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This Tiny Fingerprint Key Unlocks Linux, Approves SSH and AI Agents
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (1767+ words) A laptop fingerprint sensor unlocks the laptop and usually stops there. Immurok wants to do quite a bit more than that. It is a tiny wireless box that can unlock your desktop session, approve a sudo command, authenticate via polkit,…...
MAKERphone 2.0 Lets You Build a 4G Phone and Vibe-Code Its Apps
14+ hour, 12+ min ago (982+ words) Most of us carry a phone every day, but very few of us could say what's actually going on inside one. That gap is exactly what CircuitMess is trying to fill or should I say, has been trying to fill....
Linux Kernel is Getting Ready to Purge 55,00 Lines of Old 32-bit Arm Platform Code
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (487+ words) A few days ago, thirteen patches were sent to the kernel mailing lists that are looking to delete some of the 32-bit Arm platform code that the upcoming Linux 7.3 release cycle has marked as deprecated. While none of them have…...
5 Linux Distros Bringing AI to Your Desktop
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (1054+ words) Seeing all the hype surrounding AI in the Linux ecosystem, you might've asked yourself, What makes a Linux distro "AI-focused"? If you go looking for an answer, you will get all kinds of results depending on which project you look…...
Broadcom Kills Public VDDK Access to Tighten its Grip on VMware
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (576+ words) Broadcom has taken down the public download pages for the VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK). The pages for VDDK 8 and 9, along with the landing page, now return a generic error message. So far, there has been no formal announcement…...
Privacy Notes: Markdown Editor With Built-in Encrypted Vault
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (1503+ words) There is no dearth of note taking apps for Linux. There are tools like Obsidian that are local first, tools like Joplin that are both local and cloud but not encrypted. There are also collaborative tools like Etherpad that put…...
FreeCORE is What Your TrueNAS CORE Box Should Have
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (551+ words) iXsystems put TrueNAS CORE into what it called a sustaining engineering phase back in 2024. Under this, the open source NAS operating system would only receive security and stability fixes, with new features going to the Linux-based SCALE branch instead. Even…...
Bottles Brings Hope for Windows-only Software on ARM Devices
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (562+ words) It's been a while since I last wrote about Bottles. For anyone new to it, Bottles runs Windows software on Linux by hiding most of Wine's configuration work behind a straightforward interface. Its feature list has been growing consistently too....
Ikey Doherty vs Omarchy: Why He’s Building Barney Instead of Another Distro
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (494+ words) Ikey Doherty is out of retirement, and Omarchy's funding is why. Omarchy's Omacom Foundation has already crossed $13 million in pledges since its August launch, when eight tech executives, including Michael Dell, put in a million each. The run has drawn…...
Switzerland's Federal Government is Replacing Microsoft on 3,000 Computers
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (566+ words) Switzerland's federal government has launched a pilot program to replace Microsoft 365 with open source alternatives across 3,000 workstations. That's about 7% of the federal workforce. The target is to complete the migration by end of 2027. This move follows a successful proof-of-concept and…...