When Lumo (partner link) launched last year, I took it for a spin to see what Proton’s foray into AI assistants looked like. I found out that the open source AI assistant ran quite well for a new launch. And a few
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The Linux Foundation says that it intends to launch the Agent Name Service (ANS), an open standard that extends DNS to give AI agents a way to prove who they are. In practice, that means being able to look up an agent
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Ever since successfully crowdfunding over $500k for the Librem 15, Purism has become a recognized hardware manufacturer catering to privacy and Linux enthusiasts. The company is registered as a Social Purpose Corporation, dedicating its existence to upholding the privacy, security, and freedom
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PINE64 has been building budget-friendly ARM and RISC-V hardware since 2015, when the original PINE A64 single-board computer launched on Kickstarter. The community-driven outfit has since put out devices like the PinePhone, the ROCK series of SBCs, and the Ox64 RISC-V board.
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Canonical’s Livepatch can now patch the Linux kernel on ARM64 systems without forcing a reboot. This has been possible on AMD64 machines for years, but ARM64 users had no equivalent option until now. It is available for users on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
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ArmSoM is known for designing and manufacturing development boards and embedded solutions for a range of use cases that range from multimedia and IoT to AI and industrial applications. We have covered a few of their products here at It’s FOSS, and
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Halfbrick Studios reached out to us recently, and they were hyped to show off their newest project, Guncrypt, a dungeon crawler built around loading bullets in the right order instead of chasing better gear. If that name sounds familiar to you, they
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In April, Jon Seager of Canonical laid out the company’s plan for handling AI in Ubuntu. The framework split things into two groups, implicit AI that quietly improves what you already use and explicit AI that are features you’d actually summon on
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Epic Games used its State of Unreal 2026 keynote to announce Lore, an open source version control system the company built in-house and is releasing for free. You see, game and film projects have a workflow where they have to mix source
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As you might already know, the AUR has been going through a rough patch, where more than 1,500 packages were compromised across three separate waves of malware attacks before Arch developers could get a handle on it. yay, the most popular AUR
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