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Meet Riff, an Open-Source Spotify Client Built for GNOME

Linuxiac

Cheap GameSir Nova Lite Gaming Controller Supported By Linux 7.4

Phoronix

AV2 Video Codec Adoption Talked Up, SVT-AV2 Being Developed

Phoronix

Building Native Windows UI Entirely in C#: Microsoft.UI.Reactor Offers a New Approach Alongside XAML

Joho no Todai (English)

Realtek rtl8723bs Driver Deleted From Staging Area In Linux 7.4

Phoronix

AMD 600 Series Chipsets Now Have Temperature Monitoring Support On Linux

Phoronix

Edge and Chrome Move to Built-In GPC Data-Sale Opt-Out Signals: Firefox Already Supports Them

Joho no Todai (English)

Bottles Creator Mirko Brombin Wants Microsoft Office on Linux, Not Its Clones

It's FOSS

Google's C Binder Driver Removed With Rust Binder Ready For "Few Billion Devices"

Phoronix

A 19-Year-Old ThinkPad Boots in 30 Seconds: Raspberry Pi Desktop Tests Show What Old PCs Can Still Do

Joho no Todai (English)

KDE Plasma 6.9 to Improve Wayland PiP and Multi-Monitor Support

Linuxiac

PHP2Shell Lurked in PHP's Core for a Decade: AI Proved It Exploitable, and Services Worldwide Stopped

Joho no Todai (English)

Cloudflare's Emergency Brotli WAF Rules Could Block Legitimate Traffic Under Existing Ruleset-Wide Block Settings

Joho no Todai (English)

Windows 11 26H2 Reaches Full Availability for Eligible 25H2/24H2 PCs: Upgrading From 24H2 Is Urgent

Joho no Todai (English)

AMD FSR 4.1.2 Runs on Intel Arc XMX: Unofficial Mod Gets Within 0.01 Milliseconds of XeSS

Joho no Todai (English)

Windows 11 Speed Test Stops Sending Users to Bing: Insider Build Keeps Testing Inside the OS

Joho no Todai (English)

RTX Remix 1.6 Revamps Rendering and Mod Creation With DLSS 5 Neural Rendering and Minecraft Java Support

Joho no Todai (English)

SteamOS 3.9.5 Stable Arrives With Linux 7.2 and Plasma 6.7: Fixes Span Third-Party Handhelds and VR

Joho no Todai (English)

GPU Unlock Taps RTX 30 AI Performance: Up to About 80% Faster BF16, but LLM Inference May Not Improve

Joho no Todai (English)

Twelve Days After a Go Compression Fix, Latest AI Proxy Reportedly Allows Unauthenticated Shutdown

Joho no Todai (English)

Brotli Vulnerability CVE-2026-111497 Extends From Node.js to Python and Envoy: A Shared Compression Library Is the Cause

Joho no Todai (English)

Linux memblock Switches to Binary Search: Handover of 393,000 Regions Drops From 268 Seconds to 50 Milliseconds

Joho no Todai (English)

PHP2Shell scare sees SuperTuxKart pull its online server

OMG! Ubuntu!

Denmark Ends Microsoft Office Alternative Trial Without Evaluation: 38 People, One Year

Joho no Todai (English)

systemd Accepts Rust for New Components Only: No Cargo

Joho no Todai (English)

Secure Boot Bypassed on Patched Windows: BlackX Bootkit Exploits Manual Revocation Gap

Joho no Todai (English)

Proton Maps Over 300,000 Flock Surveillance Devices Across the US: Swiss Hosting Shields Against Legal Threats

Joho no Todai (English)

Linux 7.4 Block Updates Range From Floppy Disk Driver Fixes To Apple M4 NVMe Support

Phoronix

OpenAlex Overhauls Research Classification: 10 Million Japanese Works No Longer Mislabeled as Military Technology

Joho no Todai (English)

Xbox's First COO Leaves After Three Months: CEO Sharma's Memo Is Just Two Sentences

Joho no Todai (English)

systemd Officially Adds Rust Support for New Components

Linuxiac

WireGuard Easy 15.5 Adds AmneziaWG 3.1 Support, Security Fixes

Linuxiac

SteamOS 3.9.5 Released With Linux 7.2 Kernel, KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop & Other Updates

Phoronix

SteamOS 3.9.5 released with Plasma 6.7, Linux 7.2, Security Fixes, better Steam Frame wireless adapter support

GamingOnLinux

Linux's Early Boot-Time Physical Memory Allocator Sees Big Speed-Up: ~268s To ~50ms

Phoronix

openSUSE Board Election 2026 Begins

openSUSE News

Contour 0.8 Terminal Emulator Adds Command Blocks, Faster Rendering

Linuxiac

systemd Merges Support For Rust Programs

Phoronix

539 MM Patches Merged For Linux 7.4 From Optimizations To More DAMON

Phoronix

Wild 0.11 Linker Released - Now Able To Link Linux Kernel Modules, WASM By Default

Phoronix

Linux 7.4 Graphics Driver Changes Headlined By AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Features

Phoronix

RAID Calculator

It's FOSS

Nerdearla’s Returning to Mexico City in November and Planning a US Event

FOSS Force

Shader Effects is the coolest GNOME extension you’ll try this weekend

OMG! Ubuntu!

Transmission 4.1.4 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Released with Various Fixes

9to5Linux

KDE Plasma 6.9 Stabilizes KWin's Wayland Picture-In-Picture Support

Phoronix

Transmission 4.1.4 BitTorrent Client Fixes Download and Security Issues

Linuxiac

How to Get Started With Linux Server Monitoring

LinuxSecurity.com

OBS Studio 33.0 Released with Updated Browser Engine, Plugin Changes

Linuxiac

How to Plan Linux Log Management for Incident Response

LinuxSecurity.com

OBS Studio 33 Arrives with Upgraded NVIDIA FX and Streaming Tools

Ubuntu Buzz!

This Week in Plasma: Fixing All the Bugs, PiP, and Performance

Planet KDE

This Week in Plasma: Fixing All the Bugs, PiP, and Performance

Planet KDE

OBS Studio 33 Officially Released with Many New Features and Improvements

9to5Linux

OBS Studio 33.0 Released With Massive Update To CEF, Improved Plugin Loading

Phoronix

Meet Linksy, an Open-Source Device Connectivity Tool for Linux

Linuxiac

Bottlenecks Discovered by Meta Engineers Lead to Scalability Improvements

Linux Magazine

Linux 7.4 Merges Slab Updates With A Nice Performance Improvement

Phoronix

[$] The first part of the 7.4 merge window

LWN.net

These Projects are Keeping X11 Dream Alive on Linux

It's FOSS

HPFS Is The Latest File-System Facing Possible Removal On Linux

Phoronix

Borealis: Asahi Linux's Apple Silicon Mesa Vulkan Driver Forked For Vibe Coding

Phoronix

Calibre 9.17 release brings faster ebook conversions

OMG! Ubuntu!

[$] Seeking smaller kernel stacks

LWN.net

Akademy 2026 Desktop Icon BoF

Planet KDE

Help shape the future of desktop icons

Planet KDE

Fwupd 2.1.9 Linux Firmware Updater Adds New Hardware Support

Linuxiac

oneDNN 3.14 Released With ACE Support, Initial AMD Zen Optimizations

Phoronix

Linux 7.4 Power Management Preps For AMD Ryzen Zen 6 & Intel Rugged Panther Lake

Phoronix

Be ready for spooky season with new games from Fanatical's Build your own Frightmare Bundle (Halloween 2026)

GamingOnLinux

Fwupd 2.1.9 Linux Firmware Updater Released with New Features

9to5Linux

OpenSSL 4.1 Released With More AVX-512 Optimizations

Phoronix

ArmSoM Sige7s Puts the RK3588S on a Raspberry Pi-Sized Board, and There's a Compute Module Too

It's FOSS

Security updates for Friday

LWN.net

New Craft cache 26.10 published

Planet KDE

OpenSSL 4.1 Released with DTLS 1.3 Support, Crypto Optimizations

Linuxiac

Linux 7.4 Brings Hibernation Improvement For Helping Meet Energy Certifications

Phoronix

OpenSSL 4.1 Released with Support for DTLS 1.3, IKEV2 KDF, and GREASE

9to5Linux

Vulkan 1.4.366 Released With SMPTE ST 2094-50 HDR Support

Phoronix

Factorio 2.1 is out now with the native ARM64 Linux build to run on Steam Frame, Raspberry Pi and more

GamingOnLinux

Web Review, Week 2026-43

Planet KDE

Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition pulled from sale due to mass complaints

GamingOnLinux

FFmpeg 9.1 Preps For Release With APV Vulkan Encoder, NVIDIA Optical Flow FRUC

Phoronix

Linux 7.4 Introduces New Driver For The Nintendo Switch 2 Controllers - Thanks To Valve

Phoronix

Epic Games has gone completely off the deep end with AI

GamingOnLinux

LibreSSL 4.4 Released With Faster SHA3, Bug Fixes

Phoronix

Linux 7.4 Fixes AMD CPU TLB Size Reporting For Zen 5 & Newer

Phoronix

Bazzite Linux announce ROG XBOX Ally X20 and Acer Predator Atlas support is in testing

GamingOnLinux

GameMaker announce their next-gen runtime GMRT will be free for commercial use

GamingOnLinux

Check out 'Clicky Islands', a unique blend of incremental and city-builders

GamingOnLinux

Fanatical's Build your own Legendary Bundle (Fall 2026) has some top hits for cheaps

GamingOnLinux

Planet News Roundup

openSUSE News

METRO 2033 Redux and METRO Last Light Redux next-gen updates are out now

GamingOnLinux

Legacy Games store is closing down

GamingOnLinux

Steam Client Beta - October 22nd revamps Remote Play HDR support

GamingOnLinux

Calibre 9.17 E-Book Manager Adds JPEG XL Support and Performance Improvements

9to5Linux

Canonical dev mocks up an Ubuntu launcher that uses AI

OMG! Ubuntu!

Epic Games Brings Its New Linux Launcher Preview to Ubuntu

Ubuntu Buzz!

Shelly 3.1.9 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves AUR Support

9to5Linux

Linux 7.4 Workqueue Changes Bring A "10 To 100 Times Faster" Optimization

Phoronix

KeePassXC 2.8 Adds Wayland Auto-Type and Fingerprint Unlock

Ubuntu Buzz!

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 335 released

Planet Debian

Epic’s new vibe-coded games launcher is available on Ubuntu

OMG! Ubuntu!

AI Chatbot Privacy on Linux: Auditing Extensions, Desktop Clients, and Browser Policies

LinuxSecurity.com

Fedora 45 Hits A Second NO-GO: Not Releasing Until November

Phoronix

Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Run Code Without a Login

LinuxSecurity.com

New DNS Security Flaws Can Disrupt Website and Email Access

LinuxSecurity.com

AI Helping To Improve Linux's AMD Zen CPU Microarchitecture Detection

Phoronix

Kraft 2.1.0 Release

Planet KDE

Modular's MAX Source Code Now Fully Opened, Under New MAX License

Phoronix

Red Hat Funded a Report That Found a Quarter of Incoming Pull Requests May Be AI Slop

It's FOSS

KeePassXC 2.8 released with Qt6, support for Wayland auto-type

OMG! Ubuntu!

openSUSE Releases Agama 25 Installer with Web-Based Terminal, Exit Option

9to5Linux

[$] The end of __get_user() and __put_user()

LWN.net

PipeWire 1.6.10 Is Out to Improve JACK, Bluetooth, Pulse Server, and ALSA Plugin

9to5Linux

PwnEscape Poses VM Vulnerability

Linux Magazine

DietPi 10.8 Released with New Tool to Manage WireGuard Servers and Clients

9to5Linux

This Newly Proposed Linux Filesystem Can Fix Corrupted Data

It's FOSS

Latest Steam Client Update Improves Support for Vulkan Games on Linux

9to5Linux

KeePassXC 2.8.0 released

LWN.net

[$] Rust features in the future

LWN.net

FOSS Weekly #26.43: Kernel 7.3, Non-Linux OS, de-Googled Phone, DuxOS, Podcasts, De-bloating TVs, KDE Dock and More

It's FOSS

Security updates for Thursday

LWN.net

Cyberpunk 2077 Edgerunners update brings improved modding, better HDR, new content and more

GamingOnLinux

Another set of 15 demos to try in Steam Next Fest - October 2026 edition

GamingOnLinux

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV has an exciting new gameplay overview trailer

GamingOnLinux

Serious Sam: The Third Encounter gets teased by Croteam and Devolver Digital

GamingOnLinux

Terminal Text Editor: Like VS Code But in Linux Terminal

It's FOSS

Epic Games Launcher Preview is slowly becoming actually usable on Linux

GamingOnLinux

SteamOS 3.9.4 Beta brings updates for security, hibernation and regression fixes

GamingOnLinux

Steam Client update fixes Vulkan games hanging after alt-tab, and a security update

GamingOnLinux

SteamVR 2.18 brings Linux fixes, Steam Frame improvements, new Aurora environment

GamingOnLinux

Red Diff is Good Diff

Planet KDE

Node.js Vulnerability CVE-2026-111497: Impact and Mitigation Steps

Ubuntu Buzz!

KeePassXC 2.8 Delivers Wayland Auto-Type and Qt 6 for Linux

Ubuntu Buzz!

Ubuntu Patches Critical PHP Vulnerabilities to Prevent RCE

Ubuntu Buzz!

Locking Down Linux Servers? Move Beyond the Baseline

LinuxSecurity.com

Distribution Release: Essora Eos 20261021

DistroWatch

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 22, 2026

LWN.net

AI Assistant Flaw Could Let WhatsApp Users Run Commands on Your Computer

LinuxSecurity.com

Certificate Authority Flaw Requires More Than a Browser Fix

LinuxSecurity.com

Ubuntu rolls out php2shell, eMudhra certificate fixes

OMG! Ubuntu!

Steinar H. Gunderson: Decompilation patterns, part 18: Signed division

Planet Debian

Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security (PHP Foundation)

LWN.net

Electronic Arts (EA) to shut down BioWare and cancel the next Mass Effect

GamingOnLinux

You Can Reserve This Small-Factor, De-Googled Phone for $30

It's FOSS

More vulnerabilities in widely deployed software

LWN.net

[$] Hash-based module integrity for reproducible distributions

LWN.net

Upstreaming Tyr: Rust, DRM, and the Linux Kernel (Collabora)

LWN.net

Snapdragon X2 Performance On Linux Exceeding Expectations In Initial Benchmarks

Phoronix