Open Source

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Fedora 44 Beta Ships with GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, and Wayland-Only Default

Fedora Linux 44 Beta has arrived with simultaneous upgrades to GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.6, dropping X11 sessions entirely in favor of a Wayland-only future. The release includes Linux kernel 6.19, GCC 16.1, Go 1.26, and a project-wide goal of 99% reproducible builds.

Mar 16

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NVIDIA Open-Sources NemoClaw: Enterprise AI Agent Platform Debuts Ahead of GTC

NVIDIA has released NemoClaw as an open-source enterprise AI agent platform, offering a chip-agnostic framework for building, deploying, and managing autonomous AI agents at scale. The platform integrates with NeMo, Nemotron models, and NIM microservices, with launch partners including Salesforce, Cisco, Google, Adobe, and CrowdStrike.

Mar 15

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Linux Kernel 7.0 Hits RC3 as Rust Support Officially Graduates to Stable

Linux 7.0-rc3 lands with a milestone for systems programming: Rust language support in the kernel is now officially stable after years of experimental status, plus early driver enablement for Intel Nova Lake and AMD Zen 6 hardware.

Mar 13

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Apple Introduces iPhone 17e with A19 Chip at $599 Starting at 256GB Storage

Apple officially launches the iPhone 17e featuring the A19 chip, a 48MP camera system, and 256GB starting storage — doubling the base storage of its predecessor at the same $599 price point, with pre-orders starting March 4 and availability on March 11.

Mar 11

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FOSSASIA Summit 2026 Opens in Bangkok with Focus on Open AI and Hardware

FOSSASIA Summit 2026 opens as a two-day hybrid event in Bangkok, Thailand on March 9-10, showcasing the latest developments in open-source AI tools, open hardware designs, and community-driven technology projects across the Asia-Pacific region.

Mar 8

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Rust 1.94.0 Enters Beta as Language Continues Six-Week Release Cadence

Rust 1.94.0 enters beta on March 5, continuing the language's disciplined six-week release cycle — with stabilized APIs for async iterator traits, improved compile times for large projects, and enhanced diagnostics for lifetime errors.

Mar 5

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OpenClaw Surpasses React as GitHub's Most-Starred Project at 250,000 Stars

OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent framework, crosses 250,000 GitHub stars — surpassing React to become GitHub's most-starred software project. What took React over a decade to achieve, OpenClaw accomplished in roughly 60 days.

Mar 3

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Huawei Open-Sources A2A-T Agent Protocol at MWC 2026 for Telecom Network Automation

At Mobile World Congress 2026, Huawei launches the open-source A2A-T (Agent-to-Agent for Telecom) protocol — including SDK, Registry Center, and visual Orchestration Center — claiming to reduce multi-vendor integration cycles from months to days.

Mar 1

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Hacktivist Groups Keymous+ and DieNet Drive 70% of Retaliatory Cyber Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers report that two hacktivist groups — Keymous+ and DieNet — drove nearly 70% of all retaliatory cyber attack activity in the final days of February, targeting government websites, financial institutions, and critical infrastructure across NATO-aligned countries.

Feb 28

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Rowspace Launches with $50 Million to Unify Messy Financial Data Using AI

San Francisco fintech startup Rowspace goes live with $50 million in combined seed and Series A funding led by Sequoia and Emergence Capital, using AI to unify scattered data across document repositories, investment platforms, and accounting systems for private equity firms.

Feb 27

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Chinese Firm Releases Open-Source Quantum Computing Operating System for Public Download

OriginQ, a Hefei-based quantum computing startup, publicly releases its quantum operating system under an open-source license — making it the first full-stack quantum OS available for unrestricted download and modification.

Feb 23

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EU Digital Omnibus Proposes Delaying AI Act High-Risk Compliance by Up to 16 Months

The European Commission's Digital Omnibus proposal would push back AI Act transparency obligations by six months and high-risk AI compliance deadlines by up to 16 months, signaling that implementing landmark AI regulation is harder in practice than on paper.

Feb 22