KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands October 14 — A Full Wayland Desktop for KDE's 30th Birthday
KDE Plasma 6.8 ships on KDE's 30th anniversary with Union theming for QtWidgets apps, a complete Wayland transition, and a fix for NVIDIA GPU tiling lag. »
LineageOS 24.0 Arrives with Android 17 and a Browser-Based Flasher
LineageOS 24.0 ships Android 17 to over 196 devices and introduces a WebUSB flasher that lets you install it directly from your browser — no command line required. »
COSMIC Epoch 1.10 Fixes the 1fps Launcher — GPU Acceleration, Tablet Mapping, and More
System76's Rust-based COSMIC desktop just shipped version 1.10 with GPU-accelerated launcher rendering, fixing the painfully slow software renderer that plagued earlier builds. The update also adds drawing tablet display mapping and several quality-of-life improvements. »
Atomic Machines Exits Stealth with $250M and a Relay That Opens 1,000× Faster Than Anything on the Market
Jeff Holden's six-year stealth startup just announced a manufacturing system that builds micro-machines from digital files — and its first product is a power relay designed to prevent catastrophic failures in 800-volt AI data centers. »
Cloudflare Acquires Deno: The End of an Independent Runtime and a Bet on Self-Hosted Workers
Cloudflare is buying Deno and bringing Ryan Dahl's team in-house. The Deno runtime gets one year, Deno Deploy gets six months — but celld, the tool that lets you run Workers on your own servers, is what Cloudflare really wanted. »