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Two years after a near-catastrophic backdoor was slipped into a critical piece of Linux infrastructure, the open-source community is still reckoning with the implications. An...

The HDMI Forum’s Closed-Door Spec Is Quietly Strangling Linux — and Nobody’s Offering a Fix

Somewhere in the sprawling architecture of your living room entertainment center, a cable connects your computer to your display. It's HDMI, almost certainly. And behind that...

The Invisible Crisis in Open Source: When Maintainers Break, Who Picks Up the Pieces?

Orhun Parmaksız doesn't sleep much. The Turkish-born software developer, best known for maintaining widely used Rust projects like git-cliff and ratatui, re...

Linux Says Yes to AI-Generated Code — But You’d Better Own Every Line

The Linux kernel project, the most consequential open-source software effort in history, has drawn a line in the silicon sand. Developers can use AI coding assistants like Gi...

Linux Kernel 7.0 Arrives — And the Version Number Is the Least Interesting Thing About It

After nearly two decades under the 6.x banner, Linus Torvalds has bumped the Linux kernel to version 7.0. The release, announced on April 13, 2025, carries the codename "Hurr...

Rust’s Growth Curve Is Bending — And the Debate Over What That Means Has Just Begun

For a language that promised to eliminate entire categories of software bugs, Rust has had a remarkably turbulent adolescence. Now, after years of meteoric ascent on develope...

Linus Torvalds Just Told AI Coders the Rules: How Linux Is Writing the Playbook for Machine-Generated Kernel Code

The Linux kernel now has an official policy on AI-generated code. And it's not what most people expected.Rather than banning AI contributions outright or embracing the...

Microsoft’s Developer Account Purge Sends Shockwaves Through the Open-Source World

On a quiet Thursday morning, some of the most widely used open-source projects on the planet discovered they'd been locked out of their own distribution channels. No warning....

Valve Is Quietly Rewriting the Rules for Gaming on Low-VRAM Graphics Cards

Four gigabytes of video memory used to be plenty. Not anymore. As modern PC games balloon in texture resolution and shader complexity, GPUs with 4GB of VRAM — or less — have...

A Developer Spent Years Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii — and Actually Got It Running

Bryan Keller wanted to see a Mac desktop on a Nintendo Wii. Not a screenshot. Not a mockup. The real thing — Apple's Mac OS X, compiled and booting on a $250 game console fro...

TrueNAS 26.02 Beta Arrives With a Linux Soul and a FreeBSD Ghost It Can’t Quite Shake

iXsystems has released the first beta of TrueNAS 26.02, and it marks something the storage community has been watching unfold for years: the full-throated embrace of Linux as...

PyTorch’s Quiet Bet on Safetensors Could Reshape How AI Models Are Stored and Loaded

For years, the default way to save and load PyTorch models has relied on Python's pickle serialization format — a method so deeply embedded in machine learning workflows that...

Redox OS: The Rust-Written Operating System That Refuses to Stay Niche

A microkernel operating system written entirely in Rust just hit another milestone — and the broader computing world should be paying closer attention.Redox OS, the Un...

Swift Breaks Free From Xcode: Apple’s Programming Language Makes Its Boldest Play Yet for Cross-Platform Developers

For years, writing Swift meant writing it in Xcode. That era is ending.On June 24, 2025, the Swift project announced a sweeping initiative to bring first-class IDE sup...

The Quiet Exit That Shook Microsoft’s Developer Empire: Julia Liuson’s Departure and What It Signals

Julia Liuson didn't send a company-wide farewell email. She didn't post a reflective LinkedIn essay about her decades at Microsoft. She simply left — after 32 years, one of t...

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