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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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,...
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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 ...
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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.
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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
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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...
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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,...
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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...
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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.
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