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KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Let You Fine-Tune Mouse and Touchpad Speed
The KDE developers have lined up a set of improvements for the Plasma 6.8 release: from precise pointer-speed adjustment to a shared clipboard in remote sessions.
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Debian Votes on the Fate of LLMs in the Project: From an Outright Ban to Climate Arguments
Debian developers have begun voting on a General Resolution addressing whether contributions created with the help of large language models are acceptable in the project. Nine options are on the table.
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Omarchy 4.0 “Quattro”: the desktop rebuilt from scratch on Quickshell
David Heinemeier Hansson has unveiled the biggest update to his Arch-based, Hyprland distribution since its launch — the shell has been rewritten entirely, and installation is now lighter and faster.
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Logging Into a Linux Machine From a Flip Phone Over Bluetooth
Lobsters is discussing a 2020 video in which the author connects to a Linux computer from an ordinary flip phone over Bluetooth.
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One log line, tens of kilobytes written: the systemd-journald argument flares up again
A bug report has been opened in the systemd tracker: journaling a single log line ends up being written to disk many times over, generating an excessive stream of I/O operations.
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Linux 7.2: Cache-Aware Scheduler, Getting Ready for AMD Zen 6, and HDMI 2.1 FRL
The Linux 7.2 kernel release is expected on Sunday, August 16. It will form the basis of Ubuntu 26.10 and other upcoming distributions, and the list of new features includes a new scheduler, support for the latest AMD and Intel hardware, and the first steps toward Apple M3.
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Azure Linux 3.0.20260809: Over 233 Vulnerability Fixes
Microsoft has released another monthly update to the stable Azure Linux 3.0 branch, bundling an impressive set of security patches.
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OpenAI's Codex Desktop Comes to Linux
Hacker News spotted that OpenAI's Codex desktop app (ChatGPT Desktop) is now available for Linux too.
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Rsync 3.5: an “extraordinary” release closes 33 vulnerabilities
The popular file-synchronization utility has received an update that its developers have called “extraordinary” because of the sheer number of security issues it fixes.
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Manjaro Linux 26.1 Bian-May: GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.7, and Linux kernel 7.1
The first feature release of the Manjaro distribution since January is out. This Arch Linux-based update brings fresh desktops and a new stable kernel.
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Sandworm targets IT pros through fake job openings and a trojanized WireGuard
Ukraine's CERT has detailed a social-engineering campaign in which hackers pose as recruiters to trick candidates into installing a modified VPN client laced with malicious code.
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GNOME Designers Share Long-Term Plans for GNOME Shell
Tobias Bernard of the GNOME design team has published a collection of ideas on how the project's graphical shell might change over time.
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Mozilla Revokes Firefox's Linux Signing Key After a Leak into a Private Repository
An unencrypted copy of the key used to sign the Linux builds of Firefox and Thunderbird accidentally ended up in the company's internal repository. Mozilla revoked the key, even though it found no signs of outside access.
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NVIDIA's Rust-Based Nova Driver Gains New Capabilities in Linux 7.3
Ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window, developers have prepared a batch of changes for the Rust-based DRM drivers — including Nova, the future replacement for Nouveau on NVIDIA graphics cards.
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Fedora CoreOS 45 to Enable systemd-oomd and zRAM Swap by Default
The FESCo committee has approved enabling systemd-oomd and zRAM-based swap by default in the Fedora CoreOS container OS starting with release 45.
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CachyOS Gets an August 2026 Update and Readies a Server Edition
The CachyOS distribution has released another update to its images. Alongside desktop improvements, the team continues work on a future server edition.
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Illinois Now Requires Operating Systems to Report Children's Ages — No Break for Open Source
The state governor has signed a law requiring device makers, OSes and app stores to build in age verification. Unlike Colorado and California, the text carves out no exception for free software.
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Gentoo Temporarily Takes Bugzilla Offline Amid an Onslaught of AI Scrapers
Gentoo developer Michał Górny reported that he had to shut down the distribution's bug tracker: it had been overwhelmed by bots harvesting data to train AI.
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The Nixpkgs Core Team Announces Its Own Dissolution
After roughly ten months of work, the Nixpkgs core team has decided to disband, citing burnout and systemic governance problems within the project.
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SCTPhantom: An 18-Year-Old Flaw in Linux's SCTP Stack Leads to Root and Container Escape
A use-after-free in the SCTP networking code, present since 2008, lets a local user gain root. Tencent researchers claim they used it to break out of a container onto the host.
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