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Tumbleweed Monthly Update - October 2026

 openSUSE News

UK High Court Rejects Meta, X, and TikTok's Data Challenge: Regulator Can Examine Harmful Content Exposure

 Joho no Todai (English)

Binance Replaces 95% of $6.3 Billion Stolen, Announces Phased Withdrawals as FBI Names North Korea

 Joho no Todai (English)

Kwi Is a New Ghostty-Based GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulator for KDE Plasma

 9to5Linux

AI Training Copyright Reform Faces a Government Compensation Barrier: Australia's Section 51 Enters the Debate

 Joho no Todai (English)

US Declares Industrial Robot Imports a Security Threat: Tariffs Deferred for 180 Days of Trade Talks

 Joho no Todai (English)

Over 80% of Roblox's Top 100 Games Use AI: Build Tops 70,000 Releases as External Distribution Takes Shape

 Joho no Todai (English)

Toyota bZ4X Becomes Waymo Robotaxi: Integrated Production at Takaoka, Initial Japan Operations in 2027

 Joho no Todai (English)

Rufus 4.16 Beta Works Around AMI UEFI NTFS Read Bug, Fixes Boot Media Security Vulnerabilities

 Joho no Todai (English)

Unified UEFI Tool Removes Older GeForce AI Compute Limits on Windows and Linux, Fixes Turing Boot Race

 Joho no Todai (English)

Brief Server Downtime Expected Tonight

 Phoronix

Android Zero-Click SMS Flaw Disconnects Calls: Proof of Concept Published, Fixes Only for Android 14 and Later

 Joho no Todai (English)

OpenShot 4.1 Video Editor Adds Direct Text Editing, CLI Automation

 Linuxiac

Northflank Demands All Credentials Be Rotated: Nine AI Developer Platforms Breached in October Alone

 Joho no Todai (English)

Introducing Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator

 Planet KDE

OpenShot 4.1 Released With Auto-Optimize, CLI Automation & ARM64 Linux Builds

 Phoronix

Why Does Achieving a Goal Feel Empty? Nobel Laureate Anne Carson's Answer From 40 Years Ago

 Joho no Todai (English)

OpenShot 4.1 Adds In-App Text Editing and Native Linux ARM64

 Ubuntu Buzz!

Activities BoF report & call for action

 Planet KDE

Taxing Gigabytes Instead of Revenue: Inside the Amendment France's National Assembly Passed by One Vote

 Joho no Todai (English)

A massive pile of security updates for Saturday

 LWN.net

Woodpecker CI 3.20 Released with Pipeline Improvements, Security Fixes

 Linuxiac

OpenShot 4.1 Video Editor Is Out with Native ARM64 Linux Builds and Text Editing

 9to5Linux

Sanket lets you redesign GNOME’s date menu and Quick Settings

 OMG! Ubuntu!

Distribution Release: Linux Lite 8.2

 DistroWatch

GNU Mtools 4.0.50 Released With Security Fix

 FOSS Force

Haruna 1.9 Media Player Improves YouTube Handling and Playlist Management

 Linuxiac

Samuel Henrique: Distributary: my artwork proposal for Debian 14 "forky"

 Planet Debian

OS Release: Sculpt OS 26-10

 DistroWatch

Enlightenment 0.28 Desktop Environment Adds NetworkManager and PipeWire Support

 Linuxiac

Linux Mint Devs Introduce New System Monitor and Terminal Emulator Apps

 9to5Linux

Claude Code Restricts Recreating Existing Games: Anthropic Confirms Two Added Prompt Sentences

 Joho no Todai (English)

Enlightenment 0.28 Desktop Adds PipeWire Support, NetworkManager Module

 9to5Linux

Enlightenment 0.28 Released With Many Improvements

 Phoronix

Linux Mint Developing New Apps For Terminal & System Monitoring

 Phoronix

Linux Mint Previews New Terminal, System Monitor, and Hibernation Support

 Linuxiac

Linux Lite 8.2 Released with Linux Kernel 7.3, Based on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

 9to5Linux

How We Could Have Backdoored Bash (Hacktron blog)

 LWN.net

Ludovic Rousseau: New version of PyKCS11: 1.5.21

 Planet Debian

Russell Coker: Links October 2026

 Planet Debian

Ludovic Rousseau: New version of PySCard: 2.3.2

 Planet Debian

New Linux 7.4 Feature For Reducing AI Noise Already Reverted Due To A "Crazy Beast"

 Phoronix

Denmark’s Collabora Pilot Was Never The Microsoft Replacement it Was Made Out to Be

 It's FOSS

A few days of very small things…

 Planet KDE

OpenAI CEO Altman Calls DRAM in PCs “Quite Terrible,” Argues It Belongs in Data Centers

 Joho no Todai (English)

Linux Lite 8.2 Released with Linux Kernel 7.3, Gaming Optimizations

 Linuxiac

Ransomware Recovery Firm CEO Indicted Over Secret Ransom Payouts

 Ubuntu Buzz!

KDE Plasma 6.9 Lands Some New Performance Optimizations

 Phoronix

Ceph In Linux 7.4 Adds Global Mount Option For Lazy I/O

 Phoronix

GNOME Now Has An Established RFC Process, GNOME OS Continues Improving

 Phoronix

DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 Brings Nice Improvements For Linux Gamers On Latest NVIDIA Drivers

 Phoronix

CUDA Oxide 0.3 Vastly Improves Rust Support For NVIDIA CUDA Programming

 Phoronix

Sculpt OS 26.10 Released - Now Powered By Genode's Custom Microkernel

 Phoronix

Wine 11.21 released with improved WoW64 OpenGL performance

 GamingOnLinux

What Windows Does While You Hold the Power Button: A Microsoft Veteran Explains

 Joho no Todai (English)

X Algorithm Follow-Up Adds Another 40,000 Lines: Weights Unchanged, Under the Hood Announcement Differs From Implementation

 Joho no Todai (English)

One robots.txt Token to Opt Out of AI Training: OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back a Shared Approach, With Separate Answer Controls

 Joho no Todai (English)

PostgreSQL Standby Row Visibility Corruption Exposes an amcheck Detection Gap

 Joho no Todai (English)

AMD Adrenalin 26.10.2 Fixes 10 Issues, Including FSR Frame Generation and Steam Crashes

 Joho no Todai (English)

31 Fake AI Models on Hugging Face Install GPU Miners and Backdoors: Over 30,000 Downloads

 Joho no Todai (English)

Wasmtime Fixes Flaw That Could Drain Server Memory

 LinuxSecurity.com

Wine 11.21 Released With Better WoW64 OpenGL Performance

 Phoronix

This Week in Plasma: An Avalanche of Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes

 Planet KDE

Wine 11.21 Improves WoW64 OpenGL Performance, Fixes 20 Bugs

 Linuxiac

Canonical Begins Work on Ubuntu 27.04 Tenacious T-Rex

 Ubuntu Buzz!

Nomad Vulnerability Could Let Apps Change Server Files

 LinuxSecurity.com

Ubuntu 27.04 ‘Tenacious T-Rex’ opens for development

 OMG! Ubuntu!

Working Exploit for a Linux Kernel Flaw Made Public

 Linux Magazine

Labwc 0.20.3 Wayland Compositor Adds Custom Pointer Acceleration

 Linuxiac

Proton Experimental brings new fixes for Helldivers 2, BeamNG.drive and more

 GamingOnLinux

PostgreSQL 19 Running Behind Schedule Due To AI/LLM Burden

 Phoronix

Matthew Garrett: Getting Google Cast on my Soundbar

 Planet Debian

Northgard Battlegrounds takes the strategy game into a new auto-battling direction

 GamingOnLinux

[$] Removing binder.c

 LWN.net

Ubuntu 27.04 "Tenacious T-Rex" Opens For Development

 Phoronix

Haas: Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault

 LWN.net

Shelly 3.1.10 Brings More Reliable AUR Builds and a New “Shell” Progress Bar

 9to5Linux

Haruna 1.9

 Planet KDE

Remote code execution on Linux systems with multipath TCP

 LWN.net

AMD Ryzen Zen 6 Looks Like It Will Be In Good Shape With Linux 7.4, Laptop Improvements

 Phoronix

[$] System-call wrappers for glibc

 LWN.net

Shelly 3.1.10 Arch Linux Package Manager Improves AUR Builds

 Linuxiac

Eight more stable kernel updates

 LWN.net

r/opensource Bans AI-Assisted and AI-Related Projects

 Linux Magazine

Security updates for Friday

 LWN.net

Linux Kernel 7.4 Cuts Boot Times with Smarter Memory Search

 Ubuntu Buzz!

Another Week, Another Vibe Coded OS; Closed-Source In The Name Of Security

 Phoronix

Russell Coker: More Furilabs FLX1s

 Planet Debian

The popular idle clicker game Idle Slayer added Linux and macOS support

 GamingOnLinux

Pulsar 1.133 Code Editor Brings Better Terminal Integration, Faster Editing

 Linuxiac

Check out the demo for INANIMA, a retro survival-horror inspired by Resident Evil and SIGNALIS

 GamingOnLinux

Open source evolution sim 'Thrive' v1.7 works towards completing the multicellular stage

 GamingOnLinux

AMD PerfOpt Makes it Into Linux 7.4 As A Nice Performance Boost For AMD iGPUs

 Phoronix

Dune: Awakening's free Blood and Ice expansion launches December 1

 GamingOnLinux

Apple Silicon Linux Driver Adapted To Help Older Intel-Powered Macs

 Phoronix

Vulkan 1.4.367 Released With VK_KHR_maintenance12

 Phoronix

I3C Hub & HDR-DDR Support Merged For Linux 7.4

 Phoronix

Multiplayer music playground 'Vibe Together' sounds like a super-fun idea

 GamingOnLinux

Get 18 spooky games in the Fanatical FrightFest Ripper Bundle

 GamingOnLinux

Five more classics join the GOG Preservation Program

 GamingOnLinux

Epic Games Launcher Preview updated to fix logins on some Linux systems

 GamingOnLinux

Denmark’s Digital Sovereignty Effort Stalls Amid Government Shakeup

 FOSS Force

Planet News Roundup

 openSUSE News

Russell Coker: Fuel Should be More Expensive

 Planet Debian

Russell Coker: Radxa Rock 5A RK3588S

 Planet Debian

OSM Hack Weekend October 2026

 Planet KDE

Interview in SteamOS Gamer magazine

 Planet KDE

This app lets you manage Nothing & CMF earbuds on Linux

 OMG! Ubuntu!

New Attack Uses Malicious Markdown to Hijack AI Coding Agents

 Ubuntu Buzz!

We added a manual dark mode toggle to the site (cos you asked)

 OMG! Ubuntu!

RISC-V Has A Nice Portable Performance Optimization With Linux 7.4

 Phoronix

Full Circle Magazine 234

 Full Circle Magazine

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 336 released

 Planet Debian

Gelly is a GTK desktop music player for Jellyfin and Navidrome

 OMG! Ubuntu!

Fedora Linux 45 Shipping Next Week On 3 November

 Phoronix

Hetzner Warns PXE Boot Users Not to Restart Servers

 LinuxSecurity.com

Kafka Security Flaw Could Let Attackers Fake a Login

 LinuxSecurity.com

Tor Browser 16.0 Anonymous Browser Brings Native ARM Support on Linux

 9to5Linux

F2FS Adds Opt-In Multi-Grain Timestamps With Linux 7.4, Other Improvements

 Phoronix

IPFire Project Releases fireperf, a New Network Performance Measurement Tool

 9to5Linux

LibreOffice 26.8.2 Released With Multimedia Fixes and Improved Stability and Format Compatibility

 FOSS Force

Kirigami Addons 1.16.0. The material updates

 Planet KDE

Jagex are now publishing Melvor Idle 2 as an official RuneScape game

 GamingOnLinux

TUXEDO Nano Pro Gen15 Mini Linux PC Launches with Intel CPU, Up to 128 GB RAM

 9to5Linux

System76 tease the new mini Thelio Prime Desktop coming in November

 GamingOnLinux

[$] Containers as a recognized kernel object

 LWN.net

GOG and Retrovibe team up for indie game publishing

 GamingOnLinux

FOSS Weekly #26.44: Ginux, Dead Distros, Resurrected Projects, Dangerous Commands and More (Scary) Linux Stuff

 It's FOSS

openEuler New Releases Come With a Heavy Dose of AI and Agents

 It's FOSS

NVIDIA Vera Single vs. Dual Socket CPU Performance

 Phoronix

Security updates for Thursday

 LWN.net

Ubuntu 26.10 Debuts Local AI, Rust Tools, and GNOME 51

 Ubuntu Buzz!

Linux 7.4 Networking Brings Hardware Pacing Offload, New Drivers & More Performance

 Phoronix

Distribution Release: CarotOS 1.3

 DistroWatch

LibreOffice 26.8.2 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 30 Bug Fixes

 9to5Linux

No Man's Sky Forsaken update brings Seamless Warping, New Cockpits, Forsaken Traders and more

 GamingOnLinux

Build up your spooky game collection with the Horror Trifectas Humble Bundle

 GamingOnLinux

CachyOS Linux working on a dedicated kernel for supporting Easy Anti-Cheat v2

 GamingOnLinux

Is Ubuntu Eyeing Immutability? Canonical Restarts Core Desktop and Eyes a Firmware Change for LTS

 It's FOSS

Ubuntu Core Desktop has been restarted with a dedicated team with plans to improve Linux gaming

 GamingOnLinux

Discord servers are set to become more public for web searches

 GamingOnLinux

Mesa 26.2.6 brings fixes for The Witcher 3 Remastered and various other Linux driver issues

 GamingOnLinux

AMD's ROCm HRX Loom v0.1 Released For Targeting AMD CPUs, GPUs & NPUs

 Phoronix

DLSS Updater 5.2 released with AMD FSR 4.1.2 support

 GamingOnLinux

D7VK 2.4 released along with GXVK for Vulkan-based 3Dfx Glide

 GamingOnLinux

FAT32 File-System Seeing As Much As 265x Improvement With Linux 7.4

 Phoronix

Graphics/NPU Driver Changes Already Begin Queuing Up For What Will Be Linux 7.5

 Phoronix

KSMBD Adds New Options With Linux 7.4

 Phoronix

Ghostty 1.4 is out with big improvements on Linux

 OMG! Ubuntu!

Distribution Release: Gnoppix Linux 26_11

 DistroWatch