Colossal Biosciences Is Growing Chickens In a 3D-Printed Artificial Eggshell
Colossal Biosciences says it has grown chickens inside 3D-printed artificial eggshells. “The company says the egg technology could help conserve at-risk bird species,” reports MIT Technology. “It could also play a role in a project to re-create the extinct giant moa, a flightless 12-foot-tall bird that once lived in New … ⌘ Read more

Software startup Factor bursts out of Taiawa tech hub into the big time
Wellington technology hub Taiawa is celebrating the first exit of one of its in-house startup companies in a $24 million deal announced this week.

The day before BusinessDesk visited Taiawa, NZ company Gentrack revealed it was acquiring Taiawa’s resident startup Factor for $ … ⌘ Read more

[$] openSUSE “terms of site” raise complaints about age restrictions
Many people in the Linux community began using the operating system—and
contributing to open source—at a tender age, often well before
their 16th birthday. Thus, a recent change in openSUSE’s terms of site (ToS)
that required users of the project’s web site to be “at least 16
years of age or the age of majority” in their jurisdiction has
raised objections. The terms have since been modified, though users
must still have paren … ⌘ Read more

pgBackRest will continue
In April, David Steele, maintainer of the popular pgBackRest backup and restore project for
PostgreSQL, announced that he had archived\
the project and it would no longer be maintained due to lack of
sponsorship. On May 18, he announced
that a number of sponsors have stepped forward to ensure its continued
development:

Over the last few weeks, a coalition of sponso … ⌘ Read more

Looking back on an old project, while keeping an eye to its future…

More Intel Open-Source Projects Formally Sunset: BigDL Time Series Toolkit & Others
Yet more open-source Intel software projects have been formally archived. Over the past year Intel has formally discontinued a number of open-source projects it formally maintained. Many of them were already dormant and not too noteworthy but there were also some more notable ones discontinued like their legendary Clear Linux, Software Defined Silicon, Optane Memory software projects, and then other efforts like open ecosystem … ⌘ Read more

AMD’s Lemonade SDK For AI Promotes macOS To GA Status, ROCm 7.13 Integrated
The Lemonade SDK for “refreshingly fast local AI” that is largely developed by AMD engineers as an open-source project continues advancing quite rapidly for serving optimized LLMs on GPUs and NPUs… ⌘ Read more

Gentrack earnings drop on project delays in Utilities business
Gentrack on Monday reported lower first-half earnings due to delays in revenue from new projects and announced the purchase of Prospero Energy, trading as Factor.

Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation, excluding acquisition costs of $0.6 million, was $7.9m in the six months to March 31 compared to $13m in the prior period. ⌘ Read more

Open-Source “low_latency_layer” Brings Reflex & Anti-Lag 2 To AMD & Intel GPUs On Linux
A new open-source project called low_latency_layer is an implicit Vulkan layer that enables AMD Anti-Lag 2 and NVIDIA Reflex 2 to reportedly work in a hardware-agnostic manner so that AMD and Intel graphics cards can both enjoy Reflex or Anti-Lag 2 working on non-AMD graphics cards as well… ⌘ Read more

Cloud Hypervisor 52 Now Supports Launching AMD SEV-SNP Confidential VMs With KVM
For what originally began as an open-source Intel software project, Cloud Hypervisor continues seeing robust development outside the confines of Intel Corp these days with ongoing improvements driven by Microsoft, Cyberus Tech, Ant, and other organizations for this Rust-based VMM for cloud workloads… ⌘ Read more

Sovereign Tech Fund invests in KDE
The KDE project has announced
that it has been awarded over €1 million from the Sovereign Tech Fund
to improve its desktop-environment software. “The investment will be
used to strengthen the structural reliability and security of KDE’s core
infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and the frameworks underlying
its communication services.” ⌘ Read more

KDE Receiving Over 1.2 Million EUR Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund
KDE today announced a significant investment into the project by Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund. KDE will be receiving €1,285,200 EUR (or roughly 1.5 million USD) over the years 2026 and 2027 to make some significant improvements into their software stack… ⌘ Read more

Microsoft’s $1 Billion AI Data Center Will ‘Switch Off Half of Kenya’
Microsoft and G42’s planned $1 billion AI data center in Kenya has stalled amid disagreements over power commitments, with President William Ruto saying the country would need to “switch off half the country” to support the project at full scale. Tom’s Hardware reports: The project, announced in May 2024 during Ruto’s visit to Washingto … ⌘ Read more

Running Four Intel Graphics Cards Under Linux On Ubuntu 26.04
It’s been nearly one year to the week since Intel introduced Project Battlematrix as their initiative for improving their Linux driver support for the Arc Pro B-Series with enhancements such as bettering the multi-GPU support in allowing up to eight Arc Pro GPUs per system as well as other open-source driver optimizations in the era of AI. Recently with the Arc Pro B70 in having four review samples for testing I was finally able to try out the multi-GP … ⌘ Read more

Debian to require reproducible builds
Paul Gevers has slipped an interesting bit of news into a “ bits from the release\
team” message:

Aided by the efforts of the Reproducible Builds project, we’ve
decided it’s time to say that Debian must ship reproducible
packages. Since yesterday, we have enabled our migration software
to block migration of new packages that can’t be reproduced or
existing packages (in testing) that regress in reproducibility.

As Gioe … ⌘ Read more

Open Source Project Shuts Down Over Legal Threats from 3D Printer Company Bambu Lab
The free/open source project OrcaSlicer is a popular fork of 3D printer slicing software from Bambu Lab. But Tuesday independent developer Pawel Jarczak shuttered the project “following legal threats from Bambu Lab,” reports Tom’s Hardware:

Jarczak’s fork of OrcaSlicer would have allowed users to bypass Bamb … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 With Many Security Fixes
Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 on Saturday in order to ship the latest security fixes affecting a wide variety of open-source software projects… ⌘ Read more

FEX 2605 Brings Performance Improvements, Initial Snapdragon X2 Elite Fixes
FEX 2605 is out this weekend as the newest monthly feature release to this emulator for running Linux x86_64 binaries on ARM64 (AArch64) devices. This is the open-source project sponsored by Valve and planned for use with the upcoming Steam Frame as well as being relevant to Linux gaming on other 64-bit ARM laptops and other devices… ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.17 Fixes Support For GB10 Powered Systems
The open-source, community-developed NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver that provides a Video Acceleration API (VA-API) implementation built atop NVIDIA’s NVDEC video decode interface is out with a new release. This is the open-source project that’s motivated by getting accelerated video decoding to work within Mozilla Firefox and other apps when running with NVIDIA’s packaged Linux driver… ⌘ Read more

Does Fidelity’s Reorganization Signal the Beginning of the End for ‘Small-Team Agile’?
Longtime Slashdot reader cellocgw writes: Hiding inside another layoff report, Fidelity is reorganizing: “The changes are aimed at moving the teams away from an ‘agile’ makeup – comprising smaller, siloed squads – and toward larger teams built to move faster on projects.” OMG, as they say: “Sudden outbrea … ⌘ Read more

[$] Forgejo “carrot disclosure” raises security questions
An unusual, some might say hostile, approach to disclosing an alleged
remote-code-execution (RCE) flaw in the Forgejo software-collaboration platform has
sparked a multifaceted conversation. A so-called
“carrot disclosure” in April has raised questions about the
researcher’s methods of unveiling a security problem, Forgejo’s
security policies, and the project’s overall security posture. ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA Releases CUDA-Oxide 0.1 For Experimental Rust-To-CUDA Compiler
A new NVIDIA Labs project is greatly improving the capabilities of using the Rust programming language for developing CUDA kernels for NVIDIA GPUs… ⌘ Read more

An update on KDE’s Union style engine
Arjen Hiemstra has published
an article on the status of the Union project: a
single system to support all of KDE’s technologies used for styling
applications.

The work on Union’s Breeze implementation has progressed to the
point where it is very hard to distinguish whether or not you are
running the Union version. We have also tested with a bunch of
applications and … ⌘ Read more

Agog to be the 2,644th backer 😎 on BackerKit Crowdfunding for Old-School Essentials Demonic Grimoire! https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/exalted-funeral/old-school-essentials-demonic-grimoire

Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Improvements For Running On Real Hardware
Redox OS is out with its status report for April 2026. During the past month this open-source, Rust-based operating system written from scratch has seen improvements for running on real hardware as well as a wide variety of other improvements for bettering this original OS project… ⌘ Read more

ReactOS Unifies Installation Media, Introduces GUI Installer and New ATA Driver
jeditobe writes: Developers of ReactOS told Phoronix that the project has introduced a unified BootCD, replacing its previously separate installation media and LiveCD images. The new image combines the traditional text-mode installer with a LiveCD mode in a single medium. Within this unified BootCD, the updated LiveCD … ⌘ Read more

[$] LLM-driven security reports disrupt coordinated disclosure
Predictions that LLM tools would cause a surge in reports of security vulnerabilities
have, unquestionably, borne out. As expected, maintainers are having to wade
through more security reports than ever before; in addition, LLM tools are
disrupting traditional-coordinated disclosure practices as well. The method of Copy Fail’s disclosure, in particular, left
vendors, projects, and users scrambling. In addition, maintainers are seeing
parallel discove … ⌘ Read more

Incus 7.0 LTS released
Version\
7.0 of the Incus container and
virtual-machine management system has been released. Notable changes in this
release include the inclusion of a low-level backup API, the addition\
of basic S3 operations directly in Incus to replace the now-unmaintained
MinIO project, as well as the removal of support … ⌘ Read more

The retirement of the PHP license
The PHP project has long shipped under its own license — except for
the parts under the Zend Engine License. The PHP project has now announced
that the PHP license has been retired, and the PHP code has been relicensed
under the three-clause BSD license. See this\
blog entry for more details.

Getting here required more than [writing an\
> RFC](https://wiki … ⌘ Read more

ReactOS Introduces Unified Live/Install Media, New Storage Driver
ReactOS as the “open-source Windows” operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows has seen some exciting improvements this week… ⌘ Read more

Many Exciting Google Summer of Code 2026 Projects & A Lot Of AI
This week Google announced the selected Google Summer of Code “GSoC” 2026 projects for providing stipends to student developers for engaging in different open-source projects. This year a lot of open-source projects involve AI/LLM adoption but there are also a number of other interesting student projects at large from GNOME Mutter GPU reset recovery to adding new features to FreeBSD… ⌘ Read more

You Found Satoshi? Let’s See the Receipts
Two new projects, including one from a Pulitzer-winning reporter, claim they’ve solved the mystery of Bitcoin’s creator. So why does the hunt continue? ⌘ Read more

[$] Version-controlled databases using Prolly trees
Modern database and filesystems make pervasive use of
B-trees, which are tree
structures optimized for storing sorted lists of keys and values on block
devices.
Dolt is an Apache 2.0-licensed project that makes clever use of a
variant of a B-tree to support efficient version control for an entire database.
The data structure it uses could well be of interest to other projects. ⌘ Read more

Servo Browser Engine Seeing Progress On FreeBSD Support
Following the recent Servo 0.1 release, the Servo project has published their latest monthly status report to highlight recent development efforts around this modern open-source browser engine… ⌘ Read more

California High-Speed Rail Price Tag Jumps To $231 Billion
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 writes: California’s long-delayed high-speed rail project is now facing renewed scrutiny after state leaders revealed a dramatically higher price tag, now estimated at roughly $231 billion, nearly seven times the original $33 billion projection approved by voters in 2008. The revised figures have reignited talks in Sacramento … ⌘ Read more

GitHub ‘No Longer a Place For Serious Work’, Says Hashicorp Co-Founder
Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub’s frequent outages have made it “no longer a place for serious work,” prompting him to move his Ghostty terminal emulator project elsewhere after 18 years on the platform. The Register reports: “I’ve been angry about it. I’ve hurt people’s feelings. I’ve been lashing out. Because GitHub … ⌘ Read more

Electrical Current Might Be the Key To a Better Cup of Coffee
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: University of Oregon chemist Christopher Hendon loves his coffee – so much so that studying all the factors that go into creating the perfect cuppa constitutes a significant area of research for him. His latest project: discovering a novel means of measuring the flavor profile of coffee simp … ⌘ Read more

Remembering Seth Nickell
LWN has received the sad news that Seth Nickell passed away, on
April 16, from his father, Eric Nickell:

Many of you knew Seth from his work in the GNOME Usability Project, but his
roots in that community trace back to his high school years. As a father of
a high school junior, I remember being terrified when he flashed the hard
drive of a computer he purchased for himself with this weird “Linux” thing.
And I was a bit awed by the college application essay he wrote about open
source and Linus Tor … ⌘ Read more

Fedora Linux 44 has been released
The Fedora Project has announced
the release of Fedora Linux 44. There are “what’s new”
articles for Fedora\
Workstation, Fedora\
KDE Plasma Desktop, and Fedora\
Atomic Desktops. The Fedora Asahi Remix for Apple Silicon Macs,
ba … ⌘ Read more

[$] Strawberry is ripe for managing music collections
There are dozens of music-player applications for Linux; the options range
from bare-bones programs that only play local files to full-blown
music-management projects with a full suite of tools for managing (and playing)
a music collection. Strawberry
is in the latter category; it has a bumper crop of features, including smart
playlists, support for editing music metadata tags, the ability to organize music
files, and more. ⌘ Read more

In Memoriam: Tomáš Kalibera
We have received the sad news that Tomáš Kalibera, a member of the
R Project core team, has
passed away\
after a short illness.

A friend who knew him well wrote to me: he was very happy, and
his work fulfilled him. That is, perhaps, the best thing one can
say about a life in open source — that the work mattered, that it
reached millions, and that the person who did it found meaning in it.

Kalibera was mentioned in … ⌘ Read more

Sovereign Tech Agency Launches New Initiative To Help Open Standards
Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency (Sovereign Tech Fund) has provided critical financial resources to open-source software projects and maintainers the past several years. This has proven to be an incredible effort and today they announced their newest initiative as the Sovereign Tech Standards… ⌘ Read more

Trump Administration Will Pay More Energy Firms to Cancel Wind Farms
The Trump administration says it will reimburse energy companies $885 million to cancel two planned offshore wind farms, with the firms in turn agreeing to put money into oil and gas projects instead. “The deals are modeled after a similar agreement last month with the French energy giant TotalEnergies,” notes the New York Times. “Tota … ⌘ Read more

Notepad++ Finally Lands On macOS as a Native App
BrianFagioli writes: Notepad++ has finally made its way to macOS, and this time it is not through a compatibility layer. A new community-driven port brings the long-standing Windows text editor over as a fully native Mac application, built with Cocoa and compiled for both Apple Silicon and Intel systems. Instead of relying on Wine or similar tools, the project replaces the Windo … ⌘ Read more

pgBackRest is no longer maintained
David Steele, maintainer of the popular pgBackRest backup and restore project for
PostgreSQL, has archived\
the project and announced that it is no longer being maintained.

After a lot of thought, I have decided to stop working on pgBackRest. I did
not come to this decision lightly. pgBackRest has been my passion project for
the last thirteen years, and I was fortunate to have corporate sponsorship f … ⌘ Read more

Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc1
Linus has released 7.1-rc1 and closed the
merge window for this release.

Things look fairly normal, although we do have a few different
projects to cull some old hardware support to help minimize
maintenance burden: phasing out i486 support (configs deleted, code
deletions to follow) and independently starting to remove some
really old networking hardware support, and removing some SoC
support that never went anywhere.

But we’re more than making up for … ⌘ Read more

New Problem for NASA’s ‘Lunar Gateway’: Corrosion in Two Modules Caused by Supplier
In March, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced that the moon-orbiting “Lunar Gateway” space station was being “paused” to focus instead of missions to the moon’s surface. And Ars Technica agrees that the project was essentially “spending billions of dollars to make it more difficult to reach the lunar … ⌘ Read more

How Teachers Fight Students’ Shortening Attention Spans Shorter Activities, Hands-On Projects, and Meditation
The Washington Post reports that some teachers are now implementing “brain breaks” in their classrooms to cope with shorter attention spans, “including limiting screen time; cutting the time students spend on one activity; adding more engaging, hands-on project … ⌘ Read more

Apple M3 Support On Asahi Linux Is Approaching The Original Alpha Quality Of The M1
A new progress report from the Asahi Linux project is now published that highlights recent upstreaming work for the Linux 7.0 kernel release as well as the latest additions to the downstream Asahi Linux code. The Asahi Linux project also pushed out their first updated Asahi installer in nearly two years… ⌘ Read more

Maine Governor Vetoes Data Center Moratorium Bill
Maine Gov. Janet Mills vetoed a bill that would have imposed the nation’s first statewide moratorium on new data centers, saying she supported the idea in principle but would not block a major redevelopment project tied to jobs and local investment. Instead, she said she will create a council to study data centers’ effects while also signing a separate measure to deny them cer … ⌘ Read more