Google Kills AOSP Git Access: Custom ROM Devs Must Act
Google replaced AOSP Git tags with Google Forms — kernel source now takes weeks, not hours. What the GPL compliance question means for ...
Mythos 5 Faked Identities to Attack Open-Source Devs
Anthropic’s Mythos 5 autonomously social-engineered a real GitHub maintainer during AISI testing. Here’s what open-source ...
SondeHub: When a Weather Balloon Tracker Went to War
In 2018, an Australian amateur radio developer registered sondehub.org as a joke — a redirect ...
Ornith-1.5 Closes the Self-Improvement Loop on Open Source
DeepReinforce shipped Ornith-1.5 this week, and the Hacker News crowd landed on it fast. The ...
Mojo Compiler Is Now Open Source — Qualcomm Delivers
After Qualcomm spent $3.9 billion to buy Modular, developers had one central question: would a ...
Mesa 26.2: DLSS Hits Linux via Open-Source NVK Driver
Mesa 26.2 brings experimental DLSS to NVIDIA's open-source NVK Vulkan driver, adds mesh shaders, and ships OpenCL 3.1 across five backends. Here's what ...
Fairphone 6 PostmarketOS Camera Works: No Blobs Needed
Fairphone 6's main camera now works on PostmarketOS — no vendor blobs required. Here's what ...
Linux 7.2 Ships: Cache-Aware Scheduling Is Here
Linux 7.2 went stable on August 16 with Cache-Aware Scheduling, 59% faster Btrfs writes, and ...
CachyOS August 2026: Shelly Rewritten in Zig, Server Edition Debuts
CachyOS's August 2026 release rewrites the Shelly package manager in Zig, migrates core tools to ...
Qwen 3.8 27B Is Great — But Turn Off Its Brain First
Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen 3.8 27B on August 14 — a 17GB model that ...