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October will mark 30 years since a handful of developers first sketched out a free desktop environment for Linux. What began as a modest project has grown into one of the lon...

Apple Previews watchOS 27 With Heart Rate Gains, New Faces and Smarter Siri

Apple stands ready to show off watchOS 27 next week at its annual developer conference. The update arrives at a moment when the Apple Watch, now more than a decade old, faces...

Google Health App Redesign Unifies Fitbit, Google Fit Data on Android

Google has announced a comprehensive redesign of its Google Health app that merges years of Fitbit data and features into a single, unified platform for Android users. The updat...

Samsung Galaxy Phones Borrow iPhone Lockdown Trick in One UI 9 Beta

Samsung has quietly added a key security measure to its upcoming One UI 9 software. The change mirrors one of Apple's most practical defenses against forced phone unlocks. In...

Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 1 Arrives as Stonking Stingray Takes First Steps

Canonical has published the first monthly snapshot for Ubuntu 26.10. The release carries the codename Stonking Stingray. It follows closely on the heels of the Ubuntu 26.04 L...

KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 Tightens Stability as June Release Nears

KDE developers shipped Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 this week. The update arrives just two weeks before the stable release scheduled for June 16. Testers now have a tighter candidate to...

GNOME Circle Draws a Line Against AI-Generated Code

GNOME Circle has moved to protect the quality of applications and libraries that orbit the GNOME desktop. The committee behind the program updated its criteria this week to r...

AMD’s Linux Patches Signal Expansive Zen 6 CPU Plans

AMD continues its methodical preparation for next-generation processors. A fresh Linux kernel patch expands the number of CPU models flagged as Zen 6. The change reserves spa...

AMD’s Latest AMDGPU Push for Linux 7.2 Tightens Stability and Display Power Alignment

AMD engineers continue their steady stream of contributions to the open-source graphics stack. On May 30, 2026, the company sent another batch of patches for the AMDGPU and A...

Rust Coreutils 0.9 Hardens Against Races and Unsafe Code

The uutils project shipped Rust Coreutils 0.9.0 at the end of May 2026. The release follows months of work triggered by a third-party security audit. That audit, funded by Ca...

NixOS 26.05 Yarara Drops systemd Stage 1 Default and 20,000 New Packages

NixOS 26.05 arrived on May 30 with the codename Yarara. Release managers yayayayaka and jopejoe1 called it a point of pride. The project credits 2,842 contributors for 59,703...

Wine-Staging 11.10 Clears a 14-Year Bug and Brightens Dark Games on Linux

Wine-Staging keeps its reputation as the bleeding edge of Windows compatibility on non-Microsoft platforms. The latest edition arrived days after the upstream Wine 11.10 deve...

Linux Set to Silence Insecure Microsoft RNDIS in 2026

Greg Kroah-Hartman updated his rndis branch again on May 31. The Linux kernel maintainer added patches that would disable every driver tied to Microsoft's Remote Network Driv...

KDE Linux Sheds Bloat and Embraces Simplicity in Latest Overhaul

KDE Linux took a hard look at itself last month. The project pruned insecure packages, switched kernels and ditched kernel modules that stood in the way of Secure Boot. These...

Linux 7.1-rc6 Lands as Patch Volume Stays High and AI Influence Grows

Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.1-rc6 on Sunday. The candidate arrives with another sizable batch of fixes. He called it smaller than rc5 yet still larger than he'd wish for...

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