‘A shemozzle’: NT museum chair resigns amid fallout of CBD gallery plan
The long-standing chair of the Museum and Art Gallery of the NT has quit her position, just weeks after an announcement that a planned $150 million Darwin CBD art gallery may not be going ahead. ⌘ Read more
Struggling dairy farmers disappointed with milk prices
“Farm exits” are predicted amid drought and floods as dairy companies announce their minimum farm gate milk prices for the next financial year. ⌘ Read more
Settings Management for Docker Desktop now generally available in the Admin Console
We’re excited to announce that Settings Management for Docker Desktop is now Generally Available! Settings Management can be configured in the Admin Console for customers with a Docker Business subscription. After a successful Early Access period, this powerful administrative solution has been enhanced with new compliance reporting capabilities, completing our vision for … ⌘ Read more
Apple Readies WWDC Stream on YouTube Ahead of Keynote Next Week
WWDC 2025 will kick off with Apple’s keynote on Monday, June 9 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, and the page where the presentation will be live streamed is now available on YouTube. On the page, you can set a reminder to be notified before the keynote begins.
Apple will announce its latest software updates, including [iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, tvOS … ⌘ Read more
Overwhelmed domestic violence services fight for funding despite budget boost
The NSW government announced this month’s budget would fund more resources to support victim-survivors navigating the justice system. ⌘ Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 13.0.2 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.
This update addresses various issues that have been noticed since the previous release, as well as a few improvements, including some important fixes for invites. Some log messages and prosodyctl commands have been improved as well.
A summary of changes in this release:
Fixes and improvements- mod_storage_internal: Fix queries with only start returning extra items
- mod_invites_register: Stric … ⌘ Read more
Apple Store in the Netherlands Temporarily Closing Starting Next Month
Apple has announced that its Den Haag store in the Netherlands will be temporarily closed for renovations starting this Sunday, June 1.
The store is located in The Hague, the capital city of the South Holland province.
First opened in 2014, Apple De Haag is one of the company’s flagship stores, located … ⌘ Read more
NATO announces new Ramstein format meeting next week ⌘ Read more
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 29, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: Glibc security; How we lost the Internet; Encrypted DNS; 6.15 Development statistics; Filesystem stress-testing; BPF verifier; Network access from BPF; OSPM 2025.
Briefs: AlmaLinux 10.0; FESCo decision overturned; NixOS 25.05; Pocket, Launchpad retired; Quotes; …
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, … ⌘ Read more
Launchpad mailing lists going away
Canonical’s Launchpad
software-collaboration platform that is used for Ubuntu development
will be shutting down its hosted mailing lists at
the end of October. The announcement
recommends Discourse or Launchpad Answers as
alternatives. Ubuntu’s mailing\
lists are u … ⌘ Read more
Apple Launches Self Service Repair for iPad
Apple today announced that its Self Service Repair program is expanding to the iPad.
The program will provide iPad owners with manuals, genuine Apple parts, … ⌘ Read more
NixOS 25.05 released ⌘ Read more
Top Stories: iPhone 17 Air Details, Apple’s Smart Glasses, and More
WWDC is coming up quickly with a number of software announcements in store, but we’re also looking further ahead to hardware launches like the iPhone 17 lineup and even Apple’s smart glasses project.
This week also saw big news with former Apple design guru Jony Ive joining forces with OpenAI to build future AI-driven devices, while Fortnite return … ⌘ Read more
Mozilla is shutting down Pocket
Mozilla has announced
that it is shutting down Pocket, a bookmarking service acquired by Mozilla
in 2017, this coming July. “Pocket has helped millions save articles
and discover stories worth reading. But the way people use the web has
evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match
their browsing habits and online needs.” ⌘ Read more
Home Assistant deprecates the “core” and “supervised” installation modes
Our recent article on Home Assistant
observed that the project emphasizes installations using its own Linux
distribution or within containers. The project has now made that emphasis
rather stronger with this\
announcement of the deprecation of the “core” and “supervised”
installation modes, which allowed H … ⌘ Read more
Fedora Council overturns FESCo provenpackager decision
The Fedora Council has ruled on the Fedora Engineering Steering
Council’s (FESCo) decision last year to revoke Peter Robinson’s
provenpackager status. In a statement
published to the fedora-devel-announce mailing list, the council has
announced that it has overturned FESCo’s decision:
FESCo didn’t have a specific policy for dealing with a request to remove
Proven Packager rights. In addition, the FESCo process wa … ⌘ Read more
Five new stable kernels
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.14.8, 6.12.30, 6.6.92, 6.1.140, and 5.15.184 stable kernels. As usual, each
contains a long list of important fixes throughout the kernel tree. ⌘ Read more
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 22, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: Home Assistant; Setuptools; Debian AI GR; DMA-mapping API; BPF CI; OSPM 2025
Briefs: Go audit; Oniux; Asahi progress; Rust in FreeBSD; RHEL 10; Rust 1.87.0; RIP John L. Young; Quote; …
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. ⌘ Read more
CNCF Shares Schedule for Open Observability Summit North America, Gears Up for Inaugural Event
The event will unite observability leaders, developers, and end users to drive progress in observability tools and best practices SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 22, 2025 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems… ⌘ Read more
ASUS IoT Unveils RUC-1000 Series with 600W GPU Support and Up to 4000 TOPS at Computex 2025
ASUS IoT has announced the RUC-1000 series at Computex 2025, introducing what it describes as the world’s first 2U 19-inch rugged edge AI GPU computer with PCIe 5.0 support for up to 600W GPUs. Designed for edge AI deployments in industrial environments, the new series includes the RUC-1000G and RUC-1000D models, offering performance scalability and […] ⌘ Read more
SiFive and Red Hat Collaborate to Bring RHEL 10 to RISC-V Development
SiFive has announced a new collaboration with Red Hat to deliver a developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 for the RISC-V architecture. The initial support is available on the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 development platform, giving developers a path to build and test enterprise and cloud workloads on RISC-V hardware. The HiFive Premier […] ⌘ Read more
AMI Aptio V Firmware Powers Radxa Orion O6 at COMPUTEX 2025
AMI has announced that its Aptio V UEFI Firmware will power the Radxa Orion O6 demo platform at COMPUTEX Taipei 2025. Described as the “World’s First Open Source Armv9 Motherboard,” the compact Orion O6 Mini ITX board is designed for AI, edge computing, and multimedia-intensive workloads. The board uses the CiX P1 CD8180 SoC, which […] ⌘ Read more
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 released
Red Hat has announced
the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10. A blog post
accompanying the release provides details on some of the more notable
features, such as encrypted DNS, a developer preview of RHEL 10
for RISC-V,
and image\
mode for RHEL using [bootc](https://lwn.net/A … ⌘ Read more
A milestone for lightweight Kubernetes: k0s joins CNCF sandbox
Member post originally published on the Mirantis blog by Prithvi Raj We are excited to announce that k0s, our lightweight, zero dependencies, and fully open-source Kubernetes distribution, has officially joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project!… ⌘ Read more
Ayllu Code Forge 0.4 Has Been Released
Ayllu’s self-hosted instance https://ayllu-forge.org/ayllu/ayllu
Codeberg mirror https://codeberg.org/ayllu/ayllu
Top Stories: CarPlay Ultra Debuts, iOS 18.5 Released, and More
Apple surprised us this week with the official launch of its more advanced “CarPlay Ultra” feature to provide greatly expanded functionality in cars, while the company also released iOS 18.5 and related operating system updates.
This week also saw Apple’s annual announcement of upcoming accessibility features for its products while we looked ahead to wha … ⌘ Read more
An Asahi Linux 6.15 progress report
The Asahi Linux
project, which supports Linux on Apple Silicon Macs, has published a
progress report ahead of the 6.15 kernel’s release.
We are pleased to announce that our graphics driver userspace API
(uAPI) has been merged into the Linux kernel. This major milestone
allows us to finally enable OpenGL, OpenCL and Vulkan support for
Apple Silicon in upstream Mesa. This is the only time a graphics
driver’s uAPI has been merged into the kernel independent … ⌘ Read more
Cloud Native Bangkok launched as the official chapter for Thailand
We’re happy to announce that, following the growing interest in and adoption of Cloud Native technologies in Thailand, an official chapter was just launched within the CNCF platform: Cloud Native Bangkok. Local enthusiasts from various companies… ⌘ Read more
Docker at Microsoft Build 2025: Where Secure Software Meets Intelligent Innovation
This year at Microsoft Build, Docker will blend developer experience, security, and AI innovation with our latest product announcements. Whether you attend in person at the Seattle Convention Center or tune in online, you’ll see how Docker is redefining the way teams build, secure, and scale modern applications. Docker’s Vision for Developers At Microsoft Build… ⌘ Read more
Rust 1.87.0 released
To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 1.0 release
of the Rust language,
version\
1.87.0 was announced live today at the 10 Years of Rust
celebration in Utrecht, Netherlands. Notable changes
include the addition of anonymous pipes to the standard library and
the ability for inline assembly ( asm!) to jump to labeled
blocks within Rust code. ⌘ Read more
Oniux: kernel-level Tor isolation for Linux applications
The Tor project has announced
the oniux utility which provides Tor network isolation, using Linux
namespaces, for third-party applications.
Namespaces are a powerful feature that gives us the ability to
isolate Tor network access of an arbitrary application. We put each
application in a network namespace that doesn’t provide access … ⌘ Read more
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 15, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: Home Assistant; YaST; bpfilter; Flatpak; More LSFMM+BPF 2025 coverage.
Briefs: Screen security; Guix on Codeberg; Postgres I/O; GNOME executive director; Nextcloud blog; Podman 5.5.0; OSL sustainability; Quotes; …
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. ⌘ Read more
Announcing Kyverno Release 1.14!
TL;DR We are excited to announce the release of Kyverno 1.14.0, marking a significant milestone in our journey to make policy management in Kubernetes more modular, streamlined, and powerful. This release introduces two new policy types… ⌘ Read more
Guix project migrating to Codeberg
The Guix project has announced
that it is migrating all of its Git repositories, as well as bug
tracking and patch tracking, from Savannah to the Codeberg Git forge.
As a user, the main change is that your
channels.scm
configuration files, if they refer to the
git.savannah.gnu.orgURL, should be changed to refer to
https://codeberg.org ... ⌘ [Read more](https://lwn.net/Articles/1020885/)
[$] The last of YaST?
The announcement
of the openSUSE Leap 16.0 beta contained something of a
surprise—along with the usual set of changes and updates, it
informed the community of the retirement of “the traditional YaST
stack” from Leap. The YaST (“Yet another Setup Tool”)
installation and configuration utility has been a core part of the
openSUSE distribution since its [inception](https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/users@lists.opensuse … ⌘ Read more
SiFive and Kinara Partner to Launch USB-Based X280 RISC-V Vector Development Board
SiFive and Kinara have announced a new partnership to offer developers direct access to the SiFive Intelligence X280 RISC-V vector processor through a compact USB-based enablement board. The HiFive Xara X280 board, based on Kinara’s Ara-2 processor, is designed to allow early-stage evaluation and development of RISC-V vector software, particularly for AI and machine learning […\ … ⌘ Read more
Albertson: OSL’s path to sustainability
Lance Albertson writes that the
Oregon State University Open Source Lab has been funded for the next
year, following his announcement in April
that the future of OSL was in jeopardy. OSL is now focusing on
becoming self-sustainable long term.
The recent support was amazing for our immediate team needs. But
for the OSL to thrive long-term, we need a sustainable financial
foundation. This is crucial, as the … ⌘ Read more
Five more Friday stable kernels
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the
6.14.2,
6.12.28,
6.6.90,
6.1.138, and
5.15.182 stable kernel versions. ⌘ Read more
GNOME Foundation announces new executive director
The GNOME Foundation has announced
the hiring of Steven Deobald as its new executive director.
Steven has been a GNOME user since 2002 and has been involved in
numerous free software initiatives throughout his career. His
professional background spans technical leadership, cooperative
business development, and nonprofit work. Having worked with projects
like [XTDB](htt … ⌘ Read more
Announcing Linkerd 2.18: Battlescars, lessons learned, and preliminary Windows support
We’re happy to announce the release of Linkerd 2.18. The theme of this release is battlescars: we’ve added features and updated functionality to reduce operational pain in response to real life, hard-won lessons we’ve learned with… ⌘ Read more
Lawyers scramble to stop deportation flight to Libya they say ‘blatantly’ defies court order
Myah Ward, Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein, Staff Writers - Politico
_Stephan: As I started to write this, CNN announced that a judge has just ruled the Trump dictatorship can not send immigrants to prisons in Libya, known to be amongst the vilest gulags in the world; and Chief Justice Roberts has just spoken out about Trump’s disregard for t … ⌘ Read more
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 8, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: Debian and essential packages; Custom BPF OOM killers; Speculation barriers for BPF programs; More LSFMM+BPF 2025 coverage.
Briefs: Deepin on openSUSE; AUTOSEL; Mission Center 1.0.0; OASIS ODF; Redis license; USENIX ATC; Quotes; …
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. ⌘ Read more
CNCF Announces Speakers and Sessions for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India
Second annual India event to spotlight developer innovation and cloud native leadership Hyderabad, India, 7 May, 2025– The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud-native software, today announced the keynote speakers and… ⌘ Read more
Deepin Desktop removed from openSUSE
The SUSE Security Team has announced the removal of the Deepin
Desktop from openSUSE due to violations of the project’s packaging
policy.
The discovery of the bypass of the security whitelistings via the
deepin-feature-enablepackage marks a turning point in our assessment
of Deepin. We don’t believe that the openSUSE Deepin packager acted
with bad intent when he implemented the “license agreement” dialog to
bypas … ⌘ Read more
Shazam’s New Viral Chart Tracks Hit Songs Across TikTok, TV, and More
Shazam today announced the launch of its Viral Chart, which lists the fastest-growing songs of the week that were “discovered on screens and socials.”
“Shazam’s new Viral Chart playlist doesn’t just track TikTok hits—it captures the full spectrum of songs blowing up right now, whether through streaming, socials, TV placements, or that random 2004 banger s … ⌘ Read more
Announcing OpenReports: Standardized Kubernetes Reporting
The Kubernetes ecosystem, while powerful, is a sprawling landscape of tools. As organizations scale their deployments, ensuring compliance and security becomes paramount. But how do you effectively track and report on your Kubernetes policies and scanners… ⌘ Read more
A new AUTOSEL release
AUTOSEL is a tool that is used to find kernel patches that should be
considered for backporting into the stable releases. Sasha Levin has announced a new and completely
rewritten version of AUTOSEL for those who would like to play with it.
Unlike the previous version that relied on word statistics and
older neural network techniques, AUTOSEL leverages modern large
language models and embedding technology to provide significantly
more accurate recommen … ⌘ Read more
Introducing Docker MCP Catalog and Toolkit: The Simple and Secure Way to Power AI Agents with MCP Tools
Model Context Protocols (MCPs) are quickly becoming the standard for connecting AI agents to external tools, but the developer experience hasn’t caught up. Discovery is fragmented, setup is clunky, and security is too often bolted on last. Fixing this experience isn’t a solo mission—it will take an industry-wide effort. A secure, scalable, and trusted MCP… ⌘ Read more
Announcing the Automated Governance Maturity Model
We are entering an era where Governance is increasingly important; with AI systems generating code and becoming a critical part of application’s runtime infrastructure, we can produce outputs at an increasingly rapid pace. Organizations and individuals… ⌘ Read more
Raspberry Pi Reduces Prices on 4GB and 8GB Compute Module 4
This month, Raspberry Pi announced a price reduction for two of its most widely used Compute Module 4 variants. As of May 1, 2025, the 4GB RAM version is now $5 cheaper, while the 8GB RAM version has been reduced by $10. These discounts apply to standard temperature models purchased through Raspberry Pi Approved Resellers. […] ⌘ Read more
Simplifying Enterprise Management with Docker Desktop on the Microsoft Store
We’re excited to announce that Docker Desktop is now available on the Microsoft Store! This new distribution channel enhances both the installation and update experience for individual developers while significantly simplifying management for enterprise IT teams. This milestone reinforces our commitment to Windows, our most widely used platform among Docker Desktop users. By partnering with… ⌘ Read more
CNCF and Synadia Align on Securing the Future of the NATS.io Project
SAN FRANCISCO and San Mateo, CA – May 1, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, and leading edge innovator Synadia today announced that the widely-adopted NATS… ⌘ Read more
CNCF and Synadia align on securing the future of the NATS.io project
CNCF and Synadia have come to an agreement to ensure that NATS continues to thrive as a healthy open source project within CNCF, with Synadia’s continued support and involvement. Please see our joint announcement for more… ⌘ Read more
Redis is now available under the AGPLv3 open source license (Redis blog)
After a somewhat tumultuous switch to the\
Server Side Public License (SSPL) in March 2024, Redis has backtracked
and is now offering Redis under the\
Affero GPLv3 (AGPLv3) starting with Redis 8, CEO Rowan Trollope
announced. The change back to an open-source license was led by Redis creator Salvatore\
”antirez” Sanfillipo, who also contributed the new Vector Set … ⌘ Read more
Google Rolling Out New AI Mode Tab for Search
Google today announced that it is starting to roll out a dedicated AI Mode tab for Google Search. A “small percentage” of people in the United States will start seeing the AI Mode option “in the coming weeks.”
AI Mode is a feature that Google has been testing with its Labs feature. It is a dedicated search option like New … ⌘ Read more
NixOS Logo and Branding Update ⌘ Read more
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 1, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: Mailman 2 vulnerabilities; AI in Debian; __nonstring__; Cache-aware scheduling; Freezing filesystems; Socket-level storage; Debugging information; LWN in 2025.
Briefs: Debian election; Kali Linux key; OpenBSD 7.7; Firefox 138.0; GCC 15.1; Meson 1.8.0; Valgrind 3.25.0; FSF review; OSI retrospective; Mastodon; Quotes; …
[Announcements](https://lwn.net/Arti … ⌘ Read more
[$] The mystery of the Mailman 2 CVEs
Many eyebrows were raised recently when three vulnerabilities were announced
that allegedly impact GNU Mailman 2.1,
since many folks assumed that it was no longer being supported. That’s
not quite the case. Even though version 3 of
the GNU Mailman mailing-list manager has been available
since 2015, and version 2 was declared (mostly) end of life
(EOL) in 2020, there are still plenty of users and projects still
usi … ⌘ Read more
The conclusion of the FSF board review
The Free Software Foundation has announced
the completion of the review of its board of directors; the process
resulted in the reconfirmation of all five sitting board members.
The review examined board members Ian Kelling, Geoffrey Knauth,
Henry Poole, Richard Stallman, and Gerald Sussman. The process
generated detailed philosophical and policy discussions between
board members and the FSF’s global associate members on to … ⌘ Read more
Announcing Vitess 22
The Vitess maintainers are happy to announce the release of version 22.0.0, along with version 2.15.0 of the Vitess Kubernetes Operator. This release is the first to benefit from a 6-month-long development cycle, after our recent… ⌘ Read more
Signing key change for Kali Linux
The Kali Linux distribution has announced
that software updates will soon start failing for all users:
This is not only you, this is for everyone, and this is entirely
our fault. We lost access to the signing key of the repository, so
we had to create a new one. At the same time, we froze the
repository (you might have noticed that there was no update since
Friday 18th), so nobody was impacted yet. But we’re going to
unfreez … ⌘ Read more
OSI publishes election retrospective
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has quietly published
“takeaways” from its internal retrospective on the recent board
of directors election as an update
to the March blog\
post that announced the new members of the board. The election was
controversial, in part, due to poor communication and OSI changing the
election rules and disqualifying sever … ⌘ Read more
Debian Project Leader Election 2025 results
The Debian Project Leader election results
have been announced. Andreas
Tille has been re-elected and will serve another term through
April 2026. LWN looked at the election and\
candidates in early April. ⌘ Read more
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 24, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: Owen Le Blanc and MCC; UID/GID drift; DMA for UIO; More LSFMM+BPF 2025 coverage.
Briefs: EU OS; RISC-V Fedora; Ubuntu 25.04; NLnet funding; Template strings; Tor Browser 14.5; Quotes; …
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. ⌘ Read more
NLnet announces funding for 42 FOSS projects
The NLnet Foundation has announced
the projects that have received funding from its October call
for grant proposals from the Next\
Generation Internet (NGI) Zero Commons Fund.
The selected projects all contribute, one way or another, to the
mission of the Commons Fund: reclaiming the … ⌘ Read more
CNCF Announces Schedule for OpenTelemetry Community Day, Highlighting End-to-End Observability Innovation
Showcasing real-world implementations and community-driven advancements in open source observability SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – April 23, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the full… ⌘ Read more
CNCF Announces Graduation of in-toto Security Framework, Enhancing Software Supply Chain Integrity Across Industries
NYU Tandon-developed software security framework achieves highest CNCF maturity level, combating rising software supply chain attacks SAN FRANCISCO, CA, April 23, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native… ⌘ Read more
OSTIF Announces NATS Security Audit Results
OSTIF is proud to share the results of our security audit of NATS. NATS is an open source project made by Synadia Communications for secure always-on messaging for a variety of digital formats and clients. With… ⌘ Read more
CNCF Announces OpenObservabilityCon North America to Accelerate Open Source Innovation and Tame Infrastructure Complexity
New event will convene observability leaders, developers, and end users to advance open source observability tools and practices SAN FRANCISCO, April 22, 2025 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud… ⌘ Read more
This is something for @movq@www.uninformativ.de and old OS hobbyists alike: FreeDOS 1.4! Get it while it’s hot!
RISC-V images for Fedora Linux 42
The Fedora Project’s RISC-V\
special-interest group (SIG) has announced
the availability of Fedora Linux 42 images for supported\
RISC-V boards, as well as QEMU
and container images. The SIG is working toward making RISC-V a
primary arc … ⌘ Read more
America’s Ten Most Endangered Rivers Announced in New Report
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Contributing Writer - EcoWatch
_Stephan: The United States has not paid appropriate and adequate attention to the wellbeing of the nation’s ecosystems since President Jimmy Carter’s administration, and Despot Trump is doing everything in his power to gut any kind of climate protection in order to serve the uber-rich who bought him his office. And, sadly, American voters don’t … ⌘ Read more
Leaked Video: Adobe CEO & CPO Announce Ending DEI Policies
“We have never hired based on quotas… ⌘ Read more
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 17, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: APT 3.0; Fedora 42; Lots more LSFMM+BPF coverage.
Briefs: CVE funding; Yelp vulnerability; Fedora 42; Manjaro 25.0; GCC 15; Pinta 3.0; Quotes; …
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. ⌘ Read more
Docker Desktop for Mac: QEMU Virtualization Option to be Deprecated in 90 Days
We are announcing the upcoming deprecation of QEMU as a virtualization option for Docker Desktop on Apple Silicon Macs. After serving as our legacy virtualization solution during the early transition to Apple Silicon, QEMU will be fully deprecated 90 days from today, on July 14, 2025. This deprecation does not affect QEMU’s role in emulating […] ⌘ Read more
Fedora Linux 42 released (Fedora Magazine)
The Fedora Project has announced
the release of Fedora Linux 42, with “what’s new” articles for Fedora Workstation
and Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop. There
is also a last-minute warning about the live media for the release:
We discovered a problem with the Live boot media at the last
minute, and sin … ⌘ Read more
[$] Don’t panic: Fedora 42 is here
Fedora Linux 42 has been released with many
incremental improvements and updates. In this development cycle, the KDE Plasma Desktop
has finally gotten a promotion from a spin to an\
edition, the new web-based\
user interface for the Anaconda installer makes its debut, and the
Wayland-ification of Fedora continues ap … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: New releases for Tinder and Whack!
The IgniteRealtime community is happy to announce releases for two of its projects! Both are for XMPP-libraries that we produce.
Tinder is a Java based XMPP library, providing an implementation for XMPP stanzas and components. Tinder’s origins lie in code that’s shared between our Openfire and Whack implementations. The implementation that’s provided in Tinder hasn’t been written aga … ⌘ Read more
Eight new stable kernels
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of eight stable kernels: 6.14.2, 6.13.11, 6.12.23, 6.6.87, 6.1.134, 5.15.180, 5.10.236, and 5.4.292. These all contain a large
assortment of important kernel fixes throughou … ⌘ Read more
Welcoming New Members to Our Technical Advisory Board
We are thrilled to announce the addition of three esteemed industry leaders to our Technical Advisory Board (TAB): Ahmed Bebars from The New York Times, Ben Somogyi from Lockheed Martin, and Kenta Tada from Toyota. Their… ⌘ Read more
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 10, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: Debian project leader election; 6.15 Merge window; Lots of LSFMM coverage; Joplin.
Briefs: Firefox hardening; OpenSSH 10.0; Supply chain security; FreeDOS 1.4; OpenSSL 3.5.0; Rust 1.86.0; Quotes; …
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. ⌘ Read more
Aqara Expands Advanced Matter Bridging to Older Hubs, Adds Support for New Device Types
Smart home company Aqara today announced plans to further integrate Matter into its product offerings. Aqara is bringing its Advanced Matter Bridging feature to all Aqara Matter controllers and bridges, rather than limiting the functionality to just the Hub M3 … ⌘ Read more
FreeDOS 1.4 released
Version\
1.4 of FreeDOS has been
released. This is the first stable release since 2022, and
includes improvements to the Fdisk hard-disk-management program, and
reliability updates for the mTCP set of TCP/IP applications for
DOS.
This version was much smoother because Jerome Shidel, our
distribution manager, had an idea after FreeDOS 1.3 that we could have
a rolling test release that collected all of the changes that people
mak … ⌘ Read more
CalDigit Launches New Thunderbolt 5 Docks
CalDigit today announced the upcoming launch of two new Thunderbolt 5 docks, the TS5 and the TS5 Plus. Both docks support transfer speeds of up to 80Gb/s with a speed boost feature when paired with Apple’s Thunderbolt 5 Macs.
The TS5 has a total of 15 ports, including four Thunderbolt 5 ports, two USB-A ports, three USB-C ports (including tw … ⌘ Read more
Vibe coding with GitHub Copilot: Agent mode and MCP support rolling out to all VS Code users
In celebration of MSFT’s 50th anniversary, we’re rolling out Agent Mode with MCP support to all VS code users. We are also announcing the new GitHub Copilot Pro+ plan w/ premium requests, the general availability of models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, next edit suggestions for code completions & the Copilot code review agent.
The post [Vibe coding with GitHub Copilot: Agent mode and MC … ⌘ Read more
Axzez Expands OS Compatibility, Lowers Interceptor 2.0 Pricing
Axzez has officially released its updated Interceptor OS Installer, now featuring full support for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5. Designed for performance and simplicity, the installer is built on Debian Bookworm and integrates modern kernel versions — 6.12.19-v8 for Raspberry Pi and 6.12.20 for Banana Pi. According to the announcement, this release delivers a […] ⌘ Read more
Plz i need to know if it was still April fools day someplace when the Tariffs were announced.
Plz i need to know if it was still April fools day someplace when the Tariffs were announced.
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 13.0.1 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.
As is the tradition with software, here is our first patch release following
shortly behind our major 13.0.0 release announced a few weeks ago. It fixes
some important bugs that were discovered after the release.
Many thanks to everyone who reported issues and helped with testing the fixes
for this release. We appreciate it!
For those of you on 0.12.x who haven’t upgraded yet, skip 13.0.0 and jump
stra … ⌘ Read more
Announcing zxc: A Terminal based Intercepting Proxy ( burpsuite alternative ) written in rust with Tmux and Vim as user interface. ⌘ Read more
Trump announces sweeping new tariffs, upending decades of US trade policy
Lauren Aratani and David Smith, Staff Writers - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: I have been predicting since Trump was sworn in as President that the United States will be in recession by June, and the American economic sectors, farming, construction, manufacturing, healthcare and others will be in crisis. If you actually look at the list Trump is holding you will see he is putt … ⌘ Read more
CNCF Fuels Cloud Native Growth with New Silver Members Driving Open Source Innovation
As cloud native technologies evolve, CNCF welcomes new members driving open source innovation and scalable infrastructure KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, London, UK – April 3, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable… ⌘ Read more