Shotwell has long served as the default photo manager for many Linux distributions built on GNOME. Its clean interface and straightforward tools for importing, organizing and basic editing made it a staple. Yet the application had grown dated. The last major version arrived three years ago. Now that wait ends with Shotwell 33.0. The release

The BFS filesystem, a component of the Linux kernel for many years, is scheduled for removal in an upcoming kernel release. According to a report from Phoronix, the decision stems from the filesystem’s minimal ongoing use and the growing maintenance burden it places on kernel developers. This move reflects the kernel community’s ongoing efforts to

Usama Arif keeps finding speed hidden in plain sight inside the Linux kernel’s Zstandard implementation. Last month he exposed an embarrassing repeated CPUID check that wasted cycles on every compression and decompression operation. Now he has followed up with two small patches that eliminate another pointless initialization step. The changes target the crypto subsystem’s Zstd

A one-line change in the memory management code has closed a bug that quietly discarded user data under common production conditions. The fix arrived this week in the Linux 7.3 development cycle, three years after the offending commit first appeared. Developers discovered the problem early in September 2026. A short C program reproduced it reliably.

Developers compiling the Linux kernel day after day know the drill. Hours slip by as make commands grind through millions of lines of code. Even on powerful servers the process drags. Single-threaded sections in the build system create choke points that extra cores cannot touch. Now a new set of changes promises real relief. Lorenzo

Arnd Bergmann has spent years steering the ARM side of the Linux kernel. Now his latest work promises to strip away a quarter million lines of code that almost no one uses anymore. The change marks another step in a long pattern of shedding support for hardware that has faded from relevance. Just days ago

Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.3-rc3 last week. He called it another fairly large release candidate. The filesystem patches stood out this time. XFS and the SMB client took much of the attention. Yet for users of Intel’s latest laptop silicon, a quieter set of changes delivers measurable gains. On the Framework Laptop 13 Pro powered

Mozilla has released Firefox 156, bringing a collection of performance improvements, security updates, and new features that enhance everyday browsing for millions of users worldwide. The update arrives as the browser continues to maintain a significant share of the desktop and mobile markets while facing growing competition from Chrome, Edge, and Safari. According to the

Oracle Corp. and OpenAI struck one of the largest cloud contracts in history last year. The $300 billion agreement commits the artificial intelligence startup to buy vast computing power from the database giant over five years. Power needs will reach 4.5 gigawatts. That matches the output of more than two Hoover Dams. The deal forms

Intel shares have climbed more than 300% in the past year. The rally reflects genuine progress in data-center sales and manufacturing yields. Yet many analysts still rate the stock a hold. Something more is needed before the valuation justifies further gains. At around $97, Intel trades with expectations already baked in. Second-quarter revenue hit $16.13