Linux NewsCodeberg Git Hosting Platform Bans Projects Mostly Written by Generative AI
The nonprofit Git hosting platform Codeberg now bans repositories that consist mainly of code written by generative AI.
Ryzen AI Software 1.8 Released With New Model Support, More Optimizations
Ahead of Lisa Su's keynote this morning at the AMD Advancing AI event, tagged on GitHub just now was the Ryzen AI Software 1.8 release for helping to deploy AI models on Ryzen AI PCs...
LLVM 23.1-rc1 Released With AMD Zen 6 & AVX-512 BMM Support, Other Compiler Enhancements
Following the recent code branching for the LLVM 23 series, LLVM 23.1-rc1 was released today in working toward the next stable release of this open-source compiler stack...
dav1d 1.5.4 Brings AV1 Decoding To OS/2
While the VideoLAN developers are busy these days working on dav2d for AV2 video decoding, they haven't let up work on dav1d and recently released dav1d 1.5.4 for continuing to enhance this leading open-source, CPU-based AV1 decoder...
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 23, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: LLMs in the kernel; GNOME save and restore; Fedora changes; BPF and tracepoints; BPF and LSMs; famfs; sched_ext. Briefs: GNOME security; PyPI policy; Arch on aarch64; Firefox 153; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
Nextcloud Names Christian Fu MĂĽller as AI Team Lead
The hire points to Nextcloud’s plan to deepen AI automation while preserving its privacy- and safety- first model. The post Nextcloud Names Christian Fu Müller as AI Team Lead appeared first on FOSS Force.
Here’s why your Ubuntu 26.04 install is quiet about updates
If Ubuntu 26.04 LTS hasn’t nagged you about pending updates in a while, there’s a reason for that. A Launchpad bug report and related discussion on the Ubuntu Discourse noticed that the distro’s update-manager no longer notifies when updates are pending unless the update notification tray icon is enabled. The rub? That tray icon as turned off in Ubuntu 26.04 (with no toggle in Settings to turn it back on). This is not as “risky” as it might sound, though. Ubuntu ships with unattended-upgrades enabled by default, which installs security updates in the background – you’re just not told about […]
Mozilla Firefox 154 Enters Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect
Firefox 154 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with a new "Manage AI" quick action in the address bar, support for clearing cached favicons, and more.
COSMIC Desktop 1.4 Improves System Monitor with App Controls and GPU Stats
COSMIC Desktop 1.4 adds quit and force-quit controls to System Monitor, alongside switchable CPU/GPU graphs and GPU frequency monitoring.
Lemonade 11.5 Local AI Server Released With Completed Lemonade Router
Just one week after releasing Lemonade 11.0, the Lemonade 11.5 local AI server was released today for this open-source AMD backed project during their AMD Advancing AI event...
COSMIC 1.4 Desktop Environment Introduces New Default Sound Theme
COSMIC 1.4 desktop environment is now available with improvements to COSMIC Term, COSMIC Store, COSMIC Settings, COSMIC Player, COSMIC Panel, COSMIC Monitor, COSMIC Launcher, COSMIC Files, COSMIC Edit, and more.
[$] Save and restore may be coming to GNOME
One of the features that users often miss when moving from X11 to Wayland is the ability to save and restore the position of windows between sessions. At GUADEC 2026, held in A Coruña, Spain, Adrian Vovk provided an overview of work that has gone into providing a platform-wide save and restore framework for GNOME. After two failed attempts at landing an API, he believes that the third try will be the one to succeed—though not in time for the upcoming GNOME 51 release due in October.
Talk to This Glowing Pyramid on Your Desk, and It'll Run Your AI Agent for You
It's a pyramid-shaped Orange Pi 4 Pro that ships with OpenClaw or Hermes preloaded and now talks back so you get that "Iron Man" feel.
PyPI now rejects new files after 14 days
Python Software Foundation security developer-in-residence Seth Larson has announced that the Python Package Index (PyPI) will now reject new files that are uploaded to releases older than 14 days. The restriction is to prevent the poisoning of old releases if publishing tokens or workflows of PyPI projects are compromised. The discussion of this behavior began during PEP 740 (Digital Attestations) back in January 2024. The discussion was restarted in March 2026 after the popular packages LiteLLM and Telnyx were compromised. These packages were compromised due to a "mutable reference" in these projects' usage of the Trivy GitHub Action. Originally the discussion stalled due to some projects depending on this behavior to add support for new Python versions to already-published releases. To quantify how disruptive this change would be to existing workflows, the PyPI database was queried for projects that have published new files to old releases (bucketed by number of days since the relea
SDL Lands HDR10 Rendering Support
Sam Lantinga of Valve and SDL fame has landed HDR10 rendering support into the Simple DirectMedia Library...