Keychron has introduced ZGM, short for Zephyr Gaming Mouse, an open source firmware project built for gaming mice. It is built on Zephyr RTOS, the same real-time operating system that already powers ZMK for keyboards. In its announcement, Keychron portrayed the launch
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Let’s see what’s happening in the Linux and open source world this week. Ubuntu 26.04 quietly stopped notifying users about available updates, and it turns out that was intentional. The tray icon was switched off by design, and without it, the notifier
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Starling is a new open source Linux desktop environment. One developer built it by directing Claude for about six months, ending up with a working desktop that boots into its own session with a compositor and window manager. Don’t think of this
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Running local AI models has become surprisingly accessible. Install Ollama, pull a model, and you can start chatting with it in minutes. That’s exactly how I began my journey with local AI. Using an LLM directly in terminal is okayish but it
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Open source projects have mostly split into two camps on AI. Some keep a human in the loop, letting contributors use whatever tools they want as long as they take responsibility for the result. Others have gone further and banned AI-generated contributions
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Ubuntu is one of the most stable Linux distros out there, provided you’re running its LTS release. Now imagine giving that up for a rolling release model. Feels exciting, right? Stop fantasizing then, as today’s not the day that happens. Instead, Canonical’s
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GOG built its whole brand around selling DRM-free games and providing offline installers that work without requiring an internet connection or any kind of verification from their side. They even encourage people to download installers and copy them over to physical media
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An Atlanta resident, Samuel Tunick, is fighting a federal indictment that treats a privacy feature on his phone as evidence destruction. A grand jury charged him under 18 U.S.C. § 2232(a), a statute that covers destruction of property to block seizure by
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From the Git repo’s README to blogs, Markdown is everywhere in the tech world in general. I have been using Markdown for years. That’s what I use for writing the articles here. While I often write directly in the CMS, I also
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OpenUK recently published its AI Openness report, and buried inside the 40-page document is a big ask from the UK government. Build Britain its own foundation that holds code, governance, and standards the way the Linux Foundation (LF) does in the US.
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