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33% of cloud environments using the toolkit impacted, we're told. A critical bug in Nvidia's widely used Container Toolkit could allow a rogue user or software to escape their containers and ultimately take complete control of the underlying host.

The USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates were submitted today for the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window along with the other areas of the kernel overseen by Greg Kroah-Hartman.

Recently, the field of AI has been making some significant strides when it comes to following an open-source approach to development. The proprietary crowd wished they had that kind of close-knit community of developers working towards achieving great things.

Most browsers know way too much about you – your latest obsession, your shopping cart, even your weekend plans. Firefox? It’s built to power your browsing, nothing more. Here’s a breakdown of the Firefox features that keep you private and secure online.

Privacy activist group noyb has filed a complaint against Mozilla over a "Privacy Preserving Attribution" feature that was quietly enabled in the Firefox browser following a July update. "Contrary to its reassuring name, this technology allows Firefox to track user behavior on websites," noyb stated this morning. Worse: "Mozilla decided to turn it on by default once people installed a recent software update."

Joshua Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics team has opened a Mesa merge request to support a proposed "frog-fifo-v1" protocol for Wayland to address the matter of "FIFO is fundamentally broken under Mesa's Wayland WSI right now."

COSMIC, the new Linux desktop environment developed by System76, got its very first public release last month. And System76 just announced the second Alpha release of this new desktop environment, which is available for testing now.

The Archcraft idea started as a passion project, and now it is a responsibility for the creator. Learn more about the journey here.

The open source and cross-platform Nexus Mods app that's currently in development has a new 0.6.1 release available for testing with some nice improvements. Eventually this will replace Vortex when it's ready.

The Tor Project, a non-profit focused on network anonymity, is joining forces with Tails, an anonymity-focused Linux distribution, in an effort to make better use of financial and technical resources.

After days of waiting and anticipation, what was billed as one or more critical unauthenticated remote-code execution vulnerabilities in all Linux systems was today finally revealed.

ChipStar 1.2 has been released as the open-source software enabling HIP/CUDA programs to be compiled and run atop SPIR-V whether it be OpenCL or Vulkan drivers.

While there were many Windows reviews/benchmarks out Tuesday for Intel Core Ultra 200 Series "Lunar Lake" laptops on various websites, Linux tests are still awaiting due to having resorted to pre-ordering a Lunar Lake laptop myself for delivering Linux support/compatibility information and performance benchmarks.

Fair Source is a new license approach trying to find a middle ground between proprietary and open-source benefits.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge - Radical Reptiles was surprise announced and launched on the same day with it available now. This brand new DLC for Shredder's Revenge expands the classic beat 'em up in some fun ways and it's also the final content update for the game.

The Network File System (NFS) changes have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.12 development cycle. Notable this time with NFS is adding LOCALIO protocol extension support that can lead to fairly "extreme" performance improvements in scenarios where the NFS client and server are on the same host.

Ubuntu 24.10 supports the Snapdragon-powered Lenovo ThinkPad X13s laptop in the official ‘generic’ ARM64 ISO — a notable change.

Brave browser is one among the best free and open-source web browser based on Chromium. Sure, it has its quirks and a bit of a controversial history of crypto tech being integrated to it. But, it is still arguably one of the fastest and privacy-focused browsers out there.

Canonical’s latest release celebrates 20 years of Ubuntu. Ubuntu 24.10, “Oracular Oriole”, has updated apps, new features, and a few nods to its legacy. Let’s see what’s in it, apart from nostalgia.

Broadcom's software bundles under scrutiny after perhaps irking Fujitsu. Japan's Fair Trade Commission, the nation's anti-monopoly agency, has reportedly commenced an investigation into VMware's software licensing practices.