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Two weeks after X Corp's legal letter forced the project offline, Nitter says it will continue.
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Switzerland's Federal Government is Replacing Microsoft on 3,000 Computers
This is the pilot phase, with 3,000 workstations moving away from Microsoft 365. The federal administration has over 54,000 computers.
1Password Just Pledged $300,000 to DHH's Omarchy, and its Own Employees Aren't Happy
Internal Slack messages show the CEO and cofounder gave staff two very different explanations for the decision.
Good News! CERN is Migrating Over 2,200 Control Systems to Debian 13
The migration would move accelerator control computers out of the Red Hat ecosystem.
An Honorless Move! Ubisoft Decides Linux isn't Worth the Effort
For Honor is being kneecapped on Linux, and by extension, the Steam Deck.
Vanilla OS 3 Comes in Hot, Packing ARM64 Support After a Long Wait
The release, codenamed "Reunion," also ships GNOME 50 and Linux kernel 7.1.3.
This Dev Spent 8 Years on Intel's Clear Linux, Now He's Undoing Its Biggest Mistake
Auke Kok says Clear Linux was "silly difficult" for outsiders to contribute to, and The Ur Project is his answer to that.
Firefox 155 Adds Two New Changes for Faster Web Browsing
Apart from being faster, Firefox 155 is also the only non-Chromium browser that supports uBlock Origin, as Google removed it yesterday.
Tether Brings the Apple Continuity Experience to Linux
The open source offering syncs iMessage, SMS, and OTP codes between iPhone and Linux without needing a Mac device.
AI Crawlers Are Bleeding The Linux Kernel Repo's Compute Power
By comparison, only about two percent of the six million daily requests hitting the repo are likely human.
Debian AI Vote has Divided the Community
Debian is a big name, a leader in the community, so the decision Debian made is going to set a precedent. It may lead to more projects embracing AI as Debian leads the way.
You Can Now Run Multiple Linux Kernels on One Machine at Once
Multikernel has had its first public release, and it boots each kernel directly on the hardware, not inside a virtual machine.
LibreOffice 26.8 Doubles Down on No AI, Right After Collabora Welcomed It
TDF is not interested in providing any AI features, sticking to the basics of an open source office suite.
You Should Keep an Eye Out on Chromium's Flatpak Experiment
There's no guarantee it leads to an official release, but it would give Linux users another way to run Chromium or Chrome.
This Tiny USB Device Turns Your Phone Into a Keyboard, Mouse, and SSH Terminal
The $42 open source dongle gives you BIOS-level keyboard and mouse control plus SSH access. No software installation is needed on the target machine.
Linux 7.3 is Shaping Up to Be One of The Most Performance-Focused Kernel Releases in Years
The merge window is still open, but faster filesystems, a smarter scheduler, and real-time latency fixes are already in.
Omarchy Linux Just Got $8 Million From Tech's Biggest Names
A new nonprofit is being setup that would house all that money, and Hyprland is the first external project to benefit.
TeamSpeak Will Let You Call Your Friends Directly
The feature is in alpha testing now and is set to bring 4K screensharing and picture-in-picture support.
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.
