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Wine developers just merged support for the wp_pointer_warp_v1 protocol into the project's native Wayland driver. The change landed on May 12, 2026. It marks another concrete...

When Idle Time Lies: The Linux Kernel Fix That Trapped QUIC in a Performance Death Spiral

Engineers at Cloudflare spent weeks chasing an elusive failure in their QUIC stack. Tests that once sailed through suddenly timed out. Downloads that should finish in seconds...

Haiku OS Takes Key Step Forward With ARM64 SMP Support

Developers working on the open-source operating system inspired by BeOS have delivered another milestone. Haiku OS now supports basic symmetric multiprocessing on 64-bit ARM...

Linux Kernel Prepares for Microchip’s 3nm PCIe Gen 6 Switches in Version 7.2

Server architects wrestling with exploding AI cluster sizes have a new tool coming. The Linux 7.2 kernel will add official support for Microchip Technology's Switchtec family...

GNOME Help Viewer Fix Exposes Limits of Sandboxed Linux Apps

GNOME's default help viewer just received an emergency update. The change comes after auditors uncovered a way for sandboxed Flatpak applications to slip data out of the host...

Red Hat Sends RHEL 10.1 to the ISS as Space Edge Computing Takes Off

Red Hat Enterprise Linux now runs 250 miles above Earth. The latest minor release powers a shoebox-sized micro datacenter attached to the International Space Station. This ma...

From TempleOS to Spinning Rats: How One Developer Bent Terminals Into 3D Canvases

Orhun Parmaksiz stared at the command line one too many times and decided plain text no longer sufficed. So he built Ratty. The terminal emulator renders inline 3D models. It...

Microsoft Fires Back: Why Windows 11’s CPU Boost Isn’t Cheating

Scott Hanselman didn't hold back. The Microsoft vice president took to X last week to confront critics head-on. Their target? A new Windows 11 feature that briefly maxes out...

Linux Kernel Bids Farewell to AMD’s Pioneering K5 as Legacy x86 Support Shrinks

Three decades after AMD launched its first homegrown x86 processor, the Linux kernel has begun the process of dropping official support for the K5 family. The move, tucked in...

Ubuntu and Fedora Add Official Local AI Support Packages via Ollama

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Microsoft Bolsters Azure Linux 3.0 With Fresh Security Patches and Kernel Advances

Microsoft pushed out Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 on a recent Saturday. The update packs dozens of security fixes across open source components that power much of the company's c...

Fedora’s AI Bet: Atomic Desktops Target Developers Chasing Local Models

Fedora just approved a plan to ship dedicated AI developer desktops. The move comes months after similar steps from Ubuntu. And it signals how Linux distributions now treat A...

Kconfirm Tool Targets Decades of Accumulated Flaws in Linux Kernel Configuration

Linus Torvalds merged the latest pull request. The Linux kernel hit version 7.0 in mid-April. Yet behind the new release numbers and hardware support lies a configuration sys...

OpenAI Coding Agent Writes AMD Chipset Temperature Driver Now Under Linux Kernel Review

Developers routinely patch the Linux kernel to expose new hardware features. This time the contributor turned to artificial intelligence for help. The result is a compact dri...

Linux 7.1-rc3 Signals a Bigger Kernel Future With Heavy Networking Focus

Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.1-rc3 on a Sunday that doubled as Mother's Day. The latest test build for the next major kernel carries an unusually high volume of changes. N...

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