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Quite a few things have happened around the Android platform support for KDE applications in recent months, so high time for another update on that. Qt 6.11 As already mentioned previously, we have updated the Qt version to 6.11. That has the unfortunate consequence of losing support for Android 8…

--> --> Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the Plasma team put the finishing touches on Plasma 6.7 with another big push on bug fixing. It’s looking really good for release next Tuesday! As a result, some feature work and UI polishing started to trickle in for Plasma…

Greetings from Planet Peanut! Since there’s a whole new generation of GNOME contributors active right now, I’ll do a short reintroduction: Hello, I’m Hylke! I was a design contributor in the late 2.X, early 3.X days. Mainly icons and theming. I’ve attended many GUADECs. I’m also the developer of…

In the process of preparing a major Ubuntu Touch release (v24.04-2.0, coming soon...) we will also update Ayatana Indicators in Ubuntu Touch. Last week various new features have been added to some of the indicators (toggle switch to keep the display switched on permanently, blue tooth pairing…

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from June 5 to June 12. GNOME Foundation marimaj reports The GNOME Foundation has selected the first recipients who will receive funding through its new Fellowship program, and is delighted to announce that Peter Eisenmann and Sophie…

In a shortened session in the filesystem track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Amir Goldstein gave an update on the overlayfs union filesystem. There are some new features over the last few years that he wanted to mention, along with looking at the status…

I have been looking at seL4 some more recently, and had a small patch merged today to remove a legacy Python module from a helper script. (I was trying to run the script on a system without that module installed, and it was almost easier to patch it out.) However, the more I think about this code…

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Apple FINALLY lets you turn on your Mac remotely, without having to press the power button. In the media, articles suggest it's a reaction to Mac mini power button complaints. While I agree the M4 mini's power button is in a really dumb spot, that's not why I care about this feature. The two…

Hundreds of orphaned packages hosted by the Arch User Repository (AUR) have been compromised by an attacker who has added a malicious npm package (atomic-lockfile) that can exfiltrate sensitive data. The project is currently working on cleaning up the mess. There is a list of affected packages and…

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, bind, expat, httpd:2.4, kernel, kernel-rt, mod_http2, openssl, poppler, redis, redis:7, samba, and unbound), Debian (ironic, kernel-wedge, libinput, linux-base, and neutron), Fedora (kernel, openssl, vaultwarden, and…

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-24. Total Reciprocity Public License Tags: tech, foss, licensing, copyright More an experiment than something I’d recommend for real. Still it shows there’s a gap we need to close in the licenses available. Let’s hope the OSI and the FSF will do strong…

When I ran Ethernet around our house, I thought I was being clever. A CAT6 cable for every room - lush! Some of my rooms have lots of devices, so they get a nice big Ethernet switch with lots of ports and blinking lights. But most of my rooms don't have that many devices. Our gym had only an…

Hi Mozillians, For years, the Mozilla Community Newsletter has served as a monthly touchpoint for contributors and community members across the Mozilla ecosystem. Coordinated by the Customer Experience (CX) team, it helps keep our global contributor and product communities informed, connected, and…

On 3 June 2026, the European Commission adopted a new package of measures to strengthen Europe’s technological sovereignty. The package includes two legislative proposals —<he Chips Act 2.0 and the Cloud and AI Development Act— together with <he European Open Source Strategy and a strategic…

El pasado 3 de junio de 2026, la Comisión Europea adoptó un nuevo paquete de medidas para reforzar la soberanía tecnológica de Europa. El paquete incluye dos propuestas legislativas —el <hips Act 2.0 y el Cloud and AI Development Act—, junto con la <strategia Europea de Software Libre y una hoja…

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 319. This version includes the following changes: [ Jochen Sprickerhof ] * Improve header detection for Sphinx documentation projects. You find out more by visiting the project homepage.

From white-boarding my ideas on a Google Doc, to writing a formal design document in Crosswords, my ability to communicate technical ideas clearly is being put to the test. Writing documentation is critical to guide others’ understanding of the code and choices made on a particular codebase.…

Structure of code and logic for tournaments in the Mankala Engine.So, we want the tournaments to be able to: Create custom game rooms (with different variants, number of players, and time limit) Join the rooms with room codes. Create elimination brackets for players. Have empty slots filled with…

I asked a locally-downloaded LLM to compute the cost of a car trip using natural language. No calls to any cloud service, just a model queried by an inference tool running on my own machine. The Setup The machine used for this excercise is a LemurPro laptop from around 2020, has a 11th Gen Intel(R)…

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…

The Linux kernel has long tried to use huge pages as a way to improve performance, sometimes with more success than others. The size of huge pages has traditionally been imposed by the hardware, which typically only offers a couple of relatively large options. In more recent times, though, the use…

Mozilla Champions the Reintroduction of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) Today, only a handful of tech companies shape the online experience for the more than 300 million internet users in America. This concentration of power is exactly why we need legislation that advances…

A while back, I stumbled onto something that turned into a rewarding side-project at Mozilla. Firefox ships with a built-in spellchecker, but it only activates if a dictionary for your language is bundled with the browser. Coverage had grown organically over the years — driven largely by localizers…

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, podman, poppler, and postgresql-jdbc), Debian (chromium, jackson-core, libdbi-perl, and libinput), Fedora (httpd, rust, and xmlstarlet), Mageia (openssh, postfix, and roundcubemail), Oracle (frr, kernel, libyang, n,…