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The FSF’s concerns go beyond whether AI platforms need kill switches. They extend to who controls them—and whether users will have any say. The post The FSF’s Warning on AI Kill Switches appeared first on FOSS Force.
There is a local desktop AI assistant for KDE Plasma.
A scramble for CentOS replacements sparked new community distros and vendor plays reshaping enterprise Linux dynamics.
Previously in public preview, it now offers new commands, Consommé networking, and Intune registry controls.
I had already picked my favorite before testing them. That turned out to be a mistake!
Update WSL, type one command, and you're good to go.
Blanc is a new open-source browser that replaces the traditional, always-visible tab strip and address toolbar with a minimal ‘island’. This pill floats at the of the window (but not over the web page) to show current site address, common actions like back/forward and bookmark and to relay page security information. It expands as-needed to let you open, manage and switch between tabs, enter web addresses, run searches or sift through browsing history or bookmarks. You can click on it or press super + l at any point to get to it, with commands using /. Despite a lack of […]
OpenTofu 1.13 adds official Windows ARM64 builds, new functions for reducing unknown values during planning, and early experimental linting.
A lot has happened in the KDE Plasma desktop environment in the last year. Marco Martin, a KDE contributor who spends most of his time working on Plasma, took the stage at Akademy 2026 in Graz, Austria to give an update on Plasma's major new features, some of the minor-but-interesting ones, and a preview of what's coming soon. The biggest upcoming change, dropping X11 support from Plasma, has been well-advertised; but there are also plans afoot to further improve remote-desktop support and more.
The full set of videos from the recently concluded Kernel Recipes conference has been posted. Also noteworthy are the associated caricature drawings, by Frank Tizzoni, of attendees and the speakers.
With the third quarter wrapping up, here is a look back at the most interesting content on Phoronix over the past three months...
The 2026 Python Language Summit was held on July 14 in Kraków, Poland; there is now a series of reports available on the topics that were discussed there. They include the memory buffer protocol, garbage collection, free-threaded Python, and "Spicycrab".
Sharon Yang is a Chromium developer who worked at Google on the browser and now works on it at Igalia. On the final day of FOSSY 2026, she gave a presentation on her experiences with both of those companies, comparing and contrasting the ways the each operates and how that affects work on the code base. She enjoyed working at Google and feels the same about Igalia, so the talk was not aimed at complaints—instead it was meant to give a feel for two companies that are rather different.
The election for members of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board will be held electronically after the close of the upcoming Linux Plumbers Conference. The call for candidates is is open, with a nomination deadline of October 7. There are six seats to fill this time instead of the usual five due to the unfortunate passing of Dan Williams. Serving on the TAB is a good way to help the kernel-development community. Please see this article from last year for an overview of what the TAB does and why membership is rewarding, then consider putting in your nomination.
Edison Design Group has open-sourced their EDG C/C++ front-end that has been known in the commercial world for its extensive dialect support and other features. The EDG C++ front-end has been used by the likes of Intel C++ Compiler classic, NVIDIA CUDA NVCC, and even Microsoft Visual Studio for IntelliSense...
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