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Linux maintainers assess blast radius of xz-utils backdoor  The Stack

For the weekly "This Week In KDE" development summary, developer Nate Graham highlighted the opt-in DrKonqi crash reporting wizard. Thanks in part to that opt-in automatic crash reporting, details were gathered for fixing at least three important crashes within Plasma 6 this week...

GTA 5 May Soon Be Playable On Android, Nintendo, Switch, Linux. Modders Come To The Rescue  ABP Live

Highlight and Colorize Log Files in Linux With Tailspin  It's FOSS

GTA 5 modding community eyes expansion to Nintendo Switch, Linux, and Android: What to expect | Mint  Mint

Backdoor injected into XZ compression tools in several Linux distributions  Notebookcheck.net

Pop!_OS Users Can Now Update to Linux Kernel 6.8  OMG! Ubuntu!

Pop!_OS Users Can Now Update to Linux Kernel 6.8  OMG! Ubuntu!

GTA 5 may be soon available on Android, Nintendo Switch and Linux; Thanks to modders  HT Tech

Urgent: Secret Backdoor Found in XZ Utils Library, Impacts Major Linux Distros  The Hacker News

Today's disclosure of XZ upstream release packages containing malicious code to compromise remote SSH access has certainly been an Easter weekend surprise... The situation only looks more bleak over time with how the upstream project was compromised while now the latest twist is GitHub disabling the XZ repository in its entirety...

GitHub Disables The XZ Repository Following Today's Malicious Disclosure  Phoronix

Malicious Linux backdoor inserted upstream, caught early  The Stack

Security Alert: Potential SSH Backdoor Via Liblzma  Hackaday

Are You Affected by the Backdoor in XZ Utils?  Dark Reading

How to Install GNOME Desktop Environment in Linux Mint  It's FOSS

Backdoor in utility commonly used by Linux distros risks SSH compromise  SC Media

Malicious backdoor spotted in Linux compression library xz  The Register

Malicious backdoor sneaks into xz, Linux world's data compression library and tool  The Register

Easy-to-use make-me-root exploit lands for recent Linux kernels. Get patching  The Register