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SHOW NOTES ►► https://thisweekinlinux.com/346Chapters:00:00 Intro 00:54 Project Lightwell: IBM & Red Hat’s B Open Source Security Effort 03:55 OS-Level Age Checks Might Exempt Linux, But There’s a Catch 07:12 Linus Torvalds says AI Tools Can Help, But Bad Reports Waste Maintainer Time 10:52 MoonRay: DreamWorks’ Film Renderer Moves Deeper Into Open Source 12:10 Sway 1.12 and labwc 0.20 Push Lightweight Wayland Forward 15:04 Flathub and QEMU Draw Different Lines on AI Contributions 19:19 Purism’s Latest PureOS Release Feels Late on Arrival 22:53 Outro SHOW NOTES ►► https://thisweekinlinux.com/346 Links:Project Lightwell: IBM & Red Hat’s B Open Source Security Effort, https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/project-lightwell-secure-open-source, https://www.redhat.com/en/lightwell, https://www.ibm.com/products/lightwell, https://www.infoworld.com/article/4178451/ibm-and-red-hat-want-to-become-the-security-clearinghouse-for-open-source-applications-in-the-enterprise.html, https://devops.com/ibm-red-hat-launch-project-lightwell-to-secure-open-source-software-from-frontier-models/, https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/ibm-red-hat-project-lightwell-140943530.html, OS-Level Age Checks Might Exempt Linux, But There’s a Catch, https://itsfoss.com/news/age-verification-open-source-exemptions/, https://fossforce.com/2026/05/the-quiet-clause-that-may-save-linux-from-age-verification-laws/, https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/linux-and-open-source-getting-age-checking-exemptions-could-be-problematic/, https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/colorado-and-california-age-verification-bills-exempt-open-source-operating-systems/, https://www.phoronix.com/news/California-AB-1856, Linus Torvalds says AI Tools Can Help, But Bad Reports Waste Maintainer Time, https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-has-a-love-hate-relationship-with-ai/, https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/linux-head-says-ai-tools-are-great-but-theyre-making-the-security-list-almost-entirely-unmanageable/, https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-AI-Tools-Can-Be-Great, https://linuxiac.com/linus-torvalds-merges-new-linux-kernel-security-bug-guidelines/, MoonRay: DreamWorks’ Film Renderer Moves Deeper Into Open Source, https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/moonray-dreamworks-animations-open-source-production-renderer-joins-the-academy-software-foundation, https://tuxdigital.com/videos/how-dreamworks-uses-linux-open-source-to-create-blockbuster-movies/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q8xp8fhDLk, Sway 1.12 and labwc 0.20 Push Lightweight Wayland Forward, Sway:, https://9to5linux.com/sway-1-12-wayland-compositor-released-with-hdr10-support-via-vulkan-renderer, https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sway-1.12-Released, https://linuxiac.com/sway-1-12-wayland-compositor-released-with-hdr10-and-window-capture/, labwc:, https://www.phoronix.com/news/Labwc-0.20-Compositor, https://linuxiac.com/labwc-0-20-wayland-compositor-released-with-wlroots-0-20-support/, Flathub and QEMU Draw Different Lines on AI Contributions, Flathub:, https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/requirements#generative-ai-policy, https://social.treehouse.systems/@barthalion/116657011366876079, https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/flathub-moves-to-ban-nearly-all-apps-and-submissions-made-with-generative-ai/, QEMU:, https://www.qemu.org/, https://www.phoronix.com/news/QEMU-Patch-Allows-Some-AI, https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2026-05/msg07614.html, Purism’s Latest PureOS Release Feels Late on Arrival, https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-development-report-april-2026-pureos-crimson-released/, Trisquel 12 - https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-343/, Fairphone 6 via Murena - https://murena.com/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-fairphone-6/, Support the show, https://tuxdigital.com/membership, https://store.tuxdigital.com/, Thanks For Watching! #Linux #News #Podcast Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:00:01 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.fschaupp.me https://peertube.fschaupp.me/lazy-static/avatars/4b6c0ef0-0977-4128-9db5-b081da5794bb.png https://peertube.fschaupp.me/videos/watch/eebda24a-5870-4578-8eca-5995b28ac567 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.fschaupp.me/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.