📰 FreeBSD Aims To Better Track Laptop Hardware That Works Or Doesn't For Their OS

Over the past year the FreeBSD project has been making much progress on making it more viable to run this BSD operating system on laptop hardware. They have worked on better graphics driver support, improved power management / suspend, making sure audio is working, and even rolling out a KDE desktop option from the FreeBSD OS installer to ease the deployment on desktops.

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Laptop-Matrix

Firefox’s free VPN finally works for m

Firefox recently added a free built-in VPN, but access to the feature is rolling out gradually – but I finally got my turn in the queue last night, when I opened Firefox on Ubuntu and a ‘VPN’ label was sitting in the browser toolbar. That’s as honestly as exciting as this gets, really; it’s a browser-only VPN. It’s on, it’s off, that’s it. Initially, the feature is only being made available to users in the UK, the USA, France and Germany. If you’re waiting for it to roll out to you, there’s no special update to look out for. Mozilla […]
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/firefox-free-vpn-enabled

Доля пользователей Linux в Steam превысила 5%

Компания Valve опубликовала мартовский отчёт с анализом предпочтений пользователей сервиса доставки игр Steam. Доля активных пользователей Steam, использующих платформу Linux, достигла значения в 5.33%, что в 2 раза больше, чем было отражено в предыдущем месяце. В февральском отчёте данный показатель составлял 2.23%, январском - 3.38%, декабрьском - 3.58%. С учётом того, что число активных пользователей Steam оценивается в 132 миллиона, в марте в Steam зафиксировано приблизительно 6.6 млн. пользователей Linux.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65157

📰 Rust Coreutils 0.8 Brings Significant Performance Gains

Rust Coreutils 0.8 was released today as the newest major release to this alternative to GNU Coreutils...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.8-Released

Атака GPUBreach, позволяющая получить root-доступ через выполнение CUDA-кода на GPU NVIDIA

Группа исследователей из университета Торонто разработала технику атаки GPUBreach, которая аналогично анонсированным днях атакам GDDRHammer и GeForge использует технику RowHammer для искажения битов видеопамяти GDDR и повреждения таблицы страниц памяти GPU. GPUBreach позволяет получить root-доступ в основное системное окружение через выполнение в GPU NVIDIA нерпривилегированного ядра CUDA.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65159

📰 Flowise AI Agent Builder Under Active CVSS 10.0 RCE Exploitation; 12,000+ Instances Exposed

Threat actors are exploiting a maximum-severity security flaw in Flowise, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, according to new findings from VulnCheck.The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-59528 (CVSS score: 10.0), a code injection vulnerability that could result in remote code execution."The CustomMCP node allows users to input configuration settings for connecting.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/flowise-ai-agent-builder-under-active.html

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Проект Solod развивает подмножество языка Go, транслируемое в язык Си

Представлен язык программирования Solod (So), предоставляющий подмножество языка Go, транскомпилируемое в представление на языке Си (C11), пригодное для сборки компиляторами GCC, Clang и zig cc. Ключевым отличием Solod от Go и Tinygo является использование ручного управления памятью, работающего без применения сборщика мусора, без автоматического выделения памяти и без подсчёта ссылок. Транспайлер для Solod написан на языке Go и распространяется под лицензией BSD.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65160

📰 RISC-V XIP Linux Feature Being Removed After It Keeps Breaking For Months At A Time

Introduced in Linux 5.13 back in 2021 was eXecute In Place "XIP" support for RISC-V that allows for the kernel image to be executed from ROM. The intent is on allowing the kernel to run from non-volatile storage like NOR flash that is directly addressable by the CPU and to reduce RAM usage. But after RISC-V XIP support is broken for months at a time, the feature is now set to be retired from the mainline kernel...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-XIP-Being-Removed

📰 Mesa Granted Permanent Updates Exception For Fedora Linux

It doesn't change too much in practice with how Mesa updates typically have been handled under Fedora Linux, but now it's officially documented: Mesa graphics drivers have a permanent updates exception so new Mesa versions can be shipped as updates in Fedora stable releases...

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#linux #fedora

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Updates-Exception-Fedora

KDE Plasma 6.6.4 Is Out to Reduce CPU and GPU Load for Full-Screen Windows

KDE Plasma 6.6.4 is now available as the fourth maintenance update in the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment series with various improvements and bug fixes.
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https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-6-4-is-out-to-reduce-cpu-and-gpu-load-for-full-screen-windows

OpenSSL 3.6.2 Is Now Available for Download with Important Security Fixes

OpenSSL 3.6.2 open-source TLS/SSL and crypto library is now available for download with fixes for several security vulnerabilities and bugs. Patch now!
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https://9to5linux.com/openssl-3-6-2-is-now-available-for-download-with-important-security-fixes

Firefox 149.0.2 Improves the Browser Toolbar on Wayland for Linux Users

Firefox 149.0.2 open-source web browser is now available for download with improved Wayland support for Linux users, two new enterprise policicies, and other changes.
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https://9to5linux.com/firefox-149-0-2-improves-the-browser-toolbar-on-wayland-for-linux-users

Rubber Duck in GitHub Copilot CLI: reducing AI hallucinations with a second opinion

GitHub Copilot CLI—GitHub's AI assistant for the terminal—introduced an experimental feature called Rubber Duck that pairs your primary AI model with an independent reviewer from a completely different AI vendor. The goal is to catch early planning mistakes before they compound into harder-to-fix downstream errors, a known weakness of single-model AI agents. In performance testing on real-world coding problems, combining Claude Sonnet with Rubber Duck closed 74.7% of the performance gap between Sonnet and the more capable Opus tier.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/rubber-duck-in-github-copilot-cli-reducing-ai-hallucinations-with-a-second-opinion/

📰 AMD ISP4 Driver On Track To Be Merged For Linux 7.2

It looks like with the Linux 7.2 kernel later in the year the AMD ISP4 driver will finally be merged to mainline. This driver is needed for the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a Strix Halo laptop and other future AMD Ryzen laptops...

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#linux #amd #kernel

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ISP4-For-Linux-7.2

📰 KDE Plasma 6.6.4 Is Out to Reduce CPU and GPU Load for Full-Screen Windows

KDE Plasma 6.6.4 is now available as the fourth maintenance update in the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment series with various improvements and bug fixes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-6-4-is-out-to-reduce-cpu-and-gpu-load-for-full-screen-windows

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📰 Alacritty 0.17 Terminal Emulator Released with Wayland Resize Improvements

Alacritty 0.17, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator, adds TOML 1.1 support, Wayland resize increments, mouse wheel bindings, and more.

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https://linuxiac.com/alacritty-0-17-terminal-emulator-released-with-wayland-resize-improvements/

Выпуск uutils 0.8, варианта GNU Coreutils на языке Rust

Опубликован выпуск проекта uutils coreutils 0.8.0 (Rust Coreutils), развивающего аналог пакета GNU Coreutils, написанный на языке Rust. В состав coreutils входит более ста утилит, включая sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln и ls. Целью проекта является создание кроссплатформенной альтернативной реализации Coreutils, среди прочего способной работать на платформах Windows, Redox и Fuchsia.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65162

📰 OpenSSL 3.6.2 Is Now Available for Download with Important Security Fixes

OpenSSL 3.6.2 open-source TLS/SSL and crypto library is now available for download with fixes for several security vulnerabilities and bugs. Patch now!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/openssl-3-6-2-is-now-available-for-download-with-important-security-fixes

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📰 KDE Plasma 6.6.4 Released with Wayland, KWin, and Spectacle Fixes

KDE Plasma 6.6.4 desktop environment fixes Wayland scaling, Spectacle crashes, KWin bugs, and several Plasma Desktop regressions.

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https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-6-4-released-with-wayland-kwin-and-spectacle-fixes/

📰 Linux's Second-In-Command Turns To New Fuzzing Tools For Uncovering Kernel Bugs

Greg Kroah-Hartman, the main Linux stable kernel maintainer and typically viewed as the second-in-command to the Linux kernel development, has turned to new "gregkh_clanker_t1000" fuzzing tooling to help uncover new kernel bugs...

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#linux #kernel

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Greg-KH-Clanker-Linux-Bugs

📰 Intel QAT Driver With Linux 7.1 Adding Zstd Offload Support

The Intel QuickAssist "QAT" driver for the mainline Linux 7.1 kernel is adding support for Zstd offloading across QuickAssist Gen 4 / Gen 5 / Gen 6 accelerators for Zstandard compression as well as Zstandard decompression (limited there to the latest Gen 6 hardware)...

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#linux #kernel #intel

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-QAT-Linux-7.1-Zstd