Just be careful not to entrust the AI model with your sensitive dataAnthropic on Monday announced the research preview of Claude Cowork, a tool for automating office work that comes with the now familiar recitation of machine learning risks.…

Latest update focuses on hardware acceleration, security tightening, and a handful of quality-of-life tweaksThe latest Firefox is here with some handy changes – most of which differ depending on what OS and type of CPU you run it on.…

Anthropic commits $1.5 million to the Python Software Foundation to strengthen CPython and PyPI security over a two-year partnership.

SlimToolkit helps shrink Docker images safely, keeping only required files to improve performance, speed, and storage efficiency.

Separate from the Mesa merge request talked about earlier today for new RADV code that can deliver 10x faster ray-tracing pipeline compilation for this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver, another merge request landed today in Mesa 26.0 that was also carried out by Valve contractor Natalie Vock. That second merge request now in Mesa 26.0 delivers some additional gains for at least some ray-tracing games on RDNA3 and RDNA4 GPUs…

GNOME 48.8 desktop environment is out as a maintenance release, delivering bug fixes, security updates, and improvements across selected core components.

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: SFC v. VIZIO; GPLv2 requirements; Debian and GTK 2; OpenZL; kernel scheduler QoS; Rust concurrent data access; Asciinema.
• Briefs: OpenSSL and Python; LSFMM+BPF 2026; Fedora elections; Gentoo retrospective; EU lawmaking; Git data model; Firefox 147; Radicle 1.6.0; Quotes; …
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

The open-source libraries were created by Salesforce, Nvidia, and Apple with a Swiss groupVulnerabilities in popular AI and ML Python libraries used in Hugging Face models with tens of millions of downloads allow remote attackers to hide malicious code in metadata. The code then executes automatically when a file containing the poisoned metadata is loaded.…

There still are several months to go until the official Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release — including one month until the feature freeze and the future Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel is expected to land too before the latter kernel freeze in early April. But for those curious how Ubuntu 26.04 is looking so far for servers, here are some very early benchmarks of it on AMD EPYC 9005 “Turin” in its present development state. The main motivation here for this early look was stemming from the recent rolling-release CachyOS benchmarks on AMD EPYC and wanting to see how it goes up against the current development state of Ubuntu Linux.

Moving away from VirtualBox doesn’t have to be complicated. Jack Wallen walks you through installing virt‑manager and spinning up your first VM with KVM.

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AI upstart also upscales its Labs to find the next frontierThe Python Software Foundation (PSF) has an extra $1.5 million heading its way, after AI upstart Anthropic entered into a partnership aimed at improving security in the Python ecosystem.…

Lossless data compression is an important tool for reducing the storage
requirements of the world’s ever-growing data sets. Yann Collet developed
the LZ4
algorithm and designed the Zstandard (or Zstd)
algorithm; he came to the 2025
Open Source Summit Japan in Tokyo to talk about where data compression
goes from here. It turns out that we have reached a point where
general-purpose algorithms are only going to provide limited improvement;
for significant increases in compression, while keeping computation costs
within reason for data-center use, turning to format-specific techniques
will be needed.

A new merge request opened today for Mesa’s Radeon Vulkan driver “RADV” by Valve contractor Natalie Vock provides another significant boost for the Vulkan ray-tracing performance in multiple titles…

Put bluntly, Canonical is trying to sell a solution to a problem it is creating

Last year GlobalFoundries acquired MIPS while an interesting new development announced today is that GlobalFoundries has acquired the ARC Processor IP and its solutions business from Synopsys. The Synopsys ARC Processor IP will be brought into the MIPS umbrella…

Back in December we reported on drafted plans for revitalizing Fedora Games Lab to be a modern Linux gaming showcase. This Fedora Labs initiative has featured some open-source games paired with an Xfce desktop while moving forward they are looking to better position it as a modern Linux gaming showcase…

The Debian GNOME team would like to remove the GTK 2 graphics
toolkit, which has been unmaintained upstream for more than five
years, and ship Debian 14 (“forky”) without it. As one might
expect, however, there are those who would like to find a way to keep
it. Despite its age and declared obsolescence, quite a few Debian
packages still depend on GTK 2. Many of those applications are
unlikely to be updated, and users are not eager to give them
up. Discussion about how to handle this is ongoing; it seems likely
that Debian developers will find some way to continue supporting
applications that require GTK 2, but users may have to look
outside official Debian repositories.

DietPi 10.0 enters open beta with breaking changes, new software additions, and platform updates ahead of the stable release.

Going back many years Imagination PowerVR graphics were widely despised by open-source enthusiasts and Linux desktop users for their lack of an open-source GPU driver. But over the past few years the Imagination PowerVR driver focused on their Rogue graphics IP has matured nicely within the Linux kernel and the PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa taking shape too. Paired with Zink for OpenGL over Vulkan, there’s a robust open-source PowerVR graphics experience now possible. For those interested in trying out said open-source driver stack, the TI AM62-powered BeaglePlay is an affordable way of doing so for that $99 USD single board computer…

In preparing for the GNOME 50 Alpha release, the “50.alpha” tags just occurred for the Mutter compositor and GNOME Shell. Most notable with GNOME Mutter 50 Alpha is the X11 back-end indeed being removed to focus exclusively on the Wayland session…