Linux Mint 22.2 Will Feature Fingerprint Authentication with Fingwit App

In the latest monthly newsletter, Linux Mint project leader Clement Lefebvre revealed one of the attractions of the forthcoming Linux Mint 22.2 release: a new in-house application for managing fingerprint authentication and configuration on computers with fingerprint readers. The post Linux Mint 22.2 Will Feature Fingerprint Authentication with Fingwit App appeared first on Linux Today.

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 19, 2025

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: GNOME a11y; hierarchical scheduler; CoMaps; GPU restore; FAIR.pm; buffered I/O writeback; NFS; Lustre Briefs: Rocky Linux 10.0; Git 2.50; KDE Plasma 6.4; Kubernetes Slack; Radicle Desktop; Quote; … Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Two WormGPT Clones That Use Grok and Mixtral Found in Underground Forum

Security researchers at Cato Network have discovered two new WormGPT variants that repurpose commercial AI models — xAI’s Grok and Mistral’s Mixtral — to generate malicious content, reviving a tool once believed to be defunct. The newly discovered versions, named keanu-WormGPT and xzin0vich-WormGPT, were identified by the company’s CTRL Threat Research Team. Found on BreachForums,