An aluminum-oxide buffer just 0.42 nanometers thick could make transistors built from single-atom 2D semiconductors practical. The result comes from TSMC and NYCU and appeared in Nature Electronics.
Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS bundles four months of fixes and opens the upgrade path for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users. A new HWE kernel only arrives with 26.04.2.
Linus Torvalds has shipped Linux 7.2 on schedule. The stable release brings cache-aware scheduling, Btrfs and EXT4 improvements, new AMD and Intel drivers, and initial Apple M3 support.
The Debian-based distribution Shadowfetch Linux 3.0 introduces “Fireline,” a safety system that locks autonomous AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex into a sandbox and makes their changes reversible.
Omarchy 4 replaces numerous Wayland tools with a unified Quickshell interface. In parallel, the Omacom Foundation raises ten million dollars.
Multikernel Linux (v7.0-mk2, based on Linux 7.0) runs several independent kernels simultaneously on one machine – with no hypervisor.
The immutable distribution Vanilla OS 3 “Reunion” brings GNOME 50, ARM64 support, reproducible images and a reworked base.
Manjaro 26.1.1 is out – the first point release of the 26.1 series, with Linux kernel 7.2, KDE Frameworks 6.29 and Mesa 26.1.7.
The University of Göttingen has imaged the full 3D wavefunction of an organic molecule for the first time – on a lab bench instead of a synchrotron.
Google hands its A2A agent protocol to the Linux Foundation. It joins the Agentic AI Foundation – alongside Anthropic’s MCP under a neutral roof.
