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Dirk Eddelbuettel: myman 0.12.0 on CRAN: Two new waves!

Planet Debian

Gitea 28.2 Fixes Nine Security Vulnerabilities

Linuxiac

‘All Things Open’ Changes Its Tune, but the Song Remains the Same

FOSS Force

DavMail 7.1 Exchange Gateway Improves Microsoft 365 and IMAP Support

Linuxiac

Linux Mint’s new system monitor does more than you’d expect

OMG! Ubuntu!

Actively Exploited CVE-2026-106931 in Japan's SiteGuard WAF Could Give Attackers Root Access

Joho no Todai (English)

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 18th, 2026

9to5Linux

Ludovic Rousseau: New version of pcsc-lite: 2.5.3

Planet Debian

It Turns Out Intel TDX Doesn't Need So Much Cache Flushing

Phoronix

PostgreSQL 19 Reverts Eight to Ten Major Features, Delays General Release to November 19

Joho no Todai (English)

14 HPE HDD Models Risk Unrecoverable Failure After About 7.5 Years: Update Before Checking Operating Hours

Joho no Todai (English)

OpenZFS Encrypted Raw Backups Silently Break After "rewrite -P": Receive Succeeds, but Data Is Unreadable

Joho no Todai (English)

NVIDIA Hopper Bug Corrupts AI Calculations at Certain GPU Sharing Percentages, Omitting Output Even When cuBLAS Reports Success

Joho no Todai (English)

How to Install and Use Hirudo Security Scanner on Ubuntu

Ubuntu Buzz!

A Developer With No C# Experience Uses AI to Build a Practical Tool for Windows' Manual HDR Switching Problem

Joho no Todai (English)

Modernizing Your Ubuntu Command Line: Essential CLI Upgrades

Ubuntu Buzz!

Distribution Release: CobaltX 0.3

DistroWatch

Linux 7.4 Features Very Exciting With Radeon HDMI 2.1 By Default, AMD PerfOpt, Apple M4

Phoronix

Gentoo Plans to Drop Chromium, Google Chrome Remains Available

Linuxiac

Why Is Asynchronous Processing Slower? VirtIO-FS Synchronous Queues Cut VM Build Time by 28%

Joho no Todai (English)

Omarchy Gets The Web Browser Launching Faster By Avoiding XDG Overhead

Phoronix

DeepSeek Releases Updated Model and Its Own Web Search APIs: Search and Page Retrieval Each Cost $0.75 per 1,000 Requests

Joho no Todai (English)

Servo Gets CSS Grid Working, Threadboost Offering Big Speed-Ups

Phoronix

GNOME 51.1 Released with Shell, Mutter, and Security Fixes

Linuxiac

Omarchy 4.0.5 Released with Linux Kernel 7.2.8, Better Hardware Support

Linuxiac

GNOME 51.1 Improves Drag and Drop Between Wayland and Xwayland Clients

9to5Linux

Steinar H. Gunderson: Decompilation patterns, part 15: Redundant if-for

Planet Debian

Microsoft Withdraws From Deal for UK's Largest AI Data Center: Grid Connection Delayed Until the 2030s

Joho no Todai (English)

Chinese AI Study Identifies Heart Disease From Tongue and Face Photos With 98% Accuracy, but Involves Just 518 People

Joho no Todai (English)

PS6 RAM and NAND Alone Exceed $680: The Answer to Hopes for a Subsidized Price

Joho no Todai (English)

Two Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities Disclosed in Drupal, Including Unauthenticated Attack Paths

Joho no Todai (English)

Now Playing Card shows media info for multiple apps at a time

OMG! Ubuntu!

ReactOS Boots With Its Own NTFS Driver: A Milestone in Development Dating Back to 2016

Joho no Todai (English)

Game Decompilation Tracker decomp.dev Halts Public Rankings and New Registrations: AI Has Changed What Progress Percentages Mean

Joho no Todai (English)

Windows Secure Boot's Last 2011 Certificate Expires October 19: PCs Will Keep Booting, but Protection Updates Will Stop

Joho no Todai (English)

Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.1 Brings Volla Tablet Support and Morph Updates

Ubuntu Buzz!

Synchronous Queues For VirtIO-FS Show Huge Performance Potential

Phoronix

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 Brings New Hardware Support & Important Security Fix

Ubuntu Buzz!

Microsoft 365 Backup Credentials Compromised, 162 Tenants Accessed Without Authorization: MFA Offered No Protection

Joho no Todai (English)

Leap Seconds to Stop on May 20, 2027: International Conference Sets One-Hour Tolerance

Joho no Todai (English)

Harmonicon's bending trainer

Planet KDE

Airlines, Banks, and Retailers Turn Away AI Agents: The Web Is Closing Its Gates

Joho no Todai (English)

Meta Removes Terms Enabling News-Site Scraping for AI Training: Advertising Crawls Remain

Joho no Todai (English)

TikTok Permanently Bans Ad Account for Critical Musk Documentary After Meta and YouTube Reversed Rejections

Joho no Todai (English)

ReactOS Can Now Be Installed & Used With Its NTFS Driver

Phoronix

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 15.6.2-1 on CRAN: New Upstream

Planet Debian

Fedora Linux 45 Delayed, New Release Date Set for October 27

Linuxiac

Steinar H. Gunderson: Decompilation patterns, part 14: Strength increase

Planet Debian

Distribution Release: Synex 26.10.17

DistroWatch

GNOME 50.6 Released with Shell, Mutter, and Nautilus Fixes

Linuxiac

GNOME 50.6 Desktop Environment Released with Fixes for Nautilus, GNOME Shell

9to5Linux

New Templates Celebrating Tellico at 25

Planet KDE

MeshXFS: AI Adapts XFS Into A Clustered File-System

Phoronix

Tellico Turns 25!

Planet KDE

WIP: KDE builder dashboard

Planet KDE

GNOME OS Moves Closer to Everyday Desktop Use With Preview Release

Linuxiac

Not Every Open Source OS Needs to Be Based on Linux, and These Six Aren’t

It's FOSS

Microsoft Wants to Protect Your Linux Desktop with Defender

Linuxiac

ZimaOS Is a Linux-Based NAS OS That Makes Self-Hosting Easier

Linuxiac

Distribution Release: FunOS 26.10

DistroWatch

Linux Lands Fix for Rare, Varying SMP Boot Hangs Affecting Kernels Since 2024

Phoronix

GNOME's New Local/Cloud AI Chat App Gains More Features

Phoronix

Linux 7.3 Lands Last-Minute Fixes For Samsung 990 PRO & 990 EVO Plus SSDs

Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6.9 To Debut New Weather Widget & On-Screen Keyboard

Phoronix

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 Brings New Hardware Support & Important Security Fix

Phoronix

Planet News Roundup

openSUSE News

Open Transport Community Conference 2026

Planet KDE

Valve fix Zero Company crashing on Steam Machine with the latest major game update

GamingOnLinux

Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.1 Rolls Out with Support for Volla Tablet, Various Updates

9to5Linux

Steam Client Beta for October 16 brings another round of startup performance improvements

GamingOnLinux

SteamOS 3.9.3 Beta arrives with improved support for Steam Frame wireless adapter

GamingOnLinux

Wine 11.20 brings more improvements for ARM64EC, XML validation and CDROMs

GamingOnLinux

PeaZip 11.4 Open-Source Archive Manager Released with Various Improvements

9to5Linux

Geo-Blocking With nftables and GeoIP Sets: Verifying the Rules From Outside Your Country

LinuxSecurity.com

Using a VPN Securely on Linux: What It Protects, What It Doesn't, and How to Test It

LinuxSecurity.com

Here's the Top Steam Releases of September, 2026 along with compatibility ratings

Ubuntu Buzz!

The Fallout inspired ATOM RPG returns with a Plague Island DLC and major update

Ubuntu Buzz!

Caves of Qud: Diaspora is coming December 9

Ubuntu Buzz!

Get some spooky games in the Digiphile Orcatober Aquatic Horrors Bundle

Ubuntu Buzz!

BRUTAL, the framework behind RimWorld's Waylith engine, releases its source code

Ubuntu Buzz!

Proton Experimental for October 15 has fixes for ARC Raiders, C&C Red Alert, Counterstike and The Aftermath

Ubuntu Buzz!

SteamOS 0.5.6 Beta for Steam Frame makes adding apk files simpler

Ubuntu Buzz!

Steam Beta for October 15 brings a 64bit Linux client, Achievement Sets and more

Ubuntu Buzz!

How to Check, Open, and Close Ports in Ubuntu Linux

Ubuntu Buzz!

Wine 11.20 Released With CD-ROM Support Change

Phoronix

Distribution Release: Asmi Linux 26.10

DistroWatch

This Week in Plasma: New Weather Widget and On-Screen Keyboard

Planet KDE

KDE Gear 26.12 release schedule

Planet KDE

What Is a Hypervisor? How It Works and Where Isolation Can Fail

LinuxSecurity.com

Steinar H. Gunderson: Decompilation patterns, part 13: Reverse loop

Planet Debian

Six of Eight openDesk Vendors Form Open Productivity for Digital Sovereignty

FOSS Force

Distribution Release: ZimaOS 1.8.0

DistroWatch

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSimdJson 0.1.17 on CRAN: Updates

Planet Debian

17 More Security Vulnerabilities Made Public For X.Org Libraries

Phoronix

GNOME OS Preview Launches for the General Public with GNOME 51

9to5Linux

Introducing GNOME OS Preview

LWN.net

GNOME OS Preview Announced In Road Toward A Stable Release

Phoronix

[$] Safe self-referential data structures in kernel Rust

LWN.net

Distribution Release: Voyager Live 26.10

DistroWatch

The Best Features Of Linux 7.3: Performance Improvements, Lots From Valve

Phoronix

What’s new in the Ubuntu 26.10 flavours?

OMG! Ubuntu!

First Look at Devario OS: A Modern, Shelly-First Linux Distro Based on Arch Linux

9to5Linux

KDE Plasma 6.6.7 Is Out with Support for Monitoring GPU Usage for Intel A380 GPUs

9to5Linux

After 23 Years, Longtime Linux Developer To "Step Back For A While"

Phoronix

[$] Recent and future changes to the Linux NFS server

LWN.net

Intel Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids Performance On Linux Over The Past Year

Phoronix

Results from the 2026 TAB election

LWN.net

Distribution Release: Lubuntu 26.10

DistroWatch

AI-Generated Starling Desktop Environment Rolls Out Its Own Office Suite

Phoronix

Security updates for Friday

LWN.net

Fedora 46 Looking At Moving To RPM v6 Package Format

Phoronix

The impressive sci-fi squad tactics game 'Archrebel Tactics' gets a fresh demo

GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA GeForce NOW gets expanded DLSS 4.5 Controls

GamingOnLinux

Valve’s Steam Client for Linux Goes 64-bit in Beta and Moves Into a Container

It's FOSS

Web Review, Week 2026-42

Planet KDE

AI Resurrects AVX-512 Support For Mesa's LLVMpipe Software Driver

Phoronix

Linux 7.4 To Enable Intel Instruction Timeout For Fending Off TDX VM DoS Attacks

Phoronix

Distribution Release: Kubuntu 26.10

DistroWatch

Linux 7.3 Squeezes Even More Performance Out Of The AMD Threadripper PRO 9995WX

Phoronix

Here's the Top Steam Releases of September, 2026 along with compatibility ratings

GamingOnLinux

Intel LLM-Scaler-vLLM PV 1.5 Brings Big Improvements

Phoronix

Mesa's Zink Now Offers VA-API Video Acceleration Atop Vulkan Video

Phoronix

Help us test Kdenlive

Planet KDE

The Fallout inspired ATOM RPG returns with a Plague Island DLC and major update

GamingOnLinux

Caves of Qud: Diaspora is coming December 9

GamingOnLinux

Get some spooky games in the Digiphile Orcatober Aquatic Horrors Bundle

GamingOnLinux

BRUTAL, the framework behind RimWorld's Waylith engine, releases its source code

GamingOnLinux

Proton Experimental for October 15 has fixes for ARC Raiders, C&C Red Alert, Counterstrike and The Aftermath

GamingOnLinux

SteamOS 0.5.6 Beta for Steam Frame makes adding apk files simpler

GamingOnLinux

Steam Beta for October 15 brings a 64bit Linux client, Achievement Sets and more

GamingOnLinux

From Yogyakarta to Prague: openSUSE.Asia Summit and Open Source Summit Europe 2026

openSUSE News

Shelly 3.1.7 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Adds RLPM Native Package Engine

9to5Linux

Distribution Release: Ubuntu Kylin 26.10

DistroWatch

Fedora 45 Will Not Be Released Next Week

Phoronix

NGINX Vulnerability Fixes Require More Than a Version Check

LinuxSecurity.com

What Is an X.509 Certificate, and Why Can TLS Libraries Disagree?

LinuxSecurity.com

Microsoft Defender is now available on Linux desktops

OMG! Ubuntu!

Curl Vulnerability Can Let a Malicious Server Run Code During Uploads

LinuxSecurity.com

KDE Plasma 6.6.7, Bugfix Release for October

Planet KDE

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 334 released

Planet Debian

Distribution Release: Ubuntu Unity 26.10

DistroWatch

Today's Steam Beta Makes The Linux Client A 64-bit App

Phoronix

Intel Nova Lake S & Nova Lake P To Support SR-IOV With Xe Graphics

Phoronix

Steinar H. Gunderson: Decompilation patterns, part 12: __builtin_memcpy

Planet Debian

Matthew Garrett: Epic's EAC2 v2 seems fairly easily bypassable

Planet Debian

LPDDR5 5467 vs. 6400 vs. 7467 MT/s Memory Performance Benchmarks For Laptops

Phoronix

Memtest86+ v9.00 Released With Support For ARM64 Memory Testing

Phoronix

Is Linus Torvalds Vibe Coding?

Linux Magazine

[$] Vendor hooks in the Android kernel

LWN.net

3mdeb Releases Updated Dasharo/Coreboot Firmware For ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T

Phoronix