Good news on the age verification front, though. California and Colorado have both moved to exempt open source software from their age verification laws after neither bill originally made any concessions for community-run projects. Warp’s Oz platform has been updated with multi-harness
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The Fedora AI Developer Desktop initiative that passed unanimously is now blocked. Two council members retracted their votes after community pushback, with contributors arguing the CUDA focus contradicts Fedora’s free software foundations and that significant kernel policy changes hadn’t been cleared with
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Hot on the heels of Copy Fail comes Dirty Frag, another Linux kernel privilege escalation with a working exploit already public. It chains two flaws, neither of which can work alone. Luckily, fixes have arrived for it in the Linux kernel, as
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Let me start with two not so positive news. Ubuntu suffered a cyber attack for almost a week. Don’t panick. It was a DDoS attack and makes a website unavailable by flooding the server with traffic. The ubuntu.com website, Snap store, Launchpad,
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The big news is that Linux distros are getting a standard Projects folder alongside Documents, Music, and Downloads. Most people already create one manually, but now it’s official, and apps can start using it as a default location too. So it’s more
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Ubuntu 26.04 is releasing today. As a long-term support release, it will be supported till at least 2031, making it an important upgrade for many users. Curious about what’s new? I’ve covered the key features and changes in this major release. If
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The big new, and it’s good, is coming from France. The government’s digital agency DINUM is moving its workstations from Windows to Linux, with every French ministry required to submit a plan by Autumn 2026 to reduce dependence on non-European software. Another
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Linus Torvalds created two of the most widely used tools in modern computing: the Linux kernel and Git. Git, of course, is a version control system primarily used by programmers. But Theena makes a strong case that Git and plain text are
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The open source office space has turned unusually dramatic this week, with multiple conflicts unfolding at the same time. First, there is a new entrant called Euro-Office. While it is being presented as a European alternative, it is essentially a fork of
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Age verification has suddenly become the most heated topic in the Linux world and it’s not slowing down anytime soon. Distributions are already picking sides. Void and Garuda Linux have outright rejected the idea. The privacy-focused Android distro GrapheneOS isn’t entertaining it
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