SquashFS developer Phillip Lougher posted a patch today just over one hundred lines of code yielding an outright massive performance gain for some operations with this compressed. read-only file-system…

Imagination’s open-source PowerVR Vulkan driver within Mesa now is able to generate its different internal shaders required by the driver to forego shipping old hard-coded shaders…

Intel announced this week that its moving its graphics driver support for integrated graphics on 11th Gen through 14th Gen processors over to their legacy driver model on Microsoft Windows. While this is a setback for those using Raptor Lake processors on Windows as well as the few Xe DG1 discrete graphics out there, Linux users don’t have much to worry about…

GNU Coreutils 9.8 released with SHA3, Base58, nproc cgroup v2 support, and bug fixes across key utilities.

Function Multi-Versioning (FMV) is the compiler feature that allows developers to specify multiple versions of the same function that can be used for optimizing execution for specific target features. For example, FMV can allow optimized functions to be called if the CPU supports AVX, AVX-512, SSE4.2, or other differing ISA capabilities. With the GCC 16 compiler release, AArch64/ARM64 now considers its FMV support to be stable and complete…

InterceptSuite is an open-source, cross-platform network traffic interception tool designed for TLS/SSL inspection, analysis, and manipulation at the network level.

The tool features a cross-platform C# GUI and supports Python extensions for protocol dissection. Notably, it allows TLS upgrades, such as STARTTLS and custom upgrades, enabling interception of plaintext protocols that transition to TLS. capabilities not found in any proxy solutions. Additionally, it supports specific IoT protocols like MQTT.

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WhatsApp is a hugely popular, free, proprietary messaging, social media, and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service that lets users send text, voice messages, and video messages, as well as make voice and video calls over an internet connection. WhatsApp’s client application runs on mobile devices, and can be accessed from computers

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HandBrake 1.10.2, an open-source video transcoder, brings fixes for Windows and macOS, including better driver handling, Apple Silicon crash workaround, and more.

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Asciinema is an open-source terminal recording tool that makes it super easy to share your command-line work with others. Unlike traditional screen recorders that capture heavy video files, Asciinema records your terminal activity in a lightweight, text-based format, which means the recordings are tiny in size, perfectly reproducible, and can be shared or embedded it into your website or blog with just a small snippet of code.

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Foundations say billions of downloads rely on registries running on fumes – and someone’s gotta pay the billsThe Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has had enough of being the unpaid janitor of the world’s software supply chain.…

XTX Markets open-sources TernFS, an exabyte-scale cloud-native distributed filesystem built to handle trillions of files and millions of clients.

Offensive Security announced today the release and general availability of Kali Linux 2025.3 as the third update to this Debian-based distribution for ethical hacking and penetration testing in 2025.

You can check user groups in Linux with commands like groups, id, getent, and /etc/group to manage permissions easily.

Hundreds of compromised packages pulled as registry shifts to 2FA and trusted publishingGitHub, which owns the npm registry for JavaScript packages, says it is tightening security in response to recent attacks.…

The MX Linux team announced today the general availability of the beta version of the upcoming MX Linux 25 distribution based on the recently released Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series.

Long-time contributor Ellen Davis steps down after GitHub access shake-up and governance disputeA decade-long RubyGems maintainer, Ellen Davis (also known as duckinator), has resigned from Ruby Central following what she described as a “hostile takeover” of the open source project.…

OBS Studio 32.0 has been released today for this powerful, open-source, cross-platform, and free software for video recording and live streaming on Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

It was just a few days ago that a multi-kernel architecture was proposed for the Linux kernel. Separate from that proposal from Multikernel Technologies, it turns out Bytedance has been working on their own similar solution called Parker. Today Bytedance lifted the lid on Parker as their solution for running multiple kernels simultaneously on the same hardware/system…

The Open Source Security Foundation
(OpenSSF) has put together a joint statement from many of the public
package repositories for various languages about the need for assistance in
maintaining these commons. Services such as PyPI for Python, crates.io for Rust, and many others are
working together to try to find ways to sustain these services in the face
of challenges from “automated CI systems, large-scale dependency
scanners, and ephemeral container builds” all downloading enormous
amounts of package data, coupled with the rise of generative and agentic AI
“driving a further explosion of machine-driven, often wasteful automated
usage, compounding the existing challenges“. It is not a crisis, yet,
they say, but it is headed in that direction.

Despite serving billions (perhaps even trillions) of downloads each month (largely driven by commercial-scale consumption), many of these services are funded by a small group of benefactors. Sometimes they are supported by commercial vendors, such as Sonatype (Maven Central), GitHub (npm) or Microsoft (NuGet). At other times, they are supported by nonprofit foundations that rely on grants, donations, and sponsorships to cover their maintenance, operation, and staffing.

Regardless of the operating model, the pattern remains the same: a small number of organizations absorb the majority of infrastructure costs, while the overwhelming majority of large-scale users, including commercial entities that generate demand and extract economic value, consume these services without contributing to their sustainability.

A bug in a recent release of systemd’s network manager caused
headaches for people managing systems that have a virtual LAN (VLAN)
interface on a bridge; something one might want to do, for example,
when configuring network interfaces for virtual machines. The bug
affected several Debian users when upgrading the systemd package
from v257.7-1 to v257.8-1. The updated package is part of the Debian 13.1
release, and the bug has snared enough users to cause a minor
stir—due in no small part to the maintainer’s response as much
as the bug itself.