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CERN engineers announced at a Winterthur conference that the lab will shift over 2,200 machines from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Debian. The move stems from RHEL 9 and 10's newer compiler requirements, which drop support for older CPU architectures still used in many of CERN's embedded control systems.
Moadim is a new open-source tool that lets developers schedule recurring tasks for AI agents like Claude, Codex, Hermes, NanoClaw, and Pi entirely on their own machines. It runs as a self-hosted daemon using tmux and an in-process scheduler, with no cloud service, account, or subscription required, and supports macOS and Linux via launchd or systemd integration.
A developer documented the process of bringing up the Linux kernel on a new platform by writing a lightweight emulator for a RISC-V CPU rather than using real hardware. The emulator, built in roughly 2000 lines of C++ and implementing the RV32IMA instruction set, provides just enough hardware simulation—MMU support, RAM, an SBI interface, a system timer, and a WD8250-based UART—for Linux to boot. The full source is published on GitHub under WerWolv/riscv-emulator.
Microsoft has updated its Edge documentation to formally list which Linux distributions are officially supported, including Ubuntu 18.04+, Debian 10+, openSUSE 15.5+, and Fedora Linux 39+ on 64-bit systems. Edge has run on Linux for years unofficially, but this marks the first formal support list, arriving roughly seven years after Google published a similar list for Chrome.
A follow-up Wireshark analysis of Firefox 155 confirms an earlier finding: toggling off Mozilla's AI kill switch disables generative AI features but does nothing to stop background telemetry or advertising data collection. The retest comes six months after Mozilla's CEO publicly called the AI switch one of the browser's most important features, even as onboarding flows never mention what the control actually covers.
Chinese AI firm Z.ai's GLM-5.3 model helped find over 1,000 critical vulnerabilities in open-source projects including the Linux kernel, adding to a wave of AI-discovered bugs this year. Kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman showed data indicating CVEs fixed per kernel release have surged from about 500 to nearly 2,000 as AI code-review tools improve.
1Password pledged $300,000 to Omacom, the nonprofit behind the Omarchy Linux distribution created by David Heinemeier Hansson, prompting criticism from customers and employees over Hansson's history of racist and anti-immigrant commentary. The password manager's leadership, including CEO David Faugno and cofounder Roustem Karimov, has responded internally to concerns about the partnership's optics. Critics on social media have called for boycotts and suggested alternative password managers in response.
Ubisoft announced that For Honor will stop working on SteamOS and Linux systems, including Steam Deck, starting September 10. The publisher says it is disabling Easy Anti-Cheat support for Linux because it cannot adequately guarantee protection against cheaters on that platform, though it left open the possibility of restoring access later.
California's Assembly passed Bill 1856, amending the Digital Age Assurance Act to exclude operating systems and software meant to be freely copied, redistributed or modified from mandatory age-verification requirements. This shields most Linux distributions, though derivative projects with proprietary layers like Valve's SteamOS may still need to comply. The bill also fixes the DAAA's overly broad definition of 'user' and restricts sharing of age data to law enforcement requests.
Vermell is a newly released C++ web framework built on Linux's native epoll and pthreads APIs, requiring no runtime, garbage collector, or external dependencies beyond base OS calls. Developers build apps by including one header and linking one static library, compiling with a single g++ command, and the framework runs on architectures from x86_64 to ARM and Raspberry Pi.
Darling is an open-source translation layer, comparable to Wine for Windows, that allows macOS software to run on Linux systems. Built on Apple's freely released Darwin source code along with components from The Cocotron and GNUstep, it now offers basic experimental support for graphical applications and can also run under Windows via WSL 2.
A developer released a desktop tool built with Rust and Tauri that lets users administer Linux servers directly over SSH, avoiding the need to install or maintain any agent software on the remote machines. Login credentials are stored in an encrypted local vault rather than on a remote service, and the tool is designed to work across multiple Linux distributions including Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL, openSUSE, Arch and Alpine.