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.
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Proton Experimental gets fixes for Phantom Blade Zero, AION 2, The Forest and more
Valve released an early update to Proton Experimental to bring fixes for Windows games on Linux / SteamOS including Steam Deck, Steam...Read more -
Blender 5.3 Released with Gaussian Splatting, Vulkan by Default
Blender 5.3 adds native Gaussian Splatting support, enables Vulkan by default on Linux, and improves rendering, animation, and video editing.Read more -
I Tried The Weird New Mini Window Feature in Firefox 160
An early version has arrived with Firefox 160, letting you move a tab or a selected part of a page into its...Read more -
Mesa 26.3.0 arrives with many Linux graphics driver enhancements
While there's no announcement for it yet, the Mesa 26.3.0 open source drivers release is tagged and out now. Bringing many enhancements...Read more -
x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group Posts ACE v2 & AVX10.3 Specs, GCC Patches Ready
While there aren't any processors released yet with AI Compute Extensions (ACE) or AVX10.2 quite yet, the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group led...Read more
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openSUSE Tumbleweed Transitioning To Agama Installer
With openSUSE Leap making use of the modern Agama installer developed by SUSE engineers, the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed is now preparing to...Read more
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New Linux Patches Bring-Up The Samsung Galaxy XR Headset, Qualcomm Halliday SoC
Samsung's Galaxy XR headset runs on Android XR by default with its own downstream kernel patches. A user leveraging AI with multiple...Read more
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Microsoft defaults to Windows settings backup and restore default for organizations running Windows 11 26H2
Microsoft is transitioning organizations using Windows 11 26H2 from Windows Backup for Organizations to Windows settings backup and restore. As well as...Read more
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RPM v6 Format Approved For Fedora 46, ThinLTO Flag Rejected
With Fedora 45 having shipped last week, developers are turning more of their attention to Fedora 46 that will debut by the...Read more
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Darling Turns to AI to Accelerate macOS Compatibility on Linux
The Darling project welcomes AI-generated contributions as developers work to improve macOS app compatibility, ARM64 support, and Apple frameworks.Read more -
KDE Plasma 6.8.3 Released With Dozens Of Fixes
KDE Plasma 6.8.3 is out today as the newest bug-fix release for last month's major Plasma 6.8 debut...Read more
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exfatprogs 1.4.4 Brings Speed-Up For Making New exFAT Filesystems
The exfatprogs 1.4.4 release was issued today for these user-space open-source programs for managing exFAT file-systems on Linux...Read more
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VeltOS – Debian-based Linux distribution with KDE Plasma
VeltOS is a Debian 13 distribution with a Windows 11-style KDE Plasma desktop, custom applications, Wine support and an AI assistant. The...Read more
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Meta launches AI-powered Effect Builder tool for Instagram Stories
Meta has launched a new web-based tool for creating AI effects for Instagram Stories called Effect Builder. The tool is an add-on...Read more
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LF Energy Receives $2.5 Million in Funding from Google.org via INCO to Advance Open Source Tools for Europe's Power Grids
Two-year program will strengthen open source grid modeling, forecasting and data projects, helping more European grid operators put them to use Read more -
SEGA confirms 2.2 million email addresses exposed in newsletter data breach
Gaming firm SEGA has confirmed that the third-party company used to provide its newsletters has suffered a data breach. The breach of...Read more
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KDE Plasma 6.8.3 Released with KWin, Multi-GPU, and Desktop Fixes
KDE Plasma 6.8.3 improves KWin stability, fixes NVIDIA and AMD multi-GPU issues, and addresses several desktop and multi-monitor bugs.Read more -
KDE Plasma 6.8.3 Released with More Improvements for Multi-Monitor Setups
KDE Plasma 6.8.3 is now available as the third maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environment series with more...Read more
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Anthropic unveils Claude Fable 5.2, Mythos 5.2 with coding gains and lower prices
Anthropic has introduced Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, claiming significant improvements in handling complex software engineering tasks while cutting API prices...Read more -
KDE Plasma 6.8.3 Released with More Improvements for Multi-Monitor Setups
KDE Plasma 6.8.3 is now available as the third maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environment series with more...Read more