Canonical is now a Gold Sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation, a non-profit focused on keeping critical infrastructure software memory-safe. The new backing comes with a yearly €40,000 contribution, meant to fund continued work on memory-safe system utilities written in Rust. Trifecta
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Every few months (or years, depending upon how old you are), there is a new “anti-smartphone” device that comes with a physical keyboard and a tiny screen and focuses on doing one thing well. Freewrite did it for writers. PicoCalc did it
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Hannah Montana Linux (HML) has become a conversation starter in the land of FOSS (aka FOSSLand?), and somehow, the year is 2026. The remaster, released by Noah Cagle, a developer/YouTuber, has taken us by surprise. This new avatar of HML is a
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Crowdfunding is one of the best ways to turn an idea into an actual product. A creator pitches something, sets a funding goal, and backers decide whether it is worth building. While most campaigns stay small, a few do break out completely.
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Sipeed has been making tiny RISC-V and ARM boards for the maker crowd for years, and its NanoKVM line is already a familiar name if you have ever wanted BIOS-level remote access without paying enterprise IPMI prices. Sipeed has announced a new
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Brave has rolled out Containers with the Brave Browser 1.92 release, giving its Chromium-based browser something Firefox users have had for years now. And no, it is not some pre-installed extension doing the work; this functionality is built right into the browser
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Collabora Productivity got into the desktop editor market last year when they launched Collabora Office, an office suite built on the same rendering mechanism as Collabora Online, but focused on offline use. They came up with this so people could get the
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Microsoft has spent the last few years stuffing Notepad with AI tools, Markdown support, and cloud-tied credits, chipping away at the simple, local text editor it used to be. Basic editing still works without signing in, but the AI features don’t. You
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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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