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The European Commission named EUROPA, led by Italy's Domyn, winner of its Frontier AI Grand Challenge to build an open model above 400 billion parameters.

The open-source game engine's June feature release adds HDR output across five platforms, rectangular area lights, wasm64 web exports, and a new Asset Store.

Linus Torvalds tagged Linux 7.1 on June 14, 2026, adding a from-scratch in-kernel NTFS driver, switching Intel FRED to opt-out, and deleting roughly 140,000 lines of legacy code.

KDE released Plasma 6.7 on June 16, 2026, adding independent virtual desktops per monitor, a refreshed KDE 4-era Oxygen theme, and simultaneous HDR and ICC color management.

OpenCV 5.0, released in early June, rebuilds its deep-learning engine, lifts ONNX coverage past 80%, and can run LLMs and VLMs with no separate runtime.

GCC 16.1 was released April 30 with ga68, an experimental Algol 68 compiler targeting the Revised Report. The shipped frontend bundles a driver, a compiler proper, and a runtime library.

The Linux Foundation and Databricks unveiled OpenSharing on June 10, a vendor-neutral protocol that extends Delta Sharing's zero-copy model to agent skills, AI models, and unstructured data.

SIG-etcd released v3.4.45 alongside v3.5.31 and v3.6.12, marking the end of support for the v3.4 series and pushing remaining users to upgrade.

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7-Code, an open-weight 1-trillion-parameter MoE coding model under a Modified MIT License, claiming roughly 30% lower thinking-token usage than K2.6 on self-run benchmarks.

Weaviate's June release moves HFresh, an SPFresh-inspired disk index, to general availability and adds preview multi-tenant namespaces and a built-in MCP server.

At the Ubuntu Summit, SpacemiT showed its 16-core Key Stone K3 running Ubuntu responsively, with a Banana Pi board priced at roughly twice a Raspberry Pi 5.

The Linux Foundation's Redis fork ships multi-tenant access control, native JSON logs, and throughput gains, cutting per-key memory by up to 10 percent.