Linux NewsHaiku OS Pulls In WiFi Driver Updates From OpenBSD, Other Improvements In February
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project had an eventful February with a number of driver improvements and a variety of other enhancements...
Vulkan 1.4.345 Released With New ARM Shader Instrumentation Extension
Vulkan 1.4.345 released overnight as the latest routine spec update to this graphics and compute API. There is one new extension besides a handful of different clarifications and corrections to various elements of the spec...
GNOME 50 Release Candidate Arrives with HDR Screen Sharing Support
GNOME 50 Release Candidate (RC) is now available for public testing ahead of the final release on March 18th, 2026. Here’s what’s new!
Firefox Nova – we just got our first look at Mozilla’s upcoming browser redesign
A new look Firefox is on the way, with Mozilla designers working on a ‘Nova’ redesign for the browser that makes greater use of curves and colour. First reported by tech blogger Sören Hentzschel, who has published a handful of design mockups, Nova gives Firefox a more rounded appearance: tabs and the address bar sport uniform radii, and sit in a segmented island design that matches. Everything neatly nestles. Elements like hover effects, settings pages and parts of the New Tab Page are similarly rounded. If you look closely at the image above you’ll notice new icons that (you guessed […]
Parrot OS 7.1: Security Distro’s Surprisingly Good Daily Driver
From white-hat hackers to casual users: Italy's Parrot OS 7.1 Home Edition flies beyond its security reputation with a surprisingly polished KDE Plasma desktop. The post Parrot OS 7.1: Security Distro’s Surprisingly Good Daily Driver appeared first on FOSS Force.
Wayland 1.25 RC1 Released With Improved Documentation, Minor Changes
Simon Ser announced the release today of Wayland 1.25 RC1 (Wayland v1.24.91) in working toward this next stable release...
Banana Pi R4 (BPI-R4)
The Banana Pi R4 is an open-source smart router. You can use it for networking jobs, as you will tell from the specs on the hardware. Keep in mind that this Single Board Computer (SBC) may be small, but it is powerful, especially when dealing with networking over any type of connection. Banana Pi R4 Specs The main specs are: MediaTek MT7988A (Filogic 880) quad-core Arm Cortex-A73, 1.8GHz processor 4 GB/8 GB DDR4 8 GB eMMC flash 128MB SPI-NAND Flash Micro SD... https://www.linux.org/threads/banana-pi-r4-bpi-r4.60066/
FOSS Weekly #26.10: Age Verification in Linux, systemd Troubleshooting Tools, Graphene Phone, Longer Linux LTS Kernels and More
Age verification is the new pandemic.
FOSS Weekly #26.10: Age Verification in Linux, systemd Troubleshooting Tools, Graphene Phone, Longer Linux LTS Kernels and More
Age verification is the new pandemic.
FOSS Weekly #26.10: Age Verification in Linux, systemd Troubleshooting Tools, Graphene Phone, Longer Linux LTS Kernels and More
Age verification is the new pandemic.
GNOME 50 Release Candidate Brings Last Minute Changes
GNOME 50.rc was christened today as the release candidate for the GNOME 50 desktop...
Rust 1.94.0 released
Version 1.94.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include array windows (an iterator for slices), some Cargo enhancements, and a number of newly stabilized APIs.
A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines (grith.ai)
The grith.ai blog reports on an LLM prompt-injection vulnerability that led to 4,000 installations of a compromised version of the Cline utility. For the next eight hours, every developer who installed or updated Cline got OpenClaw - a separate AI agent with full system access - installed globally on their machine without consent. Approximately 4,000 downloads occurred before the package was pulled. The interesting part is not the payload. It is how the attacker got the npm token in the first place: by injecting a prompt into a GitHub issue title, which an AI triage bot read, interpreted as an instruction, and executed.
Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next
Javelin, their kernel-level anti-cheat solution, might be heading to Linux.
Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next
Javelin, their kernel-level anti-cheat solution, might be heading to Linux.