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Raspberry Pi OS 6.2 tightens security by requiring a password for sudo commands on new installations and replaces PulseAudio with PipeWire across the desktop stack.

Meta releases Muse Spark, a proprietary multimodal reasoning model from its new Superintelligence Labs unit, marking a sharp departure from its open-weight Llama strategy after a nine-month infrastructure rebuild.

A coalition of nine European companies forked OnlyOffice into Euro-Office, prompting an AGPL v3 licensing dispute and the suspension of an eight-year Nextcloud partnership.

Nvidia's new Ising family targets quantum error correction and calibration, claiming 2.5x faster and 3x more accurate decoding than the current open-source standard, with more than 20 labs and hardware makers already on board.

Microsoft's third .NET 11 preview brings the first in-SDK drop of C# 15 union types, Zstandard support in ASP.NET Core, and cryptographically signed container images.

The ASF targets $10M over three years to secure the open source infrastructure AI depends on, with Anthropic providing $1.5M and Alpha-Omega contributing $250K as seed funding.

Etsy has finished migrating its proprietary 1,000-shard MySQL infrastructure to Vitess after five years, 2,500 pull requests, and 6,000 query rewrites, eliminating a single point of failure while preserving its existing data layout through custom vindexes.

The Servo project publishes its first crates.io release, making the Rust-native browser engine available as an embeddable library with a WebView API and a six-month LTS cycle.

Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 unifies Semantic Kernel's enterprise foundations with AutoGen's multi-agent orchestration into one open-source SDK for .NET and Python, with support for A2A and MCP protocols.

Linux 7.0 arrives on April 12, graduating Rust from experimental status, introducing an extensible eBPF scheduler framework, and adding autonomous XFS repair capabilities.

The Rust for CPython project has achieved cross-platform builds in CI and shifted its target from Python 3.15 to 3.16, setting a July deadline to submit a formal Python Enhancement Proposal that would make Rust a build-time dependency of the reference interpreter.

SIG Network ships the stable release of its migration tool two weeks before Ingress-NGINX was archived, expanding annotation coverage tenfold and introducing behavioral equivalence testing against live clusters.