Certain Home Assistant servers can be remotely hacked with this tiny $22 radio

MeshCore cards for Home Assistant dashboards allow HTML delivered by mesh nodes to be rendered, potentially allowing the delivery of malicious payloads to the host.

Open source video editor Shotcut is getting OpenFX, Vulkan, and more

A beta for v26.6 was released that added OpenFX and VST2 plugins, as well as Vulkan display rendering for the application.

Behold: 3D Windows games running smoothly on open source RISC-V

The felix86 project showed off 3D x86 games like Portal 2 and God of War running at decidedly playable levels thanks to new RISC-V hardware.

We're one step closer to a KDE Linux beta

A new, independent package build system and an optimized collection of software and kernel modules means a pure KDE distribution is one step closer to reality.

Upgrade your Linux PC with these 3 handy apps

This week it's all about reviews. I'm trying a terminal history viewer, a log viewer, and an image viewer and editor.

Flathub is finally combating the AI slopware problem

Apps and pull requests made or assisted by AI can no longer be submitted to Flathub's software repository. There are exceptions though.

FOSS retro Windows on ARM64 Raspberry Pi is almost here

Developers are booting an open source version of Windows NT on the Raspberry Pi 5, and while useful software isn't here yet, it is a big step forward.

The self-hosted streaming app Feishin got a major update

Listening to music via Jellyfin, OpenSubsonic, or Navidrome? This app just got new themes and better organizing and reporting tools.

The dream of Steam on Wayland just got closer to reality

Since Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) now supports Wayland natively, we can look forward to apps like Steam moving toward full Wayland support.

Jellyfin has new versioning and AI code policies

Jellyfin is about to jump from version 10.11.x to 12.x, to avoid confusion.

Refresh your Linux PC by trying one of these Linux apps

This week I'm trying a Flatpak browser, a screen recorder, and a VM manager.

This $45 gadget turns your Linux PC into an off-grid chat node

With this radio module, you can get directly onto the Meshtastic network without need to flash anything.