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F-Droid 2.0: A new chapter for Android freedom
The F-Droid project has announced the release of F-Droid 2.0, which is a complete redesign of the official app. Notable changes in the release include making it easier to discover and install applications, more useful app categories, improved search, and much more. For more than a decade, F-Droid…
Research into file-notification attacks on Linux
Sudheendra Raghav Neela, a member of a group of researchers from Graz University of Technology , has announced the release of research into file-notification attacks that would allow spying on user activity on Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows. The group has published a paper with details on the…
[$] Listening to the radio with Rust
Many of the transmissions sent over the radio spectrum can be decoded with a relatively cheap hardware dongle. Thomas Eckert presented at RustConf 2026 in Montreal about his hobby: decoding radio transmissions with Rust. In his presentation, he covered all of the math necessary to get started with…
The Kernel Report 2026 edition
After a two-year hiatus, LWN's Jonathan Corbet presented an updated edition of his Kernel Report at the Kernel Recipes conference. Corbet looked at what is happening in the kernel community, how it's dealing with a period of accelerated change, and where things might go in the future. Video of the…
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, containernetworking-plugins, firefox, kernel, kernel-rt, openexr, perl-DBI, podman, postgresql, postgresql16, postgresql:15, runc, skopeo, and tar), Debian (libdatetime-timezone-perl, tzdata, xdg-dbus-proxy, and znc), Fedora (chromium…
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 24, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front : Git 2.56; gccrs; NetBSD and compat_linux; io_uring; Desktop UX. Briefs : WordPress vulnerability; Radicle vulnerability; Systemtap 5.6; GNOME 51; Systemd v262; Quotes; ... Announcements : Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and…
[$] Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
Scott Jenson has been working on user interfaces (UIs) and user experience (UX) for many years at Apple, Google, and other companies. Now, he's trying to convince open-source projects to experiment more and drive the desktop beyond the age-old " windows, icons, menus, pointer " (WIMP) model. At…
Systemd v262 released
Systemd v262 has been released. Some of the notable new features include the ability to build systemd as a single statically linked binary for small containers, support for the kernel coredump socket protocol introduced with Linux 6.17, addition of OpenSSL 4 support, and many other changes. See the…
Critical security vulnerabilities in the Radicle network protocol
The Radicle peer-to-peer code-collaboration project has disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in the network protocol used by Radicle nodes. The first flaw is that the network protocol used by Radicle " does not give the confidentiality it was expected to give ", which allows anyone who can…
Critical WordPress RCE vulnerability announced
A critical vulnerability has been discovered in WordPress 's get_page_template() function for page-template resolution that could allow remote-code execution (RCE) by an unauthenticated attacker, in some limited circumstances. The project has provided an update for the most recent branch of…
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (coreutils, postgresql18-postgis, and postgresql:16), Debian (memcached), Fedora (chromium, cyrus-imapd, dotnet10.0, dotnet8.0, dotnet9.0, freeipmi, kernel, libxmp, perl-Net-DNS, and postgresql16-anonymizer), Mageia (cpio, diffutils, perl-Dancer2, and…
[$] Compiling the kernel with gccrs
Pierre-Emmanuel Patry and Arthur Cohen gave a talk at RustConf 2026 on the status of the Rust frontend for GCC (gccrs), with a particular eye toward the goal of compiling the Linux kernel . Patry gave a follow-up talk for a more kernel-focused audience at Kangrejos the next week, which Cohen could…
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (apr-util, corosync, curl, freerdp, gstreamer1-plugins-base, libarchive, libtiff, libxml2, openexr, openssh, rsyslog, sudo, tomcat, unbound, webkit2gtk3, yggdrasil, and yggdrasil-worker-package-manager), Debian (chromium), Fedora (alsa-plugins, amarok…
Igalia celebrates "Twenty-Five Years Upstream"
The open-source consulting firm Igalia has put out an announcement celebrating 25 years of working on upstream FOSS projects for its clients. The list of projects the company has worked on is rather eye-opening: WebKit, mobile-browser rendering (on Maemo, Moblin, MeeGo, and Tizen), the Linux kernel…
Three new stable kernels
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 7.2.7 , 6.18.53 , and 6.12.111 stable kernels. As is usual these days, they are quite large; also no surprise is that they provide many important fixes throughout the kernel tree. Users of those kernels are advised to update.
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