Linux NewsTalk 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...
[$] Attaching programs to multiple tracepoints
Tracepoints in the kernel are useful for a variety of purposes: debugging, active monitoring, and performance measurements, among other things. Previously, any given BPF program could only be attached to a single tracepoint. Jiri Olsa has been working to change that, and led a discussion about his progress at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. That work has since been merged, and can be expected as part of the 7.2 kernel.
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base, c-ares, dovecot, freerdp, glib2, gstreamer1-plugins-good, gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free, hplip, kernel, kernel-rt, nodejs:22, perl-XML-LibXML, webkit2gtk3, and yggdrasil), Debian (kernel, nss, roundcube, rtpengine, and xz-utils), Fedora (btrbk, kernel, mupdf, nuclei, perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-X509, rust-fern, rust-ifcfg-devname, rust-routinator, rust-rpki, and rust-syslog), Mageia (tig), Oracle (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, acl, dovecot, glib2, httpd, libtiff, pacemaker, perl-IO-Compress, plexus-utils, python3, and webkit2gtk3), Slackware (libssh and mozilla-firefox), SUSE (acl, avahi, aws-nitro-enclaves-cli, beets, chromium, firefox, go1.25-openssl, ImageMagick, iscsiuio, kernel, kubevirt1.8-container-disk, libgit2-1_9, libkrun, libsoup-3_0-0, nghttp2, opam, php7, python-aiohttp, python-tornado6, and vim), and Ubuntu (accountsservice, CUPS, imagemagick, jbig2dec, openssh, and snapd).
COSMIC Epoch 1.4 Released With More Fixes, Force Quit For COSMIC Monitor
System76 developers today released COSMIC Epoch 1.4 as the newest stable release to their Rust-based desktop environment...
Raspberry Pi launch 10-inch Touch Display 2 for $80
Raspberry Pi has launched a 10-inch version of its Touch Display 2 with a 1200×1920 resolution and 10-point captive touchscreen for $80/£77. 5-inch and 7-inch variants of the Touch Display 2 have long been available, but Raspberry Pi’s Gordon Hollingworth says the new model gives makers a larger, higher resolution screen to make use of in projects. Like the smaller versions, the 10.1″ Touch Display 2 is portrait orientation by default (it can be used in landscape). The displays are often mounted on walls or in point-of-information setups, used for home automation dashboards, kiosks, digital signage, control panels, etc. The 10.1-inch […]
Raspberry Pi Launches New 10-Inch Touch Display 2 for $80
Raspberry Pi’s new 10-inch Touch Display 2 offers a 1200×1920 resolution, ten-finger touch support, and native Raspberry Pi OS integration.
I replaced my default Linux terminal with this cross-platform one—and I'm not going back
Yes, the choice of your terminal emulator matters and influences your work.
AMD EPYC Turin With PCIe 5.0 Storage Shows Off Nice Gains On Linux 7.2
Earlier this week was an exciting look at Intel Xe3 graphics performance gains on Linux 7.2 with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware. On the other side of the table, with AMD hardware on this forthcoming kernel an area to be excited about are some I/O improvements at least for 5th Gen EPYC with speedy PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD storage.
Siemens AG Was The Last Holdout in MPEG-4 Visual's Road to Being Patent-Free
The final patent, active in Brazil, expired on July 19, 2026.
Raspberry Pi Launches 10-Inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 at $80
A new Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 model is now available with a 10-inch display and an $80 USD price tag, compatible with Raspberry Pi 5 and Raspberry Pi 5 CM SBCs.
libx11-compat Is Working To Implement Xlib Atop SDL For Wayland, macOS, Android
For helping to keep X11 clients running in a modern Linux desktop world with Wayland or even for running on macOS or Android, there is now yet-another option being developed with libx11-compat. The libx11-compat project is working to re-implement the Xlib client library atop SDL2/SDL3 interfaces for allow broad underlying platform coverage...
Intel Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts Slated For Linux 7.3
Back in March Intel software engineers began sending out Linux patches for Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts as a new capability with recent Intel processors. This notable efficiency improvement is now queued for introduction in the Linux 7.3 cycle once its merge window opens in a month...
I Tried MangoWM, and I'm Not Going Back to Niri
MangoWM is worth trying if you want more layout flexibility than a single-model compositor gives you.