FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending July 3, 2026

Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.

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   Akrites Puts Up a United Front Against AI-Wielding Black Hats: The name Akrites is derived from Akritai — the Byzantine Empire’s frontier guardians, who stood watch where threats arrived first and defenses were thinnest.

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   It’s 1996 All Over Again on the New GIMP 0.54 Flatpak: Think today’s Gimp is complicated? Try the 1996 Motif version, now resurrected as a Flatpak so you can suffer for nostalgia’s sake.

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   Pop!_OS 24.04 and COSMIC Betas Have Arrived — We’ve Got Screenshots: Cosmic’s Rust-powered debut is here! Dive into Pop!_OS 24.04 beta and get your first look at the modern desktop that’s rewriting Linux history.

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   AUR to Arch: ‘Houston, We’ve Got a Problem…We’re Under Attack Again’: Just hours after Arch sounded the all‑clear on a massive AUR malware purge, a new, stealthier campaign is slipping malicious code back into user packages.

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   The Quiet Clause That May Save Linux From Age‑Verification Laws by Christine Hall: As Colorado and California move age verification to the OS layer, exemptions for open source determine whether Linux desktops stay free of mandatory age‑gating.