Decman provides a declarative way to manage Arch Linux systems, ensuring installed packages and configuration match a defined state.

By default, the bot listens on all network interfaces, and many users never change itIt’s a day with a name ending in Y, so you know what that means: Another OpenClaw cybersecurity disaster.…

The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system is now able to leverage Cargo and the Rust compiler “rustc” itself running within this platform. Plus they also made a heck of a lot of other improvements too over the course of the past month. Today they published a status update to outline all of the promising advancements made to this independent OS so far in 2026…

While we are very eager for the AMD openSIL open-source CPU silicon initialization project to achieve production readiness with Zen 6 platforms for ultimately replacing AGESA, there is some experimental excitement on the way for open-source firmware enthusiasts… OpenSIL and Coreboot are being brought to an AM5 motherboard you can buy retail…

Linus Torvalds released
the 6.19 kernel on February 8, as expected. This development
cycle brought 14,344 non-merge changesets into the mainline, making it the
busiest release since 6.16 in July 2025. As usual, we have put together a
set of statistics on where these changes come from, along with a quick look
at how long new kernel developers stay around.

Last week I began publishing the many exciting Panther Lake benchmarks under Linux from the interesting CPU performance and efficiency to the much anticipated Xe3 graphics with the Intel Arc B390 graphics. Up today is a look at how the out-of-the-box performance for the Intel Core Ultra X7 358H compares under Microsoft Windows 11 and the current Ubuntu Linux 26.04 development state.

Traur is a new tool written in Rust that checks Arch AUR packages for hidden security risks before you install them.

Two interesting bits of Blender news this week for those fond of this leading open-source 3D modeling software…

Version
3.0 of the Offpunk
offline-first, command-line web, Gemini, and
Gopher
browser has been released. Notable changes in this release include
integration of the unmerdify
library to “remove cruft” from web sites, the xkcdpunk
standalone tool for viewing xkcd
comics in the terminal, and a cookies command to enable
browsing web sites (such as LWN.net) while being logged in.

Something wonderful happened on the road leading to 3.0: Offpunk
became a true cooperative effort. Offpunk 3.0 is probably the first
release that contains code I didn’t review line-by-line. Unmerdify (by
Vincent Jousse), all the translation infrastructure (by the
always-present JMCS), and the community packaging effort are areas for
which I barely touched the code.

So, before anything else, I want to thank all the people involved
for sharing their energy and motivation. I’m very grateful for every
contribution the project received. I’m also really happy to see “old
names” replying from time to time on the mailing list. It makes me
feel like there’s an emerging Offpunk community where everybody can
contribute at their own pace.

There were a lot of changes between 2.8 and 3.0, which probably
means some new bugs and some regressions. We count on you, yes, you!,
to report them and make 3.1 a lot more stable. It’s as easy at typing
“bugreport” in offpunk!

See the “Installing
Offpunk” page to get started.

Sean Whitton has announced
that Debian’s tag2upload
service is now out of beta and ready for use by Debian developers and
maintainers.

During the beta we encountered only a few significant bugs. Now that
we’ve fixed those, our rate of successful uploads is hovering around
95%. Failures are almost always due to packaging inconsistencies that
older workflows don’t detect, and therefore only need fixing once per
package.

We don’t think you need explicit approval from your co-maintainers
anymore. Your upload workflows can be different to your teammates.
They can be using dput, dgit or tag2upload.

LWN covered
tag2upload in July 2024.

Debian’s tag2upload has finally reached general availability “GA” status for helping Debian developers/maintainers with an improved Git-based packaging workflow…

Building off yesterday’s Linux 6.19 release is now the GNU Linux-libre 6.19-gnu downstream release that strips out support for open-source drivers dependent upon binary-only microcode/firmware and other elements deemed against free software standards, removing the ability to load non-open-source kernel modules, and similar restrictions in the name of software freedom…

Are you a primary school teacher in England, Scotland or Wales interested in AI and data science and how students learn about AI and data in computing?

The Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre is starting an exciting new research project investigating how to teach about AI and data in the primary computing classroom, and we would like you to get involved.

The study will look at:

• How AI and data-driven computing is currently taught (e.g. using Machine Learning for Kids, Google’s Teachable Machine)
• What key ideas about AI and data that young people need to understand
• How young people make sense of working with data in computing

The study involves attending a workshop in Cambridge, co-designing a unit of work, and then teaching it. Where necessary, we can reimburse you for reasonable expenses, such as supply cover, travel, and accommodation.

Our aim for the study is to understand how primary school teachers approach teaching about data-driven technologies, and to find suitable methods for building young people’s confidence in working with data in computing lessons.

What is data-driven computing?

Research has suggested that new data-driven technologies such as AI and machine learning (or ML) require a different approach to teaching about problem-solving in the computing classroom. Instead of defining a set of rules (e.g. if-then-else statements, or a rule-based approach), learners must instead collect lots of data to train a model (a data-driven approach) such as using Google’s Teachable Machine to classify image data.

For educators and resource developers, we still lack a clear understanding of how to teach young people about how rule-based and data-driven systems differ, how we can talk about them, and how we develop young people’ mental models. We hope this study will help us to find practical ways for primary teachers to build young people’s understanding of AI data in the primary computing classroom.

What does the study involve?

If you teach at primary level (Years 4, 5 and 6 or P5–P7) in England, Scotland or Wales and are keen to shape how we teach young people about data-driven computing, we invite you to join our new study.

As part of the study, you will attend a workshop with us in Cambridge to co-design a series of data-driven computing lessons to teach in your classroom.

Following the workshop, you will teach the unit of work in your classroom and we will observe one of your lessons and interview you about your experiences.

How can I take part?

If you are interested in taking part, register your interest by clicking the link below:

If you have any questions about the project, you can email bobby.whyte@raspberrypi.org.

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The new Memos 0.26 update brings stronger authentication, refresh token rotation, and better media streaming to this self-hosted, open-source note-taking app.

The AMDGPU and AMDKFD Linux kernel graphics driver code has been readying support for the Peak Tops Limiter (PTL) as a new feature to the latest Instinct accelerators…

We fixed Heartbleed. We didn’t fix the open source funding problem that still asks the people securing our infrastructure to volunteer while we overpay commodity app builders.

The post Sudo, Heartbleed, and the Lessons We Still Haven’t Learned appeared first on FOSS Force.

While Linux 7.0 is the next kernel version solely over Linus Torvalds’ numbering preference, there is a notable symbolic change that was sent in overnight for this new kernel merge window: formally concluding the “Rust experiment” with upstream kernel developers now in acceptance that Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay…

Following last week’s release of GNU Coreutils 9.10, released today is GNU Binutils 2.46 for these commonly used GNU binary utilities on Linux systems and elsewhere…

The 278th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending February 8th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

Meet llama3pure, a set of dependency-free inference engines for C, Node.js, and JavaScriptDevelopers looking to gain a better understanding of machine learning inference on local hardware can fire up a new llama engine.…