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Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.0 Officially Released for Supported Linux Phones and Tablets
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (308+ words) The UBports Foundation released Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.0 today as a major update to this open-source and free mobile operating system for smartphones and tablets. Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.0 is the second major update based on the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating…...
Codeberg Votes to Ban Vibe-Coded Projects
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (1122+ words) Codeberg, the nonprofit code forge a lot of developers have been quietly moving to as a GitHub alternative, just voted to ban vibe-coded projects, meaning repositories that mostly consist of code written by AI rather than a human. The vote…...
Sfera Labs ships Strato Pi Plus with quad RS-485 and CAN FD
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (441+ words) Sfera Labs has begun shipping the Strato Pi Plus, a DIN-rail industrial edge server based on the Raspberry Pi 4B or Raspberry Pi 5. The system adds a 10–50 V DC power supply, up to four isolated RS-485 interfaces, CAN FD connectivity, and…...
Vendefoul Wolf Excalibur Xfce
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (664+ words) Distro of the Week A new Linux distro to try out 52 times a year And the hits just keep on coming... Not only was last week a week of firsts for Distro of the Week, we follow up this week…...
VirtualBox 7.2.14 Released with Initial Support for Linux Kernel 7.2
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (272+ words) Oracle released VirtualBox 7.2.14 today as the seventh maintenance update to the latest VirtualBox 7.2 series of their open-source, free, and cross-platform virtualization software for Linux, Solaris, macOS, and Windows. VirtualBox 7.2.14 comes three weeks after VirtualBox 7.2.12, a small update that only fixed…...
The XZ Backdoor Long Con Chronicled in 'Half a Second"
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (443+ words) Update July/20/2026 6:10 PM EDT: Oops! We can evidently add this to the things we wished we’d known before we went to press. It appears that this book was likely written by AI. I’m posting this update because, as the colleague…...
M5Stack broadens embedded lineup with wireless, industrial, and handheld devices
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (723+ words) M5Stack has introduced three compact products addressing wireless IoT development, industrial automation, and portable embedded control. The lineup includes the Stamp-C5 module with dual-band Wi-Fi 6 and IEEE 802.15.4 connectivity, the isolated StamPLC IO expansion module, and the lower-cost StickC Plus SE handheld…...
KDE Plasma 6.8 Desktop Environment Lands on October 14th, Here’s What to Expect
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (570+ words) KDE Plasma 6.8 is coming later this year as the next major update to the beloved desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions, and it’s a special release as it will coincide with KDE’s 30th anniversary on October 14th, 2026. Some of the biggest changes,…...
Elon to Open Source X’s Codebase. Believe It When Git Happens
1+ week, 22+ hour ago (178+ words) Elon Musk, the once and future king of Xitter, has announced that the software driving the anti-social site is going open source. In Trump-like fashion, he made the announcement not through some kind of official X channel, like a press…...
Shelly GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Now Lets You Install Apps from Flathub
3+ week, 5+ hour ago (438+ words) Shelly, the pacman alternative for Arch Linux distributions, has been updated today to version 2.4.1.1, a release that introduces several new features and many improvements, especially for Flatpak/Flathub fans. Coming a week after Shelly 2.4.1, the Shelly 2.4.1.1 release may look like…...