Impact? Nope, don’t worry, be happy, says Linux veteranOpinion There has been considerable worry about the impact of the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act on open source programmers. Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman says, however, that there won’t be much of an impact at all.…

Qualcomm engineers have posted the initial patches for bringing up the newest Adreno 800 series graphics IP within the open-source MSM Linux kernel Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver…

In addition to the IEEE-1394 Firewire support still being maintained within the Linux kernel, another Apple tech still seeing code churn within the Linux kernel years later are the HFS and HFS+ file-systems. For the Linux 6.18 kernel are more fixes to the HFS/HFS+ support…

Open source database adds multi-tenant clustering, safer shutdowns, and eyes life beyond cachingOpen source key-value database Valkey is set for its ninth iteration next month, promising improved resource optimization and availability.…

Debuting today is the newest NVIDIA 580 Linux driver series release…

Merged as part of the kernel hardening updates for Linux 6.18 is not a direct hardening improvement but rather a long overdue enhancement to the kernel configuration “Kconfig” system. The introduction of this new “transitional” keyword for Kconfig options can ease the process of renaming Kconfig options across kernel versions with less breakage/headaches for those maintaining their own kernel configurations/builds…

The XFS file-system updates have been merged for the Linux 6.18 merge window…

Promises to get it right this coming weekendVMware has bungled a portal upgrade project that aims to give its customers a superior experience when managing their clouds.…

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are shaping our world in many ways. Helping young people develop AI literacy — in other words, helping them understand how AI tools work and how to use them responsibly — is essential. 

At the Raspberry Pi Foundation, we’re committed to empowering educators around the world with everything they need to teach AI confidently and help young people develop AI literacy. That’s why we developed Experience AI: a set of high-quality AI literacy resources designed in collaboration with Google DeepMind that any educator can use, no matter their level of tech knowledge.  

We’re excited to introduce a new addition to the Experience AI resources: AI Quests.

Enter AI Quests

Developed by Google Research in collaboration with the Stanford Accelerator for Learning, AI Quests is a browser-based learning experience that lets students step into the role of AI researchers. Through interactive, story-driven activities, they’ll explore essential AI topics such as:

• Data preparation
• Testing and evaluation
• Bias in AI systems

Students will use what they learn about these topics to tackle simulated global challenges. The first quest, Market Marshes, introduces them to how AI technology can be used in flood forecasting, while upcoming quests will explore other real-world issues.

Why AI Quests matters

AI technology is frequently used but often poorly understood. AI Quests, like Experience AI more broadly, gives students practical experience of how AI technology works, and shows why it’s so important. 

Here’s what sets AI Quests apart:

• Gamified learning: Storytelling and role play turn abstract ideas into immersive experiences
• Real-world relevance: Students see how AI technology addresses challenges like climate resilience and health equity
• No prior knowledge required: Any teacher, regardless of subject specialism, can bring AI Quests into their classroom
• Developed by experts: Built with Google Research and the Stanford Accelerator for Learning, content is high-quality and credible

What’s next

AI Quests is launching in English, with future plans for translations and additional quests to reach even more learners globally.

To support educators, we’re also hosting two free webinars on YouTube and LinkedIn:

• 9 October at 4pm BST
• 16 October at 4pm BST

These sessions will walk you through AI Quests, offer classroom tips, and give you the chance to ask questions directly.

Register now on LinkedIn or subscribe on YouTube to get notified and join the live session. 

Ready to get started?

AI literacy is one of the most valuable skills young people can develop today. With this new addition to Experience AI, we’re making it even more engaging, practical, and accessible for classrooms everywhere.

Explore AI Quests in lesson 6 of our Experience AI resources.

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Don’t tell Elon, he’d have Tesla’s Robotaxis going ludicrous speedPolice in a Silicon Valley suburb were flummoxed last weekend after pulling over a self-driving Waymo robo-taxi for making an illegal turn, then finding no driver they could issue with a ticket.…

After marking bcachefs “externally maintained” in 6.17, Linus Torvalds has
removed
it entirely for 6.18. “It’s now a DKMS module, making the in-kernel
code stale, so remove it to avoid any version confusion.“

So far on this last day of Q3’2025 we are at just over 800 original Linux news articles for the quarter on Linux hardware and open-source software. Here is a look back at what proved to be most popular for the quarter…

While IEEE-1394 Firewire hardware in the wild is increasingly rare, modern Linux IEEE-1394 subsystem maintainer Takashi Sakamoto has committed to maintaining Firewire support until 2029. With the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel there are more incremental improvements to this code…

The Terminal may look intimidating, but with these Bash tips and tricks, you’ll soon be working faster, smarter, and with more confidence.

The Error Detection And Correction “EDAC” subsystem continues seeing a lot of new hardware support and code churn across AMD, Intel, and Arm hardware platforms for the Linux kernel. With Linux 6.18 there are several notable additions…

OpenTofu nightly builds add Ephemeral and Write-Only features, arriving soon in 1.11 for better secret and state management.

Back during the Linux 6.17 merge window the RISC-V changes were rejected as “garbage” for being submitted too late in the merge window and with some code choices that upset Linus Torvalds. With lessons learned, the RISC-V changes for Linux 6.18 were submitted today during the first official day of this new kernel cycle…

With Linux 6.17 was the decision by Linus Torvalds to mark Bcachefs as “externally maintained” and not accept any new Bcachefs code into the mainline kernel but keeping the existing code within the tree. That was useful for those relying on Bcachefs to still boot a mainline kernel at least. Now for Linux 6.18, the Bcachefs code was removed from the mainline kernel…

Ask Brave debuts in Brave Browser, merging AI chat with traditional search to deliver faster, grounded answers with context.

Following AMD announcing the end of the AMDVLK Vulkan driver development in favor of focusing on the Mesa RADV driver for Linux systems, Red Hat engineer David Airlie who was one of the co-lead developers of the RADV driver shared some interesting insight on NVK as the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver being developed within Mesa…