Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Just Used AI to Fix a Kernel Bug
The creator of Linux needed 18 boots to find a one-line fix. The AI helped him get there.
Proton Mail Wants to Organize Your Emails Automatically
The feature sorts mail into six categories using metadata alone, and full-content search is coming to mobile next.
Canonical is Funding a PhD to Automate C to Rust Translation for Ubuntu
The three-year project aims to translate hundreds of thousands of lines of C into Rust.
PINE64 is Halting its Linux Hardware Line, and The AI Bubble is to Blame
They are blaming DRAM and eMMC shortages, with nothing coming back before mid-2027.
Warp Launches Factories to Let Engineering Teams Build Their Own Cloud Software Factories
The platform is open at every layer, letting teams bring their own models, harnesses, and compute while Warp handles the orchestration.
Murena Just Made The Fairphone (Gen. 6) Better!
A new variant of the modular smartphone now offers 12GB of RAM and a Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 upgrade.
The Xen Project is Serious About Safety, So It Formed a Committee
Founding members AMD, EPAM, and Renesas already put in the groundwork, and there's a new Premier Plus membership tier to go with it.
Ubuntu is Growing Faster on Windows Than on Linux
Canonical's VP of Engineering says WSL is the faster-growing side of Ubuntu.
Linux 7.2 Arrives With Cache Aware Scheduling After More Than a Year of Work
AMD's Radeon driver also picks up HDMI 2.1 support, and Apple M3 MacBooks can now boot the kernel.
Overshared to an AI? Proton's Tool Will Give You a Reality Check
Powered by Lumo, the tool turns your exported AI chat history into a personalized report of your privacy exposure.
Nitrux Shows Off a New Desktop Approach Other Distros Might Want to Take Note of
It is meant to be a middle ground between window managers and desktop environments.
LightDM is Back From The Dead, But Canonical isn't in Charge Anymore
It took years of silence, new maintainers, and a release to bring LightDM back.
Omarchy Bets Its Future on AI Agents While the Linux World Stays Cautious
While some open source projects are locking AI out of their codebases, Omarchy's upcoming v4 release treats AI as part of the system.
VLC is Wrongly Blamed for Microsoft Defender's Clumsiness
VLC takes a long time to play MP3 on Windows? Blame it on Microsoft Defender, not VLC.
SimpleX Chat Wants Its 400K+ Users to Become Investors Too
The funds will go towards keeping the project up and running.
These Open Source Devs Are Reverse-Engineering Xbox Game Pass for Linux
They have already cracked Xbox game downloads, and macOS support is also being worked on.
Linux Mint Teases A Kernel Cleanup Trick That Fedora Figured Out Years Ago
The work-in-progress feature would clear out old, unused kernels automatically every week.
CachyOS is Laying Groundwork for The Server Edition
The CLI installer's new experimental profiles target the upcoming Server Edition, while Shelly gets a full rewrite.
openJiuwen’s Agent Swarm: When AI Agents Finally Work as a Team
openJiuwen is an open-source AI agent platform to help developers build production-grade AI agents and enable large-scale multi-agent collaboration.
AI Can No Longer Rampage Through Rust's Code Repo
The new rust-lang/rust policy allows AI-written code only under a narrow, disclosed experiment, and doesn't apply to the wider Rust project.
Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age
The Children's Online Social Media Safety Act has device makers collect the age bracket, but apps still have to act on it.
Proxmox Virtual Environment Officially Runs on ARM64, But Your Raspberry Pi Isn't Supported Yet
The release is powered by Debian 13.5 and Linux 7.0, with NVIDIA Grace and Vera systems fully supported.
Nobody Touched This Linux Driver for Years, Until AI Started Poking Around and It Got Removed
Moxa confirmed the Intellio hardware was discontinued back in 2021, but the driver only left the kernel recently after AI agents started poking at the dead code.
This New Open Source Project Wants to Be the AI-First Alternative to Microsoft Office
Built by a single engineer using open source components, GenOffice bundles editors like Docs, Sheets, Slides, and PDF.