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The long fight over who owns parts of Linux is closer than ever to ending. On Aug. 10, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit declined to revive...

Canonical Co-Funds a Bristol PhD on Using LLMs to Translate Large C Codebases Into Safe Rust

Canonical is co-funding a three-year PhD project to find out whether large language models can translate big C codebases into safe Rust. Jon Seager, Canoni...

How One Developer and Claude AI Built a Native macOS Driver for HP’s Windows-Only Laser Printer

Kuber Mehta's HP Laser 1008a should not print from a Mac. HP offers drivers only for Windows and Linux, and the printer supports neither AirPrint, PostScri...

Nintendo’s Relentless Purge: 400 Switch Emulator Repos Vanish From GitHub in One Day

Nintendo has filed seven separate DMCA anti-circumvention notices with GitHub, all on the same day, targeting Switch emulator repositories and their forks....

Valve’s Steam Frame Leak Exposes Imminent Launch and Ergonomic Upgrades for PC VR Streaming

A set of Valve tutorial videos for the Steam Frame leaked online, showing the headset's unboxing, setup and accessories and suggesting a release may be clo...

Go 1.27 Lands With Generic Methods and a Faster Runtime

The Go team has released Go 1.27, six months after Go 1.26, with changes across the language, toolchain, runtime and standard library, according to the...

Mojo Goes Fully Open Source: Modular Releases Compiler After 1.0 Milestone and Qualcomm Deal

Modular has released the Mojo programming language as fully open source, including the compiler, tooling and everything needed to build the language, under...

Fedora Won’t Ship x86-64-v3 Packages in Fedora 45, and the Proposal Now Needs Benchmarks

Fedora users with any Intel or AMD processor from roughly the past decade will have to wait at least another release for packages compiled to take advantag...

Framework Laptop 12 Moves to Intel Core Series 3 and Adds a Fedora Linux Option

Almost 80% of Framework Laptop 12 owners run Linux, according to the company's customer surveys. So when Framework refreshed its smallest laptop this week,...

Cursor’s Origin Puts Code Hosting Inside the Editor, Without Asking Teams to Leave GitHub

Updated Oct. 26, 2026, 6:23 a.m. ET: Adds a link to our report on GitHub's explanation of the outage....

Rust GPU Kernels Built on LLVM Offload Come Close to Hand-Tuned CUDA and HIP

Writing GPU kernels in Rust has usually meant giving something up: either a vendor-specific toolchain or a pile of unsafe raw pointers. A new paper argues...

KDE’s Bullet-Proof Initiative Funds Three Years of Fixes for Plasma 6.6

KDE e.V., Linux PC maker Kubuntu Focus and consulting firm Techpaladin Software have announced what they call the Bullet-Proof KDE Software Initiative, whi...

GNOME Designer Philipp Sauberzweig Gets a Two-Year Sovereign Tech Fellowship

GNOME has a paid designer for the next two years. Philipp Sauberzweig, a longtime volunteer on the GNOME Design Team, has joined Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency as its fellow fo...

Microsoft Edge Starts Turning Off Manifest V2 Extensions, Ending Full uBlock Origin Support

Microsoft Edge has begun moving consumers off Manifest V2 extensions, which will cut off the original uBlock Origin and similar ad blockers, as Google Chro...

Oracle Bars AI-Generated Contributions to OpenJDK While Its Own Engineers Lean on AI

Oracle, the corporate sponsor of OpenJDK, has barred contributors from submitting code or other material generated by AI to the open source Java project, even as its own executi...

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