Windows just had its worst month on record. StatCounter’s newly published numbers for June 2026 put worldwide desktop market share for Windows at 56.61%, the first time it has ever fallen below 60% in the history of the dataset. Linux closed the same month at 4.36%, its highest number in […]
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Burned-Out Flathub Maintainers Just Banned AI Code From the Linux App Store and Nobody Can Agree If It Was the Right Call On May 29, 2026, a single GitHub commit changed how thousands of Linux app developers have to think about publishing software. Flathub, the dominant Flatpak app repository for […]
There is a number buried in IBM’s Project Lightwell announcement that deserves more attention than it is getting right now. Anthropic’s Mythos Preview AI model scanned open source software and identified nearly 3,900 high or critical-severity vulnerabilities. That is not the result of years of slow auditing. That is what […]
Remember when California tried to force every operating system to become Big Brother? Turns out they might have accidentally given Linux a hall pass. AB-1856, the amendment that could save your freedom to compute without the state watching, just cleared committee and heads to a vote in June. And buried […]
HP just became the third major hardware manufacturer to throw serious cash at the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS). We’re talking $100,000+ per year as a premier sponsor, matching the commitments Dell and Lenovo made just weeks ago. Richard Hughes, the LVFS creator and fwupd maintainer, announced HP’s sponsorship on […]
If you thought the security circus was over after copyfail, dirty frag, and fragnesia, think again. The Linux kernel just took another hit with CVE-2026-46333, and the timing couldn’t be worse.
Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund dropped over a million euros on KDE this week, and it’s not charity. It’s a calculated bet that the desktop environment running on millions of Linux machines worldwide needs to become bulletproof infrastructure, not just a solid alternative to Windows and macOS.
Security researcher Hyunwoo Kim just dropped a bomb on the Linux community. Meet Dirty Frag, the latest “Dirty” vulnerability that gives attackers root access on basically every major Linux distribution you’re running right now.
OnlyOffice thought they found a clever loophole in the AGPL license. They were wrong, and now a coalition of European tech companies is calling their bluff with a fork called Euro Office.
The PS5 hacking scene just dropped something huge. A group of developers have released ps5-linux, a project that completely transforms your PlayStation 5 into a legitimate Linux desktop PC. We’re talking full hardware access, 8-core CPU at 3.5GHz, GPU at 2.23GHz, and the ability to run Steam games and emulators. […]
