The 210th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on October 20th, 2024, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Mozilla and Google complicate life for users of uBlock Origin and uBlock Lite. Both uBlock Origin and its smaller sibling, uBlock Origin Lite, are experiencing problems thanks to browser vendors that really ought to know better.

Well, that was fast. It was only back in early September that Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 1.0. Now, Red Hat has followed up by announcing the general availability of RHEL AI 1.2.

Flatpak update command fails after upgrading Curl to version 8.10 from backports repository In Debian 12 Linux. Here's how to fix it.

A status page system is software that lets you communicate incidents, schedule maintenance and downtimes with your customers.

Over the past week Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been active on a Linux kernel mailing list thread around avoiding barrier_nospec() in copy_from_user() due to being "overkill and painfully slow."

As per his site, and as noted the other day as well, Dr. Stallman should start giving talks tomorrow (Universidad Nacional de Cañete)

Kdenlive 24.08.2 open-source video editor is here with key bug fixes, addresses crashes, project issues, and more.

Explaining the problem in more technical detail, the GNU Boot project said that the vboot source code used in Coreboot and in the vboot-utils package, contains the non-free code in its test data in tests/futility/data. To address the issue, it has cleaned up the code and re-released the affected tarball packages, code improvements have also been made.

The ASUS NUC 14 Pro AI is a powerful, compact mini PC featuring the Intel Core Ultra processor (Series 2), which integrates CPU, GPU, and NPU architectures to deliver up to 120 platform TOPS for AI processing. It is designed for consumer, commercial, and edge computing applications.

PorteuX 1.7 has been released as a major update for this portable Linux distribution based on Slackware and inspired by both Slax and Porteus distros, designed to be small, fast, portable, modular, and immutable.

Drova - Forsaken Kin from developer Just2D and publisher Deck13 was released recently, and if you love action RPGs it's one you need to check out. It has Native Linux support and is playable on the Steam Deck although no rating from Valve yet.

Researchers with Seattle-based Protect AI plan to release a free, open source tool that can find zero-day vulnerabilities in Python codebases with the help of Anthropic's Claude AI model.

Canonical has put the official Linux Intel NPU driver on the Snap Store.

In the first article in this two-part series, published in the August 2024 issue of OSFY, we discussed the role of the C library in system call execution. We talked of how the C library loads system call arguments into architecture-specific registers, generating syscall interrupt, which switches the mode from the user to the kernel.

Since purchasing an Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" laptop for Linux testing last month, the performance has been coming in below expectations. Among the tests were finding Xe2 graphics on Lunar Lake performing slower that under Windows 11 and in comparison slower than Meteor Lake graphics on Linux.

Having left desktop computers behind for laptops, I found myself in need of a permanently-connected computer to act as my local media server. One that looks nice and is not too expensive. The answer I found was a refurbished mini PC, with lots of trial and error along the way.

The ESP32-C61-DevKitC-1 is an upcoming entry-level development board that integrates Wi-Fi 6 in the 2.4 GHz band and Bluetooth LE 5 capabilities. The board is designed to support a variety of applications and offers multiple peripheral interfaces for developers to work with.

The All Things Open organization is picking up the baton abandoned by Red Hat when it quit publishing OpenSource.com.

On this day 20 years ago, Ubuntu released its 4.10 'Warty Warthog,' forever changing the Linux ecosystem. Happy Anniversary, Ubuntu!