TrueNAS 26 Beta released today as the initial test release for this next version of this Linux-based operating system for network attached storage (NAS) devices and more.

Before getting to the technical changes, one immediate difference coming with TrueNAS 26 is that... It's just that. It's not TrueNAS 26.04 or the like as they are now shifting to an annual release cadence compared to their prior twice-yearly cadence. Their reasoning is that an annual release cadence is

The Rust-based Redox OS open-source operating system provided a status update on all of their interesting development activities during the month of March. In addition to a lot of code improvements, Redox OS also enhanced its documentation as well as added an AI policy to reject any contributions relying on large language models.

The Redox OS blog published their March 2026 status update today. Some of the most interesting takeaways include:

- The libcosmic demo in the COSMIC compositor can now run on Redox OS, as part

At the end of March AMD announced the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor with both dies having 3D V-Cache. This 16 core processor with 206MB of total cache is quit exciting and will be on sale later this month but AMD refrained from commenting on the price until today.

There were some early Internet listings that suggested the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 price could be around $990~1000 USD, but the

Set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is the "Yogafan" hardware monitoring driver to provide fan speed monitoring not only for Lenovo Yoga laptops but also various Legion and IdeaPad laptops too.

The Lenovo Yogafan driver will provide fan speed monitoring for Yoga, Legion, Flex, Slim, and IdeaPad laptops via interfaces exposed over ACPI with the Embedded Controller (EC) found on these laptops. Lenovo laptops rely on an EC interface over ACPI rather than LPC hardware monitoring chips or similar.

Intel's OpenVINO toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inferencing across their range of hardware platforms is out with its newest quarterly feature update. There is official support for Intel's latest hardware as well as enabling more large language models and other new AI innovations for this excellent open-source Intel software project.

OpenVINO 2026.1 continues tacking on more GenAI features. For both CPU and GPU execution, OpenVINO 2026.1 now supports Qwen3 VL. On the CPU side there is also

Google on Tuesday announced the Chrome 147 stable release to all Windows, macOS, and Linux users. There are a number of refinements in this latest routine Chrome stable update paired with various fixes and new developer capabilities.

Chrome 147 enforces a number of new Local Network Access (LNA) restrictions. WebSockets connections to the local address will trigger permission prompts, due to local WebSockets connections being subject to various attacks. Chrome 147 is also enforcing LNA restrictions on WebTransport usage to the user's local

Announced today from the PyTorch Conference EU in Paris is word that Hugging Face has contributed their Safetensors project to the PyTorch Foundation, which is an umbrella organization under the Linux Foundation for hosting AI initiatives. Safetensors aims to help mitigate arbitrary code execution risks and more.

Safetensors is a file format for storing and loading model weights while avoiding the risk of arbitrary code execution and security shortcomings of other formats like Pickle while also offering better performance and robust compatibility.

In addition to the release today of Flatpak 1.16.4 for shipping new security fixes including a sandbox escape and the ability to delete host files , XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.20.4 is also now available with another security fix of its own to prevent sandboxed apps from being able to trash arbitrary host files.

XDG Desktop Portal is the portal front-end service to Flatpak and desktop containment frameworks. Unfortunately, it too neeeded a new point release to address an outstanding security issue.

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