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System76, the makers of Linux-compatible computers and the COSMIC desktop environment, has released the latest version of COSMIC, COSMIC Epoch 1.11....

Canonical Releases Multipass 1.17 With Debian, Fedora Support and New Drivers

Multipass 1.17 from Canonical adds built-in support for Debian and Fedora images alongside Ubuntu, plus new virtualization drivers for Windows and macOS. Multipass launc...

Meta’s Kiryl Shutsemau Reworks Torvalds’ AI-Assisted Page Cache Patches, Posts Big Multithreaded Read Gains

Meta engineer Kiryl Shutsemau has posted a reworked version of Linus Torvalds' AI-assisted patches that let Linux read from the page cache without taking folio references. T...

Btrfs Gains Additional Performance Improvements in Linux 7.4

Linux 7.4 will bring another round of performance optimizations to the Btrfs file system, building on the larger gains that landed in Linux 7.3, which Linus Torvalds released Su...

Linux 7.4 to Orphan Old EDAC Drivers Amid AI-Generated Patch Flood

Four old Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) drivers are being orphaned for Linux 7.4, and the maintainer behind the change pointed to a wave of AI-generated fixes for hardwar...

AMD Releases GAIA 0.25 With Smaller Install Size and RAM Fixes for Ryzen AI Agents

GAIA 0.25 is out, according to the GitHub release page for AMD's project, which shows a Sunday release. The open-s...

tvOS 27.2 Release Candidate Prepares HomePod for Four-Speaker Surround Sound

Apple seeded release candidates of iOS 27.2, tvOS 27.2 and HomePod Software 27.2, and the builds add support for four-speaker HomePod surround sound on the new Apple TV 4K ahead...

Developer Installs Arch Linux on NVIDIA RTX Spark Laptop, Keeps Pace With Windows in 7-Zip Tests

Arch Linux package maintainer Josephine Pfeiffer has installed Arch Linux on an ASUS ProArt P16 laptop with NVIDIA's RTX Spark chip, hardware that officially ships with Wind...

Cloudflare and VoidZero Take On tsrs, a Rust Port of the TypeScript Compiler

Cloudflare and VoidZero are taking on tsrs, an experimental port of the TypeScript compiler to Rust, and will develop it as part of the Oxc JavaScript compiler toolchain, Cloudf...

Flatpak 1.18.4 Patches Six Vulnerabilities, Including Privileged File Overwrite and Deletion Bugs

Flatpak 1.18.4, released Sept. 28, 2026, fixes six security vulnerabilities in the Linux app sandboxing and distribution framework. The two most serious let a malicious app trig...

Torvalds Mocks AI Disclosure Rules as Kernel Formally Drops Assisted-by Tag

Linux kernel maintainers have agreed to stop requiring contributors to add an "Assisted-by" tag when AI tools help them write a patch. The decision came out of the Mai...

Java Sealed Classes Enable Exhaustive Pattern Matching but Create API Evolution Challenges

Java sealed classes, introduced in Java 17, let developers list exactly which subtypes may implement or extend a type. Paired with pattern matching for switch, they let the comp...

Developers Report macOS 15.8.2 Release Candidate Breaks OpenGL Rendering in App Windows

Developers on Apple’s Developer Forums report that the macOS 15.8.2 release candidate breaks OpenGL drawing in app windows, leaving them blank. The...

R, Julia, and Rust Rise in October 2026 TIOBE Index as Go Drops Out of Top 10

Julia is back in the top 20 of the TIOBE Programming Community Index for the first time in three years, and R has moved past SQL into eighth place, according to the October 2026...

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