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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GNOME Disks Has Finally Been Ported to GTK4 and LibAdwaita – First Look
The GNOME Disks utility has finally been ported to GTK4 and LibAdwaita for a modern user experience, along with plenty of new...Read more -
Challenger+ RP2350 NB-IoT Enables LTE Cat NB2 and GNSS for Embedded IoT
ILABS is offering the Challenger+ RP2350 NB-IoT, a compact development board combining Raspberry Pi’s RP2350 microcontroller with STMicroelectronics’ ST87M01-1301 cellular module. The...Read more
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Radxa Broadens rCore Series with Snapdragon and Dragonwing AI SoMs
Radxa has revealed two Qualcomm-based system-on-modules aimed at edge AI, multimedia, robotics, and industrial applications. The new rCore-Q8280 uses the Snapdragon 8cx...Read more
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Users Get Linux 7.0 HWE Kernel Ahead of Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) users are now receiving the Linux 7.0 kernel upgrade from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) ahead of...Read more -
ESP32 Bit Pirate 1.7 Gains LoRa, Meshtastic, and Browser-Based BPIO2 Control
ESP32 Bit Pirate has released version 1.7 of its ESP32-S3-based hardware debugging platform, adding LoRa support for SX1262 transceivers, a Meshtastic analysis...Read more
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DebConf27 Debian Developers Conference to Be Held in Asahikawa, Japan
The DebConf27 Debian conference will be held from September 5th to September 11th, 2027, in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan. Here’s how to attend...Read more -
DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1185
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Battle of the Children...Read more
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Kernel prepatch 7.2-rc7
The 7.2-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. It is still bigger than Linus would like, but he said nonetheless: "I don't...Read more
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Linux 7.2-rc7 Released Following Another Exhausting AI-Driven Week
Linux 7.2-rc7 is now available for testing as we close in on the official Linux 7.2 release hopefully next weekend...Read more
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Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry
The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.Read more
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Elana Hashman: Managing virtualenvs with a little bash
When you need to install something directly from PyPI, Python virtualenvs have been my go-to for over a decade. A quick virtualenv...Read more
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How to Install, Secure, and Set Up MySQL on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
If you have been using an ecommerce store to place online orders or have been using multiple softwares for work, it is...Read more -
Four weekend stable kernel updates
The 7.1.8, 6.18.44, 6.12.103, and 6.6.151 stable kernels have been released; each contains a fair number of important fixes.Read more
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Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default
Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.Read more
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Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in July 2026
Welcome to the July 2026 report from the Reproducible Builds project! In our reports, we try to outline the...Read more -
Distribution Release: iDeal OS 2026.08.08
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. iDeal OS, an MX Linux-based desktop distribution with focus on privacy...Read more
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Meta is testing out new themes for WhatsApp chats – including animated themes
The ability to customize the appearance of chats is helpful for various reasons – not only personalization, but also to help more...Read more
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad with a comment about Capital One’s stated reasons for shutting...Read more
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CachyOS ISO Release for August 2026 Improves the Installer, Desktop Profiles
The CachyOS ISO snapshot for August 2026 is now available for download with Linux 6.18 LTS and Linux 7.1 kernels, 1KDE Plasma...Read more -
Ask Maps now lets you use agentic capabilities to order food and more in Google Maps
Google is powering up Google Maps’ Ask Maps feature with a raft of agentic capabilities. What this means for users is that...Read more