AI gold rush or house of cards? How $110B OpenAI “deals” and Ellison’s media grab expose the announcement economy’s grift.

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In this article, you will learn about the short description of the init process, the runlevels of init, and the init command in a Linux system.

AMD’s VP of AI Software, Anush Elangovan, has used Claude Code to help craft a pure-Python AMD GPU user-space driver. This Python user-space driver is currently being created to help exercise other ROCm code and for debugging in passing through the ROCm/HIP user-space stack…

With Markdown support, syncing across devices, and end‑to‑end encryption, Lockbook makes it easy to keep your Linux notes organized and locked down.

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System76 begins the official upgrade rollout from Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS, replacing GNOME with the new COSMIC desktop environment.

The Radeon R300 series turns 24 years old this year and thanks to the open-source ATI R300 Gallium3D driver that began via reverse engineering, it’s still continuing to see the occasional random fixes from the open-source community…

The talk this week among open-source projects from Linux distributions to app stores like Flathub is how to deal with California’s latest insanity: the Digital Age Assurance Act. California’s AB 1043 state law is mandating that operating systems — Linux included — collect age information during account setup and exposing that age to eligible apps beginning on 1 January 2027. That leaves much uncertainty for Linux distributions and other repositories/stores and more. Canonical issued a statement today to clarify that they basically don’t have a solution to announce yet…

Release lays the groundwork for going Wayland, if that’s your sort of thingBunsenLabs Linux is a lightweight, Debian-based distro forked from CrunchBang, and seven months after Debian 13 “Trixie” arrived, the project has released its latest version, dubbed Carbon.…

Nitrux developer Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 6.0, a major update to this Debian-based, systemd-free, and immutable GNU/Linux distribution.

For the past few months have been an ambitious proposal to replace FBCON with the user-space KMSCON as the default VT console starting on Fedora 44. Unfortunately, this and a few other features have now been delayed to the Fedora 45 release six months later…

Motorola is partnering with the open source GrapheneOS Foundation to enhance mobile security and develop future devices with GrapheneOS compatibility.

A request for comments (RFC) patch series was posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list to introduce the AMD Dynamic Power and Thermal Configuration Interface “DPTCi” driver. With this driver it would provide better upstream Linux kernel support for tuning the power / performance / thermals of modern Ryzen-powered gaming handheld devices. Though don’t get too excited right away as the driver was assembled in part by AI that is already causing a bit of a ruckus on the LKML due to lack of disclosure…

Google announced today that beginning later this year they are moving the Chrome web browser from its four week release cycle down to a two week release cadence…

Approved proposal reverses earlier stance, even as survey highlights bigger frustrationsThe Go team has approved generic methods, reversing a longstanding position in the language’s FAQ. The proposal, from Go co-designer Robert Griesemer, now moves to implementation.…

In this article, you’ll learn how to install and use MediaWiki on Ubuntu 24.04 with a step-by-step guide from installation to configuration.

Specifically, CBP says the data was in part sourced via real-time
bidding, or RTB. Whenever an advertisement is displayed inside an
app, a near instantaneous bidding process happens with companies
vying to have their advert served to a certain demographic. A side
effect of this is that surveillance firms, or rogue advertising
companies working on their behalf, can observe this process and
siphon information about mobile phones, including their
location. All of this is essentially invisible to an ordinary phone
user, but happens constantly.

We should note that the minimal advertising shown on LWN is not delivered
via this bidding system.

There is two weeks to go until the GNOME 50 stable release while out today is the release candidate of Mutter 50. This Mutter 50.rc release brings some exciting last-minute enhancements to this Wayland compositor…

Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency announced a new and expanded Sovereign Tech Fellowship program that is now open to community managers and technical writers, beyond just FOSS maintainers from the prior round…

Apple announced today the new Fusion Architecture with the M5 Pro and M5 Max SoCs that also feature a next-generation GPU…

One of the contradictions of the modern open-source movement is
that projects which respect user freedoms often rely on proprietary
tools that do not: communities often turn to non-free software for
code hosting, communication, and more. At Configuration Management
Camp (CfgMgmtCamp) 2026, Jan Ainali spoke
about the need for open-source projects to adopt open tools;
he hoped to persuade new and mature projects to switch to open
alternatives, even if just one tool, to reduce their dependencies on
tech giants and support community-driven infrastructure.