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trynix: Any Nix Package Running Right in Your Browser
Farid Zakaria has unveiled trynix — a service that boots a Linux machine in a browser tab and lets you run any of more than 310,000 versions of nixpkgs packages without a single install on the host.
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Asahi Linux Officially Runs on Macs with M3 Chips
Support for the M3-series machines has landed in the Asahi Linux installer: almost everything that worked on the M1 and M2 now works here too — except for full graphics and sleep.
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NetworkManager Catches AI Agents on the Word “biblioklept”
The project's developers came up with a clever trick: an instruction that forces rule-breaking AI bots to expose themselves.
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Amazon Linux 2027: a preview with Linux kernel 7.1, LTO and a bet on x86-64-v3
AWS has opened a public preview of Amazon Linux 2027 — a major update to its cloud distribution featuring a new kernel, fresh compilers and a host of performance optimizations.
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Nvidia Buys Hugging Face for Nearly $13 Billion
The world's largest maker of AI chips has agreed to acquire the popular platform for open models and datasets for $12.93 billion.
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Audacity 4.0: the audio editor moves to Qt6
The free audio editor Audacity has shipped a major update, dropping its long-standing use of wxWidgets in favor of the Qt6 toolkit.
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Polars 2.0: streaming engine by default and the promised “boring” upgrade
The Polars developers have released the first release candidate of version 2.0. The headline change is the switch to a streaming engine by default, which promises a manyfold boost in performance.
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1Password Lands in Hot Water Over Donation to DHH's Distro
The password manager 1Password pledged $300,000 to the foundation stewarding David Heinemeier Hansson's Omarchy Linux distribution — and ran into a wave of anger from its own customers and employees.
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Linux From Scratch 13.1: Your Own System from Source, Now with Kernel 7.1.8
The Linux From Scratch project has released version 13.1 — an updated guide to building your own Linux distribution from scratch, with a new toolchain and dozens of updated packages.
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Aurora Store Stops Installing Apps: Anonymous Accounts Hit a “Server busy”
Aurora Store, an open-source Google Play client, is throwing an error en masse when installing apps through anonymous accounts. The problem hits users of privacy-focused ROMs like GrapheneOS and CalyxOS, who have no Google account of their own.
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Darling: Running macOS Apps on Linux, the Wine Way
The Darling project offers a compatibility layer that lets you run macOS programs directly on Linux — with no hardware emulation and no violation of Apple's license.
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OpenClaw 2.0: how cleaning up the installer accidentally turned into a major release
OpenClaw, the open-source AI assistant, has shipped the biggest update in its history — the work of 933 contributors, with more than 16,000 pull requests making it into the release.
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OpenShot 4.0: Video Editor Moves to Qt6 and Gains AI Tools
The open-source non-linear video editor OpenShot has received a major update: the interface has been ported to the current Qt6 toolkit, and recording features along with a set of new effects have been added.
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Tencent Open-Sources Hunyuan Hy4 preview with 770 Billion Parameters
Tencent has unveiled and released to the public a new large language model, Hy4 preview, with a context window of over 1 million tokens, aimed at real-world tasks in programming, office work and science.
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The Canonical Basis: How to Rotate an LLM to Look Inside It
A researcher has proposed a reversible change of coordinates for the transformer that leaves its behavior untouched but makes every hidden axis individually measurable and controllable.
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FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 Released with a Batch of Security Fixes
The final test build before the stable release of FreeBSD 14.5 closes several vulnerabilities that let local users escalate privileges. The release is expected on September 8.
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ReactOS 0.4.16: a graphical installer and improved hardware support
The open-source Windows alternative project has released a major new version featuring a graphical installer, a Server Core mode and numerous driver improvements.
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California Passes AB-1856: Open Source Exempted from Age Verification
The amendment carves out Linux distributions and other free software from the age-verification law. The state Assembly backed the bill 69 votes to zero.
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Debian Endorses “Responsible Use” of Generative AI
Debian developers have wrapped up their vote on a General Resolution setting out the project's AI policy, choosing an option that permits the use of generative tools as long as the usual quality requirements are met.
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Htmx 4.0.0: Explicit Attribute Inheritance, Morph Swaps and the Move to fetch()
The htmx team has shipped the fourth major version of the popular library. On the surface it looks almost identical to htmx 2, but under the hood it has been reworked — from events and attribute inheritance to the networking layer.
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