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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 30th, 2026

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Debian Project Formalizes Responsible Use of Generative AI

The resolution, adopted under the project’s constitutional authority to issue statements of its current position, neither endorses nor prohibits the use of generative AI tools in developing, maintaining, or documenting Debian’s software, packaging, and other media.

California’s Age Attestation Bill to Exclude Linux and All Open Source OSes

This follows months of uncertainty across the open source world, but the bill cleared the Senate this week with unanimous support and now heads to Governor Gavin Newsom, who signed the original act into law last October.

OpenShot 4.0 Open-Source Video Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Coming five months after the OpenShot 3.5 series, the OpenShot 4.0 release introduces a new Recording View with a dedicated audio recording dock for screen, webcam, and audio capture, screen/webcam recording support for Linux on Wayland via desktop portals, and live multi-source recording with timeline previews while recording.

Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 7.3 Release Candidate

Two weeks have passed since the release of Linux kernel 7.2 and the opening of the merge window for Linux kernel 7.3, allowing contributors to submit their patches. This means it’s now time to test-drive the Release Candidate (RC) versions over the next couple of months, every Sunday afternoon.

LinuxGizmos.com

Radxa C201 exposes dual 2.5GbE, NVMe and serial I/O for VMARC-Q9075

Radxa has recently published additional hardware details for the C201, a 120 × 120mm carrier board designed for its compute module based on Qualcomm’s Dragonwing IQ-9075 platform. The board provides access to the module’s high-speed interfaces through dual 2.5GbE, NVMe storage, camera support, as well as RS-232, RS-485, and CAN bus connectivity.

schestowitz.com

End of Summer

It’s not just Gregorian calender

Similar to What Garrett Did in 2021

N 2021 Garrett demanded that I remove, apologise etc.

The Net is a Mess, LLMs Are Partly to Blame

No “manners” anymore

Cars Don’t Always Save Time

Nor improve mood

Windows Measured at 48.3% on This Domain

What AWstat sees

After the Heroes “Move On”

Remember “Pep”?

Nobody is Born Into Activism

It’s a choice

Another Year of Karma

Our vacation comes to an end

Politicians Don’t Understand Kids

They pretend to

Richard Stallman: LLMs Lack Intelligence, Do Injustice

reat interview with Richard Stallman published yesterday.