The FreeBSD Project has launched a six-month, $250,000 AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project funded by the Linux Foundation's Alpha-Omega initiative, with support from Microsoft, AWS, Google, An…
More than 70 packages in the Arch Linux AUR have been compromised with Russian spam and offensive messages added post-install to user configuration files, following a recent malware fiasco involving o…
Intel is ending development of its open-source BigDL project, which enabled running large language models across Intel XPUs from laptops to data centers. The project will be archived on June 30, 2026,…
AMD opened pre-orders for its Ryzen AI Halo developer platform, a mini PC powered by the Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" processor with official Linux support and up to 128GB of unified memory for running …
AMD engineers are preparing open-source graphics driver support for a new GFX1156 graphics IP block in Mesa 26.2, which falls under the RDNA 3.5 "refresh" lineup as a future APU part. The GFX1156 is n…
Open-source developer Jos Dehaes announced YSERVER, a modern X11 server written from scratch in Rust with assistance from Claude Code AI. The server supports full MATE, Xfce, and Cinnamon desktops alo…
AMD released Lemonade SDK version 10.7, adding NVIDIA CUDA support to its local AI server solution that previously only supported AMD hardware, Apple Metal GPUs, and AArch64 CPUs. The update integrate…
The Linux Foundation announced the OpenSharing Project to standardize AI asset and data exchange across organizations and platforms. Databricks contributed its Delta Sharing protocol to the initiative…
The Linux Firmware Git repository merged documentation yesterday to guide AI coding agents like Codex and Claude Code in contributing firmware and microcode files. The AGENTS.md file, co-authored by A…
OpenCV 5.0 was released today as a major update to the open-source computer vision library, featuring a rewritten deep neural network engine and built-in support for large language and vision language…
NVIDIA released CUDA-Oxide 0.2, the second update to its experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler, incorporating 37 pull requests from 23 contributors. The new version enables Rust GPU programs to function …
Phoronix.com, the Linux hardware testing and benchmarking site, marks 22 years since its founding today. Founder Michael Larabel launched the site in 2004 to focus on Linux hardware reviews, a space t…
AMD released GAIA 0.20, its open-source project for building local AI agents, adding per-agent device selection that lets users choose between AMD CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs for inferencing. The update also…
Canonical announced plans to ship newer AMD ROCm versions as stable release updates (SRUs) for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, addressing the current inclusion of the months-old ROCm 7.1. The company aims to delive…
Microsoft today announced the Intelligent Terminal, an open-source fork of Windows Terminal released under the MIT license that adds native AI agent integration. The new terminal includes an agent sta…
Nine new security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the X.Org Server and XWayland component, with eight of them identified by Trend Micro's TrendAI Zero Day Initiative and the ninth by Red Hat d…
The Linux 7.2 kernel is proceeding with a full deprecation of the AF_ALG interface due to a "massive attack surface" that has become increasingly vulnerable to AI and LLM-based discovery tools. Kernel…
An open-source developer released NBD-VRAM, a tool that creates swap space on consumer NVIDIA GeForce GPUs under Linux. The software targets laptop users with soldered memory who need additional syste…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced the RTX Spark superchip during his Computex keynote, targeting compact desktop PCs and laptops with up to a 6,144-core Blackwell GPU, 20 Arm cores, and 128GB of unifi…
Phoronix published 275 original Linux and open-source news articles and 20 featured hardware reviews in May 2026, highlighting the NVIDIA Vera CPU benchmarks, AI-driven security disclosures, and Linux…