Open Source

Making sense of software licensing with FSFE REUSE: A beginner’s guide for open source developers
Among the many details developers juggle, software licensing is often treated as an afterthought. We know we need it. However, faced with choosing the right license, tracking inherited code, and keeping things consistent, license management can feel li...
2025-06-18 08:00
Microsoft’s Edit Text Editor Runs Well on Ubuntu
If you spend a lot time in a terminal on Linux you’ll have preferred command-line text editor, but Microsoft’s recently announced open-source offering, simply called Edit, might be worth checking out — if only so you know you’re not missing ou...
2025-06-17 22:15
Microsoft’s New CLI Text Editor Works Great on Ubuntu
Edit is a new open source command line text editor from Microsoft that supports Windows, macOS and Linux. Learn what it can do, and how to try it on Ubuntu. You're reading Microsoft’s New CLI Text Editor Works Great on Ubuntu, a blog post from OMG! U...
2025-06-17 22:15
KDE Plasma 6.4 released
A new version of Plasma is here, and it feels even more like /home, as it becomes smoother, friendlier and more helpful. Plasma 6.4 improves on nearly every front, with progress being made in accessibility, color rendering, tablet support, window manag...
2025-06-17 12:44
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Malicious PyPI package targets Chimera users to steal AWS tokens, CI/CD secrets
A malicious Python package posing as a harmless add-on for the Chimera sandbox environment, an integrated machine learning experimentation and development tool, is helping threat actors steal sensitive corporate credentials. According to new research ...
2025-06-17 12:38
Haiku’s development activity seems to be shifting from the operating system to its applications
I hate how these months keep going down like vodka-martinis on an Italian beach, but at least we get another progress report for Haiku every time. Aside from the usual small changes and bug fixes, the most important of which is probably allowing the EX...
2025-06-17 12:21
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KDE Plasma 6.4 Released, This is What’s New
KDE Plasma 6.4 is now available to download, featuring a focused set of changes that newcomers and long-time users of this open-source desktop environment stand to benefit from. This is fourth major update in the Plasma 6 series and it’s a stacked on...
2025-06-17 10:45
Amazon Bedrock faces revamp pressure amid rising enterprise demands
Amazon’s flagship generative AI platform, Bedrock, could be in for a significant overhaul as customer expectations evolve and competition intensifies between the three major cloud providers — AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud. Analysts suggest that...
2025-06-17 09:33
Design a better customer experience with agentic AI
Whereas large language models (LLMs) attracted consumers well before enterprise users, SaaS platforms are driving the use of embedded AI agents to improve employee experience and productivity. AI agents are changing the future of work by helping HR le...
2025-06-17 09:00
A developer’s guide to AI protocols: MCP, A2A, and ACP
Unlike traditional AI models that respond to single prompts (like ChatGPT’s basic Q&A mode), AI agents can plan, reason, and execute multi-step tasks by interacting with tools, data sources, APIs, or even other agents. Sounds abstract? That’s bec...
2025-06-17 09:00
Navigating the rising costs of AI inferencing
In 2025, the worldwide expenditure on infrastructure as a service and platform as a service (IaaS and PaaS) reached $90.9 billion, a 21% rise from the previous year, according to Canalys. From I’m seeing, this surge is primarily driven by companies ...
2025-06-17 09:00
Java 25 to change Windows file operation behaviors
As part of a quality outreach, some changes are coming in the planned Java 25 release with regard to file operations on Windows. The File.delete command will no longer delete read-only files on Windows, and file operations on a path with a trailing sp...
2025-06-16 23:47
Ubuntu Adopts Chrony + NTS for Secure Network Time
Ubuntu 25.10 switches to Chrony with Network Time Security (NTS) for authenticated time sync, improving security over the existing setup. You're reading Ubuntu Adopts Chrony + NTS for Secure Network Time, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce ...
2025-06-16 22:59
Canonical at HPE Discover Las Vegas 2025
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu and trusted open source solutions provider, is proud to sponsor HPE Discover Las Vegas 2025. Join us from June 23–26 to explore how our collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is transforming the ...
2025-06-16 22:51
Join Canonical at HPE Discover Las Vegas 2025
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu and trusted open source solutions provider, is proud to sponsor HPE Discover Las Vegas 2025. Join us from June 23–26 to explore how our collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is transforming the ...
2025-06-16 22:51
Twin: a text-mode window environment
Wayland this, Liquid Glass that – but what if you just want a nice, comforting text-based environment? Sure, you can just boot straight into a terminal, or perhaps get fancy about it with Screen or whatever, but what if you want a text-based environm...
2025-06-16 21:34
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Making GNOME’s GdkPixbuf image loading safer
A new image loading machinery, called glycin, has been in the works for a while. It is already used by GNOME’s default Image Viewer (Loupe), as well as by a bunch of other apps. Glycin provides many security benefits over existing solutions due to th...
2025-06-16 21:24
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