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Asahi Linux Adds Support for Macs on Apple M3 Chips
The Asahi Linux project has announced that support for Apple's M3-series chips has landed in the installer. Most of the features that worked on the M1 and M2 now work here too — with the exception of the GPU.
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Switzerland Begins Its Break from Microsoft: A 3,000-Seat Pilot
Switzerland's federal government has launched a pilot program to replace Microsoft 365 with open-source software. The administration runs more than 54,000 computers in all.
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First Slackware 16 Alpha Released with Updated GNU Toolchain
Patrick Volkerding has unveiled Slackware 16 Alpha 1 — the first preview release of a new generation of the distribution, rebuilt on GCC 16.2, glibc 2.44 and Binutils 2.47.
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trynix: Any Nix Package Running Right in Your Browser
Farid Zakaria has unveiled trynix — a service that boots a Linux machine in a browser tab and lets you run any of more than 310,000 versions of nixpkgs packages without a single install on the host.
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Asahi Linux Officially Runs on Macs with M3 Chips
Support for the M3-series machines has landed in the Asahi Linux installer: almost everything that worked on the M1 and M2 now works here too — except for full graphics and sleep.
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The “Trusting Trust” Attack via strip: How to Infect an Entire Linux Distribution
Researchers have shown that Ken Thompson's famous attack on the compiler isn't limited to compilers — they carried it out through the strip utility and planted a backdoor in nearly every binary in NixOS.
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NetworkManager Catches AI Agents on the Word “biblioklept”
The project's developers came up with a clever trick: an instruction that forces rule-breaking AI bots to expose themselves.
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Amazon Linux 2027: a preview with Linux kernel 7.1, LTO and a bet on x86-64-v3
AWS has opened a public preview of Amazon Linux 2027 — a major update to its cloud distribution featuring a new kernel, fresh compilers and a host of performance optimizations.
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Linux 7.3 Will Disable RandStruct by Default for the Sake of Rust Support
In the Linux 7.3 kernel, the RandStruct protection feature is now turned off by default whenever Rust support is available. The developers made a compromise for the sake of complete build coverage.
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Audacity 4.0: the audio editor moves to Qt6
The free audio editor Audacity has shipped a major update, dropping its long-standing use of wxWidgets in favor of the Qt6 toolkit.
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1Password Lands in Hot Water Over Donation to DHH's Distro
The password manager 1Password pledged $300,000 to the foundation stewarding David Heinemeier Hansson's Omarchy Linux distribution — and ran into a wave of anger from its own customers and employees.
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CERN Leaves Red Hat for Debian After Two Decades on RHEL
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, long faithful to RHEL and its derivatives, has announced a move to Debian. All 2,200-plus industrial and embedded computers are slated to be migrated to Debian 13 by the end of 2026.
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Linux From Scratch 13.1: Your Own System from Source, Now with Kernel 7.1.8
The Linux From Scratch project has released version 13.1 — an updated guide to building your own Linux distribution from scratch, with a new toolchain and dozens of updated packages.
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Darling: Running macOS Apps on Linux, the Wine Way
The Darling project offers a compatibility layer that lets you run macOS programs directly on Linux — with no hardware emulation and no violation of Apple's license.
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Fire Ant Moves From Hypervisors to Cisco Routers
The Chinese cyber-espionage group Fire Ant is hijacking Cisco IOS XR routers, TACACS servers and Linux hosts, turning them into platforms for intercepting traffic and stealing credentials while blinding defenders' monitoring tools along the way.
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OpenShot 4.0: Video Editor Moves to Qt6 and Gains AI Tools
The open-source non-linear video editor OpenShot has received a major update: the interface has been ported to the current Qt6 toolkit, and recording features along with a set of new effects have been added.
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Omarchy: any user process could get root without a password
In the Omarchy distribution, the default standard user was placed in the docker group, opening a path to root access for any process in the session. The issue was fixed in version 4.0.1.
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Linux 7.3: Getting Ready for Zen 6, RGB for the Ryzen AI Halo, and Dozens of Laptops
The Linux 7.3 kernel has picked up a round of x86 platform driver updates: groundwork for AMD's future Zen 6 processors, backlight control for the Ryzen AI Halo mini PC, and a host of new laptops and handheld consoles.
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“KVM Chainsaw”: Cleaning Up the Virtualization Code in Linux 7.3
The Linux 7.3 merge window has accepted the KVM changes: mostly bug fixes and code cleanup, including the breakup of one of the more unwieldy data structures.
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California Passes AB-1856: Open Source Exempted from Age Verification
The amendment carves out Linux distributions and other free software from the age-verification law. The state Assembly backed the bill 69 votes to zero.
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