Linux 7.4 Merge Window Saw Nearly 20k Commits, Source Tree Approaching 42 Million Lines
Linux 7.3 started out just under 41 million lines in total in the kernel source tree. In the end the Linux v7.3 tag came in at 41,019,555 lines as measured by cloc while now with Linux 7.4 we are inching ever closer to 42 million lines. On a Git commit basis, the Linux 7.4 merge window has been the busiest on record… ⌘ Read more

VKD3D-Proton 3.1 Released With New Features Ahead Of Big v3.2 Release
Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve’s Linux team just tagged the VKD3D-Proton 3.1 release. This version comes with a number of new features and performance optimizations while being the stable point ahead of VKD3D-Proton beginning to see a lot of new feature code for what will then become VKD3D-Proton 3.2… ⌘ Read more

AMD GAIA 0.25 Brings Several Improvements For Local AI Agents On Ryzen AI
AMD GAIA 0.25 is out this week as the latest feature release for this open-source project that began as “Generative AI Is Awesome” and is now going on a tag line of “AMD’s open-source agent factory” in building/using local AI agents on AMD Ryzen AI hardware… ⌘ Read more

Linux Kernel Developers Plan To Remove “Assisted-By” Tag Requirement For AI/LLM Usage
Currently there is a policy requirement for Linux kernel patches where AI tools contributed, they should be documented with an “Assisted-by:” tag to make clear AI was used in the creation of said patch. But Linux kernel developers are now looking at dropping this requirement amid the rampant use of AI/LLMs… ⌘ Read more

New AI Agent Resources Proposed For The Linux Kernel, AI Skills To Help Developers
The latest proposal for the upstream Linux kernel is introducing infrastructure for AI agent resources. Initially these agent resources would be for a skill so AI agents can automatically add a “Fixes: ” tag on relevant patches for noting the first problematic Git commit automatically that a patch fixes… ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Issues First Release Of Their LiteBox Sandboxing Library OS
Back in February we featured LiteBox as a new Microsoft open-source project building out a Rust-based sandboxing Library OS. LiteBox leverages Linux virtualization security features and Rust language inherent benefits to provide the ability for sandboxing Linux apps on Linux, Linux programs on Windows, and other security-oriented deployments. Out today is the first tagged release of LiteBox for this open-source library operating system… ⌘ Read more

X.Org Server 26.1 Moves Closer To Release As Half-Decade Update
We’re getting closer to the X.Org Server 26.1 stable release as the first new tagged feature release since X.Org Server 21.1 debuted back in October 2021. There have been some new features, many code reverts, and many bug fixes merged over the past five years that will culminate with the X.Org Server 26.1 stable release… ⌘ Read more

OpenShot 4.0 Released In Adapting Video Editor UI To Qt6
OpenShot 4.0 was tagged this afternoon on GitHub as the newest major feature release to this open-source non-linear video editing application… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.3 Adds Support For Several Newer RISC-V Extensions
With the in-development Linux 7.3 is support for discovering and enumerating support for several newer RISC-V ISA extensions. Plus there are improvements to its control flow integrity Shadow Stack handling, CPU context switch support for QoS tagging, using UEFI runtime services for restart and powering off, and other improvements… ⌘ Read more

Nginx Dark Mode Support For Error Pages Remains Elusive
In early 2025 I wrote about the upstream Nginx web server rejecting dark mode support for its error pages on the basis of wanting to keep the default error pages simple and developers arguing the extra HTML tag for the dark mode styling as superfluous. Following a lot of public backlash for being against offering native dark mode handling by default, Nginx stakeholders were polled and largely came out in favor of supporting the functionality but more than one … ⌘ Read more

Real tired of doing these, but here’s another Android developers vs Google update, this time there’s both good and bad news.

The good:
-Users will be able to enable “sideloading” for all current and future devices, attached to their Google account, rather than having to undergo the tedious 24 hour wait including process, on each device.

-Rather than these changes to “sideloading” and “advanced workflows” being implemented at random different dates, in different countries, we’ll all get them come 2027.

The bad:
As GrapheneOS developers recently mentioned “Google replaced pushing Git tags for certain source code with obtaining source code via Google Drive after making a request through Google Forms. It’s completely ridiculous and they’ve gradually become very slow at handling requests. They’re in clear violation of the GPLv2 now.”

whole thread: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117057099753905023

Monke bullet heaven survivor-like chaos will come in 2027 with Gorilla Tag Contagion
The very popular VR game Gorilla Tag is getting a spin-off for PC and consoles named Gorilla Tag Contagion, a co-op survival roguelite.

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Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/monke-bullet-heaven-survivor-like-chaos-will-come-in-20 … ⌘ Read more

X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 Prepares For First Feature Release In Five Years
Following today’s release of XWayland 26.1 RC1, X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 was tagged. This xorg-server 26.1 release is aiming to become the first major feature release in five years, succeeding the xorg-server 21.1 series… ⌘ Read more

XWayland 26.1 RC1 Released With Many New Features
Olivier Fourdan of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of XWayland 26.1. This is the first new tagged feature release since XWayland 24.1 back in 2024! As such there are many new features in tow… ⌘ Read more

The Pixel Tag Is Google’s Answer To the AirTag
Google has unveiled the $29 Pixel Tag, its long-awaited AirTag rival that combines UWB with Bluetooth 6.0 Channel Sounding for two forms of precision tracking. It launches November 11. The Verge reports: The Pixel Tag is a slim oblong device available in one grayish color – Fog – that weighs about 12g, or 0.4oz. Like the AirTag, it has no built-in hooks or clips for attaching to o … ⌘ Read more

Amazon Cracks Down On Use of AI Images By Sellers
CNBC reports:

Amazon is requiring that third-party sellers label any product images or videos that contain “AI-generated people” after New York recently passed a law mandating greater transparency around “synthetic performers” in ads… The policy directs sellers to tag images [and videos or other graphics on listing pages] with specific metadata keywords before they’re uploade … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

For the tags feed it would be cool to include the actual changelog entries

Did that now:

🥳

Wine 11.14 Brings WoW64 Mode To FreeBSD, Icon Support In Start Menu
Wine 11.14 was tagged today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms… ⌘ Read more

Ryzen AI Software 1.8 Released With New Model Support, More Optimizations
Ahead of Lisa Su’s keynote this morning at the AMD Advancing AI event, tagged on GitHub just now was the Ryzen AI Software 1.8 release for helping to deploy AI models on Ryzen AI PCs… ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Good question. Tarballs are probably not needed, but might be convenient for people who don’t want to or can use a version control system. Not sure if there are non-techies who use your software. Tarballs for branches are overkill, though, I agree.

Looking at this more closely: As for the feeds, how about filenames “tags.atom” and “commits.atom”? Unless, of course, they were already named like that before.

For the tags feed it would be cool to include the actual changelog entries to be more useful if somebody takes this approach to get notified of new versions. But that would mean you have to duplicate the changelog entry into the annotated tag. And then you can’t fix changelog typos in the feed anymore. Alternatively, the feed generation would need to extract the section from the the CHANGES file. That has the benefit of automatically providing changelogs for past versions in the feed.

🥳 Finally! After nearly 4 years, yarnd v0.16.0 “Silver Sojourner” is out! 🚀 Twt Hash v2, SQLite FTS5 search, HTMX-powered UI, first-time setup wizard and literally hundreds of bug fixes 🐛

Release notes: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/releases/tag/0.16.0

Upgrading is fully automatic — the Twt Hash v2 migration re-fetches all feeds on first start, so expect the first cycle to be a bit heavier. Images on Docker Hub as prologic/yarnd:0.16.0 👌

cc @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz @abucci@anthony.buc.ci @shinyoukai@yume.laidback.moe @eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club 🙏

@movq@www.uninformativ.de this one:

2026-07-11T17:28:31Z	() No yet. Let’s keep it rolling a little bit longer. I am reply to “[..] I don’t see any broken threads here. 🤔“. I can’t tag followings while on mobile. <-- THIS BROKE

Was a reply to:

2026-07-11T16:39:22+00:00	(#iqqsqst5vokf) @<david https://daiwei.me/twtxt.txt> Well, I don’t see any broken threads here. 🤔

Linux Kernel Developers Again Discussing AI Agent Attribution - Potentially Dropping It
When AI/LLM agents are used in the creation of Linux kernel patches, the policy for a while now has been that it should be specified using an “Assisted-by” tag as part of the patches/commits. But Linux kernel developers this week have been discussing whether to revise that policy or to potentially eliminate it… ⌘ Read more

🚨 jenny was broken due to the switch to v2 hash tags.

I pushed a hotfix to main, but this needs a few more test cases. I’ll do that tomorrow.

Arch Linux’s Archinstall 4.4 Adds Dank Material Shell + Niri Desktop Option
Ahead of the July 2026 ISO refresh for Arch Linux, a new Archinstall 4.4 release has been tagged for this text-based and very convenient installer for Arch Linux… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks! You had one of the strangest guesses so far, first one I had to look up. 😄 It is a reference to a (human) cop/detective, from a 2019 videogame. Since there’s no spoilers tag on Twtxt, the name of the file on my site, includes the correct answer.

I complain about this a lot:

https://movq.de/v/e7cb49eefb/hiccupfx

But to be honest, my blog did the same thing – to some degree.

This is fixed now. The trick is to add width and height to all <img> tags. That way, modern browsers know how much space to reserve for the image. Without this, they just reserve zero space, so when the image finally loads, you get jumpy layout.

This effect is even worse when you use <img loading="lazy"> – which I can finally use, now that the jumpy layout has been fixed. 🥳

Someone Forked systemd Over Its New Birth Date Field
The blog Linuxiac reports:
A new systemd fork has appeared with a specific purpose: removing systemd’s recently added support for storing a user’s birth date in JSON user records.

The fork, called Liberated systemd, published its first tagged release as v261 shortly after the official systemd 261 release. In other words, the fork follows upstream systemd while reverti … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ich zitiere von woanders und bin zu faul zum Übersetzen:

Ich gucke schon den ganzen Tag dem Storm Tracking zu und alle Gewitter in der Nähe haben sich kurz vor meinem Standort ausgeregnet oder sind abgedreht. 😭🥵

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yes. The author tries hard not to break existing code, but apparently he did this time. In his defense, it’s not an official release, I just updated to master. Which is exactly what I always did in the past as there are no real versions (I even think that in one ticket he wrote years ago that master is always stable). That has finally changed a year ago, though: https://github.com/rivo/tview/releases/tag/v0.42.0

Linux 7.2 Features Expected: Apple M3, Initial AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, USB4STREAM, Cache Aware Scheduling
Linux 7.1 stable is expected to be released this Sunday with its many new features. Immediately following the Linux v7.1 tagging, the Linux 7.2 merge window will open and a lot of new feature material is expected to be merged over the next two weeks… ⌘ Read more

WASI 0.3.0 Released
Article URL: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/releases/tag/v0.3.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504063

Points: 15

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Git 2.55-rc0 Released With Rust Enabled By Default
Git 2.55-rc0 is out today as the first tagged test version of the forthcoming Git 2.55 distributed version control system. Most notable with Git 2.55 is that Rust support is being enabled by default… ⌘ Read more

Homebrew 6.0.0 released
Version\
6.0.0 of the Homebrew
package-management system has been released. Notable changes in this
release include the introduction of tap trust to improve
supply-chain security, improvements in sandboxing on Linux, a number
of performance tweaks, and many other changes.

See the changelog
for a full list. LWN covered Ho … ⌘ Read more

Opposition lässt kein gutes Haar an Budget
Am Tag nach der Budgetrede von Finanzminister Markus Marterbauer (SPÖ) ist traditionell die Opposition am Wort. Diese fand am Donnerstag bei der Ersten Lesung im Nationalrat wenig Gutes an dem von der Regierung vorgelegten Doppelbudget. FPÖ-Klubobmann Herbert Kickl sprach von einer „Belastungskeule für die Bevölkerung“, während die Regierung bis zum letzten Moment um eine Erhöhung der Parteienförderung gerungen habe. Die Grünen kritisierten die Konsolidierung als ungerecht. ⌘ Read more

Anzeige: CustomGPTs als KI-Assistenten im Arbeitsalltag entwickeln
CustomGPTs machen KI-Assistenten wiederverwendbar und steuerbar. Ein Online-Workshop zeigt, wie sich in einem Tag zwei Assistenten und ein digitaler Zwilling als Business-Co-Pilot aufsetzen lassen. ( Golem Karrierewelt, Programmiersprachen) ![](https://cpx.golem.de/cpx.php?class=17&aid=209385&pa … ⌘ Read more

Marterbauer präsentiert Doppelbudget
Am Mittwoch präsentiert Finanzminister Markus Marterbauer (SPÖ) das Doppelbudget für 2027 und 2028. In den kommenden zwei Jahren soll damit ein Ausstieg aus dem EU-Defizitverfahren gelingen. Einen Tag vor der Budgetrede im Nationalrat erzielten ÖVP, SPÖ und NEOS noch eine Einigung in Sachen Parteien- und Klubförderung. Letzteres stieß auch bei der Opposition auf Zustimmung, die ansonsten an den Budgetplänen schon im Vorfeld scharfe Kritik formulierte. ⌘ Read more

‘Slide Planet’ planned for Brisbane with giant slides, air courts, laser tag and go karting
The action park near Brisbane Airport will be run by the company behind Dopamine Land, Prison Island and the pop-up Harry Potter Forbidden Forest Experience. ⌘ Read more

Indicator Go reached 1.1K stars, provides 80+ indicators and backtesting framework
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s the “Lyse types the entire HTML by hand” generator. Yes, no kidding. I write articles so rarely, that I can do that once in a while. It’s fun to some degree, but also not.

After some time, I finally recorded some Vim macros to insert <b>…</b>, <var>…</var>, <span class=s>…</span> etc. around the tokens. This helped a little bit. But I was still questioning my mental state doing it like that. I also had to fix a bunch of the end tags by hand, because the word movement wasn’t enough or the end movement went too far. Quite the annoying process for sure.

But I think the HTML looks a wee bit nicer and is maybe even semantically a little bit better than having only <span>s everywhere. I find the <span class="whatever"> just soo awfully long. Of course, I never look at the code again, but knowing, that e.g. there is a <b> and it saves so many bytes in comparison, makes me happy. It is a more elegant solution in my opinion. Not by much, but better nonetheless. It’s a matter of simplicity. Admittedly, even I can’t avoid the <span>s alltogether. Oh well. On the other hand, I’m sure that this does not make any difference whatsoever. I bet, nobody and nothing, like a screenreader, analyzes the HTML for that, where this would be truly useful.

Oh! Maybe text browsers, though. It just occurred to me while composing this reply. :-) Haha, I lost my bet quickly. w3m picks up at least the <b> for keywords and builtin types, <u> for filenames and <i> for comments. Yey. No different styles for <var> and <mark>, unfortunately. elinks only renders the bold. It’s cool that I had the right intuition right from the beginning, despite being unable to pinpoint it. :-)

All the <span> hell with common syntax highlighters is a downer for me that keeps me from looking more into them. If I wrote more articles, I might rig something up with Pygments. At least that’s somehow positively connotated in my brain. Not sure if it actually deserves it, but I dealt with that in some loose form (can’t even remember) years and years ago. Apparently, it wasn’t too terrible.

To prepare the table of contents, I used grep and sed with some manual intervention in the end. The entire process can be improved. Absolutely.

You wrote your own site generator, didn’t you?

Rust Coreutils 0.9 Released With Additional Security Hardening, Zero-Copy I/O
Rust Coreutils 0.9 was tagged today as the latest major update to this GNU Coreutils implementation in the Rust programming language. Rust Coreutils 0.9 is up to a 90.4% pass rate against the GNU test suite!.. ⌘ Read more

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Kubas Energiekrise auf neuem Höhepunkt
Kuba kämpft mit einem akuten Energie- und Treibstoffnotstand, Grund sind Sanktionen der USA. In der Hauptstadt Havanna kam es Mittwochabend (Ortszeit) zu Protesten. Dieseltreibstoff gibt es nach Angaben der Regierung praktisch keinen – und bis zu 22 Stunden pro Tag in Teilen der Hauptstadt auch keinen Strom mehr. ⌘ Read more

Laute Rufe nach weiterer Pflegereform
Anlässlich des Internationalen Tags der Pflege am Dienstag haben sich im Vorfeld zahlreiche Organisationen mit Appellen an die Politik gewandt und zu tiefgreifenden Änderungen aufgerufen. Die Forderungen reichen von der Attraktivierung des Pflegeberufs bis hin zur Vereinheitlichung der Zuständigkeiten. Denn ohne mutige Schritte drohe der Ausnahmezustand, so der Tenor. ⌘ Read more

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Microsoft Issues Warning About Linux ‘Copy Fail’ Vulnerability
joshuark shares a report from Linux Magazine: Microsoft has issued a warning that a vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8 has been found in the Linux kernel. The vulnerability in question is tagged CVE-2026-31431 and, according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), “This Linux Kernel Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres … ⌘ Read more

Apple Gives Up On the Vision Pro After M5 Refresh Flop
MacRumors reports that Apple has effectively paused work on Vision Pro after the M5 refresh failed to revive demand. The team has reportedly been reassigned and the company is now shifting focus toward smart glasses instead. From the report: The Vision Pro has been criticized for its high price tag and its uncomfortable weight. The device is over 1.3 pounds, and ev … ⌘ 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