You probably have noticed a lack of new articles this week. And there is a ‘good’ reason for that. I have been busy with the arrival of my second child 🚼 That is also the reason why there was a slight delay in lifetime membership activation. But it’s done for all the 43 new members
California Governor Gavin Newsom. Image: Flickr/JD Lasica California hosts the headquarters of many tech giants and could potentially set a precedent for AI regulation. The California Report on Frontier AI Policy report published on Tuesday outlines new plans for AI guardrails that could be implemented as state law. It was drawn up by experts after
If you want an easier way to control UxPlay on Ubuntu (or any other Linux distribution using GNOME Shell), there’s a new extension to help. The UxPlay Control GNOME Shell extension does exactly it describes: gives you control UxPlay. It add a small applet to the top panel from which you can easily start and
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.
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,
The POSIX realtime model, which is implemented in the Linux kernel, can ensure that a realtime process obtains the CPU time it needs to get its job done. It can be less effective, though, when there are multiple realtime processes competing for the available CPU resources. The hierarchical constant bandwidth server patch series, posted by
This is the first article in a new series looking at both the Orange Pi 5 Ultra and Orange Pi 5 Max single board computers (SBCs) running Linux. These two SBCs are identical in almost all respects with the exception of their HDMI ports. The post Orange Pi 5 Ultra and Max Single Board Computers
OWASP Nettacker is a free, open-source tool designed for network scanning, information gathering, and basic vulnerability assessment. Built and maintained by the OWASP community, Nettacker helps security pros automate common tasks like port scanning, service detection, and brute-force attacks. It offers a controlled and extensible framework for running these tests. The post Owasp Nettacker: Open-source
Docker Desktop 4.42 adds native IPv6 support, debuts built-in MCP Toolkit, and expanded AI tooling. The post Docker Desktop 4.42 Ships with Native IPv6, MCP Toolkit Integration appeared first on Linux Today.
Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” removes Xorg-based sessions, fully embracing Wayland as the new default for GNOME. The post Ubuntu Joins the Movement: X11 Officially Being Phased Out appeared first on Linux Today.