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NHS England May Make Public GitHub Repositories Private Over AI Concerns

Linux News - Mon, 05/04/2026 - 22:20
National Health Service England reportedly plans to make most public code repositories private over AI-assisted vulnerability scanning concerns.
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Mullvad Browser is a Tor Browser without a Tor Network

Linux News - Mon, 05/04/2026 - 22:20
Discover Mullvad Browser, a collaborative effort by Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project, ensuring unparalleled privacy by eliminating tracking and fingerprinting.
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OnlyOffice Just Learned You Can't Fake Open Source (And the Internet Isn't Happy)

Linux News - Mon, 05/04/2026 - 22:20
OnlyOffice added a licensing trap to prevent forks while claiming to be open source. Now a coalition of European tech companies is calling their bluff with Euro Office-and the FSF says they're right
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Copy Fail Linux Kernel Vulnerability Now Patched in Debian, Ubuntu, and Others

Linux News - Mon, 05/04/2026 - 22:20
Found by Xint Code, the Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) security vulnerability, which could allow a local user to elevate privileges to the root user, has been patched in Debian, Ubuntu, AlmaLinux OS, and other popular distributions affected by this flaw.
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New NTFS Driver Sees More Fixes With Linux 7.1-rc2

Linux News - Mon, 05/04/2026 - 22:20
One of the most prominent changes with the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel release is the introduction of the new NTFS driver in the Linux 7.1 kernel. This new driver provides more features and better performance than the Paragon NTFS3 driver that's been in the kernel the past few years and far better off than the original NTFS read-only driver that previously was in the kernel and for which this new driver is based. Needless to say it's also a big improvement over the NTFS-3G user-space FUSE driver too...
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Wireshark 4.6.5 Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities and Updates Protocol Support

Linux News - Mon, 05/04/2026 - 22:20
Wireshark 4.6.5 open-source network protocol analyzer is now available for download with updated protocol and capture file support, fixes for multiple security vulnerabilities, and various bug fixes.
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GCC 16.1 Released as First GCC 16 Series Release with C++20 Default

Linux News - Mon, 05/04/2026 - 22:20
GCC 16.1 arrives as the first GCC 16 release, switching the default C++ dialect from GNU C++17 to GNU C++20.
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LibreOffice 26.2.3 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 40 Bug Fixes

Linux News - Sun, 05/03/2026 - 22:20
LibreOffice 26.2.3 is now available for download as the third point release to the LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with 43 bug fixes.
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AMD's GAIA Defaults To Better Model, Continued Improvements For Local AI

Linux News - Sun, 05/03/2026 - 22:20
AMD software engineers on Friday released a new version of GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" as their open-source software for Windows and Linux leveraging the Lemonade SDK and aiming to make it easy to build AI agents on your PC with all local AI processing across AMD's CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs...
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What's New for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora Linux 44

Linux News - Sun, 05/03/2026 - 22:20
Fedora Linux 44 has been released! So, let’s see what is included in this new release for the Fedora Atomic Desktop variants (Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway Atomic, Budgie Atomic and COSMIC Atomic). Changes for all Atomic Desktops Issue tracker moved to the new Fedora forge We have moved the cross-variants issue tracker to the new Fedora […]
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DavMail 6.7 Exchange Gateway Adds TOTP MFA Support

Linux News - Sun, 05/03/2026 - 22:20
DavMail 6.7 adds TOTP MFA support, improves the Microsoft Graph backend, and fixes Office 365 authentication issues.
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IPFire 2.29 Core Update 201 Linux Firewall Distro Released with DNS Firewall

Linux News - Sun, 05/03/2026 - 22:20
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 201 hardened Linux firewall distro is now available for download with DNS Firewall, Intrusion Prevention System improvements, updated components, and other changes.
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Linux 7.1 Fixes Audio For The Steam Deck OLED After Being Broken 2 Years On The Upstream Kernel

Linux News - Sun, 05/03/2026 - 22:20
It turns out the Steam Deck OLED gaming handheld has not had working audio support with the mainline (upstream) Linux kernel since a change in late 2023 that was merged for Linux 6.8. There was an AMD ASoC audio change that inadvertently broke audio support for the Steam Deck OLED handheld but not affecting the original LCD model. Valve's downstream Steam OS kernel has compensated for this known breakage and other distributions targeting the Steam Deck OLED have carried the patch, but now there is a proper solution upstream ahead of Linux 7.1-rc2...
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FUSEX File-System Being Developed For Extended/Experimental Features

Linux News - Sun, 05/03/2026 - 22:20
Miklos Szeredi of Red Hat has been developing the FUSEX file-system as an extended/experimental area for File-System in User-Space "FUSE" development...
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VideoLAN Publishes Dav2d For Open-Source AV2 Decoder

Linux News - Sun, 05/03/2026 - 22:20
While the Alliance For Open Media had been aiming for the AV2 release by the end of 2025, as of right now the AV2 specification remains in a draft status. VideoLAN developers though for months have already been working on dav2d as an open-source AV2 decoder and that code was published this weekend...
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KDE Linux Now Using KMSCON For A Better VT Console Experience

Linux News - Sun, 05/03/2026 - 22:20
KDE Linux continues making progress as the in-house Linux distribution to best showcase the latest KDE Plasma desktop innovations...
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How to Force User to Change Their Password on Next Login in Linux

Linux News - Sun, 05/03/2026 - 22:20
When you create a new user account and set a password for that account, the "password expires" status is set to never; however, you can later force them to change their password on their next login.
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Uptime Kuma 2.3 Adds OracleDB Monitoring and Status Page Groups

Linux News - Sat, 05/02/2026 - 22:20
Uptime Kuma 2.3 adds OracleDB monitoring, collapsible status page groups, new notification providers, and several uptime and metrics fixes.
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Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt

Linux News - Sat, 05/02/2026 - 22:20
Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it's arriving all at onceBritain's cyber agency is warning that AI-fuelled bug hunting is about to flush out years of buried flaws, leaving defenders scrambling to keep up.…
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