, nvidia-dkms with nvidia-open-dkms, and nvidia-lts with nvidia-lts-open.
Impact: Updating the NVIDIA packages on systems with Pascal, Maxwell, or older cards will fail to load the driver, which may result in a broken graphical environment.
Intervention required for Pascal/older users: Users with GTX 10xx series and older cards must switc...
.NET packages may require manual intervention11 December 2025, 7:01 am The following packages may require manual intervention due to the upgrade from 9.0 to 10.0:
aspnet-runtime
aspnet-targeting-pack
dotnet-runtime
dotnet-sdk
dotnet-source-built-artifacts
dotnet-targeting-pack
pacman may display the following error failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) for the affected packages.
If you are affected by this and require the 9.0 packages, the following commands will update e.g. aspnet-runtime to aspnet-runtime-9.0:
pacman -Syu aspnet-runtime...
waydroid >= 1.5.4-3 update may require manual intervention6 November 2025, 12:35 am The waydroid package prior to version 1.5.4-2 (including aur/waydroid) creates Python byte-code files (.pyc) at runtime which were untracked by pacman. This issue has been fixed in 1.5.4-3, where byte-compiling these files is now done during the packaging process.
As a result, the upgrade may conflict with the unowned files created in previous versions. If you encounter errors like the following during the update:
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
waydroid: /usr/lib/waydro...
The backbone of play: How online gaming platforms run on modern server infrastructure in 202611 April 2026, 2:52 pm Online gaming is probably the one area that will continually push the limits of server architecture, networking, and operating systems. The pressure on the gaming infrastructure in 2026 is astronomical. Gamers demand sub-20ms latency, large-scale simultaneous multiplayer experiences, and no downtime, as they simultaneously stream 4K assets in real-time. To the legions of systems administrators, […]...
Flatpak security in real life: how to audit permissions and reduce data exposure25 January 2026, 5:52 am Flatpak is an application packaging and distribution technology that makes it possible to develop an application that can be run in a sandbox across Linux distributions. Being distribution agnostic, a Flatpak application that you install in Debian can also be installed as-is in Fedora. Because it runs in a sandbox, a Flatpak app needs permissions […]...
Ethereum architects harden the kernel for mass adoption16 January 2026, 2:43 am Core engineers are now treating Ethereum’s mainnet like the secure, rigid Linux kernel, offloading computation to modular layer-2 rollups. All speed and experimentation are pushed to these user-space environments. This framework ensures future growth does not compromise security. Minor market action often obscures monumental architectural changes occurring deep within the protocol. Vitalik Buterin recently drew […]...
Browser isolation for safer casino sessions in Linux19 December 2025, 7:18 pm Linux users tend to be more privacy-aware than average. You update packages, you think twice before pasting commands from random forums and you probably have at least one hardened browser profile sitting around. But even with good habits, the web is still the web. A single sketchy ad script, a dodgy extension update or a […]...
Online casinos and streamers: A winning combination for all involved11 November 2025, 3:07 pm In the past several years, there has been a curious development on sites like Twitch and YouTube: casino streaming. This type of digital entertainment, which used to be limited in scope, has now grown into a worldwide phenomenon that has drawn in millions of viewers. Audiences watch as popular creators pull the lever, place bets, […]...
3 steps to build the perfect website for your organization6 November 2025, 12:48 am If you’re running an organization, you must have a website to establish credibility and show that you prioritize professionalism. Companies that don’t have websites give out negative impressions to clients. Also, remember that a website will allow you to showcase your expertise and introduce visitors to your team. Building a website today is fairly easy. […]...
Ethereum price predictions 2025: Can ETH break $7K as ETFs and Layer 2 growth drive the market?5 November 2025, 5:14 am The crypto market is buzzing again as conversations shift toward Ethereum’s potential over the next two years. Analysts and investors alike are wondering whether ETH can realistically reach the $7,000 mark sometime 2026. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have already opened the doors to a new wave of institutional capital, while Layer 2 adoption continues to expand […]...
How technology and security drive high-performance online platforms4 November 2025, 4:57 pm People expect digital platforms to be fast, reliable, and always available. This demand has encouraged businesses to rely heavily on innovative technology and strong security systems. Behind what appears simple to users is a network of tools that keeps everything operating smoothly. Industries depend on systems that can expand quickly, protect private data, and comply […]...
How to run a repository of casino games in Linux using Wine or Proton22 September 2025, 10:46 am Linux is one of the most flexible operating systems in the world, but gaming has traditionally been its weak spot. A lot of games, especially the casino game library, are designed for Windows computers. So, if you trust running them straight on Linux, you’ll often run into problems. These issues vary from the installer not […]...
Enhancing privacy measures for Linux gaming enthusiasts25 August 2025, 4:31 am In the ever-expanding universe of online activities, ensuring your privacy as a Linux gamer is vital. Engaging in gaming requires connecting with communities and online platforms, which can expose your personal information to potential threats. By implementing effective privacy measures, you not only protect yourself but also contribute to a safer gaming environment for all. […]...
Update: My VinFast VF3 Charger Has Been Replaced — Thanks to Mazda Cebu and the Filipino VinFast Community17 August 2026, 2:11 am Quick update on my VinFast VF3 charger saga: it's resolved. Ten days after the charger failed, I have a working replacement unit and my VF3 is back on the road.Credit where credit is due.Mazda Cebu — my VinFast dealer — came through. While VinFast Philippines corporate was still sending me template emails, it was the dealer team on the ground that actually got things moving. Special shoutout to my sales agent Mam Cholee, who personally followed up on the issue and made sure the replacement c...
Beware: The VinFast VF3 Has a Faulty Charger Problem, and VinFast Philippines Support Won't Fix It13 August 2026, 2:15 am I don't usually write complaint articles. In nearly 20 years of blogging about technology on this site, I can count on one hand the number of times I've publicly called out a company by name. I'd rather spend my energy telling you about products that work than products that don't.But I'm making an exception for VinFast Philippines because what happened to me isn't just frustrating — it's a warning sign for anyone considering buying a VinFast vehicle in this country. If a company can't replace ...
The Complete Guide to EV Charging Stations in the Philippines (2026)24 July 2026, 1:49 am If range anxiety is the number one reason Filipinos hesitate to buy an electric vehicle, this guide is the antidote.I'm writing this as someone who just bought a Tesla Model Y L from Bohol — an island with exactly zero Tesla Superchargers and a handful of third-party AC chargers scattered across malls. Before I committed a good amount of money to a car that runs on electricity, I needed to know exactly where I could charge it, how much it would cost, and whether the infrastructure could actua...
The Age of AI: Exciting Times Ahead for Humanity… If We Do It Right7 July 2026, 12:11 pm A paralyzed British Army veteran is raiding dungeons in World of Warcraft using nothing but his thoughts. A robot that learned to fold laundry by watching YouTube videos is now building BMWs. An AI designed a drug compound in weeks that would have taken human researchers a decade. And a car drove itself across San Francisco without a human touching the wheel.All of this happened in the last twelve months.We are living through the most concentrated period of technological advancement in human his...
Tesla Model Y L vs BYD Tang EV: Which 6/7-Seater Electric SUV Is Better Value in the Philippines?25 June 2026, 3:09 am Two massive electric SUVs. Both seat six or more. Both have dual motors, all-wheel drive, and enough torque to pin you to your seat. Both are available right now in the Philippines. And both want to be the EV that finally convinces Filipino families to ditch gasoline forever.The Tesla Model Y L landed at ₱2,849,000. The BYD Tang EV has been here since 2023 at ₱3,321,000. That’s a ₱472,000 gap — in Tesla’s favor — which is not the pricing dynamic most people expected. The world’s ...
I Emailed Python’s Creator in 2007. The Language Now Runs the World.23 April 2026, 6:15 am In August 2007, a few weeks after launching this site, I did something that still surprises me when I think about it: I emailed Guido van Rossum — the creator of Python and the language’s self-titled “Benevolent Dictator For Life” — to ask for advice on starting a Python User Group in the Philippines.To my genuine shock, he replied. Quickly. With actual instructions on how to get it started.That email led to a blog post called “Will Real Python Hackers Please Stand Up,” which becam...
The State of Linux-Powered Robots: From Lego Kits to World Domination14 April 2026, 12:48 pm In 2009, I wrote a TechSource article called “[5 Awesome Robot Kits to Get You Started with Robotics].”The most advanced robot on that list was a LEGO Mindstorms NXT. It had three servo motors, four sensors, and the approximate intelligence of a toaster with ambitions.Two years later, I followed it up with “[Best Robotics Software for Linux],” where we covered tools like ROS, Player, and CARMEN. At the time, the state-of-the-art in Linux robotics was getting a wheeled platform to navigat...
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS vs. macOS 26 Tahoe: The Free OS That Rivals a Premium Experience6 April 2026, 10:04 am I’m writing this on a MacBook Air running macOS 26 Tahoe, and I keep glancing at my Mac Mini in the corner — the one running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.I’ve been a macOS user for a decade. I develop iOS apps. I’m neck-deep in the Apple ecosystem — iPhone, Apple Watch Ultra, AirPods, the whole cult membership. But last year, Apple released macOS Tahoe with its Liquid Glass redesign, and I found myself wondering: has the free operating system actually gotten *better* than the premium one?Short ans...
Why the Tesla Model Y L Is the Most Feature-Packed EV for Its Price in the Philippines30 March 2026, 7:16 am If you’re a long-time reader of TechSource, you know this site has mostly been about Linux, open-source software, and all things computing. But if you’ve been following our recent comeback, you also know we’ve expanded into covering the broader tech landscape — AI, smartwatches, crypto, and whatever else catches my persistently curious eye. Today, we’re parking (pun intended) in a topic that’s been occupying a significant amount of my brain space lately: electric vehicles. Specifical...
Linux Won, and Nobody Noticed25 March 2026, 1:38 am The tech industry has failed to properly acknowledge this for years: Linux won. Not "Linux is doing fine." Not "Linux is making progress." Not "maybe next year will be the year of the Linux desktop." No. Linux won. Decisively. Overwhelmingly. In nearly every category of computing that actually matters, Linux is the dominant operating system on the planet — and it happened quietly that most people, including many who use it every single day, have absolutely no idea.I've been writing about Lin...