Firefox 148 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement on Tuesday. Most notable is the new AI controls found with Firefox 148 for those wishing to disable Firefox's growing AI capabilities.

Firefox 148 adds new settings for AI controls within Firefox's settings area for individually manipulating the AI features available in Firefox. This includes the AI "kill switch" for blocking all new or current AI enhancements in Firefox.

The FreeBSD Project has published their Q4'2025 status report to outline progress made on their software, infrastructure, and other initiatives over the past quarter. Meanwhile among the work to look forward to this year in FreeBSD is getting their Rust kernel driver support up to scratch.

The FreeBSD Foundation funded work in Q4 included Sylve as the new unified web management interface for FreeBSD servers. Plus audio stack improvements, improved OpenJDK Java support, wireless driver updates, suspend/resume improvements, and other enhancements to

It was less than four years ago that the modern AMDGPU/AMDKFD open-source driver stack was at four million lines of C code and header files. Now with the Linux 7.0 kernel it has surpassed six million lines. Or put another way, by the same calculations Linux 7.0-rc1 is at 39.2 million with the modern AMD kernel graphics driver now making up 15% of the kernel's entire codebase as the single largest driver.

With the current Linux 6.

For those interested in Vulkan Video on the Intel "ANV" open-source Linux driver, merged last week to Mesa 26.1-devel were some H.265 encode fixes.

The Intel Vulkan Video support on Linux continues to improve largely thanks to the work of Igalia's Hyunjun Ko. Intel is largely focused on the VA-API / oneVPL story for video acceleration while the Igalia engineer has been working on enhancing Vulkan Video support for this open-source Intel Mesa driver. In Mesa 2

While these days nearly every major desktop Linux distribution is using Wayland or at least making it available, a decade ago before reaching that maturity one of the options for showing off the potential of Wayland was the oddly-named RebeccaBlack OS . With "RBOS" it shipped the very latest Wayland components and different desktop and toolkit options to easily try out Wayland-based environments from a live Linux environment. Released overnight was a surprise update to RBOS.

Around fourteen years ago RebeccaBlack OS made it easy to try out Wayland as well

Red Hat engineers this weekend released Tuned 2.27, the newest version of their open-source project to provide a tuning profile delivery mechanism for Linux. Tuned makes it easier to adjust Linux power and performance characteristics depending upon the hardware and the different workload(s) for your Linux system deployment. Tuned is a replacement/alternative to Linux's cpupower and power-profiles-daemon utilities.

Red Hat's Tuned 2.27 brings CPU partitioning improvements, optimizing TCP settings for high throughput and low

FFmpeg developer Lynne is most known recently for all the Vulkan Video work to this open-source multimedia library while merged today to FFmpeg is another great contribution outside the scope of that: xHE-AAC MPS212 audio decoding support.

Since FFmpeg 7.1 there was already an xHE-AAC decoder while now there is xHE-AAC MPS212 decoding support for MPEG-H surround sound audio with 2-1-2 processing mode for upmixing.

In response to a ticket requesting support for it in