Microsoft Defender’s signed BTR.sys driver can erase security tools at boot

A Microsoft-signed driver built into Defender can be repurposed to remove antivirus and EDR components before they start, giving attackers with administrator-level privileges a powerful boot-time evasion technique. Check Point Research says the approach works from Windows 7 through Windows 11 25H2, bypasses common driver-blocking controls, and is not currently linked to real-world attacks.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/microsoft-defenders-signed-btr-sys-driver-can-erase-security-tools-at-boot/

Для поддержания дистрибутива Omarchy создана организация Omacom Foundation, получившая 8 млн долларов

Давид Хейнемейер Ханссон (David Heinemeier Hansson), автор веб-фреймворка Ruby on Rails, объявил о создании некоммерческой организации Omacom Foundation, которая в долгосрочной перспективе обеспечит поддержание разработки дистрибутива Omarchy Linux и связанной с ним инфраструктуры. Организация также будет распоряжаться товарными знаками, обеспечивать финансирование и поддерживать открытые проекты и разработчиков, от которых зависит дистрибутив.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66110

📰 KMSCON 10.0.2 Brings asciicast Playback Support, Bug Fixes

KMSCON 10.0.2 debuted today as the latest update to this leading user-space terminal emulator for Linux systems. KMSCON is built around Linux's KMS/DRM interfaces and the most viable alternative to date for in-kernel VTs...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KMSCON-10.0.2-Released

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https://phoronix.com/news/KMSCON-10.0.2-Released

Nvidia’s AVO harness proves that the harness matters more than raw intelligence

Nvidia’s Agentic Variation Operators (AVO) is a research harness that wraps an AI model with tools, memory, feedback loops, and a supervisory agent. By placing Claude Opus 5 inside this system, Nvidia lifted its score from 30% to 100% on ARC-AGI-3, solving all 183 puzzles across the benchmark’s 25 interactive games. The result suggests that harness design can matter as much as, or more than, changing the underlying model for difficult, long-running agent tasks.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/nvidias-avo-harness-proves-that-the-harness-matters-more-than-raw-intelligence/

Китай переводит некоторые госучреждения с Windows на Linux

По данным издания Bloomberg, Министерство государственной безопасности КНР предписало ряду государственных учреждений отказаться от использования операционной системы Windows 10 China Government Edition в пользу китайских дистрибутивов Linux, таких как Kylin OS и UOS (UnionTech OS на базе Deepin). Миграция реализуется в рамках долгосрочной стратегии по замене иностранных технологий в государственных ведомствах на открытые решения, развиваемые в Китае. Предполагается, что замена позволит укрепить цифровой суверенитет, избавиться от зависимости от продуктов иностранных компаний и укрепить защиту данных.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66109

Microsoft 365 Business: Exchange Online mailbox quota rises to 100 GB

Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Business Standard, and Business Premium now include an extra 50 GB of primary Exchange Online mailbox storage, raising the supported limit from 50 GB to 100 GB. The primary mailbox is the user's active inbox, calendar, and contacts. Microsoft delivers the increase as a licensing change through a new service plan, a named capability inside the product license, rather than as a new mailbox type. The packaging rollout started in June 2026 and continues through September 2026. You should verify the result per user, because not every mailbox in a tenant receives the extra quota at the same time.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/microsoft-365-business-exchange-online-mailbox-quota-rises-to-100-gb/

📰 Researcher tricks Apple’s Find My into sharing location data with Linux

Clever protocol wrangling gets iBiz-only people tracking working on a non-iGadget.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/20/researcher-tricks-apples-find-my-into-sharing-location-data-with-linux/5290496

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https://theregister.com/security/2026/08/20/researcher-tricks-apples-find-my-into-sharing-location-data-with-linux/5290496

📰 New AMD P-State Patch Delivers Major Linux Gaming Performance Boost

by George WhittakerA newly proposed patch for the Linux kernel's AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver is showing impressive gaming performance improvements, potentially delivering a noticeable boost for Ryzen users without requiring new hardware. Early benchmarks indicate that the optimization can significantly improve frame rates in CPU-bound games by allowing processors to respond more quickly to changing workloads. (phoronix.

🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/new-amd-p-state-patch-delivers-major-linux-gaming-performance-boost

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https://linuxjournal.com/content/new-amd-p-state-patch-delivers-major-linux-gaming-performance-boost

📰 Meloville Is a New Open-Source Music Player for Linux

Meloville is a new Qt-based open-source music player for Linux with synced lyrics, Bluetooth controls, playlists, and metadata editing.

🔗 Source: /

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https://linuxiac.com/meloville-is-a-new-open-source-music-player-for-linux

📰 The same Linux setup follows me across three PCs, without cloning a single drive

Keep the same Linux workflow across multiple PCs without cloning drives by syncing configs, package lists, and personal data separately.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/same-linux-setup-across-three-pcs-without-cloning-drives/

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Postcard is a new email client for GNOME, built with AI

Postcard is a new email client for GNOME that has echoes of Geary. The app is the work of a solo developer, gxanshu on GitHub, who is upfront about using AI coding tools to bring his “modern mail client” to life. Postcard is built in Python with GTK4/libadwait. It uses imaplib and smtplib for networking, a local SQLite index for searching, WebKitGTK for rendering HTML and libsecret for keeping passwords safe. Postcard will look familiar to fans of Geary, another GTK email client, as it uses a similar multi-column design with folder in a (resizable) sidebar on the left, a message list […]
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/postcard-gnome-email-client

📰 Intel Mesa Linux Drivers Now Treating Nova Lake S / U / H / HX As Stable

Intel's open-source Mesa drivers for Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV (Vulkan) on Linux are no longer treating next-gen Nova Lake processors with integrated graphics as experimental and off-by-default. With today's Mesa 26.3-devel code, the Intel driver code across Nova Lake's S, U, H, and HX product families are considered stable and enabled by default...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Mesa-Nova-Lake-Stable

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https://phoronix.com/news/Intel-Mesa-Nova-Lake-Stable

Новые версии Wine 11.16 и Proton 11.0-2

Опубликован экспериментальный выпуск открытой реализации Win32 API - Wine 11.16. С момента выпуска 11.15 был закрыто 35 отчётов об ошибках и внесено 244 изменения.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66114

Agentforce gains interest but still brings Salesforce partners no revenue

Two years after Salesforce launched Agentforce, its partners report growing customer curiosity but no meaningful revenue from the AI platform. Salesforce partners are consulting firms, technology providers, resellers, and implementation specialists that help customers adopt Salesforce products. A TD Cowen survey found that early trials and buying activity have not yet turned Agentforce into a source of partner bookings, challenging Salesforce’s claims that demand is accelerating.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/agentforce-gains-interest-but-still-brings-salesforce-partners-no-revenue/

📰 Phosh 0.57 Linux Mobile Shell Brings New Wi-Fi, Cellular, Network, and Bluetooth Settings

Phosh 0.57 is out with new mobile settings panels, improved landscape support, keyboard enhancements, and an updated Phoc compositor.

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https://linuxiac.com/phosh-0-57-linux-mobile-shell-released

MCP roadmap targets agent identity, event-driven agents, and smarter tool discovery

The new Model Context Protocol (MCP) roadmap shifts attention from the recently released stateless architecture to the next problems of running AI agents at scale: server-initiated events, agent identity, progressive tool discovery, and clearer tool results. It builds on MCP’s stateless 2026-07-28 release, which removed protocol-level sessions and made remote MCP servers easier to operate behind standard HTTP infrastructure.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/mcp-roadmap-targets-agent-identity-event-driven-agents-and-smarter-tool-discovery/

📰 Bazzite Linux 44 for handhelds finally launches with some massive upgrades

Bazzite Linux 44 has been out for desktops for a while, but the "Deck" image for handhelds and console-like TV PCs is finally here with a huge overhaul.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/bazzite-linux-44-for-handhelds-finally-launches-with-some-massive-upgrades/

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https://gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/bazzite-linux-44-for-handhelds-finally-launches-with-some-massive-upgrades

📰 Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, "Enormously Helped" By AI

It's pretty rare to see Linus Torvalds author patches himself pertaining to the open-source Linux graphics drivers, but waking up this morning I was surprised to see he authored and committed an Intel Xe kernel graphics driver change himself. It ended up being after he encountered a "debug session from hell" but was ultimately helped by AI in fixing a bug that had been irking him...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Debug-AI

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https://phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Debug-AI

📰 Intel Computer Vision Sensing Driver Now Ready For Nova Lake

The main set of media subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 merge window. Notable this round is the Intel Computer Vision Sensing "CVS" driver merged the previous cycle now supporting next-gen Nova Lake platforms...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Media

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https://phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Media

📰 Nginx Dark Mode Support For Error Pages Remains Elusive

In early 2025 I wrote about the upstream Nginx web server rejecting dark mode support for its error pages on the basis of wanting to keep the default error pages simple and developers arguing the extra HTML tag for the dark mode styling as superfluous. Following a lot of public backlash for being against offering native dark mode handling by default, Nginx stakeholders were polled and largely came out in favor of supporting the functionality but...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nginx-Dark-Mode-Mystery

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https://phoronix.com/news/Nginx-Dark-Mode-Mystery

📰 An old phone beats a Raspberry Pi for everything except the one thing that matters

Server or microcontroller — pick before you build.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/old-phone-beats-raspberry-pi-everything-except-one-thing-that-matters/

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https://xda-developers.com/old-phone-beats-raspberry-pi-everything-except-one-thing-that-matters