While Torvalds Makes Peace With AI in Linux, Greg Kroah-Hartman Draws a Line (Sort of)
His new policy keeps AI patches out of drivers/staging, the tree meant for newcomers to learn kernel development.
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Linux's Favorite Music Player Rhythmbox 3.5 Lands After Nearly a Decade in the 3.4 Series
The release also adds lrclib.net, sidecar .lrc files, and embedded Ogg lyrics as new sources.
GNOME Boxes Won't Look Ancient Anymore Thanks to a Glow-Up
A full rewrite moves it to GTK4 and Libadwaita, with Windows 11 support being tidied up.
AI Slop Keeps Flooding GNOME Extensions, So They Wrote a Manual for Bots Instead
The same low-quality AI patterns kept showing up in submissions even after GNOME updated its review guidelines in December.
Keychron Built Open Source Firmware for Gaming Mice, and Linux Users Stand to Gain the Most
Built on Zephyr RTOS and licensed under GPL-3.0, the firmware is scheduled to ship first on the Keychron G6 HE next year.
GCC Compiler Bans AI Code Contribution But Sensibly
The GCC Steering Committee adopted a new AI policy this week, with a review planned for early 2027.
Good News Gamers! GOG is Officially Coming to Linux
They have hired someone to bring the GOG GALAXY client to the platform.
Ubuntu Now Has a Rolling Release Model! But Not For The Distro
A new virtualization stack is being introduced that gets updated every six months.
A GrapheneOS Privacy Feature Just Became the Basis for a Federal Indictment
Samuel Tunick faces up to five years in prison after the passcode he gave CBP agents wiped his phone.
OpenUK Wants Britain to Stop Giving Away Open Source Creations
They point to MCP, built by two engineers in London, that ended up under US-based governance.
FireDragon Browser Swoops in With New Wings
It's been rewritten from scratch to provide some good gains.
Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray": All the New Features So Far
As usual, Canonical is using an interim release to test features headed for the next LTS. Here, we keep a track of the features as they are added.
Ubuntu 26.04 Stopped Notifying Users About Updates, But That Was Intentional
Luckily, a fix is already out, shipped as a security update.
Codeberg Has Drawn a Hard Line on Use of AI With Community Backing
While many projects are warming up to AI, Codeberg went the other way.
Collabora Online Turns 10, Refusing to Hand Over Your Data to Someone Else's AI
Its newest version pulls in improvements from CODE 26.04, so there's AI involved.
Plex's Open Source Alternative Jellyfin is Having a Leadership Crisis
The departures come just months after the project flagged burnout as a growing risk.
Talk to This Glowing Pyramid on Your Desk, and It'll Run Your AI Agent for You
It's a pyramid-shaped Orange Pi 4 Pro that ships with OpenClaw or Hermes preloaded and now talks back so you get that "Iron Man" feel.
Siemens AG Was The Last Holdout in MPEG-4 Visual's Road to Being Patent-Free
The final patent, active in Brazil, expired on July 19, 2026.
GNOME's Security Might Be in Peril as Lone Tracker Goes Off
Michael Catanzaro has single-handedly run GNOME security tracking since 2020, but he is leaving in December.
Linus Torvalds Spent Years Dismissing AI, Only to Vouch for It
A chronological look at how Linux's creator went from "90% marketing" to telling AI critics to fork the kernel or walk away.
15 O'Reilly Linux eBooks for Under $30: A Bundle That Goes From Command Line Basics to Kubernetes
Don't miss! Pay tiny amount for a Git-to-Kubernetes Linux library of DRM-free eBooks, with part of the purchase going to Code for America.
X (Formerly Twitter) is Possibly Going Open Source
A look at his latest announcement, plus what's actually shipped so far and what's still missing.
Vocalinux Turns Your Speech Into Text Without Giving Away Voice Data
The 0.14 beta adds many new upgrades.
Turns Out Wayland Isn't the Input Lag Disaster Everyone Says it is
A DIY click-to-photon tester puts X11, Wayland, VRR, and a DXVK fork to the test, with some surprising results.
