SOFTWARE One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V A homebrew PC and mini-mainframe were only the warm-up for Yuri Zaporozhets' latest operating system
SOFTWARE Three FOSS projects for developers, procrastinators, and media wranglers Prism tracks AI emissions, Super Productivity keeps tasks local, and TAMOSS brings the BBC's media API to Kubernetes
Software Apple takes over Swift Package Index, vows to remove GitHub dependency SPI co-creator Dave Verwer joins Apple, says 'We will be moving away from that model completely'
APPLICATIONS Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up Now with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default
software Deno project is going to add cross-platform desktop apps in next major update Feature is not yet stable, but will offer easy conversion of web applications
saas Microsoft rivals line up to tell UK watchdog where the software behemoth hurt them Browsers, cloud challengers, and Killinghall Parish Council all accuse Redmond of locking in customers, hobbling competition
AI and ML Anthropic reimagines Claude in Slack as nosy, always-on agentic AI coworker The Claude in Slack app is dead, long live Claude in Slack
software Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form Retro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK
Software Cloudflare teams up with big browsers to help websites tell welcome from unwelcome visitors Makers of Chrome, Edge, Firefox back bot-fraud defense called Private Access Control Tokens
SOFTWARE How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job! Rigid workplace cultures and youthful ambition do not mix
SOFTWARE Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release' More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too
Oracle support timelines for Fusion Middleware tighter than expected Big Red drops ominous mention of 'Market Driven Support' beyond 2027 - but there's good news for AIX users
devops Git good with Epic Games' new open source VCS, Lore Got big binaries? Tired of other version control systems that treat them like inferior files? Lore might be worth a look
Software Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft Rival rendering engines could make pages load almost 30% faster on iPhones, Redmond claims
ai and ml The new Siri makes one of Apple's most convenient OS features a cumbersome mess Goodbye, useful Spotlight; hello force-fed Apple intelligence bloatware that feels distressingly like Google AI Overviews
Software Firefox 152 understands 'Sssh!' As Google continues crippling Chrome ad-blockers, it's a good time to try Firefox
SOFTWARE Red Hat gives Ubuntu a bootc up the backside at Canonical shindig Bootable containers pitch shows how distro can be managed with familiar OCI tooling
SOFTWARE Flatpak-NG sounds like bad news for systemd refuseniks Linux app packaging rethink could leave alternative-init distros in the cold
Software Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure GitHub caught off guard by customers actually using the AI being evangelized
SOFTWARE MX Linux 25.2 provides possible refuge from AI as well as systemd Plus, Raspberry Pi edition finally catches up
offbeat Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR Who needs fancy menus and high definition? 240-MP will play your media files like it's 1999
software Canonical sends Ubuntu into the AI agent era Sandboxed LLM dev environments lead the show, but accessibility may be the real prize
Software Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug And he got away with it too!
AI AND ML No longer just a Copilot, Microsoft's AI wants to take the wheel Always-on agent promises to keep work moving, provided you trust it with practically everything
Public Sector UK lawmakers call on government to ditch Palantir NHS contract Lock-in to a small number of suppliers holding up digital government plans, committee says
AI and ML Anthropic, now atop the AI bubble, files for its IPO First it tops OpenAI's valuation, then it beats Altman to the IPO punch
Software Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs Foundation sparks revolt after disbanding team responsible for many community-requested fixes and moderation tools
software UCLA seeks pre-litigation resolution with Oracle Discussion understood to concern delayed SaaS transformation project
Software That an app 'Fits on a Floppy' is still a useful measure in 2026 In a world of mass-produced bot-slopware, small is more beautiful than ever
Software Zig creator seeks 'uncompromising perfection' before blessing 1.0 Andrew Kelley interview describes paying monthly for cloud-powered AI coding as an 'insane proposition'
Offbeat Microsoft Excel champ proves he still has the formula Diarmuid Early dominates Amsterdam qualifier as competitive spreadsheeting sets sights on Vegas finals
Software California may let Linux bypass age check Exemption in amendment offers relief to open source software makers
Software OpenBSD 7.9 arrives, a diamond in the rough proud of every sharp edge Sixtieth release adds more cores, delayed hibernation, and basic Wi-Fi 6 without losing its ascetic streak
AI AND ML Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately Could the Chocolate Factory's mission to reshape the web backfire?
Software Marketing demanded IT add website feature that was already working Techie regrets not taking credit for getting it done with amazing speed
AI + ML Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice AI sycophancy + spirituality = uh oh
OSes Fedora: Microsoft is all aboard, but Deepin is dumped Red Hat’s free distro loses a desktop, but makes an important new friend
AI + ML Bye-bye, Gemini CLI; Google's gone and swapped you for a closed-source AI Most users lose access June 18 - unless you’ve got enterprise creds or paid API keys
AI + ML Frustrated franchisee sues Pizza Hut over crappy kitchen AI The group claims $100M in losses from flubby system
Software Firefox 151 helps you edit PDFs – and switch OSes Export a profile on Windows, restore it on Linux. Extensions and themes too
Security Clear your calendar, Drupal user: You have a critically urgent patch to install The org’s staying mum on the details, but Wednesday’s fixes reach back to unsupported 8.9 branches
AI and ML Sick and wrong: Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts 60% of evaluated AI Scribe systems mixed up prescribed drugs in patient notes, auditors say
software Google's AI-enabled mouse pointer understands 'this' and 'that' Right-clicking could go the way of the 3.5-inch floppy at the Chocolate Factory
AI + ML Anthropic butts in to small business, promises help with payroll and other core tasks But Pro or Max biz users should know that the company may train its AI on your data
Databases dBase debased: Database titan fades to black after 47 years Blog post mourning decline appears to have helped knock what was left of the veteran app's online presence offline
Software EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's way Mozilla claims the Digital Markets Act delivered lasting bump, invites Britain to do similar
Software Rodent-obsessed developer creates Ratty to bring 3D graphics to the command line Inspired by TempleOS, this terminal emulator is just about as bonkers
Security Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator After all that hype, AI scanner found one low-severity cURL flaw
Personal Tech Classic Outlook's Quick Steps trip over Microsoft bug Client's handy automations get grayed out unless you know the keyboard shortcut
Software macOS 27 threatens to bury Time Capsule, FOSS brings a shovel Apple's old backup boxes only speak AFP and SMB1, but NetBSD under the hood gives them one last shot
Software NHS code clampdown draws open source backlash Plus a petition for the UK Civil Service to go FOSS by default
Software Firefox integrates an ad-blocker, but not to block ads It's in Waterfox too, and there it does what you'd expect
AI + ML OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year If the numbers are large enough, perhaps we won't question the math
AI + ML Anthropic wants Claude to play with money, unleashes finance agents Always bet on backpropagation
AI + ML IBM asks DBAs to trust AI to act on their behalf With help from Google and Intel, Big Blue brings new automation to Db2
AI + ML ServiceNow clears agents for landing with new AI control tower ServiceNow acquisitions Veza and Traceloop join to monitor agents and AI workflows
DevOps Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future
Databases SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration
AI + ML Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech
Software NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change
Personal Tech Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard
AI + ML Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default
Devops Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho
AI + ML AI inference just plays by different rules Why no cloud storage architecture was designed for what agentic AI is about to demand
AI + ML How TeamViewer ONE transforms IT operations from firefighting to autopilot Forget "have you tried turning it off and on again?" Agentic AI support systems now seek and destroy tech issues before they're a problem.
OSes Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - what’s wrong at Redmond?
AI + ML Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy
AI + ML Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM
AI + ML CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos If software writes software the risk is “systematic failure at scale”. Someone needs to take charge, argues Forrester
OSes Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans' Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to follow
Applications User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave For once, Oracle ERP wasn’t the problem
AI + ML Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open
Devops Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool Team wins praise for adding 'disable all AI features' setting for devs who want a code editor to be only a code editor
AI + ML SAP user group slams 'uncertainty' in ERP giant's API policy Concerns over new rules might stop customers from adopting innovations – including AI – that connect to SAP systems
OSes Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans' But why did those fans go away in the first place, Satya?
AI + ML Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes AI boom splits between companies hoarding eyeballs and those actually charging for them
Software Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs Federation warns members to ditch work devices off duty as force uses AI to probe 600+ cops
OSes Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation
AI + ML Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz The Trainium train keeps a-rollin'
OSes Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too
AI + ML Yet another experiment proves it's too damn simple to poison large language models There is no 6 Nimmt! champion, but a $12 domain registration and one Wikipedia edit convinced several bots there was
AI + ML AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story No shortcuts, human-review everything, says internal team - and keep hiring junior developers
OSes Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00 Back to a time when source repositories were printouts and commits were hand-written notes
Applications EU waves through open source age-check tool to keep kids safe online 'Online platforms can rely on our app,' says Commish, 'there are no more excuses'
Devops GitHub says sorry and vows to do better as uptime slips and devs complain After Hashicorp co-founder blasts the source shack and numbers slide
AI + ML ZTE ensures 2026 Jiangsu Football City League opening ceremony with 5G-A, powering robot traffic police debut Pioneering the future of smart sports with the world’s first practical deployment of 5G-A "EasyOn·Robot" private networks for humanoid traffic police
Databases AI clause in new SAP API policy has partners worried over lock-in Expert says it could push customers and partners to work with undocumented APIs
Software Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’ Bemoans frequent outages that mean he’ll move Ghostty elsewhere
AI + ML Future holiday horror: ‘A robot lost my luggage in Tokyo’ Haneda airport will start testing humanoid robots, because everything that gets a plane flying was designed for our species
AI + ML DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs
Software Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it's encouraging experienced workers to leave
AI + ML Forget call centers, local energy prices mean Britain's latest offshoring wave is AI projects
