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My dream Google Chrome extension didn't exist, so I vibe coded it with Claude  How-To Geek

Brush v0.4 debuted today for this "Bourne Rusty Shell" as a Bash/POSIX-compatible shell written in the Rust programming language...

After months of desktop hopping, I finally understand why Linux users can't agree on anything  MakeUseOf

Copy Fail Linux Kernel Vulnerability Now Patched in Debian, Ubuntu, and Others  9to5Linux

I ditched desktop apps for these 5 Linux terminal apps—and I'm not going back  How-To Geek

ReactOS as the "open-source Windows" operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows has seen some exciting improvements this week...

NixOS forced me to declare my entire system, and now I can't imagine Linux any other way  MakeUseOf

This week Google announced the selected Google Summer of Code "GSoC" 2026 projects for providing stipends to student developers for engaging in different open-source projects. This year a lot of open-source projects involve AI/LLM adoption but there are also a number of other interesting student projects at large from GNOME Mutter GPU reset recovery to adding new features to FreeBSD...

Update Linux Now As 9-Year-Old Root Hack Confirmed, CISA Warns Users  Forbes

Update Linux Now As 9-Year-Old Root Hack Confirmed, CISA Warns Users  Yahoo News Malaysia

Steam Deck OLED finally gets proper Linux audio fix after 2 years  VideoCardz.com

It's been an interesting 2026 in Linux development with beginning to phase out i486 CPU support, dropping ISDN and amateur "ham" radio support, and other code cleaning in the name of a diminishing user base -- or perhaps even no users left -- for those running such vintage hardware with a modern, up-to-date kernel. Yet ISA sound card drivers have seen an uptick in activity...

Turtle Beach WaveFront ISA Sound Cards Seeing Suspend/Resume Support On Linux In 2026  Phoronix

Linux Gets Closer to Full HDMI 2.1 Support with AMD Update  eTeknix

One of the interesting GNOME-aligned application developments in recent months has been RustConn as a modern GTK4-based connection manager. RustConn allows managing SSH, RDP, VNC, SPICE, and a variety of other connections from this Rust-written application. It's been steadily tacking on more features and that effort continued with more features landing...

One of the most prominent changes with the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel release is the introduction of the new NTFS driver in the Linux 7.1 kernel. This new driver provides more features and better performance than the Paragon NTFS3 driver that's been in the kernel the past few years and far better off than the original NTFS read-only driver that previously was in the kernel and for which this new driver is based. Needless to say it's also a big improvement over the NTFS-3G user-space FUSE driver too...

CISA adds Linux Copy Fail flaw to exploited bug list  crypto.news

Week in review: High-severity LPE vulnerability in the Linux kernel, cPanel 0-day exploited for months  Help Net Security

US CISA adds ‘insane’ Linux Copy Fail flaw to watch list  Cryptonews.net

1. CISA Adds Actively Exploited Linux Root Access Bug CVE-2026-31431 to KEV  The Hacker News
2. CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vulnerability enables Linux root privilege escalation across cloud environments  Microsoft
3. Update Linux Now As 9-Year-Old Root Hack Confirmed, CISA Warns Users  Forbes
4. The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed  Ars Technica
5. Linux exploit instantly grants administrator access on most distributions since 2017 — cryptography optimization snafu grants root privileges to local users  Tom's Hardware
6. Copy Fail Linux Kernel Vulnerability Now Patched in Debian, Ubuntu, and Others  9to5Linux
7. Severe Linux Copy Fail security flaw uncovered using AI scanning help  The Verge
8. "Copy Fail": Linux root in all major distributions with 732 bytes of Python  heise online
9. Nine-Year-Old Zero-Day Flaw in Linux Kernel Discovered by AI-Equipped Security Researcher  Infosecurity Magazine