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KDE Plasma 6.8 Released as the KDE Project Turns 30
The KDE team has shipped Plasma 6.8, its latest desktop release. The launch coincides with the 30th anniversary of the KDE project.
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To report an Android bug, a developer had to disassemble libc
AOSP source releases for recent Android 17 builds lag so far behind what actually ships on devices that a developer had to disassemble libc.so to analyze a regression in bionic.
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FreeType 2.15 Released With Apple HVF Driver and ISO Open Font Format Edition 5
A new release of the widely used font rendering library FreeType is out, adding an Apple HVF driver and support for the fifth edition of the ISO Open Font Format.
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ESP32 As a Wireless Co-processor: Turning a Cheap Espressif Module Into a Linux Wi-Fi Card
The esp-hosted project lets you hang a cheap ESP32 off a single-board computer over SDIO or SPI and get Wi-Fi and Bluetooth backed by partly open firmware — instead of an all-blob proprietary card.
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Linux 7.3-rc7 Is Out, Stable Kernel Expected Next Sunday
Linus Torvalds has published what is hopefully the final release candidate ahead of Linux 7.3. If all goes to plan, the stable kernel should arrive next Sunday.
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Drgn 0.3: Meta's Programmable Debugger Gets an Update
Meta has released version 0.3 of its open-source debugger Drgn, which bets on programmability — treating debugging like writing ordinary code.
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Nitter Appeals for Funding and Legal Help
In an update dated October 10th, the Nitter project reached out to the community asking for funding and legal assistance.
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LineageOS 24.0 Arrives on Android 17, Just Shy of a Decade
The LineageOS team has shipped version 24.0 based on Android 17 — and, unusually, ahead of schedule. Highlights include browser-based flashing tools, refreshed apps, and an experimental build for desktop hardware.
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Python 3.15 released
The new release of the Python language brings the sentinel and frozendict built-in types, UTF-8 encoding by default, and further work on the experimental JIT compiler.
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AI Agent Resources Proposed for the Linux Kernel
A new proposal for the upstream Linux kernel introduces "resources" for AI agents. The first such skill would automatically add a "Fixes:" tag to patches.
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Bevy 0.20 Released: Path Tracing, WESL Shaders and a Refined Scene Syntax
The Rust game engine Bevy ships a major update: a faster Solari path tracer now running on macOS, a move to the WESL shader standard, and a polished BSN scene system.
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Anthropic launches free AI security scans for open-source projects
The new OSS Scanner service promises opted-in projects regular checks by the company's "strongest models." The catch: its reports come with no human review.
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Nova Driver Keeps Advancing: A Rust-Based NVIDIA Kernel Driver Aiming for Official Use
At the LPC2026 conference in Prague, engineers from NVIDIA and Red Hat shared the progress on Nova — an open-source Linux kernel driver for NVIDIA GPUs written in Rust.
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Migrating Git Repos to SHA-256: An Adventure With Submodules
A hands-on account of moving a Git repository to the SHA-256 object format — and why the official documentation turns into meaningless soup the moment submodules enter the picture.
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“Software is over”: a developer ships AI-built open source clones of Adobe
An ambitious tinkerer is pitting free, open source alternatives against Adobe's Creative Cloud — built with the Opus model. The projects are bold and open, but nowhere near finished.
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curl 8.23.0 ships early over a serious vulnerability
The curl project is bringing version 8.23.0 forward to October 14, bundling a fix for one HIGH-severity flaw together with twenty-one lesser ones.
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Why Embedding Models Should Be Open
Simon Willison explains why an open license matters more for embedding models than for many other AI systems: the Apache 2.0 license on EmbeddingGemma 2 is insurance against the model simply disappearing.
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Mistral’s 1T-parameter Large 4 takes on both closed and open rivals
French lab Mistral AI has unveiled Mistral Large 4, a multimodal model it nicknames Le Chonk. The weights are promised in about three weeks.
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Sashiko: how a language model helps review Linux kernel patches
At Kernel Recipes 2026, Roman Gushchin described Sashiko, a system that automatically generates reviews of kernel patches using a large language model.
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Mold 3.0 Linker Released After C++-to-Rust Rewrite
The high-speed Mold linker has reached version 3.0 — the first release rewritten entirely from C++ to Rust. The developers aim to make Mold the default linker on Linux systems.
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