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.

Uptime Kuma 2.3 adds OracleDB monitoring, collapsible status page groups, new notification providers, and several uptime and metrics fixes.

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.…

KDE Plasma 6.7 prepares Background Apps portal support, sharper KWin zoom upscaling, and several System Tray and Discover refinements.

Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLMWith model devs pushing more aggressive rate limits, raising prices, or even abandoning subscriptions for usage-based pricing, that vibe-coded hobby project is about to get a whole lot more expensive. Fortunately, you're not without cost-saving options.…

Following last year's release of FreeBSD 15.0, FreeBSD 15.1 is working its way toward release release in June. For kicking off the release dance, FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 1 is available today for testing...

‘Copy Fail’ puts Linux users on alert as kernel patches race out and distros scramble to puh them to the update channel.

Zoey Bauer released Shelly 2.2 today as a major update to this graphical package manager for Arch Linux and Arch Linux-based distributions like CachyOS, which introduces a revamped UI and other improvements.

APT 3.3 package manager removes the long-standing unstable CLI warning and adds support for requesting a specific CLI version.

The ESP-FLY DIY Kit is a compact micro drone platform built around the Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-S3, developed as a collaboration between Seeed Studio and Max Imagination. The kit targets educational and hobbyist use, combining a small airframe with wireless control options and a customizable firmware environment. The system is delivered as a DIY kit […]

Plenty of corporate speak in this announcement, but you can look beyond that:

Canonical confirms Ubuntu web infrastructure is facing a sustained cross-border DDoS attack, causing service disruption.

Wine 11.8 updates Mono to version 11.1, improves MSXML and VBScript support, and fixes 22 bugs across games and Windows apps.

Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternativesAs both Apple and Google introduce unwelcome changes in their phone OSes, here's a quick reminder that you do have alternatives to the Gruesome Twosome.…

In addition to today's monthly ISO refresh of Arch Linux that is now pulling in the Linux 7.0 kernel and other updates, the downstream EndeavourOS also happens to be out with a new ISO release for starting the month of May...

'Online platforms can rely on our app,' says Commish, 'there are no more excuses'The European Commission has recommended EU member states adopt an age verification app designed to protect children from harmful online content.…

The Arch Linux project released a new ISO snapshot of the Arch Linux distribution for May 2026, which is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.0 kernel series.

313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep comingCanonical says its web infrastructure is under attack after a pro-Iran hacktivist group instructed its members to target the open source giant.…

Arch Linux’s May 2026 ISO is out with Linux kernel 7.0, Plasma 6.6.4, GNOME 50.1, updated firmware, and refreshed core packages.

CVE-2026-31431, colloquially known as "Copy Fail," is a critical logic flaw in the Linux kernel's Cryptographic API (specifically the `algif_aead` module). It allows an unprivileged local user to perform a deterministic, controlled 4-byte write into the read-only page cache of any accessible file on the system. By corrupting the in-memory representation of SUID binaries, an attacker achieves local privilege escalation to the root user and can successfully escape containerized environments.