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Wikipedia is 25 years old and has found a good way to deal with the AI scraping problem, the Python Software Foundation funds the security work they had planned, curl’s bug bounty program is ending, Raspberry Pi has new underwhelming hardware, and European AWS hasn’t won Félim over. Plus a reminder about the upcoming OggCamp event, and a call for participation.

News

Wikipedia celebrates 25 years of knowledge at its best (and does deals with more AI companies)

Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there’s a plugin to avoid them

Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security

The end of the curl bug-bounty

Introducing the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2: Generative AI on Raspberry Pi 5

Raspberry Pi Flash Drive available now from $30: a high-quality essential accessory

AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty

OggCamp 2026

OggCamp crew lead Andy Piper tells us about the upcoming unconference.

Call for volunteer crew

Call for papers

Check out Andy’s podcast

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We cover your feedback including follow-up on old tablets as clocks, Firefox alternatives, and moving off Gmail. Plus building synths in Rust, FOSS isometric diagrams, a powerful network analysis tool for Android, and some cool ambient music in discoveries.

Discoveries

CAW

FossFlow

Félim’s bad diagram

Blade Runner Radio

LUX on Bandcamp

Network Survey

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Hype is really starting to build for Valve’s upcoming Steam hardware and other great gaming news, Stack Overflow is losing to LLMs, old men like Félim don’t want to lose middle click paste, our optimism about Google continuing to release Android source code was misplaced, and Bose demonstrates how to kill a product.

News

The Steam Machine’s Price Might Have Just Leaked And It’s Not What We Hoped For

Canonical Builds Steam Snap For Ubuntu ARM64 Leveraging FEX

Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58%

GeForce NOW coming to Linux

Stack Overflow graph

GNOME dev gives fans of Linux’s middle-click paste the middle finger

Google will now only release Android source code twice a year

Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life

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It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2025 predictions, and make some new ones for 2026.

Will mentioned The Enshittifinancial Crisis and an article about solar panels.

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It’s our 2025 review of Linux and open source news including great gaming news, the impact of AI, the disappointments from Mozilla, the year of Wayland on the desktop, the politics of open source, Intel’s lack of interest, and wins for KDE.

Gaming

Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve

Steam Deck LCD production is ending

AI bullshit

Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

Wikimedia Foundation bemoans AI bot bandwidth burden

ardour.org has banned 1.2M distinct IP addresses for trying to slurp from our git repository

Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI

You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling

Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers

FSF calls Anubis malware

It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges

Mozilla

Updates on Mozilla’s Leadership and Growth Planning

Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox

An update on our Terms of Use

Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic

Investing in what moves the internet forward

When I say that I can’t recommend third-party forks of either Firefox or Chrome for real world use, this kind of thing is why

Firefox is fine. The people running it are not

Mozilla Slammed Over Battery-Draining “Garbage” AI in Firefox

Firefox Adds CoPilot Chatbot, New Tab Widgets in Nightly Builds

Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we’re working on and how you can help shape it

Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web

Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Wayland

Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME

GNOME Dropping X11 Support May Complicate Next Ubuntu LTS

Ubuntu 25.10 drops support for GNOME on Xorg

Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions

An update on the X11 GNOME Session Removal

Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org

Wayback 0.3 released!

GNOME Mutter Now “Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend”

KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future

Politics

The price of software freedom is eternal politics

Framework flame war erupts over Linux controversy

PSF Gets a Donor Surge After Rejecting Anti-DEI Federal Grant

Intel

All good things come to an end: Shutting down Clear Linux OS

Intel’s Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source

The Death Of Clear Linux, Other Intel Linux Engineering Setbacks In 2025

KDE

KDE Highlights from 2025

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Good news for custom Android ROMs, Rust is here to stay in the kernel, an open source success story in Germany, and a new version of elementary OS is out. Plus discoveries is back including better Firefox history, migrating from Windows to Linux, automating telescopes, turning old tablets into clocks, and more.

News

Good news for custom ROMs: Google just released the Android 16 QPR2

The (successful) end of the kernel Rust experiment

New Linux Patch Confirms: Rust Experiment Is Done, Rust Is Here To Stay

Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein relies on Open Source and saves millions

elementary OS 8.1 Available Now

Discoveries

Better History

Operese

commodore64 is back!?

Making History: Signing the Commodore Contract + C64 Ultimate Production Update

PiFinder

Fullscreen Clock

Clasp

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The Steam machine will use an older HDMI standard because of arbitrary rules, more details about running X86 Windows games on Arm Linux, and the Steam Controller lives on. Plus Calibre is adding “AI”, and we laugh at another LLM.

News

Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama

Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow

Remember Google Stadia? Steam finally made its gamepad worth rescuing

Talk to your Fedora system with the linux-mcp-server!

Calibre adds AI “discussion” feature

Because the Calibre ebook library software just acquired AI garbage it has *already* been forked

AI and GNOME Shell Extensions

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Arduino’s new ToS has some people worried, some projects are starting to move away from GitHub for technical reasons, Raspberry Pi has a new model and prices are going up because of RAM costs, great news for OpenPrinting, old text adventure games get open source, and Joe’s foldable phone breaks in an unexpected way.

News

Arduino’s new terms of service worries hobbyists ahead of Qualcomm acquisition

Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg

Migrating Dillo from GitHub

1GB Raspberry Pi 5 now available at $45, and memory-driven price rises

Sovereign Tech Agency is investing in OpenPrinting

Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source

1Password Extended Access Management

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KDE Plasma is finally moving on from X11, Tuxedo Computers abandons their Arm laptop project, Mozilla completely loses the room, but there might be a glimmer of hope.

News

Going all-in on a Wayland future

Help us reach the inflection point

Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC

Linux Device Trees For Cancelled Products? Don’t “Waste Time”

Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web

Mozilla’s ‘Rewiring’ to AI – Saving the Web or Saving Itself?

Servo Announces Sponsorship Tiers To Get More Organizations Backing This Browser Engine

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Ubuntu get 15 years of support, Google finally releases Android source code and backs down on “sideloading”, more steps to move on from X11, IKEA launches a range of Matter IoS gear, and more.

News

Canonical expands total coverage for Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on

The wait is over: Android 16 QPR1’s source code is now available on AOSP

Google will let expert Android users to sideload all apps

GNOME Mutter Now “Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend”

PSF Gets a Donor Surge After Rejecting Anti-DEI Federal Grant

Introducing Blender Lab

IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products

Ikea’s new smart home collection is entirely Matter-compatible

KDE Korner

Help us reach the inflection point

Google Summer of Code 2025 Conclusion – KDE Mentorship

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