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Epic Games released a preview of a rebuilt Epic Games Launcher on Wednesday, October 14, and said plainly that it used AI to make it. "Programming is hard," the...

One Developer, One AI Model: The Open-Source Assault on Adobe’s Subscription Empire

Brandon Thomas had enough. After years in software and one too many encounters with Adobe's cancellation fees, the engineer turned to Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5. The result?...

Linus Torvalds Turns to AI to Untangle Obscure Kernel Code, Surfaces Bugs Lurking Since 2013

Linus Torvalds used large language model tools to make sense of a hard-to-follow corner of the Linux kernel, and the cleanup turned up three more bugs alongside one that had alr...

AWS Launches Lambda Web Functions to Run Standard HTTP Servers Serverlessly

AWS on Monday, October 12, introduced Lambda Web Functions, which let developers run ordinary Node.js web servers on Lambda without rewriting them into event handlers. A server...

GitLab Pitches a ‘Governed Software Factory’ to Enterprises as GitHub Keeps a Wide Lead

GitHub remains the default home for most developers, but GitLab is betting that enterprises flooded with AI-generated code will pay for a single platform that keeps security, ar...

Intel Revives HDMI 2.1 Push on Linux With Fresh Driver Patches

Intel engineer Ankit Nautiyal posted a second version of the patches that add HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support to Intel's Linux kernel graphics driver for Meteor Lake and...

Linux 7.4 Queues Boot Support for ASUS Zenbook A14 and Two Other Snapdragon X2 Elite Laptops

Device Tree support for three Snapdragon X2 Elite laptops has been queued for the Linux 7.4 kernel, Phoronix repo...

NVIDIA’s Nova Driver Gains Ground in Linux 7.4 as Path to Official Open Kernel Support Emerges

NVIDIA's Rust-based Nova kernel driver is set for another round of growth in Linux 7.4, and NVIDIA engineers have now described it publicly as the long-term replacement for the...

Linux Kernel Moves to Drop AI ‘Assisted-by’ Tag After Maintainers Summit

Linux kernel developers are moving to scrap the rule that contributors label AI-assisted patches with an "Assisted-by" tag. Sasha Levin posted a patch on Friday, October 9, 2026...

Developer Behind Free Adobe Clones Releases AI-Built Open-Source Takes on Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Updated Oct. 21, 2026, 1:15 a.m. ET: Adds current GitHub star counts and WordCraft's own readiness estimate from its project page. Brandon Thomas, the software...

Why VS Code Lets You Write Invalid JSON—and Why That Choice Still Matters

Visual Studio Code accepts comments and trailing commas in its own settings files, even though strict JSON forbids both, and the behavior is deliberate. MakeUseOf's Yasir Mahmoo...

AI Decompilers Flood Browsers With Playable Halo, GTA Vice City and Simpsons Ports

Updated Oct. 21, 2026, 1:45 p.m. ET: Adds Activision's DMCA takedown of two AI-built Call of Duty browser ports and Microsoft's Oct. 13 launch of Xbox Labs. Activision hit d...

Ubuntu 26.10 Brings Rust-Powered OpenPGP Alternative as Canonical Accelerates Memory-Safe Shift

Updated Oct. 21, 2026, 3:38 a.m. ET: Adds that Ubuntu 26.10 was released Oct. 15. Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed Stonking Stingray, ships with Sequoia PGP, a Rust-based...

Google Study Finds Most Open Source Package Updates Take Four Hours or Less, but Custom Patches Drive a Long Tail

Google published research on Thursday, October 8, 2026 measuring how many engineering hours it takes to keep open source packages current inside the company. The study, led by S...

AI Vibe Coding Replicates Adobe Creative Cloud in Rust: A New Threat to Software Giants

Adobe built an empire on creative tools that many professionals once considered indispensable. Subscription prices kept climbing. AI features appeared whether users asked for...

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