📰 Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull

Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks Opinion I'm at the Linux Foundation Members Summit, and Sonatype's CTO Brian Fox introduced me to a new open source problem. I wouldn't have thought that was possible, but here I am.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/28/open_source_opinion/

#linux #opensource

📰 More ASUS Desktop Motherboards Will Support Sensor Monitoring With Linux 7.1

ASUS desktop motherboards have been seeing broader sensor monitoring support on Linux in recent years. ASUS motherboards for Intel and AMD processors have been seeing more support added thanks to the open-source community with new additions to the likes of the ASUS-EC-Sensors driver and other hardware monitoring (HWMON) driver code. This is continuing for Linux 7.1...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-More-Sensors-Linux-7.1

#amd #linux #intel #opensource

📰 Motorola Announces Partnership With Open Source GrapheneOS

Motorola is partnering with the open source GrapheneOS Foundation to enhance mobile security and develop future devices with GrapheneOS compatibility.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/motorola-announces-partnership-with-open-source-grapheneos/

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📰 Open-Source CyberStrikeAI Deployed in AI-Driven FortiGate Attacks Across 55 Countries

The threat actor behind the recently disclosed artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted campaign targeting Fortinet FortiGate appliances leveraged an open-source, AI-native security testing platform called CyberStrikeAI to execute the attacks.The new findings come from Team Cymru, which detected its use following an analysis of the IP address ("212.11.64250") that was used by the suspected.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/open-source-cyberstrikeai-deployed-in.html

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📰 Ubuntu Still Figuring Out A Plan For Dealing With California's Digital Age Assurance Act

The talk this week among open-source projects from Linux distributions to app stores like Flathub is how to deal with California's latest insanity: the Digital Age Assurance Act. California's AB 1043 state law is mandating that operating systems -- Linux included -- collect age information during account setup and exposing that age to eligible apps beginning on 1 January 2027.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Digital-Age-Assurance

#ubuntu #opensource #linux

📰 AMD EPYC Achieves 5G/6G RAN Performance Leadership With New OCUDU Project

Announced this week at Mobile World Congress (MWC) by the Linux Foundation was the establishing of the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation for advancing open-source AI-RAN (Radio Access Network) innovations. OCUDU is building a reference platform and innovations around 5G and early 6G network solutions. With OCUDU being benchmark-friendly, I have been putting the early code through some performance tests on current AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon server...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-intel-xeon-ocudu

#opensource #linux #intel #amd

📰 Intel Begins Preparations For Xe3P Upstreaming To Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers

Following the mainline Linux kernel beginning to see Xe3P graphics enablement for upcoming Nova Lake integrated graphics as well as the Crescent Island AI inference accelerator, Intel's Mesa OpenGL "Iris" and Vulkan "ANV" drivers are preparing to begin laying out their Xe3P driver support...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Mesa-Xe3P-Start

#linux #opensource #intel #kernel

📰 Rocky Linux Becomes a KDE Patron

Rocky Linux has become a KDE patron, joining organizations like Canonical, Google, and SUSE in supporting the KDE open-source ecosystem.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/rocky-linux-becomes-a-kde-patron/

#linux #opensource #kde

📰 Redox OS Gets Vulkan & Node.js Working On This Rust-Based Open-Source OS

There were some fairly exciting improvements made by the Redox OS developers over the course of February. They have the Vulkan API working on Redox OS for the first time along with more COSMIC desktop software and even Node.js...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-February

#opensource

📰 Linux MAINTAINERS Cleaning For Recently Departed Intel Devs, Altera Drivers Oprhaned

The layoffs and restructuring at Intel in 2025 caused unfortunate hits to their Linux/open-source engineering including various driver maintainers leaving and even their CPU temperature driver being orphaned for lack of maintainers. Sent out today were a number of additional updates to the MAINTAINERS file for the Linux kernel to reflect other Intel departures in recent months.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-MAINTAINERS-Intel-March

#linux #opensource #intel #kernel