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The Sovereign Tech Agency (STA) is investing nearly 1.3 million in KDE through 2027. At Akademy 2026 in Graz, Austria, Nate Graham and Kevin Ottens, two of the contributors who helped bring in the investment, explained how the funding was secured,

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.8 and 6.18.54 stable kernels. Each cont [...]

Johannes Schindelin has posted a detailed summary of the discussions held at the 2026 Git Contr [...]

The F-Droid project has announced the release of F-Droid 2.0, which is a complete redesign of t [...]

Sudheendra Raghav Neela, a member of a group of researchers from Graz University of Technology, [...]

Many of the transmissions sent over the radio spectrum can be decoded with a relatively cheap hardware dongle. Thomas Eckert presented at RustConf 2026 in Montreal about his hobby: decoding radio transmissions with Rust. In his presentation, he ...

After a two-year hiatus, LWN's Jonathan Corbet presented an updated edition of his Kernel Repor [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Git 2.56; gccrs; NetBSD and compat_linux; io_uring; Desktop UX. Briefs: WordPress vulnerability; Radicle vulnerability; Systemtap 5.6; GNOME 51; Systemd v262; Quotes;

Scott Jenson has been working on user interfaces (UIs) and user experience (UX) for many years at Apple, Google, and other companies. Now, he's trying to convince open-source projects to experiment more and drive the desktop beyond the age-old ...

Systemd v262 has been released. Some of the notable new features include the ability to build s [...]