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Open Source

Linux Foundation Newsletter: August 2026

Welcome to the August 2026 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter The Linux Foundation is celebrating 35 years of Linux, and training is discounted through August 18. Use code TUX35 for 35% off certifications,…

Source: Linux Foundation Blog andrewb@proximabiz.com (The Linux Foundation)
Open Source

The AI Era Arcs Toward Openness

A surge of openness in AI has defined 2026. Amid calls for both caution and support, prevailing trends point to a future in which models are built and released openly. Recent research offers new insight into the…

Source: OSI Blog Gabriel Toscano
Open Source

Write your first prompt with the GitHub Copilot app

Learn how to write your first prompt in the GitHub Copilot app, choose the right context and model, and start your first task with confidence. The post Write your first prompt with the GitHub Copilot app appeared first…

Source: GitHub Blog Kayla Cinnamon
Open Source

Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project?

AI contributors are already in your queue. AutoGPT maintainer Nicholas Tindle shares the repo instructions, gates, and boundaries that keep maintainers in control. The post Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your…

Source: GitHub Blog Andrea Griffiths
Open Source

[$] Block-layer error injection

Storage code has to cope with hardware that fails in inconvenient ways, but coaxing a healthy disk into producing those failures on demand, for testing, is usually not possible. The kernel provides several ways to…

Source: LWN.net daroc
Open Source

[$] A look at CrossPoint e-reader firmware

There are a number of small, inexpensive, low-powered e-reader or e-paper devices that have promise as ebook readers with one minor problem: the firmware they ship with does not realize their full potential. To solve…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source

QEMU 11.1 released

Version 11.1 of the QEMU emulator has been released. The release contains more than 3,200 commits from 285 authors and includes a long list of improvements; see the announcement and changelog for the details.

Source: LWN.net jzb
DevOps Open Source

Neurodiversity Meeting - August 2026

Don't miss out! Join us at our next KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Shanghai, China (8-9 September, 2026) and Salt Lake City, United States (Nov 9–12, 2026). Connect with our current graduated, incubating, and…

Source: CNCF CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Open Source

Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (fence-agents, firefox, frr10, gstreamer1-plugins-good, iscsi-initiator-utils, isns-utils, kernel, kernel-rt, perl-DBI:1.641, postgresql, postgresql:12, and…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Web

Five CSS properties for eye-catching text designs

🗓️ A brief scheduling note: We're taking a summer break next week, so will be back in your inbox on August 26. Catch you then! __ Your editor, Chris Brandrick 🚀 Frontend Focus #​754 — August 12, 2026 | Read on the web…

Source: Frontend Focus
Open Source General

Could this be the 1997 moment for AI?

In this clip from our fireside chat, Dave Morin reflects on evaluating over a thousand companies and explains why OpenClaw stood out. He compares current AI developments to 1997, when the web was first taking off,…

Source: GitHub GitHub