PERSONAL TECH LisaFPGA brings Apple's magnificent misfire back in programmable logic Open source recreation costs a fraction of the original and may even work with Twiggy drives
ai and ml AI tool scours the web for job openings, preps your resume and cover letter Searching for work sucks; AI combs the internet and sucks it all up. Combine the two and let 'er rip with this Python project
SOFTWARE OpenMandriva claims disgruntled admin trashed repos after community bust-up Linux distro accuses former contributor of deleting years of work and pushing a package that could have broken installs
os platforms KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives 6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not
SOFTWARE Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ditches SharePoint while Bavaria also mulls Microsoft alternatives
ai and ml Avoid AI atrophy – new tool promises to reverse vibe coding skills decay Want big muscles? Keep working out. Want big coding skillsets? Flex your dev skills with the Atrophy CLI app before they wither away
software New tool gives CLIs a warm and GUI feeling instead Fed up with forgetting flags? Let Instagui read --help output and build a browser GUI instead
OS PLATFORMS Secure Unix ancestor KSOS did type safety before Rust made it cool Modula-based source code resurfaces after nearly four decades
OFFBEAT C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched
software Vim text editor game teaches you keyboard shortcuts with ice cream delivery Browser game teaches Vim's famously unintuitive movement commands to keep your hands on the keyboard
AI and ML Godot says bye bye AI, bans vibe-coded contributions 'We can’t trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it,' say maintainers who previously called the flood of vibe-coded pull requests 'demoralizing'
PERSONAL TECH Purism launches supersized 16-inch laptop for buyers who put privacy before price Kill switches, Coreboot, and PureOS target the security-conscious with deep pockets
OS PLATFORMS Mageia 10 keeps the 32-bit Linux flame alive Polished Mandriva descendant still makes room for PCs the 64-bit world has left behind
DATABASES Oracle promises to open up MySQL governance, but the community wants guarantees Open source advocates remain concerned over lack of binding commitments
SOFTWARE One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V A homebrew PC and mini-mainframe were only the warm-up for Yuri Zaporozhets' latest operating system
security Miasma campaign poisons 20-plus npm packages, hunts for developer secrets Microsoft says latest attack targets Leo Platform and RStreams packages, harvesting creds and going after more maintainers
SOFTWARE Three FOSS projects for developers, procrastinators, and media wranglers Prism tracks AI emissions, Super Productivity keeps tasks local, and TAMOSS brings the BBC's media API to Kubernetes
Software Apple takes over Swift Package Index, vows to remove GitHub dependency SPI co-creator Dave Verwer joins Apple, says 'We will be moving away from that model completely'
DATABASES Elastic stretches workforce 7% thinner as AI does more of the heavy lifting CEO says automation is enabling leaner teams as engineering is split into three core areas
OS PLATFORMS Alpine Linux 3.24 scales new desktop heights with COSMIC Plus interesting news from the Xfce-on-Wayland project
Security Sniff out stale AI override advice with this open source CLI Package dependencies can create vulnerabilities that are fiendishly hard to find and stamp out
Security OpenAI: Yoo-hoo, look over here, we do that security stuff too! A plethora of pwn-prevention, including a 'Patch The Planet' pledge
DevOps Vercel debuts eve open source agent framework, tries to fix shadow AI with Passport Cost premium of using AWS indirectly via Vercel is mitigated by more efficient use of compute resources, CTO claims
OS PLATFORMS FreeBSD 15.1 lands, but desktop dabblers still have to draw their own GUI Better laptop sleep and Wi-Fi support make the beastie more portable-friendly, but getting beyond the shell remains a DIY job
devops Git good with Epic Games' new open source VCS, Lore Got big binaries? Tired of other version control systems that treat them like inferior files? Lore might be worth a look
AI AND ML Smelly config files will make your agents waste tokens, researchers warn Researchers urge developers to see that less is more when it comes to instructions
DevOps Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more Homebrew was "less vulnerable 10 years ago than npm is today," project lead tells us
Personal Tech System76 boss reckons he can liberate the entire PC stack... just give him another 15 years Bootstrapped Linux box-botherer flogs new Thelio kit, talks up COSMIC, and politely declines to bolt AI onto everything
Software Firefox 152 understands 'Sssh!' As Google continues crippling Chrome ad-blockers, it's a good time to try Firefox
OS PLATFORMS Linux kernel 7.1 sends Intel 486 support to silicon heaven More than 140,000 lines of code bite the dust as ancient CPUs, bus mice, and other legacy leftovers face the chop
AI AND ML ERP users may soon get ahead by going headless, says Rimini Street boss Look to AI agents and open source to escape the vendor-driven upgrade cycle
AI + ML A modest proposal: Reformat everything to make documents more palatable to AI What's up, DocLang?
SOFTWARE Red Hat gives Ubuntu a bootc up the backside at Canonical shindig Bootable containers pitch shows how distro can be managed with familiar OCI tooling
SOFTWARE Flatpak-NG sounds like bad news for systemd refuseniks Linux app packaging rethink could leave alternative-init distros in the cold
SOFTWARE MX Linux 25.2 provides possible refuge from AI as well as systemd Plus, Raspberry Pi edition finally catches up
offbeat Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR Who needs fancy menus and high definition? 240-MP will play your media files like it's 1999
DevOps GitHub pulls pin on npm's auto-run scripts Shai-Hulud worm exploited exactly this. Better late than never, says everyone except the malware authors
cyber-crime Miasma worms its way onto GitHub as attack kit goes open source As if there weren't enough package poisonings to worry about
Applications LibreOffice brands Euro-Office a 'de facto ally' of Microsoft's lock-in strategy The Document Foundation accuses newly launched Euro-Office of undermining digital sovereignty by defaulting to Microsoft's OOXML document format
DEVOPS Devs know AI code is riddled with holes, but ship it anyway Pressure to deploy wins out over security as four in five orgs confess to breaches from vulnerable apps
devops Python JIT compiler project under threat after steering council says proper process wasn't followed No new features to be submitted to main branch, existing code removed in 6 months if new proposal not created and accepted
OS Platforms History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system When a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'
Software 'Please do not vibe f--- up this software': Broken backups spark AI coding row in rsync project Users probe backup failures find Claude-assisted commits. Veteran engineer retorts: "I did not just vibe-code 'convert test suite to python'."
RESEARCH Nobody needs Mythos or 0-days to build a chaos-causing computer worm – free open source models work just fine 'Attackers can now cheaply operationalize known vulnerabilities at scale,' boffins tell The Reg
AI and ML Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it Project Headroom could save you big money, too
Software Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs Foundation sparks revolt after disbanding team responsible for many community-requested fixes and moderation tools
AI and ML QEMU mulls relaxing AI contribution ban Red Hat engineer reckons the balance of risk has shifted, but core code stays off limits
Software That an app 'Fits on a Floppy' is still a useful measure in 2026 In a world of mass-produced bot-slopware, small is more beautiful than ever
os platforms ReactOS brings its Windows NT tribute act to ARM64 Experimental build boots on Raspberry Pi 5, but for now the joy is mostly in getting there
Software California may let Linux bypass age check Exemption in amendment offers relief to open source software makers
AI AND ML Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately Could the Chocolate Factory's mission to reshape the web backfire?
Security Clear your calendar, Drupal user: You have a critically urgent patch to install The org’s staying mum on the details, but Wednesday’s fixes reach back to unsupported 8.9 branches
Hardening open source projects may deter contributions TanStack weighs invitation-only pull requests after supply chain attack Shai-Hulud worm exploited GitHub Actions misconfiguration to poison shared cache, now project weighing nuclear option on unsolicited contributions
Databases Google tells database devs to lean hard on AI for PostgreSQL work Cloud giant says humans remain accountable, even when code gets an assist from the machines
OSES KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund backs the desktop project while public sector interest in homegrown alternatives grows
Databases dBase debased: Database titan fades to black after 47 years Blog post mourning decline appears to have helped knock what was left of the veteran app's online presence offline
Security Malware crew TeamPCP open-sources its Shai-Hulud worm on GitHub Where it’s been well and truly forked, seemingly without Microsoft’s code locker noticing
Software Rodent-obsessed developer creates Ratty to bring 3D graphics to the command line Inspired by TempleOS, this terminal emulator is just about as bonkers
oSes Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages Dull but important … so, a bit like Debian itself, really
Software macOS 27 threatens to bury Time Capsule, FOSS brings a shovel Apple's old backup boxes only speak AFP and SMB1, but NetBSD under the hood gives them one last shot
Software NHS code clampdown draws open source backlash Plus a petition for the UK Civil Service to go FOSS by default
Software NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change
Devops Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho
OSes Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too
AI + ML Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative Talkie's training data stops at the end of 1930, and its creators hope it'll help us better understand how AI thinks
Cyber-crime Ongoing supply-chain attack 'explicitly targeting' security, dev tools Vendor confirms repo data exposure after Lapsus$ claims source code, secrets dump
Security AI's not going to kill open source code security Cal.com considers AGPL a license to drill, but not everyone feels that way
Security It's a myth that you need Mythos to find bugs: Open source models can do it just as well OpenAI's first security hire, Ari Herbert-Voss, thinks more automated bug finding will improve security without costing jobs
Cyber-crime Another npm supply chain worm is tearing through dev environments Plus, the payload references 'TeamPCP/LiteLLM method'
OSes You can now run WSL on Windows 95, in case you're crazy, too 'I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time,' says dev behind unholy abomination
Devops Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad Observability biz bets on business analytics wedge as Loki put on long-overdue diet
OSes Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon Software
Security Anthropic won't own MCP 'design flaw' putting 200K servers at risk, researchers say Bug or feature?
AI + ML Mozilla throws Thunderbolt at enterprise AI providers Client connects to deepset's Haystack platform
OSes Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finished
Cyber-crime Fake Linux leader using Slack to con devs into giving up their secrets Google Sites lure leads to bogus root certificate
Security Two different attackers poisoned popular open source tools - and showed us the future of supply chain compromise Time to start dropping SBOMs
Security Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly Just what FOSS developers need – a flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilities
Security AI agents found vulns in this popular Linux and Unix print server CUPS server shown spilling out remote code execution and root access
AI + ML AI slop got better, so now maintainers have more work Once AI bug reports become plausible, someone still has to verify them
OSes SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support And other handy tools that could save your data in a crisis
Personal Tech Android keyboard ditches keys entirely, predicts what you mean Aimed at blind tablet users, although it's winning sighted fans too
Software Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access A handful thrive, most scrape by as companies make billions off their code
RSA 1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack Crims 'creating a snowball effect' across open source projects
OSes Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field Flatpak may be next, and the lobbying behind it is raising eyebrows
Software Payment biz pulls plug on open source charity after KYC spat Free Software Foundation Europe says it was asked for supporters' passwords; Nexi insists it only wanted test credentials to check cancellation flows
Security Cryptographers engage in war of words over RustSec bug reports and subsequent ban Rust security maintainers contend Nadim Kobeissi's vulnerability claims are too much
OSes GNOME 50 debuts with X11 axed, Wayland front and center Most Ubuntu desktop users will be looking at this until at least 2028
Cyber-crime CISA warns max-severity n8n bug is being exploited in the wild No rest for project maintainers battered by slew of vulnerability disclosures
Databases Oracle moves to assure MySQL community it really does care Big Red waves new features including vector support, while skeptics await concrete timescales
