Heading into risky online territory? Consider running Tails 7.0, which now offers faster startup and a smoother setup for safer browsing.

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Wireshark 4.6 has been released today as a major update to this popular, open-source, free, and cross-platform network protocol analyzer software for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

Introduced last year in Linux 6.10 was TPM bus encryption and integration protection for Trusted Platform Module 2 (TPM2) handling. The intent was on better TPM security after a prior security demonstration showed TPM key recovery from Microsoft Windows BitLocker as well as TPM sniffing attacks. Shortly after being merged it was limited to just an x86_64 default where it had been tested the most at the time. Now more than one year later, this feature is being disabled by default in the mainline Linux kernel…

Fetch Nobel Prize winners quickly with NobleCLI Python script. View laureates by year and category right from your Linux terminal.

AMD today released ROCm 7.0.2 as the newest update to the ROCm 7.0 compute stack…

At the Linux
Security Summit Europe (LSS EU), Scott Constable and Sebastian
Österlund gave a talk on an enhancement to a control-flow integrity (CFI)
protection that was added to the kernel several years ago. The “FineIBT: Fine-grain Control-flow
Enforcement with Indirect Branch Tracking” mechanism was merged for
Linux 6.2 in early 2023 to harden the kernel against CFI attacks of various
sorts, but needed some fixes and
enhancements more recently. The talk looked at the CFI vulnerability
problem, FineIBT, and an enhanced version that is hoped to be able to unify
all of the disparate hardware and software mitigations to address both
regular and speculative CFI vulnerabilities.

With this week’s release of Python 3.14 bringing performance improvements, debugging improvements, a new Zstd compression module, and other enhancements I have been eager to run some benchmarks seeing how Python 3.14 compares to prior Python releases.

Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization support within the Linux kernel continues to be steadily enhanced and it’s inched along further for Linux 6.18…

One of the exciting additions on the way for the C++26 programming language is a standardized library around Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) operations. This portable SIMD implementation makes it easier to leverage SIMD and data parallelism in C++ for better performance and to work across SIMD architectures like AVX-512…

In addition to last week’s HID subsystem pull that brought haptic touchpad support and other exciting additions for Linux 6.18, the input subsystem pull was merged this week to introduce a few new input drivers…

System76 is now shipping a flagship laptop with beta software, a decision rarely seen at this price point. We look at the reasoning and realities behind the move.

Released this evening is the first beta of the Shotcut 25.10 open-source video editor. This prominent video editing application for Linux systems is introducing yet more AI-powered functionality…

The DL40N is a fanless 1.3-liter mini PC powered by Intel Twin Lake processors and up to 16GB DDR5 memory. It supports triple 4K display output, dual 2.5G Ethernet, and multiple USB and COM ports for reliable 24/7 operation in applications such as factory automation, digital signage, kiosks, and more. Built on Intel’s Twin Lake […]

Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” lands with Linux kernel 6.17, GNOME 49, and Dracut replacing initramfs-tools for faster, modern booting.

This morning while finishing up work on the concerning Intel open-source comments from Intel Tech Tour in Arizona and summing up the declining open-source contributions and departures of numerous Intel open-source/Linux developers from the company, yet another Linux engineering departure crossed my wire…

Whether reviving old gear or maxing out new silicon, MX Linux 23.6 Libretto stays cool, collected, and gets the job done no matter what it takes.

In addition to Intel talking up their Panther Lake SoC and its Xe3 integrated graphics at their Tech Tour in Arizona last week, they also hosted sessions on additional aspects of Panther Lake like the IPU 7.5 for web cams and the new NPU 5 IP for AI acceleration. For those wondering, the Intel NPU 5 support under Linux is already largely squared away…

LibreOffice 25.8.2 fixes crashes, formatting errors, and UI glitches across Writer, Calc, and Draw to improve stability.

Despite its increasing popularity, the Rust programming language is still
supported by a single compiler, the LLVM-based rustc. At the 2025 GNU Tools
Cauldron, Pierre-Emmanuel Patry said that a lot of people are waiting
for a GCC-based Rust compiler before jumping into the language. Patry, who
is working on just that compiler (known as “gccrs”), provided an update on
the status of that project and what is coming next.

Kevork Kechichian says x86 giant’s contributions should benefit Intel firstOver the years, Intel has established itself as a paragon of the open source community, but that could soon change under the x86 giant’s new leadership.  …