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📰 AI Companies Put $12.5M Into Open Source Security to Fix a Problem Their Tools Helped Create The move targets the problem of maintainers drowning in AI-generated vulnerability reports. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17301879/ai-companies-fund-open-source-security #opensource

📰 Intel Ends Work On Open-Source kAFL-Fuzzer For Fuzzing VMs An Intel project developed the past several years was kAFL-Fuzzer as a hardware-assisted feedback fuzzer for x86 virtual machines (VMs) to help with security. While it saw a lot of work in prior years, development activity slowed down last year and now the project has been formally ended... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Ends-kAFL-Fuzzer #intel#opensource

📰 How to Install Zabbix Server on Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat) Zabbix is an open-source enterprise-class monitoring software that tracks the performance and availability of servers, network devices, and applications in real-time. It uses a server-client model, where the central system needs the Zabbix server installed and the systems being monitored require the Zabbix agent. The. 🔗 Source: https://linuxtldr.com/install-zabbix-server-on-ubuntu/ #ubuntu#opensource

📰 Samba 4.24 Released With Remote Password Management Support, Other Improvements Samba continues strong in 2026 for this leading open-source SMB protocol re-implementation for Microsoft Windows file and print services interoperability. Samba 4.24 brings more features, including remote password management support... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Samba-4.24-Released #opensource

📰 Linux Foundation kicks off effort to shield FOSS maintainers from AI slop bug reports Big Tech donates $12.5 million to get things rolling Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects to cope with AI slop bug reports.… 🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/18/linux_foundation_ai_slop_defense/ #linux#opensource

📰 System76 Makes The Best Open-Source Keyboard Even Better If System76 engineers didn't already have enough going on with recently shipping the COSMIC Rust-based desktop environment and also shipping Pop!_OS 24.04 as their in-house Linux distribution plus completely redesigning the Thelio Desktop, they also recently revised their Launch Keyboard. They have made this leading open-source keyboard design even better with the latest iteration of the System76 Launch Keyboard. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/system76-launch-keyboard-2026 #linux#opensource

📰 Blender 5.1 Open-Source 3D Graphics Software Released with Many New Features Blender 5.1 open-source 3D graphics software is now available for download with hardware ray-tracing by for AMD GPUs and other changes. Here's what's new! 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/blender-5-1-open-source-3d-graphics-software-released-with-many-new-features #opensource#amd

📰 FFmpeg 8.1 Released With Experimental xHE-AAC MPS212, More Vulkan Acceleration FFmpeg 8.1 is out today as the newest stable release of this widely-used, open-source multimedia library... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-8.1-Released #opensource#ffmpeg

📰 PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 gets easier to use with Steam The free and open source PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is getting easier to use with Steam, with the devs announcing a useful new feature.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/playstation-3-emulator-rpcs3-gets-easier-to-use-with-steam/ #steam#opensource

📰 Lightpanda Promises a Faster, Lightweight Alternative to Headless Chrome Lightpanda is a new open-source headless browser that claims up to 9× faster automation while using up to 16× less memory than Chrome. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/lightpanda-promises-a-faster-lightweight-alternative-to-headless-chrome/ #opensource

📰 Imagination's Open-Source PowerVR Vulkan Driver Now Plays Nicely With Zink OpenGL The past several years Imagination Tech has been investing in an upstream and open-source DRM kernel graphics driver as well as a PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa. Their Mesa focus has exclusively been on the PowerVR Vulkan driver with the plans all along to use the Zink generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation. With next quarter's Mesa 26. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/PowerVR-Vulkan-Does-Zink #opensource#kernel

📰 CachyOS dethrones Arch as the top desktop distro for Linux gamers on ProtonDB Gaming on Linux is no longer the joke it used to be. Once relegated to the world of professional use and nothing else, gaming support on the open-source operating system has been gradually growing over the past few years, and it has gotten to the point where some people claim that Linux runs their games better than Windows does. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/cachyos-dethrones-arch-as-the-top-desktop-distro-for-linux-gamers-on-protondb/ #linux#opensource#distro#arch