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Google Cloud Traces London Outage to Redundant Controllers That Both Misread the Power Supply and Kept Backup Generators Offline

Joho no Todai (English)

61 Memory Management Fix Commits for Linux 7.4 Address Information Leaks, Data Loss, and Use-After-Free

Joho no Todai (English)

[$] User namespaces + file capabilities = trouble

LWN.net

NIKKE Adds Malware Detection and Removal to Its Launcher, Urges PC Players Since September 27 to Check

Joho no Todai (English)

Distribution Release: Omarchy 4.5.0

DistroWatch

Security updates for Thursday

LWN.net

Zlib 1.4 Released With More Than One Dozen Security Fixes

Phoronix

Claude Dispatch Flaw Lets Browser Extensions Take Over PCs, Unaddressed by Anthropic Since May

Joho no Todai (English)

CUDA 13.5 Adds General Availability for Vera Rubin and More GPU Sharing Controls: New Features Require R620 Drivers

Joho no Todai (English)

Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives hit by APT flaw that could give attackers root access

GamingOnLinux

Linux Kernel Patches Posted For Review In Enabling Apple AirDrop Support

Phoronix

KDE Gear 26.08.3 Released as the Last Update in the KDE Gear 26.08 Series

9to5Linux

Andrew Cater: ARM Cambridge - pre mini-Debconf days 20261105

Planet Debian

Mir 2.31 Released With Expanded Wayland Protocol Support

Phoronix

Distribution Release: Artix Linux 20261102

DistroWatch

KDE Gear 26.08.3 Released with Numerous Application Bug Fixes

Linuxiac

Cyberattack Changes French Blood Bank Freezer Settings From −30°C to 110°C: Monitoring Prevents Losses

Joho no Todai (English)

ChatGPT Images 2.6 Adds Animated GIF Generation and Makes Image Generation 50% Faster

Joho no Todai (English)

X Rebuilds Its Web App, Cutting Post Display Time From 23.9 to 2.7 Seconds and Combining Three Servers Into One

Joho no Todai (English)

Critical security vulnerability affects OpenSSH on Alpine Linux systems

LWN.net

OpenAI's AI Pipeline Demonstrates 948 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalations at a Cost of $1.21 Million, or $1,279 Each

Joho no Todai (English)

Android GhostMap Flaw Can Trap Devices in a Reboot Loop on Installation, With No Fix Scheduled

Joho no Todai (English)

Tripwire Presents expands publishing to focus on support of smaller indie teams

GamingOnLinux

Linux'x New Core MM Tree Ready With Numerous Fixes For "Nasty Long-Standing Bugs"

Phoronix

Mesa Merges A Common Vulkan Layer For Working Around Cross-Driver Game Bugs

Phoronix

This Overlooked Linux mv Option Replaces Three Commands With One

It's FOSS

AMD-Backed Lemonade Local AI Server Ships Redesigned Desktop App & Web UI

Phoronix

Omarchy 4.5 Released With Apple Silicon Support, More Desktop Customizations

Phoronix

Systemd Wants Rust in, But its Core Will Have to Wait

It's FOSS

OpenAI Finds 948 Local Privilege Escalation Bugs In The Linux Kernel

Phoronix

Omarchy 4.5 Adds Floating Desktop Mode, Apple Silicon Support

Linuxiac

Pillars of Eternity and Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire get major updates with controller support in Beta

GamingOnLinux

Arch-Based Artix Linux 2026.11 Switches KDE Plasma to Wayland

Linuxiac

Build a safari park, clone animals, then watch it go wrong in Captain Contraption's Safari Park

GamingOnLinux

I Wanna Be a Supernova is a sweet upcoming casual incremental about devouring celestial bodies

GamingOnLinux

Shelly 3.2 Arch Linux Package Manager Adds Multi-Package Downgrades

Linuxiac

The LEGO-like co-op pirate roguelite Sink My Bricks! looks like chaotic fun

GamingOnLinux

mpv 0.42 Media Player Released with DVD and Blu-ray Menus, Better HDR Support

Linuxiac

UK moving towards banning chat in games for under 16s

GamingOnLinux

EU Parliament Committee Backs Zero-Emission Status for Renewable-Fuel Vehicles: EV Incentives Favor EU Production

Joho no Todai (English)

LXQt 2.5 Released with Qt 6.10 Support, Drops Last LXDE Dependency

Linuxiac

John Goerzen: Letter from a Kansan: “Would You Rather Be Right or Happy?”

Planet Debian

VMware Launches vSphere Express With a 128-Core Cap: A Return to Small-Scale Virtualization or a Gateway to Higher Tiers?

Joho no Todai (English)

FSR 4.1.2 Arrives on Xbox Series X|S: Machine Learning Upscaling on RDNA 2 With Published GPU Timings

Joho no Todai (English)

Dux Modular Shell 2.1 Adds Video Wallpapers, New Interface Styles

Linuxiac

Ruby on Rails Patches 21 Vulnerabilities: Image Uploads Can Enable Arbitrary File Operations, With a CVSS Score of 9.8

Joho no Todai (English)

LZ4 1.11.0 Integrates Multithreaded Compression Into the Library, Reaching 7.55GB/s With 16 Workers

Joho no Todai (English)

Discord to Drop Electron and React Native, Rewriting Its Clients in Rust With GPUI

Joho no Todai (English)

US Data Center Ballots Favor Construction Limits in 46 of 47 Results as Governors and Senators Lose Midterm Races

Joho no Todai (English)

Distribution Release: NebiOS 10.3

DistroWatch

Shelly 3.2 Brings Multi-Package Downgrades, Flatpak and AppImage Improvements

9to5Linux

Paint Vulnerability CVE-2026-83844 Scores CVSS 8.1, but the Fix Is Not Arriving Through Store Updates

Joho no Todai (English)

WordPress Vulnerability Lets Attackers Strike During Updates

LinuxSecurity.com

Xen Hypervisor Flaws Can Expose a Server's Memory

LinuxSecurity.com

MPV 0.42 Video Player Released with AMD Frame Rate Conversion Filter

9to5Linux

MPV 0.42 Media Player Brings Wayland Improvements, Improved HDR

Phoronix

LXQt 2.5 Released With Enhanced QTerminal, Removing The Final LXDE Dependency

Phoronix

Systemd-Free Artix Linux 2026.11 Is Out with Wayland-Only KDE Plasma Desktop

9to5Linux

Apple Introduces Content Scanning for Public iCloud Links, With No Published Criteria for Harmful Content

Joho no Todai (English)

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 5, 2026

LWN.net

Zyxel GS1900 Zero-Day CVE-2026-107441 Bypasses Earlier Fix, With About 1,000 Devices Compromised

Joho no Todai (English)

LXQt 2.5 Desktop Environment Released, Drops Its Last LXDE Dependency

9to5Linux

KDE Gear 26.08.3

Planet KDE

Ubuntu users blast Canonical for slow kernel security fix

OMG! Ubuntu!

Share e-mail tags between KMail and Thunderbird

Planet KDE

LZ4 1.11 Introduces Multi-Threaded Compression For liblz4, Other Performance Gains

Phoronix

Distribution Release: ML4W OS 2.17

DistroWatch

NVIDIA CUDA 13.5 Released With Production Support For Vera Rubin

Phoronix

Cinnamon 6.8 Desktop Environment Released with New Trackpad Gestures

Linuxiac

A few hundred commits, and a few better names…

Planet KDE

Juan Manuel Méndez Rey: Hello, Planet Debian

Planet Debian

Intel One Mono Font Family Updated With Various Enhancements

Phoronix

Cinnamon 6.8 Desktop Environment Released with Hibernation Support

9to5Linux

Rocky Linux Unveils Testrarc for Transparent Release Testing

Linuxiac

[$] Plasma X11 session removal surprises some Fedora users

LWN.net

Distribution Release: RakuOS 2026.11.04

DistroWatch

Deadly Days: Roadtrip 1.0 review

GamingOnLinux

Linux 7.4 Showing Few Performance Gains With Initial Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen Threadripper

Phoronix

Bazzite 45 released

LWN.net

NVIDIA stable driver 620.70.06 released for Linux

GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA 620 Linux Graphics Driver Released with Wayland Improvements

9to5Linux

NVIDIA 620.70.06 Kicks Off New R620 Linux Driver Series

Linuxiac

Schools That Say No to Google’s AI Will Be Saying Goodbye to its Search Too

It's FOSS

[$] Portable Python scripts with dependencies

LWN.net

NVIDIA 620.70.06 Linux Driver Released With Wayland Fixes & Performance Work

Phoronix

Security updates for Wednesday

LWN.net

Local AI Weekly #8: All Your RAM Are Belong to Us

It's FOSS

Distribution Release: Bazzite 45.20261104

DistroWatch

Debian's APT Affected By Man-In-The-Middle Attack For Arbitrary Code Execution As Root

Phoronix

Linux 7.3 Will More Than Likely Be This Year's LTS Kernel

Phoronix

systemd With Its Initial Support For Rust

Phoronix

Megaquarium dev reveals Plantlife, a botanical farming management sim

GamingOnLinux

Synaptics Appears To Use Legal Threats To Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver

Phoronix

Linux 7.4’s Merge Window is Huge, and Linus Says it Might Not Just Be AI

It's FOSS

"AMD Loves Omarchy" Linux With More Collaboration Coming

Phoronix

Experimental Project Gets Intel XeSS On XMX Working With Valve's Steam Play (Proton)

Phoronix

AMD Releases ZenDNN 6.1 With New Kernels & Optimizations

Phoronix

UPSHOT brings some online co-op ball-shooting comedy on November 12

GamingOnLinux

Classic ARPG Torchlight II returns with lots of improvements using AI assistance

GamingOnLinux

Humble Choice for November 2026 has a stacked cast of games

GamingOnLinux

Nexus Mods gets stricter on AI for mods but no outright ban

GamingOnLinux

Bazzite 45 arrives powered by Fedora Linux 45 for gamers

GamingOnLinux

Fedora 45 arrives to continue advancing the Linux desktop

GamingOnLinux

SteamOS 0.5.7 Beta for Steam Frame brings WebXR, improved settings and more

GamingOnLinux

I Got Tired of Remembering Ports for 30 Docker Apps in My Homelab. Here's How I Fixed it

It's FOSS

Distribution Release: Ludora 45.0

DistroWatch

Domicile Desktop Brings Web Technologies To Building Wayland Desktops

Phoronix

Chainlit: What It Does and Why Its Retirement Matters

LinuxSecurity.com

Apache Arrow: What It Does and Who Needs the Update

LinuxSecurity.com

BSD Release: NetBSD 11.1

DistroWatch

Linux 7.4 is "Much Healthier" Thanks to AI

Linux Magazine

GIMP 3.2.8 Released With Many Refinements, Numerous Security Fixes Due To AI Reports

Phoronix

NetBSD 11.1 Released With Security Fixes & Other Improvements

Phoronix

GIMP 3.2.8 released with improved text tool, performance

OMG! Ubuntu!

Distribution Release: Chimera Linux 20261103

DistroWatch

Louis-Philippe Véronneau: Tenure

Planet Debian

KDE Plasma 6.7.6 Desktop Environment Is Now Available with More Improvements

9to5Linux

Fedora Asahi Remix 45 Released for Apple Silicon Macs with KDE Plasma 6.8

9to5Linux

OpenSUSE Leap 16.1

LWN.net

Canonical adds FIDO2 hardware key support to Launchpad

OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux 7.4 Features Steam Frame VR Headset, More AMD Zen 6 Enablement & Initial Apple M4 / A18 Pro Bring-Up

Phoronix

Distribution Release: Asahi Linux 45

DistroWatch

[$] LLM reviews for Debian's new queue spark debate

LWN.net

RadeonSI & RADV Now Enabling D16 Support For GFX8 Era GPUs

Phoronix

Fedora Linux 45 released

LWN.net

Fedora 45 Released! Here's What's New

It's FOSS

Fedora 45 Released With Many Leading-Edge Linux Innovations

Phoronix

Security updates for Tuesday

LWN.net

These Linux Distros Can Run on Apple Silicon Mac

It's FOSS

Linux Preparing Faster FAT32 Performance In 2027 With Up To 4.06x Improvement

Phoronix

openSUSE Leap 16.1 Released With Immutable Sever Integration

Phoronix

LibreOffice 26.2.7 Is Out as the Last Update in the LibreOffice 26.2 Series

9to5Linux

One Open-Source Repo to Replace Adobe, Microsoft, and Salesforce

It's FOSS

Leap 16.1 Unites Traditional and Immutable Linux in One Release

openSUSE News

The Linux Kernel Preparing To Remove The Last Of Its MMX Optimized Code

Phoronix

More upgrades for the Epic Games Launcher Preview including a collapsible friends list

GamingOnLinux

Intel Compute Runtime Continues Prepping For GPU D Series, OpenCL LEO for Nova Lake P

Phoronix

Schools in Six German States Can Now Opt For a Nextcloud-Based Open Source Cloud Solution

It's FOSS

Claymation slapstick comedy brawler Knuckle Creek is out now and looks awesome

GamingOnLinux

3dSen emulator that transforms NES games into 3D voxel dioramas v2.0 brings huge changes

GamingOnLinux

Thief: The Dark Project Remastered launches December 3 with pre-orders up

GamingOnLinux

Game store itch.io is getting flooded with AI slop

GamingOnLinux

SteamVR Beta 2.19.1 is a big upgrade for streaming / Steam Link and Linux

GamingOnLinux

GE-Proton 11-12 is another big release with lots of game fixes for Linux / SteamOS

GamingOnLinux

AI Sandbox Flaws Put Server Files at Risk

LinuxSecurity.com

Affinity is coming to Linux (but there’s no ETA yet)

OMG! Ubuntu!

How to Set an Environment Variable on Linux Safely

LinuxSecurity.com

John Goerzen: Must we always use LLMs this way?

Planet Debian

Linux Mint is ‘bringing back’ hibernation to laptops

OMG! Ubuntu!

KDE Plasma 6.7.6, Bugfix Release for November

Planet KDE