Ubuntu 25.10 released
Ubuntu\
25.10, “Questing Quokka”, has been released. This release includes
Linux 6.17, GNOME 49, GCC 15, Python 3.13.7,
Rust 1.85, and more. This release also features Rust-based
implementations of sudo and coreutils; LWN covered the switch to the
Rust-based tools in March. The 25.10 version of Ubuntu flavors
Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu
Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubun … ⌘ Read more

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 9, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Kernel Rust features; systemd v258, part 2; Cauldron kernel hackers; BPF for GNU tools; 6.18 merge window, part 1; Lifetime-end pointer zapping; Robot Operating System.

• Briefs: OpenSSH 10.1; Firefox profiles; Python 3.14; U-Boot v2025.10; FSF presidency; Quotes; …

• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security upda … ⌘ Read more

Better profile management coming to Firefox
Firefox has long had support for multiple profiles
to store personal information such as bookmarks, passwords, and user
preferences. However, Firefox did not make profiles particularly
discoverable or easy to manage. That is about to change; Mozilla has
announced
that it is launching a profile management feature that will make it
easier to … ⌘ Read more

New TAG Heuer Smartwatches Now ‘Made for iPhone’
TAG Heuer today announced the Connected Calibre E5 smartwatch, now featuring “Made for iPhone” certification as the watchmaker abandons Google’s Wear OS.

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Three years after launching the Calibre E4, the Connected Calibre … ⌘ Read more

‘Every night is like a grand final’: Jon Stevens still rocking at 64
From teen idol to rock great, Jon Stevens has fronted legendary bands Noiseworks and INXS. He has chosen his 64th birthday to release a new album and announce a tour. ⌘ Read more

Arduino UNO Q Combines Qualcomm Dragonwing QRB2210 and STM32 MCU
Qualcomm Technologies has announced its plan to acquire Arduino, marking a major development in the embedded and maker ecosystems. The acquisition aims to combine Qualcomm’s edge computing and AI expertise with Arduino’s large developer community and open hardware approach. As part of the announcement, both companies introduced the Arduino UNO Q, a new dual-processor development […] ⌘ Read more

New AFP boss warns hate crime laws may need to be strengthened further
In a wide-ranging interview as she begins as AFP commissioner, Krissy Barrett announces a new sub-terror strike force, and flags that newly written hate crime laws may need to be strengthened further. ⌘ Read more

Python 3.14.0 released
Version\
3.14.0 of the Python language has been released. There are a lot of
changes this time around, including official support for free threading, template string literals, and much more; see
the announcement for details. ⌘ Read more

ChatGPT Now Interacts With Multiple Apps Inside Conversations
ChatGPT users can now interact with a handful of third-party apps directly within their conversations, OpenAI has announced.

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The new Apps SDK allows developers to build tools that blend naturally into chats, and initial partners include Spotify, Canva, Zillow, Expedia, Booking.com, Coursera, and Figma.

User … ⌘ Read more

German chemical giant to release Roundup alternative in Australia
We’ve been spraying it on our farms, gardens and roadsides for 50 years, but the world’s most used weedkiller is starting to run out of steam. But after 10 years and hundreds of millions of dollars in R&D, Roundup’s owner says it has an alternative. ⌘ Read more

Breaking: Trio of scientists win Nobel Prize in Medicine for work on immune system
Scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance”, the award-giving body announces. ⌘ Read more

Top Stories: October Apple Event?, New Hardware Leaks, and More
The calendar has flipped over to October, but that doesn’t mean Apple is done with product launches for 2025. We’re still expecting updates to several product lines, and Apple has a history of making announcements in October so we’ll be keeping a lookout for news.

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Several of those upcoming products have already leaked thanks to Russian YouTuber … ⌘ Read more

Terasic Announces Starter Kit Featuring RISC-V Nios V Processor and Software Bundle
Terasic has introduced the Atum Nios V Starter Kit, a feature-rich evaluation platform designed to accelerate development with Altera’s Nios V processor. The kit is aimed at embedded engineers, system developers, and educators looking for a practical way to explore RISC-V–based designs on the Agilex 3 FPGA platform. According to Terasic’s announcement, the kit is […] ⌘ Read more

When Would Apple Announce an October Event This Year?
While it is unclear if Apple will host an October event this year, or stick to press releases, rumors suggest it will announce several new products this month.

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In any case, Apple will likely provide the public with advanced notice. The table below outlines when Apple teased its October launches over the past four years.

YearAnnouncement/TeaserEvent/Ta … ⌘ Read more

Ian Kelling is the new FSF president
The Free Software Foundation has announced
the selection of Ian Kelling as the organization’s president.

Kelling, age forty-three, has held the role of a board member and a
voting member since March 2021. The board said of Kelling’s
confirmation: “His hands-on technical experience resulting from his
position as the organization’s senior systems administrator proved
invaluable for his work on the board of directors. … ⌘ Read more

Radxa Announces Fogwise AIRbox Q900 for Industrial Edge AI
Radxa has announced the Fogwise AIRbox Q900, a rugged edge AI system powered by Qualcomm’s IQ-9075 processor. The compact unit delivers high-performance compute with industrial reliability, targeting real-time inference in manufacturing, robotics, smart cities, and research. The AIRbox Q900 is powered by the Qualcomm IQ-9075 SoC. It integrates an octa-core Kryo Gen 6 CPU based […] ⌘ Read more

Seven new stable kernels
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.16.10, 6.12.50, 6.6.109, 6.1.155, 5.15.194, 5.10.245, and 5.4.300 stable kernels. All of these kernels
have lots of important fixes throughout the kernel tree. ⌘ Read more

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 2, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Fedora and AI; Linting kernel Rust; openSUSE Leap 16; mmap() file operation; 6.17 statistics; dirlock.

• Briefs: Bcachefs removal; Alpine /usr merge; F-Droid; Fedora AI policy; OpenSUSE Leap 16; PostgreSQL 18; Radicle 1.5.0; Quotes; …

• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. ⌘ Read more

Alpine Linux plans /usr merge
The Alpine Linux project has announced
plans to change its base filesystem hierarchy:

In the future, /lib, /bin, and /sbin
will be symbolic links to their /usr counterparts, and every package
shall be installed under the /usr paths. For now,
/usr/bin and /usr/sbin will continue to be independent paths,
but that might change if the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) gets
updated.

The merge will take place in the upcomi … ⌘ Read more

Since Google announced their intentions to heavily limit sideloading on Android, starting end of 2026, I’ve been looking for potential solutions, for this policy change, that threatens the majority of projects I maintain, in some way. Google already killed my browser project years ago, but I have no other choice, than to fight this, any way I can.

The best choice to deal with this, will probably be the Android Debug Bridge, which can be used not only to install apps unrestricted, but also to uninstall, or remove, almost any unnecessary part of the OS. Shizuku, combined with Canta Debloater, is the winning combination for now.

I’ve already removed most Google apps from my device: the annoying AI assistant, the stupid Google app adding the annoying articles, left of your homes screen, Google One, Gboard, Safety app… it’s amazing, no distracting Google slopware, like in the good old Android 2 days! And I absolutely intend to keep it this way, from now on, no new Google apps or services on my devices, unless Google can give me a good enough reason, to allow them there and whenever the app that verifies signatures, to block installing apps not approved by Google, I’ll just remove it from my device and advocate others do so too.

I think I’m gonna participate in ROOPHLOCH this year: gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/announcing-roophloch-2025.gmi

To combat malware and financial scams, Google announced today that only apps from developers that have undergone verification can be installed on certified Android devices starting in 2026.

This requirement applies to “certified Android devices” that have Play Protect and are preloaded with Google apps. The Play Store implemented similar requirements in 2023, but Google is now mandating this for all install methods, including third-party app stores and sideloading where you download an APK file from a third-party source.

Why is it that I hate packing so badly? I gotta have to brace myself up to start that now.

The outlook is poor, rain all the way until maybe the last day of summer camp. Definitely bringing my gummies, they are well needed, the weather report announces several days with up to 14 liters per square meter.

As in regards to technology…

“Behind the scenes, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and EU’s Maroš Šefčovič hashed out technical annexes on automobiles, pharmaceuticals and digital trade.”

“Tech giants Microsoft’s cloud services, Apple’s iPhones and Google’s data solutions gain tariff-free pathway, fueling digital exports growth.”

“Digital Services: Microsoft announces a new 150 MW cloud data center in Berlin backed by tariff-free equipment imports; SAP commits to expanding U.S. R&D hubs in Austin, Texas.”

https://www.peacocktariffconsulting.com/can-the-new-u-s-eu-trade-pact-ignite-a-21st-century-global-commerce-revolution/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, it’s a shitshow. MS overconfirms all my prejudices constantly.

Ignoring e-mail after lunch works great, though. :-)

Our timetracking is offline for over a week because of reasons. The responsible bunglers are falling by the skin of their teeth: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/timetracking.png

1. The error message neither includes the timeframe nor a link to an announcement article.
   
2. The HTML page needs to download JS in order to display the fucking error message.
   
3. Proper HTTP status codes are clearly only for big losers.
   
4. Despite being down, heaps of resources are still fetched.
   

I find it really fascinating how one can screw up on so many levels. This is developed inhouse, I’m just so glad that we’re not a software engineering company. Oh wait. How embarrassing.

Tasmanian speaker delivers parting shot at own party as she calls it quits
Speaker and long-serving Labor MP Michelle O’Byrne announces she will retire from politics at the next election — which is expected to be called later today. ⌘ Read more

Corruption watchdog chief retiring after decade at helm of CCC
Western Australia’s longest-serving Corruption and Crime Commissioner, John McKechnie, announces he will step down at the end of the month, a year ahead of schedule. ⌘ Read more

Fertility group incorrectly transfers wrong embryo for second time
In an announcement to the ASX on Tuesday morning, Monash IVF said the incident happened on June 5 at its laboratory in Clayton, Victoria. ⌘ Read more

MacOS Tahoe Announced with New Liquid Glass Interface
Apple has announced MacOS Tahoe, versioned as macOS 26, jumping 11 versions ahead from the current versioning of MacOS 15. This versioning number change is congruent with the new year-based versioning system that also arrives on iOS 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26, and the rest of the Apple operating system suite. MacOS Tahoe features an … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/06/09/macos-tahoe-announced-with-new-liquid-glass-interf … ⌘ Read more

MacOS Tahoe Announced with New Liquid Glass Interface
Apple has announced MacOS Tahoe, versioned as macOS 26, jumping 11 versions ahead from the current versioning of MacOS 15. This versioning number change is congruent with the new year-based versioning system that also arrives on iOS 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26, and the rest of the Apple operating system suite. MacOS Tahoe features an … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/06/09/macos-tahoe-announced-with-new-liquid-glass-interf … ⌘ Read more

iOS 26 Announced with New Liquid Glass Interface
Apple has announced iOS 26, the next version of system software for iPhone. And yes you read that correctly, it’s iOS 26 – twenty six – jumping way ahead from iOS 18, to follow year numbers. It’s not just iOS that is facing the numerical versioning change, it turns out that Apple is labeling all … Read More ⌘ Read more

iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe Public Betas Launching in July
While the new software updates that Apple showed off today are only available to developers at the current time, Apple does plan to release public betas.

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In the fine print for most of its software announcements, Apple says that public betas for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26 will be … ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD laptop support update
The FreeBSD Foundation
has announced
a report
for work completed in April to improve FreeBSD support for
laptops. This includes installer updates, improved suspend/resume
behavior, as well as progress on [a\
port of Linux 6.7 and 6.8 graphics drivers](https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pro … ⌘ Read more

Could Apple Ditch Siri Name in Major AI Rebrand at WWDC?
Apple will highlight its AI strategy at Monday’s WWDC 2025 keynote, with its much-talked-about “Liquid Glass” software redesign playing a secondary role in announcements, claims industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.

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Reports leading up to WWDC have indicated that iOS 26 will feature a [major design overhaul](https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/06/ios- … ⌘ Read more

From Hollywood heavyweights to community advocates: King’s honours announced
Some 830 Australians will be recognised as part of the King’s Birthday 2025 Honours on Monday, including film director Baz Luhrmann and his frequent collaborator Catherine Martin, an award-winning costume, production and set designer. ⌘ Read more

‘Broken’ families tell of anger and disappointment following Hillcrest verdict
The atmosphere in the Devonport Magistrates Court was tense as Magistrate Robert Webster announced Rosemary Gamble was not guilty in the only criminal case to come from the Hillcrest Primary School jumping castle tragedy. ⌘ Read more

Netdev 0x19 videos and slides are live
The Netdev\
0x19 conference was held in Zagreb, Croatia from March 10
through March 13. The organizers announced
today that the videos and slides for all sessions are now
online. Topics from the conference include IRQ suspension, the future
of SO_TIMESTAMPING, remote TCP connection offloading, and
more. ⌘ Read more

Queensland treasurer draws ‘line in sand’ on CopperString funding
The Queensland treasurer says private investment is key to delivering the multi-billion-dollar energy transmission project, CopperString 2032. ⌘ Read more

‘Tip of the iceberg’: First round of job cuts announced by ANU
As the Australian National University grapples with its dire financial position, the first of several rounds of job cuts has been announced as the institution seeks to save $250 million by the end of the year, including $100 million from salaries. ⌘ Read more

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 5, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: OpenH264 in Fedora; Wallabag; Safety certification; 6.16 Merge window; Bounce buffering; Hardening repository problems; Device-initiated I/O; Faster networking; OSPM 2025; Free software in science.

• Briefs: Kea vulnerabilities; Alpine Linux 3.22.0; Fedora strategy; Quotes; …

• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, securi … ⌘ Read more

The Luke Bateman backlash highlights publishing’s diversity problem
When former Canberra Raiders player and farmer Luke Bateman joined TikTok, he went viral for his love of fantasy novels. A month later he announced a book deal, but the news has generated controversy. ⌘ Read more

Eight stable kernels released
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.15.1, 6.14.10, 6.12.32, 6.6.93, 6.1.141, 5.15.185, 5.10.238, and 5.4.294 stable kernels. As usual, each
contains a set of important fixes. ⌘ Read more

‘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

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

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.

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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

[$] 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.

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The program will provide ‌iPad‌ owners with manuals, genuine Apple parts, … ⌘ 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.

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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

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

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.

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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

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

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.org URL, 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

[$] 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

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-enable package 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.”

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“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

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

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

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.”

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AI Mode is a feature that Google has been testing with its Labs feature. It is a dedicated search option like New … ⌘ 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

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

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

[$] 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

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

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

[$] 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.

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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.

Announcing zxc: A Terminal based Intercepting Proxy ( burpsuite alternative ) written in rust with Tmux and Vim as user interface. ⌘ Read more