The AI coding gap: Why senior devs are getting faster while juniors spin their wheels

With close to one-third of code now AI-generated, a new study finds substantial increases in output and unexpected benefits.

Your eBooks Don't Have to Look Boring, Calibre 9.0 Now has Shelves

The eBook manager gets a visual upgrade with bookshelves and in-viewer editing.

FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending January 31, 2025

Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read article on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.
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Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 3 is available to download

The third Ubuntu 26.04 snapshot is out, giving you an easy way to test the ‘Resolute Raccoon’ ahead of its stable release in April. Details and links inside.
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Tails 7.4.1 Ships Fast to Patch OpenSSL Bug Threatening Anonymity

Emergency Tails 7.4.1 update patches critical OpenSSL flaws that could let malicious Tor relays deanonymize users.
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Manually Install/Remove NVIDIA GeForce Now in Linux via Flatpak

NVIDIA GeForce Now added official Linux support yesterday via Flatpak package! Here’s the step by step guide shows you how to manually install or remove it in Ubuntu and other Linux. GeForce Now is NVIDIA’s cloud gaming service streams high-end PC games to laptops, phones, and TVs, allowing for better gaming experience without requiring high-end […]

NVIDIA VA-API Driver Released 0.0.15 with Few VP8 Improvements

NVIDIA VA-API Driver, the VA-API implementation that uses NVDEC as backend, released new 0.0.15 version yesterday. For those who don’t know about it, it’s a free open-source API for NVIDIA users to enable hardware accelerated video decoding support when using Firefox web browser. As you may know, Firefox so for only supports VA-API for hardware […]

Systemd Creator Quits Microsoft to Form His Own Linux-focused Start Up

Based in Germany, the company is made up of open source veteran developers.

Why France just dumped Microsoft Teams and Zoom – and what’s replacing them

France plans to replace all US video-conferencing services, marking the EU’s latest push for digital sovereignty – with more moves on the way.

gettext @ Savannah: GNU gettext 1.0 released

Download from https:/ … p.gnu.o … ttext-0.26.tar.gz

New in this release:

Improvements for maintainers and distributors:

In a po/ directory, the PO files are now exactly those that the translators submitted or committed in version control…

OpenClaw is a security nightmare – 5 red flags you shouldn’t ignore (before it’s too late)

Handing your computing tasks over to a cute AI crustacean might be intriguing – but you should consider these security risks before doing so.

Inside the Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG): A New Layer of Kernel Integrity Protection

by George Whittaker

In an era where security threats continually evolve, protecting the heart of an operating system, the kernel, has never been more critical. One tool gaining tractio…

A Bunch of Developers Have Come Together to Make Linux Gaming Great

The people behind Bazzite, Fyra Labs, Nobara, ChimeraOS, and a few other projects have teamed up to improve Linux gaming for everyone.

I stopped using ChatGPT for everything: These AI models beat it at research, coding, and more

ChatGPT isn’t the best at everything, believe it or not. So I found the best AI models for any job.

7 open-source apps I’d happily pay for – because they’re that good

These apps are free, but they’re so good, I’d gladly throw cash at them. Here’s why.

This Linux desktop runs like an app on your current desktop – and it’s amazing

Orbitiny is snappy, portable, and feels like a native experience.

Linux Kernel Project Releases Project Continuity Document

What happens to Linux when there’s no Linus? It’s a question many of us have asked over the years, and it seems it’s also on the minds of the Linux kernel project.

Free Up Disk Space by Removing Old Snap Versions

Running out of disk space on Ubuntu? Before you start uninstalling applications or clearing caches, you might want to check your snap revisions. I’ve been getting low disk space warnings on a 40GB Ubuntu partition. The usual tips to free space on…

What Happens to Linux After Linus Torvalds? We Finally Have the Answer to This Uncomfortable Question

They finally set this in stone.

Transmission 4.1.0 is out with Sequential Download & IPv6 [Ubuntu PPA]

Transmission Bittorrent client finally released new major 4.1.0 version yesterday! Here are the new features and Ubuntu PPA for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04 and 25.10. The new version is made available after more than a year of development. It fixed the significantly degraded transfer performance in 4.0.x series by changed the uTP ack scheduling algorithm. […]