OpenAI has released an official ChatGPT desktop app for Linux, ending the need for Linux users to rely on the browser. The app, available as .deb and .rpm packages for Ubuntu and Fedora, includes feat…
OpenAI launched a preview of its ChatGPT desktop app for Linux on Tuesday, August 11th, extending ChatGPT, Work, and Codex to Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04 LTS, Debian 13, and Fedora 43 and 44. The release c…
OpenAI's ChatGPT desktop app is reportedly available in preview for Linux, marking the first official native client for the platform after years of unofficial workarounds. The preview follows a waitli…
Atlan, a mobile-focused AI agent and software engineering cockpit built by John Viruet / Mid-Atlantic AI, turns a phone into a complete development workstation, integrating code editing, terminal acce…
Canonical announced that NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B hybrid Mixture-of-Experts model with 3B active parameters, is now available on Ubuntu with single-command installation via inferen…
Vercel introduced Vercel Managed Images (VMI), a set of versioned, open-source base images that replace the deprecated Sandbox runtimes, with the new default `vercel/sandbox/universal:latest` shipping…
A CNET survey found that 31% of US adults keep old devices because they don't know what to do with them, and 19% throw them away. CNET suggests 20 DIY projects to revive Intel Macs and old Windows PCs…
Omnistrate, a cloud software delivery platform, argues that Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) is a spectrum of deployment models rather than a single approach, ranging from vendor SaaS to air-gapped environ…
OMG! Ubuntu's July 2026 Linux app roundup highlights Firefox 153, which adds container tabs and rounded window bottom corners on GTK-based desktops including Ubuntu, and Mission Center's major update …
Nginx UI, an open-source web GUI for managing Nginx, can be installed on Ubuntu 24.04 either as a system service or via Docker, with features including real-time stats, automatic Let's Encrypt TLS, pe…
NVIDIA has open-sourced its Linux GPU kernel modules, including nvidia.ko, nvidia-drm.ko, nvidia-uvm.ko, and nvidia-modeset.ko, while keeping user-space components like CUDA and GSP firmware proprieta…
A developer shared a configuration guide for integrating Qwen AI models into OpenCode on Ubuntu Linux, providing the JSON configuration file path and code snippet for setting up the Qwen provider with…
FOSS Weekly #26.31 reports that Ubuntu 26.04 intentionally stopped notifying users about non-security updates, while security patches continue in the background. Codeberg members voted to ban projects…
Intel's Arc Pro B70 GPU crashes under sustained inference load in production, according to ModDog bot developer who pulled the card from his fleet after six weeks of testing. The 32GB card, priced at …
Starling released version 0.2.1 on July 29th, an installable Linux desktop built with AI that can run real applications like Chrome, Slack, and Zoom. The pseudonymous developer behind Starling used Cl…
Microsoft has released Quicksand, an async Python API for launching, controlling, and snapshotting QEMU virtual machines designed to sandbox AI agents without requiring Docker, WSL, or root privileges…
A new list of 14 free variable monospace fonts for programming in 2026 includes Google Sans Code, Datatype, Lilex, Intel One Mono, Geist Mono, Ubuntu Sans Mono, Reddit Mono, Kode Mono, Roboto Mono, Ma…
AgentENV (AENV), a platform for running agent environments at scale powering agentic RL training for Kimi K3, launches with support for snapshot-backed environments that boot or resume in under 50 ms …
A developer updated an Expo app from a restaurant using Codex on an Android phone while their laptop was off, thanks to a remote development setup where code and services run on an Ubuntu tower at hom…
The Debian project opened a formal General Resolution on July 24, 2026, with four seconded proposals governing LLM-assisted contributions, ranging from an outright ban to permissive disclosure. The wi…