00:37 <Freeman> Phoronix | AI Makes "Open-Source, Clean Room" Implementations Of Adobe Photoshop & Premier In Rust Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read As an interesting demonstrator for the power of AI and potentially pressing legal challenges, Claude Code and AI agents have created 'open-source, clean-room reimplementation' versions of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier, and Adobe Lightroom Read full story

00:43 <Freeman> LWN.net | [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 8, 2026 corbet · 20m ago Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Kernel bugs; Gentoo's Chromium package; Rust smart pointers; Sashiko; Charon; LAVD scheduler; Python random-number modules. Briefs: OpenSSH 10.6; RustConf recordings; Rust 1.99.0; Picard 3.0; Zig 0.17; Quotes;... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. Read full story

01:08 <Freeman> Phoronix | Microsoft Issues First Release Of Their LiteBox Sandboxing Library OS Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read Back in February we featured LiteBox as a new Microsoft open-source project building out a Rust-based sandboxing Library OS Read full story

01:37 <Freeman> Phoronix | Steam Beta Now Defaults Non-Steam Windows Binaries To Using Proton Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read Valve released tonight a new Steam client beta that includes some notable improvements for Linux users. Read full story

08:30 <Tux> Linuxiac | Tmux 3.8 Terminal Multiplexer Brings Floating Pane Improvements, Built-In Themes Bobby Borisov · 7m ago · 2 min read The tmux 3.8 terminal multiplexer update improves floating pane management, adds light and dark themes, and introduces a fast fuzzy switcher. Read full story

10:00 <Tux> Linuxiac | GNU Guix Package Manager Improves Extension Loading, Adds New Commands Bobby Borisov · 13m ago · 1 min read GNU Guix introduces faster extension loading through compiled Guile modules, alongside a collection of ready-to-use commands. Read full story

10:07 <Freeman> Phoronix | Google Working To Leverage More Compiler Optimizations Within The Linux Kernel Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read While Linus Torvalds previously shot down plans for Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) in the mainline Linux kernel, Google engineers are hoping still to get that out-of-tree functionality upstream Read full story

10:30 <Tux> Linuxiac | KDE Gear 26.08.2 Released with Kdenlive, NeoChat, and Dolphin Fixes Bobby Borisov · 20m ago · 2 min read KDE Gear 26.08.2 brings bug fixes to Kdenlive, NeoChat, Dolphin, Okular, and other KDE applications, along with updated translations. Read full story

10:34 <Freeman> It's FOSS | Gentoo Needs Your Help! Several Sponsors Have Pulled Out Sourav Rudra · 1h ago · 3 min read They will accept VMs, physical servers, rack space, donated machines, or funds for hosting. Read full story

10:38 <Freeman> Phoronix | SpacemiT RISC-V SoCs To See More Improvements With Linux 7.4 Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read For those interested in the SpacemiT K3 as one of the few RVA23 RISC-V SoCs readily available so far and in the likes of the K3 Pico-ITX system, more improvements for its upstream kernel support are coming in Linux 7.4. Read full story

11:36 <Freeman> Phoronix | Google's Sashiko AI Has Completed 191k Patch Reviews, Cited On Nearly 500 Kernel CVEs Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read Sashiko that was built by Google engineers for agentic review of the Linux kernel code changes and powered by Google's AI models continues proving very valuable to kernel developers Read full story

12:36 <Freeman> Phoronix | Patches Updated To Begin Removing The Linux x32 ABI Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 3 min read Linux developers are once again considering the removal of the Linux x32 ABI. Read full story

12:58 <Tux> Linuxiac | Microsoft Releases LiteBox 0.1, a Rust-Based Sandboxing Library OS Bobby Borisov · 19m ago · 2 min read Microsoft releases LiteBox 0.1, an open-source Library OS written in Rust, designed to isolate applications and reduce security risks. Read full story

13:18 <Freeman> LWN.net | Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net] jzb · 7m ago · 2 min read Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, firefox, freerdp, ghostscript, glibc, kernel, kernel-rt, perl-DBI, python3.12, rust-rpm-sequoia, rust-sequoia-sq, rust-sequoia-sqv, and vim), Debian (gst-plugins-base1.0, python3.11, and xz-utils), Fedora (7zip, chromium, curl, docker-buildx, kernel, Lmod, and sos), Mageia (tesseract), Oracle (dovecot,... Read full story

13:50 <Freeman> LWN.net | [$] The [vx]swap showdown corbet · 6m ago · 1 min read The kernel's swap layer has undergone some significant changes over the course of the last year and a number of longstanding problems have been addressed. One problem that has not yet been solved in the mainline is the direct tie between slots in the swap cache and space in persistent swap files, which can cause highly inefficient resource use. There are ... Read full story

14:05 <Freeman> Phoronix | Nova Driver Continues Progressing With Long-Term Goal For Official NVIDIA Linux Use Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 3 min read NVIDIA engineer John Hubbard and Red Hat's Danilo Krummrich presented at this week's LPC2026 conference in Prague on the open-source and upstream Nova driver stack that continues forming as a Rust-based open-source NVIDIA Linux kernel driver. Read full story

15:05 <Freeman> Phoronix | Secretive Rosaic Labs Hires Legendary Linux x86 Developer Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read The curiosity into secretive semiconductor startup Rosaic Labs builds Read full story

15:34 <Freeman> Phoronix | Ubuntu 26.10 Delivers Nice I/O Performance Wins Over Ubuntu 26.04 On AMD EPYC Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read While Ubuntu 26.10 is not a Long-Term Support (LTS) release and thus will see limited enterprise deployments compared to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, for those not after that long-term deployment support and preferring to live more on the leading-edge, Ubuntu 26.10 is delivering some nice performance gains on current 5th Gen AMD EPYC 'Turin' hardware. Going along wi... Read full story

16:02 <Freeman> Phoronix | Ubuntu Currently Suffering From Sustained DDoS Attack Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read Those trying to access the Ubuntu website, ISO downloads, and similar Ubuntu resources today are finding the site inoperable amid what's now confirmed as an ongoing distributed denial of service attack. Read full story

16:06 <Freeman> It's FOSS | FOSS Weekly #26.41: Open Source Trouble, More Rust in Ubuntu, Adobe Photoshop's Linux Clone, Rich CLI Tool and More Abhishek Prakash · 39m ago · 6 min read Open Source projects are facing infrastructure trouble. Read full story

16:14 <Tux> OMG! Ubuntu | Ubuntu website under 'sustained' DDoS attack Joey Sneddon · 5m ago · 1 min read Ubuntu's website is currently experiencing a "sustained distributed denial of service attack". Canonical say some of its online may be 'intermittently Read full story

17:03 <Freeman> Phoronix | COSMIC Epoch 1.10 Released With Launcher Now Using GPU Accelerated Rendering Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read System76 today released COSMIC Epoch 1.10 as the newest incremental update to this Rust-based desktop developed in-step with their Pop!_OS Linux distribution. Read full story

17:22 <Freeman> LWN.net | [$] An update on Rust's project goals daroc · 22m ago · 1 min read Tomáš Šedovič is a program manager at the Rust Foundation. He co-leads the goals team, which helps organize the Rust project's overall goals, including making sure that the people who have agreed to work on one have the support they need. At Kangrejos 2026, he provided an overview of the Rust project's goal processes aimed at ensuring that the Rust for Li... Read full story

17:32 <Freeman> Phoronix | EXT4 Deprecates Its Journaled "data=journal" Mode Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read The EXT4 file-system today deprecated its journaled mode of the 'data=journal' mount option Read full story

17:59 <Tux> Linuxiac | GStreamer 1.28.8 Multimedia Framework Gets Security Fixes Bobby Borisov · 27m ago · 1 min read GStreamer 1.28.8 brings security fixes, resolves HLS and DASH playback regressions, and improves FLAC seeking, video encoding, and stability. Read full story

17:59 <Tux> Linuxiac | COSMIC Desktop 1.10 Released with Launcher and Compositor Updates Bobby Borisov · 15m ago · 1 min read COSMIC Desktop 1.10 enables wGPU rendering in its launcher and introduces compositor improvements alongside updated desktop applications. Read full story

18:29 <Tux> Linuxiac | Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.12 Brings WPA3 Fixes, Safer Image Writing Bobby Borisov · 24m ago · 2 min read Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.12 improves image writing reliability, fixes WPA3 Wi-Fi configuration, and addresses Linux AppImage issues. Read full story

20:11 <Tux> OMG! Ubuntu | PhotoCraft is an open-source, AI-built clone of Photoshop Joey Sneddon · 46m ago · 3 min read It was only a matter of time before someone would point AI coding tools Photoshop and get it to build a copy. PhotoCraft is that copy – an open-source, Read full story

20:12 <Tux> Linuxiac | PhotoPrism AI-Powered Photos App Gets Better Image Recognition, NVIDIA GPU Support Bobby Borisov · 25m ago · 2 min read PhotoPrism's October 2026 update improves AI image recognition, adds NVIDIA GPU acceleration, and enhances face detection and photo management. Read full story

21:12 <Tux> Linux Journal | Google's Kage Project Rethinks Linux Kernel Security With Isolated Device Drivers George Whittaker · 2d ago · 16 min read by George Whittaker Google is exploring a new approach to Linux kernel security that could significantly change how device drivers interact with the operating system. The experimental project, known as Kage, uses compiler-based sandboxing to isolate drivers inside the kernel, potentially limiting the damage caused by memory corruption, programming errors,... Read full story

22:11 <Tux> Linux Journal | Linux Moves Closer to Retiring the x32 ABI After Years of Limited Adoption George Whittaker · 6h ago · 14 min read by George Whittaker Linux kernel developers are renewing efforts to retire the x32 application binary interface (ABI), a little-used compatibility feature that attempted to combine the advantages of 64-bit processors with the smaller memory footprint of 32-bit applications. A revised patch series submitted on October 8, 2026, proposes the first steps towa... Read full story

22:39 <Tux> Linuxiac | Flathub Reverses AI-Generated App Ban, Now Requires Disclosure Bobby Borisov · 14m ago · 2 min read Flathub reverses its ban on AI-generated apps, introducing mandatory disclosure requirements while keeping restrictions on automated submissions. Read full story

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