📰 Debian Libre Live Images Debut for Fully Free Debian Installations

The Debian Libre Live project releases its first free-only amd64 live ISOs, removing all non-free components from the installation media.

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https://linuxiac.com/debian-libre-live-images-debut-for-fully-free-debian-installations/

Blender 5.0 Open-Source 3D Graphics App Is Now Available for Download

Blender 5.0 free and open-source 3D computer graphics software tool set is now available for download as a major update with many new features and improvements. Here's what's new!
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https://9to5linux.com/blender-5-0-open-source-3d-graphics-app-is-now-available-for-download

📰 Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters

Linux inventor also discusses Rust in the kernel, Nvidia's proprietary code, and the problem of AI crawlers Linux and Git inventor Linus Torvalds discussed AI in software development in an interview earlier this month, describing himself as "fairly positive" about vibe coding, but as a way into computing, not for production coding where it would likely be horrible to maintain.…

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Первый кандидат в релизы графического редактора GIMP 3.2

Сформирован первый кандидат в релизы графического редактора GIMP 3.2. В ветке GIMP 3.2 добавлена поддержка слоёв-ссылок (Link layer) и векторных слоёв (Vector layer), а также возможностей, связанных с поддержкой цветовой модели CMYK и управлением цветом. С выпуском первого кандидата в релизы совершена заморозка строк и остановлен приём новой функциональности в рамках цикла разработки GIMP 3.2. Готовые сборки GIMP 3.2-RC1 опубликованы для Linux (AppImage, Flatpak, Snap), Windows и macOS.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64280

GIMP 3.2 Hits Release Candidate with Improved Text Editing + More

A release candidate of the upcoming GIMP 3.2 release is now available for download and testing. GIMP 3.2 will be next major release of the free, open-source raster image editor, arriving a mere 8 months after the huge 3.0 milestone as a result of a new accelerated release schedule. Though not stable, GIMP development builds provide avid users and developers with the opportunity to test new features and provide feedback on how things are progressive. Below, I runthrough what’s new in this GIMP 3.2 release candidate specifically. The GIMP 3.1.2 & 3.1.4 development builds also added plenty of new features. If you haven’t […]
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/gimp-3-2-release-candidate-highlights

📰 Throwing stones at Pebble: Rebble accuses Core Devices of stealing its work for new Pebble smartwatch services

The Pebble line of smartwatches is back. But in some ways it never really went away… because after Fitbit acquired Pebble in 2016 and stopped making Pebble-branded hardware, an independent team of developers got to work creating an open source software ecosystem that allowed existing watches to continue functioning. For the past decade, the Rebble .

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https://liliputing.com/throwing-stones-at-pebble-rebble-accuses-core-devices-of-stealing-its-work-for-new-pebble-smartwatch-services/

Smart Table Tennis Bat with Live Analytics

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https://www.hackster.io/s4muela/smart-table-tennis-bat-with-live-analytics-360981

📰 Intel LASS Feature Looks Like It Will Be Upstreamed For Linux 6.19

Intel's LASS functionality was queued today into tip/tip.git's "x86/cpu" Git branch. With LASS now making it into a TIP branch, it looks like it will be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.19 merge window barring any last minute issues or objections from Linus Torvalds...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LASS-For-Linux-6.19

Blender 5.0 Released With Better Vulkan Support, HDR On Wayland - Phoronix

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-5.0-Released

📰 ClamAV to Cut Signature Database Size by 50%

ClamAV will retire outdated signatures on December 16, reducing both databases by about 50% to improve performance and trim update costs.

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https://linuxiac.com/clamav-to-cut-signature-database-size-by-50-percentage/

Xubuntu Reveals How Its Website Was Hijacked in October

The Xubuntu team has shared details on last month’s worrying website hijack, pinpointing how the attack happened and the steps its taking to prevent a repeat in the future. As detailed in our coverage back in October, the official Xubuntu download page began serving a malicious .zip file to users attempting to download the official torrent between October 15 and 19. Though the incident was resolved quickly once detected, questions were raised about how it could’ve happened in the first place, and whether any one had been affected. Today, the Xubuntu team, based on information Canonical has shared with it, has answers. […]
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/xubuntu-website-breach-report

Многочасовой сбой Cloudflare оказался результатом некорректной обработки ошибок

Компания Cloudflare опубликовала разбор одного из крупнейших инцидентов в своей инфраструктуре, из-за которого вчера большая часть сети доставки контента оказалась неработоспособной на протяжении более 3 часов. Сбой произошёл после изменения в структуре БД, размещённой в хранилище ClickHouse, после которого файл с параметрами для системы противодействия ботам в два раза увеличился в размере. В БД были образованы дублирующиеся таблицы, при том, что SQL-запрос для формирования файла просто выводил все данные из всех таблиц по ключу, без отсеивания дубликатов.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64282

Stop Using Only cd: Learn pushd, popd, and zoxide in Linux

The post Stop Using Only cd: Learn pushd, popd, and zoxide in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .In Linux, the ‘cd‘ (Change Directory) command serves as a fundamental navigation tool for both newcomers and experienced system administrators.
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https://www.tecmint.com/cd-command-in-linux/

XXI конференция «Свободное программное обеспечение в высшей школе»

XXI конференция «Свободное программное обеспечение в высшей школе» (OSEDUCONF-2026) состоится 6-8 февраля 2026 года в Институте программных систем РАН в Переславле-Залесском Ярославской области.
В ней примут участие представители образовательного сообщества, использующие или создающие свободное ПО в учебном или научном процессе. Основной целью является налаживание личных контактов между специалистами, обсуждение перспектив и новинок области.
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Публикация программы ожидается 21 января 2026 года.
Участие в конференции для докладчиков и слушателей бесплатное, докладчикам оплачивается проживание в отеле (по одному человеку на доклад), всем участникам предоставляется трансфер из Москвы и обратно, а также от гостиницы «Переславль» до места проведения конференции: Ярославская область, Переславский район, с. Веськово, улица Петра Первого, д. 4А (Институт программных систем имени А.К. Айламазяна РАН).
Видеозаписи докладов и презентации будут размещены в открытом доступе «Базальт СПО» в VK, на странице мероприятия и 0x1.tv. Тезисы докладов выйдут отдельным сборником и будут опубликованы в национальной библиографической базе данных научного цитирования РИНЦ.



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https://www.linux.org.ru/news/conference/18147295

Релиз Mesa 25.3, свободной реализации OpenGL и Vulkan

После трёх месяцев разработки представлен релиз свободной реализации API OpenGL и Vulkan - Mesa 25.3.0. Тег нового выпуска в git был опубликован 15 ноября, но анонс на сайте появился только вчера (в рассылке релиз не объявлен до сих пор). Первый выпуск ветки Mesa 25.3.0 имеет экспериментальный статус - после проведения окончательной стабилизации кода будет выпущена стабильная версия 25.3.1.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64283

Cloudflare CEO blames single engineer for internal server error that took down roughly half of the internet—the real cause runs deeper

A blog post by Matthew Prince, Cloudflare's CEO, suggests that Cloudflare repeated CrowdStrike's mistake: updating the entire infrastructure without first testing on a small group of hosts. As a result, large portions of the internet, including 4sysops, were inaccessible for several hours. Apologies for the latter. While most news sites reported that 20% of internet traffic was affected, the actual impact was much higher because the outage disproportionately affected high-traffic, top-ranking websites like X, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Spotify. While Cloudflare's CEO blames a manual database permissions change, the incident exposes a deeper design flaw: a single engineer can disrupt massive portions of global internet infrastructure. In contrast, blockchain networks like Ethereum demonstrate how truly decentralized systems can prevent such single points of failure.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/cloudflare-ceo-blames-single-engineer-for-internal-server-error-that-took-down-roughly-half-of-the-internetthe-real-cause-runs-deeper/

📰 Xubuntu Reveals How its Website Was Hijacked

The Xubuntu team has shared an incident report on its October website breach. Attackers brute-forced the site to inject malware - but was anything else affected?You're reading Xubuntu Reveals How its Website Was Hijacked, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/xubuntu-website-breach-report

📰 Vulkan SER Showing Up To ~47% Performance Improvement For Ray-Tracing

Last week's Vulkan 1.4.333 brought a new ray-tracing extension with VK_EXT_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder that was derived from a prior NVIDIA vendor extension (VK_NV_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder). This new extension for Shader Execution Reordering "SER" is showing to deliver some nice performance potential for Vulkan ray-tracing performance...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-SER-Performance

📰 After Nearly 10 Years of Building Mastodon, Eugen Rochko Steps Into Advisory Role

Mastodon's creator steps back from CEO role, transfers assets to non-profit organization.

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https://itsfoss.com/news/mastodon-ceo-steps-down/

📰 Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query

Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fix Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has admitted that the cause of its massive Tuesday outage was a change to database permissions, and that the company initially thought the symptoms of that adjustment indicated it was the target of a “hyper-scale DDoS attack,” before figuring out the real problem.…

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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/19/cloudflare_incident_report/