France's national digital directorate has officially announced a plan to migrate from Windows to Linux and EU-made open-source software, with each ministry required to submit migration plans by autumn 2026. The Gendarmerie already runs ~100,000 Linux machines saving €2M/year. Other news includes Linux distros (Zorin OS, Debian, Solus) taking cautious stances on age verification laws, KDE Plasma 6 reviving the Oxygen and Air themes for 6.7, Mesa adopting an AI disclosure policy requiring humans to be responsible for AI-generated code submissions, a proposed Linux kernel driver to detect malicious USB devices, COSMIC desktop UI toolkit improvements, Anthropic donating $1.5M to the Apache Foundation, Valve improving AMD RADV Vulkan driver VRAM management for systems with 8GB or less, and Wine 10.6 restoring Android driver support and improving DLL loading for game mods.
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