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ReactOS Pulls In Wine 10.0 DirectX Stack, Unlocking Hundreds of Games
The open-source ReactOS project has completed a major overhaul of its DirectX stack based on Wine 10.0 code. The effort took more than 230 hours and stripped out a pile of old hacks.
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F-Droid 2.0: The Biggest App Update in a Decade
The catalog of free Android apps has completely rewritten its official app in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, overhauling navigation, search and the way apps get installed.
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NetBSD 10.2 released with fixes and minor refinements
The NetBSD project has shipped version 10.2 of its highly portable operating system. The release focuses on bug fixes and small improvements to the userland.
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systemd 262 lands with embedded unit files, LUO integration and an AI “canary” for unreviewed code
The systemd project has shipped another major update to its init system and service manager. Highlights include embedded fallback unit files, Live Update Orchestrator support, and a mechanism to flag unreviewed code written by AI models.
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Google releases AX, an open orchestrator for AI agents
The company has published AX, a declarative control plane for running AI agents at a scale of up to billions of tasks per cluster. Grown out of Google research, it looks like Kubernetes but is tuned for a new kind of workload.
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Roku launches open-source Roku LT OS for creative programmers
Roku has announced Roku LT OS, an open-source operating system aimed at creative developers.
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MX Linux 25.3 brings new tools and siduction kernels
The MX Linux project has shipped another update to its 25.x series, pairing security fixes from Debian with a batch of home-grown additions — from a fresh ISO signature checker to a colour-theme generator.
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Pirate Face turns AI models into torrents that never die
A new project mirrors open Hugging Face models into checksum-verified BitTorrent swarms, so the weights outlive removal from any single host.
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Malicious npm packages slip past install-script defenses by hiding in runtime code
The indexed-btree package poses as the popular sorted-btree library and hides its malicious loader not in install scripts but in an ordinary method that runs during normal application use.
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Quarkdown: Markdown grown into a Turing-complete typesetting language
Italian developer iamgio has unveiled Quarkdown — a Markdown extension with functions, loops and variables, from which one and the same source compiles into a book, a scientific paper, a presentation or a knowledge-base site.
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The Linux 7.4 Kernel Will Open Files for Reading Nearly 40% Faster
A small optimization of the do_open() function in the VFS subsystem, more than two years in the making, promises a noticeable boost in the speed of opening files for reading.
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Ubuntu 26.10 Makes a Surprise Jump to the Linux 7.3 Kernel
Canonical has revised its plans: the autumn Ubuntu release will ship with the Linux 7.3 kernel instead of the previously announced 7.2. The reason is upstream's ahead-of-schedule development pace.
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Android 17 QPR1: New APIs Without Publishing the Source in AOSP
GrapheneOS developers have noted that the latest Android release is the first since version 3.x to add new APIs without releasing them into the open AOSP project.
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Lily: an automatic backdoor hunter for the commit and release stages
Researchers have unveiled Lily, a tool that plugs into CI pipelines and release-review processes to catch hidden backdoors in open-source software before they ever reach users.
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Rust Developers Warned of Targeted Attacks on Their Accounts and Devices
The Rust security working group and the Crates.io team have reported an ongoing campaign against key project contributors and owners of popular crates. The goal: to spread malicious code across the language's ecosystem.
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A Temporary PHP Patch from 2014 Lived On Through 20 Million Installs
Developer Jake Smith has deprecated his http_build_url polyfill — 174 lines of code written as a stopgap for AOL's CMS that spread across millions of sites.
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Neovim's 10 Bitcoin: An $800,000 Donation Left Untouched Since 2023
A Hacker News user peeked into the Bitcoin wallet listed in the footer of the Neovim site and discovered a forgotten donation of 10 BTC that, at today's exchange rate, is worth $800,000.
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PlanetScale unveils TIN — full-text search for PostgreSQL
PlanetScale has released TIN, an extension that leverages Postgres's internal row identifiers (ctid) and, according to the company's own tests, outpaces existing full-text search solutions many times over.
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Open AI models trail closed ones by just 4 months — but cost a fifth as much
According to a Mozilla report, the gap between frontier closed models from the US and the best open models from China has narrowed to 4.4 months. Paying for the “frontier” buys a four-month head start at five times the price.
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Raspberry Pi OS Desktop Gets an Icon Dock and a New Launcher
The Raspberry Pi developers have released a major update to the desktop interface for ARM64 single-board computers, seriously refreshing the user experience for the first time in a long while.
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