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Version 152.0 of the Firefox web browser has been released. Notable changes in this release inc [...]

Version 6.7 of KDE's Plasma desktop has been released. Notable changes in this release include [...]

Linus Torvalds released the 7.1 kernel as expected on June 14. This development cycle brought in a lot of new features -- and a lot of new developers as well. The time has come for our traditional look at where the changes in 7.1 came from, with a ...

Daniel Stenberg has announced that curl will not be accepting vulnerability reports from July 1 [...]

Linus has released the 7.1 kernel. 'So it's only Sunday morning back home, but it's Sunday afte [...]

In a shortened session in the filesystem track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Amir Goldstein gave an update on the overlayfs union filesystem. There are some new features over the last few years that he ...

Hundreds of orphaned packages hosted by the Arch User Repository (AUR) have been compromised by [...]

Version 6.0.0 of the Homebrew package-management system has been released. Notable changes in t [...]

The Linux kernel has long tried to use huge pages as a way to improve performance, sometimes with more success than others. The size of huge pages has traditionally been imposed by the hardware, which typically only offers a couple of relatively ...

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Suspicious AI activity in Fedora; fork() + exec(); splice() + vmsplice(); BPF loop verification; fanotify; trusted publishing. Briefs: CA age bill; Bundler cooldowns; insecure code completion; Asahi ...