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Echoes #202626: y2026, w26

Weekly Echoes #2026W26: IT news, round-up, week 26; from 06/22 to 06/28.

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Gaming

Gaming:2026/06/22

⇒ (Linux) Forza Horizon: troubleshooting

tips for how the game Forza Horizon works (5) on Linux

⇒ (Linux) Elite Dangerous: complementary tools

Installation and configuration of additional tools to play Elite Dangerous (Steam) on Linux

IT

IT:2026/06/23

⇒ The Matter upgrade you’ve been waiting for

It started as a passion project. Yet in a few years matter.js has grown beyond my wildest expectations, becoming the backbone of the open source Matter ecosystem, and powering everything from Homebridge to openHAB, and even some commercial products.

⇒ OpenBSD/amd64 kernel virtual address space is now 512GB

We almost missed this in a flurry of commits by Jonathan gray (jsg@), but following this commit, OpenBSD/amd64 kernels now have a 512GB address space.

⇒ Bridging the Gap Between Code and Research: Why SCORED ’26 Matters for Open Source Security

Introduction: The Evolving Threat Landscape. Let’s be completely honest about how we’ve historically handled security research: academia and open source practitioners have basically been living on two different planets.

IT:2026/06/24

⇒ Ignore DNSSEC if you like MITM attacks

One day around 2010, we experimented at work with ARP poisoning and intercepting traffic for other hosts on the network at work. We immediately saw all traffic flowing through the network. Between all that data, we caught a glace of bits of messages of a few colleagues talking to their families over MSN Messenger. Shit, we didn’t mean to spy on anyone, we were trying to understand our network security better. The experience was unsettling.

⇒ Learn C Programming — Lesson 2: Program Structure

Learn the principal structure of a C program — this is lesson 2 from Modern C by Jens Gustedt (Level 0, section 2: Grammar, Declarations, Definitions, Statements).

⇒ New FreeBSD Core Team Elected

The FreeBSD project is pleased to announce that the 2026 FreeBSD Core Team election has concluded, and the following nine members now take office as the fourteenth Core Team:

⇒ GFLW error 65545 with Prism on Linux

Prism is our preferred Minecraft launcher, because it’s significantly faster than the stock Microsoft one, and includes cats. It’s also written in Qt, so it integrates well into our Fedora KDE Linux desktops.

IT:2026/06/25

⇒ Linux Users Get This For Free! Brave Origin Costs $59.99 For Everyone Else

Brave strips out AI, Rewards, Wallet, and VPN, but ad and tracker blocking stay intact for Origin users.

⇒ Quantum Computers Are A Scam

Quantum computers are the cold fusion of our lifetime: for the classes of problems they’d be good at they would be world-changing. Unfortunately they’re mired in problems nobody wants to discuss:

⇒ BSD Now—669: Poudriere Speed Run

inotify in FreeBSD, how changes to poudriere.conf affect the build time, Migrating mail servers from exim to OpenSMTPD, and more…

⇒ The CRA Readiness Reality: What Changed (and What Didn’t) Between 2025 and 2026?

In 2025, Linux Foundation Research, Linux Foundation Europe, and Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) published Unaware and Uncertain: The Stark Realities of Cyber Resilience Act Readiness in Open Source. It took a survey-based look at how prepared the open source ecosystem was for the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (EU CRA). The headline finding was blunt: 62% of respondents had little to no familiarity with a regulation that would reshape how software gets built, shipped, and maintained across global supply chains. The hope was that with a year to go before the CRA enters into force, community education initiatives and a growing body of guidance would move the readiness needle.

IT:2026/06/26

⇒ Multi-factor logins that account for dashes!

I tend to find myself being grumpy when it comes to web auth, let alone the broader field of modern web design. Such observations lend themselves to cranky blog posts where I pontificate on how and why it got so bad, and so on. So this time I want to address something a website did that was good!

⇒ Three FOSS projects for developers, procrastinators, and media wranglers

Prism tracks AI emissions, Super Productivity keeps tasks local, and TAMOSS brings the BBC’s media API to Kubernetes

⇒ One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V

A homebrew PC and mini-mainframe were only the warm-up for Yuri Zaporozhets’ latest operating system

IT:2026/06/27

⇒ Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

True enlightment only comes from a truly free computing experience, probably! And while there is no nerd who lacks an opinion on Richard Stallman personally, likewise let none claim he does not practice what he preaches. Why, the very laptop in front of him was selected deliberately because it can operate with no binary blobs and no firmware you couldn’t examine or replace with your own, and runs his choice of fully libre operating systems. The fact it has a Chinese MIPS64 derivative in it was undoubtedly just more compound on the heat spreader.

IT:2026/06/28

⇒ Every Physics Teacher (And Student) Should Try This Open Source Software

The free software I used for years as Physics student. I strongly believe teachers can use it to simulate concepts of physics in their classrooms.

Society

Society:2026/06/22

⇒ Commission selects EUROPA consortium as the winner of the Frontier AI Grand Challenge, a project to build European open-source frontier AI model in all 24 EU languages

The European Commission has selected EUROPA, a European consortium led by the Italian company Domyn, as the winner of its Frontier AI Grand Challenge. Commission selects EUROPA consortium as the winner of the Frontier AI Grand Challenge, a project to build European open-source frontier AI model in all 24 EU languages. The project will develop an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model covering all 24 official EU languages.

Society:2026/06/23

⇒ Open Source AI Fellowship Announced at UN Open Source Week

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is pleased to announce the launch of the Open Source AI Fellowship at UN Open Source Week. The fellowship will support OSI’s work to advance understanding, measure trends, engage in policy, and build consensus around what it means for an AI system to be labeled “Open Source.” Through this program, OSI aims to serve as a hub for Open Source AI by coordinating evidence, partnerships, and engagement on key policy and governance issues.

Society:2026/06/25

⇒ SUSE and Openchip Partner to Develop Sovereign European RISC-V Hardware and Open Source Software Stack

The companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to optimize enterprise Linux and Kubernetes software for European-designed RISC-V processors.

Society:2026/06/26

⇒ Linux Foundation and Industry Leaders Launch Akrites to Defend Critical Open Source Software Against AI-Enabled Cyber Threats

Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Chainguard, Cisco, Citi, Endor Labs, Ericsson, Google, IBM, JPMorganChase, Microsoft and GitHub, NVIDIA, OpenAI, RapidFort, Red Hat, Rust Foundation, Sonatype, Vodafone and Zscaler join coordinated effort to find, fix and responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in open source software the world runs on

⇒ Linux Foundation and leading orgs launch Akrites to protect open source from AI threats

The generative AI boom has caused a lot of hardware pricing problems, and also a fair amount of security issues - which Akrites hopes to help with.

⇒ Oracle promises to open up MySQL governance, but the community wants guarantees

Open source advocates remain concerned over lack of binding commitments