GNOME 50 Drops X11. The GNOME Foundation Drops Trust.

GNOME 50 shipped March 18 without X11. Three directors burned. 33% of staff cut. $105,000 on payroll. Fedora 44 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will deliver it next week.

Linux 7.0: One Bash Script. One Weekend. 23 Years of Kernel Bugs.

Linux 7.0 shipped on April 12. Rust is official. AI is now a kernel coworker. Linus Torvalds calls this the new normal.

A Dorm Room in 1993. The International Space Station Today. One Person the Industry Forgot.

Deb and Ian. A 20-year-old's act of love is now the foundation on which billions of lines of code run. The relationship lasted 14 years. The name will last forever.

📬 Open Source & Linux Weekly - W15_2026

Linux 7.0 ships with Rust, AccECN, and an unfixed PostgreSQL regression. France orders ministries to exit Windows. Wasmtime patches 12 CVEs from LLM sprint.

Two Weeks of Fake Friendship. One Click. A Global Backdoor.

North Korea built a fake company to trick one developer. For three hours, a tool used by banks, hospitals, and governments carried a hidden spy program.

Billions Read His Code. 7 Days in Prison. No Regret.

Four agents. Evin's Ward 2A. Eight-hour interrogations. They wanted an informant on activists in three countries. He refused. Five years later, his code shipped.

Claude Code Finds 500 Zero-Days, Meta Redefines "Open," CISA Deadline Hits

Claude Code finds 500+ zero-days across open source in weeks. Meta ships hobbled "open" AI models. CISA's Trivy deadline hits today.

An AI Agent Filed a DMCA Takedown. The Rights Holder Had No Idea.

An unauthorized AI agent filed a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) copyright takedown against gallery-dl, and the rights holder never approved it. Linux 7.0-rc7 confirms April 13 stable release.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Breaks Backward Compatibility on Purpose

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships three changes that will break existing workflows on upgrade day