El Poblador is a fully playable Settlers of Catan clone that runs entirely in your terminal. Written in Go by developer vicho, El Poblador is a surprisingly compete rendition of the competitive board game, which is built around collecting resources, building settlements and blocking your opponents. All of those core mechanics are accounted for, albeit shorn of the tactile joy of handling tiny wooden tokens and constantly shuffling cards. Like the real-deal it’s a game designed for 3-4 players. You can gather resources, build settlements and buildings, and everything else the physical version does. Huddle around a laptop or on […]
Over on the AboutCode blog, lead maintainer Philippe Ombredanne writes about an agentic LLM system porting the ScanCode Toolkit to Rust. In the process, the LLM (or the people behind it) infringed the ScanCode trademark, stripped copyright and license notices, "and started an outreach campaign, without ever engaging the AboutCode community". Ironically, the toolkit is used to scan source code and binaries in order to figure out licensing and copyright information; it also reports on package dependencies, vulnerabilities, and more. This is worth repeating: A comprehensive test suite, decent documentation, and curated datasets is what makes automated porting possible. It is also what makes a codebase easier to replicate without understanding it. The agent's initial approach, using an existing Rust license-detection library, failed to match ScanCode's output quality. The agent then did what any translator would do when a loose paraphrase fails: it copied the original more closely. The fin
After more than a quarter century at the helm of key digital rights battles, Cindy Cohn hands leadership to veteran ally Nicole Ozer while plotting a return to the courtroom. The post Nicole Ozer Becomes EFF’s Executive Director as Cohn Returns to the Courtroom appeared first on FOSS Force.
There are nine new security vulnerabilities impacting the X.Org Server as well as the XWayland component. Yep, more than a decade after X.Org Server security issues began coming to light with a security research acknowledging it's a disaster and "it's worse than it looks", it continues holding true...
Yesterday AMD kicked off Computex 2026 in announcing the Radeon RX 9070 GRE alongside a number of other product announcements. With the Radeon RX 9070 GRE going on sale today, the review embargo has now lifted on this new RDNA 4 consumer graphics card slated to be priced around $549 USD. Here is an initial look at the Linux performance benchmarks of this new AMD graphics card offering.
Optimizing compilers can, under some circumstances, infer when a parameter to a function is not needed, and remove it. This is all well and good until the kernel's tracing or BPF subsystems need information on how to call the function or where its arguments are stored. Alan Maguire and Yonghong Song spoke at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit about their work on recording information regarding changed function signatures in the kernel's BTF debugging information, to better support tracing such functions.
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.0.11, 6.18.34, 6.12.92, 6.6.142, 6.1.175, 5.15.209, and 5.10.258 stable kernels. As usual, each contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade.
Ahead of Intel Diamond Rapids server processors launching in 2027, the Linux kernel continues getting into shape for these next-gen Xeon processors. The latest enablement work taking place for Diamond Rapids is readying the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) driver support for propagating memory errors/correction information under Linux...
You’ll have to sift through fewer vibe-coded apps on Flathub in future, as the store has announced a policy change on software made using AI tools. Flathub, the de-facto place to find and install Flatpak applications, is banning the use of “AI” coded applications and automated submissions going forward. A change to the store’s policy note says “applications containing AI-generated or AI-assisted code, documentation, or other content are not allowed”. It’s not a blanket ban; there’s carve out for “mature, well-maintained projects”. Those can contain AI assisted code and use AI for store descriptions and updates. Existing AI-coded apps available […]
The DistroWatch site is celebrating its 25th anniversary. "All in all, it has been an incredible ride. Many of you who read these pages regularly know that downloading and testing distributions is a highly addictive pastime. I have been an avid distro-hopper for the last 25 years and I don't see myself abandoning this activity for many more years to come." Congratulations to Ladislav Bodnar and all the others who have kept that resource going for so long.
The x32 ABI was meant to be the best of both worlds, providing the expanded registers and instruction set of the x86-64 architecture while preserving the lower memory use of 32-bit systems. The Linux kernel has supported x32 since the 3.4 release in 2012. The initial excitement around x32 did not last, though, and kernel developers are considering removing that support — and not for the first time. Even the most unloved features tend to have a few users, though, making removal hard.
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