Microsoft’s PPCC 2026 conference puts AI agents on the path from pilot to production

Microsoft’s Power Platform Community Conference 2026 will focus on turning AI experiments into governed, secure business processes that can operate in production. The October 27–29 event at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas will offer more than 200 sessions and 24 hands-on workshops covering Copilot, Work IQ, AI agents, apps, workflows, data, security, and cost management.
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Представлен дистрибутив Amazon Linux 2027

Компания Amazon начала тестирование дистрибутива Amazon Linux 2027 (AL2027), оптимизированного для облачных окружений и поддерживающего интеграцию с инструментами и расширенными возможностями сервиса Amazon EC2. В качестве основы задействована пакетная база Fedora Linux. Сборки формируются для архитектур x86_64 и ARM64 (Aarch64). Несмотря на первостепенную ориентацию на использование в AWS (Amazon Web Services), дистрибутив также поставляется в форме универсального образа виртуальной машины, который можно запустить на локальной системе или в других облачных окружениях.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66210

📰 I ditched my Raspberry Pi for an old Android phone, and my self-hosted services finally stopped throttling

When I think of cheap, tiny, and portable hardware for small homelab services, the Raspberry Pi is the first thing that comes to my mind. And if I visit a homelab thread on a tech forum, Pi comes up as a settled recommendation, not something to question again.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/ditched-raspberry-pi-for-old-android-phone-self-hosted-services-finally-stopped-throttling/

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📰 Top AEO Tools for Linux and Developer Documentation Teams

by Malana VanTylerThese platforms help teams monitor how technical content appears in AI-generated answers, from brand mentions and citations to accuracy and referral traffic.Search is splitting into two experiences: one built around ranked pages and another around generated answers. As AI platforms summarize Linux tutorials, open-source project documentation, API references and technical guidance, teams need ways to measure whether their...

🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/top-aeo-tools-linux-and-developer-documentation-teams

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https://linuxjournal.com/content/top-aeo-tools-linux-and-developer-documentation-teams

📰 Mir 2.29 Released With Additional Wayland Protocols

For those using Canonical's Mir compositor for building Wayland-based shells, Mir 2.29 is now available with various improvements and new Wayland protocol coverage...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.29-Released

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https://phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.29-Released

📰 Noctalia 5 Wayland Desktop Shell Is Now Officially Stable

Noctalia 5 reaches stable status with calendar sync support, improved theming, MRU window switching, and a long list of fixes.

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https://linuxiac.com/noctalia-5-wayland-desktop-shell-is-now-officially-stable

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 brings flexible transit gateways and native EVPN VXLAN

EVPN VXLAN is a way to connect virtual machines across different servers and physical switches while keeping their networks separate.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/vmware-cloud-foundation-9-1-brings-flexible-transit-gateways-and-native-evpn-vxlan/

📰 Grml 2026.09 Linux Distro Is Out with Linux Kernel 7.1, Based on Debian 14 Forky

Grml 2026.09 GNU/Linux distribution is now available for download based on Debian Testing/Forky and powered by Linux kernel 7.1. Here’s what’s new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/grml-2026-09-linux-distro-is-out-with-linux-kernel-7-1-based-on-debian-14-forky

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Ubuntu splits Linux firmware packages for faster updates on 24.04 LTS

Firmware updates on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS have gotten smaller, as Canonical has backported the split Linux firmware packages it introduced in 26.04. To make the change in noble, the linux-fimrware package is now a meta-package that pulls in all of the individual firmware packages. Functionally, nothing changes; all installs get the full whack. The binary blobs the distro use are now split across 18 vendor-specific sub-packages: Some non-default firmware was already available to install as a sub packages, e.g., linux-firmware-xilinx-vcu, so those don’t change (but aren’t looped in to the new metapackage). The linux-firmware package was a bundle of mostly […]
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KB5120998 bugs now linked to non-English Windows 11 installations

Microsoft has narrowed the mouse-personalization bug in Windows 11 preview update KB5120998 to non-English installations and confirmed that the same release can erase desktop background settings. The update had already been reported to reset custom cursors and wallpapers, but Microsoft now says affected systems cannot reload those settings even when users manually restore them.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/kb5120998-bugs-now-linked-to-non-english-windows-11-installations/

📰 Vulkan 1.4.362 Released With New Extension Developed By Valve

Vulkan 1.4.362 is out this morning as the newest routine spec update. Making Vulkan 1.4.362 more notable beyond a couple bug fixes are two new Vulkan API extensions, both of which were worked on by Valve's Linux graphics team and one of them being a Valve vendor extension...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.362

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https://phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.362

📰 Linux 7.4 To Improve Apple Silicon Audio Support & Its "Impossible" Power Management

The Apple Silicon audio driver code within the Linux kernel is preparing to make use of the recent shared GPIO infrastructure for allowing multiple drivers / kernel components to nicely share the same GPIO lines. This should help clean things up in the mainline kernel for the Apple Silicon audio support and with a cleaner architecture than the current downstream Asahi Linux code...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Apple-Audio-Shared-GPIO

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📰 LibreOffice 26.2.6 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 30 Bug Fixes

LibreOffice 26.2.6 is now available for download as the sixth point release to the LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with 36 bug fixes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-26-2-6-open-source-office-suite-released-with-more-than-30-bug-fixes

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Windows 11 finally lets you shut down without installing pending updates

Windows 11 is rolling out a long-requested fix that lets users shut down or restart immediately, even when an update has already downloaded. Microsoft now keeps standard power actions separate from update actions, while also testing broader controls to skip updates during setup and pause them repeatedly.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/windows-11-finally-lets-you-shut-down-without-installing-pending-updates/

📰 JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up

Fully backward-compatible upgrade promises zero-friction speedup for monorepo wranglers.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/09/04/javascript-installer-pnpm-recast-in-rust-because-ecmascript-cant-keep-up/5294394

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Выпуск Grml 2026.09, Live-дистрибутива для системных администраторов

Представлен выпуск Live-дистрибутива grml 2026.09, предлагающего подборку программ для выполнения работ, возникающих в практике системных администраторов, таких как восстановление данных после сбоя и разбор инцидентов. Дистрибутив основан на пакетной базе Debian GNU/Linux и в прошлом году отметил своё двадцатилетие. Графическое окружение построено с использованием оконного менеджера Fluxbox. По умолчанию предлагается командная оболочка Zsh. Размер полного iso-образа 1.1 ГБ, сокращённого - 643 МБ. Сборки доступны для архитектур x86_64 и ARM64.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66211

Microsoft puts MAI-Image-2.6 in Foundry at about four cents per image

Microsoft has opened MAI-Image-2.6 to public preview through Microsoft Foundry, pairing a high-ranked image generator with a lower-cost Flash variant for production workloads. The model is estimated at roughly $0.039 per generated image, although Microsoft bills by token usage rather than a fixed per-image fee.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/microsoft-puts-mai-image-2-6-in-foundry-at-about-four-cents-per-image/

Codex is testing a dashboard that identifies usage-heavy chats

OpenAI is testing a gated Codex for Windows dashboard that ranks the chats consuming the most five-hour, weekly, and credit allowances. The feature can also group subagent activity with the conversation that started it, giving users a clearer explanation for unexpectedly high usage.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/codex-is-testing-a-dashboard-that-identifies-usage-heavy-chats/

New Microsoft Sentinel features: Multi-account connectors and UEBA updates

Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft's cloud-based SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) platform, received several updates in August 2026. The most practical change for many administrators is multi-account support for Auth0, CrowdStrike Falcon, and Salesforce Service Cloud data connectors, now generally available. Microsoft also expanded User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) anomaly detection and completed the convergence of Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (MDTI) into a free connector.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/new-microsoft-sentinel-features-multi-account-connectors-and-ueba-updates/

Perplexity bets on local hardware for sovereign, private AI workloads

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says users increasingly want AI agents to run on their own hardware to strengthen privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual-property protection, and digital sovereignty while controlling costs. In an interview with CNBC’s Kate Rooney, he described Perplexity’s fully local DGX Spark deployment and a hybrid model that keeps sensitive data on-premises while still accessing cloud-based frontier models.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/perplexity-bets-on-local-hardware-for-sovereign-private-ai-workloads/

📰 Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels

The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/04/canonical-shuttering-some-of-its-legacy-chat-channels/5294524

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https://theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/04/canonical-shuttering-some-of-its-legacy-chat-channels/5294524