HB5511 is officially about TikTok and Instagram. Read past the press release and it’s also about your operating system.
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A single line in a technical specification is turning into one of the messiest fights in the EU’s push for digital identity. The document lays out how age verification apps for the EU Digital Identity Wallet are supposed to work, and buried inside it is a hardware requirement that has […]
Linux just did something it hasn’t done before. According to Statcounter’s numbers for July 2026, Linux now accounts for 7.53% of desktop operating systems worldwide. That’s not a typo, and it’s not one good month getting blown out of proportion by an enthusiastic corner of the internet. It’s the latest […]
For the first time, you can install genuinely open-source firmware on a modern AMD Ryzen desktop board, and it boots Ubuntu 26.04 without any workarounds.
Valve never set out to save Linux gaming. It set out to save Valve. In 2012, Gabe Newell looked at what Microsoft was building with Windows 8 and got spooked enough to start building a way out. That way out eventually became SteamOS, then Proton, then the Steam Deck, and […]
Codeberg, the nonprofit code forge a lot of developers have been quietly moving to as a GitHub alternative, just voted to ban vibe-coded projects, meaning repositories that mostly consist of code written by AI rather than a human. The vote passed by a wide margin. The reaction to it hasn’t […]
Windows just had its worst month on record. StatCounter’s newly published numbers for June 2026 put worldwide desktop market share for Windows at 56.61%, the first time it has ever fallen below 60% in the history of the dataset. Linux closed the same month at 4.36%, its highest number in […]
Burned-Out Flathub Maintainers Just Banned AI Code From the Linux App Store and Nobody Can Agree If It Was the Right Call On May 29, 2026, a single GitHub commit changed how thousands of Linux app developers have to think about publishing software. Flathub, the dominant Flatpak app repository for […]
There is a number buried in IBM’s Project Lightwell announcement that deserves more attention than it is getting right now. Anthropic’s Mythos Preview AI model scanned open source software and identified nearly 3,900 high or critical-severity vulnerabilities. That is not the result of years of slow auditing. That is what […]
Remember when California tried to force every operating system to become Big Brother? Turns out they might have accidentally given Linux a hall pass. AB-1856, the amendment that could save your freedom to compute without the state watching, just cleared committee and heads to a vote in June. And buried […]