The FOSS Force News Wire pulls mostly FOSS related news stories from a variety of sources and is updated every 30 minutes. The News Wire is also available as an RSS feed at http://fossforce.com/newswire. Time stamps are in UTC, so “4 hours ago” means it was published this hour EDT.
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Distribution Release: Drauger OS 7.8
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The developer of Drauger OS, an Ubuntu-based distribution with optimizations designed...Read more
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Linux Dropping Old Drivers, AI Detected Vulnerabilities & Other Kernel Highlights Of Q2
With Q2'2026 quickly coming to an end, here's a recap of the most popular Linux kernel news over the past three months...Read more
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I tested two of the best location-sharing apps for a month - this one was most accurate
Surfshark's HeyPolo is taking on the popular Life360. Here's how this latest contender in the location-sharing space competes.Read more
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Smashwords Summer Sale, 50% discount on all my books!
Here's a nice way to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Dedoimedo. I'm doing it the Hobbit way, I give away presents, so...Read more
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Linux 7.2 Surpasses More Than 43 Million Lines In The Kernel Tree
Today marks the last day of the Linux 7.2 merge window with Linux 7.2-rc1 due out later today. With the many new...Read more
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I tested MSI's Windows handheld PC, and it beats the Legion Go in a major way
MSI's Claw 8 EX AI+ is a worthy sequel, with stronger performance, better ergonomics, and highly effective cooling.Read more
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Vim Patches Yielding Faster GTK3 Wayland Performance: "Major Milestone"
For those using Vim with its GTK3 toolkit interface on Wayland, it soon should be delivering much better performance with pending patches...Read more
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Use Android Auto? How to limit what information Gemini learns about you
Google's AI offers a lot of convenience in your car, but you're offering up a lot of sensitive information.Read more
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Russell Coker: Plaud
While watching a YouTube video I saw an advert for the Plaud AI Note Taker [1]. The Plaud device looks pretty good...Read more
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Russell Coker: Some GPU Stuff
After getting a HP Z4 G4 tower server/workstation to house my Intel Battlemage GPU [1] I’ve been playing around with some GPU...Read more
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Indian payments chief thinks AI will be heavily involved in next era of digital payment growth
Dilip Asbe said that newer UPI apps could be more competitive with a viable commercial modelRead more
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Sony PlayStation Deleting Purchased Movies
Purchase "Terminator 2", "Evil Dead", or "Hot Fuzz" via Sony PlayStation?Read more
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WCH CH32V006EVT board supports Zephyr for low-cost RISC-V development
Olimex recently featured the WCH CH32V006EVT, a low-cost evaluation board for the RISC-V-based CH32V006K8U6 microcontroller. The board is designed around WCH’s CH32V006...Read more
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Shelly 2.4.1 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves Networking, Security
Shelly 2.4.1 graphical package manager for Arch Linux distributions is now available for download with improvements to AppImage and Flatpak support, networking...Read more -
Nourish: A New Wayland Compositor Powered By Vulkan With Infinite Scrolling/Panning
The newest Wayland compositor on the block is Nourish, it's a Vulkan-powered and its unique selling point is offering "infinite" zooming and...Read more
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FAQs on my AMD RX 9060 XT
Last Thursday I talked about retiring my RTX 3070 for a new AMD RX 9060 XT. This garnered a few questions from...Read more
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Steve McIntyre: It's dead, Jim!
I previously wrote about the upcoming UEFI CA rollover. Well, it's happened now - the old Microsoft UEFI CA...Read more
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Instagram is testing more ways to customize ‘Your Algorithm’
Instagram users could soon see more ways to tune their content.Read more
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SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk’s orbital data center hype
Not everyone is buying Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers.Read more
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This Week In Techdirt History: June 21st – 27th
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