📰 Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Provides Exceptional Value For Linux Users

After looking at the new Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus processor earlier this month with its nice performance evolution for Arrow Lake on Linux, today we are looking at the other new Intel desktop CPU offering: the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus that retails for just $219 USD.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-core-ultra-5-250k-plus

#intel #linux

📰 PyPI package with 1.1M monthly downloads hacked to push infostealer

An attacker pushed a malicious version of the popular elementary-data package Python Package Index (PyPI) to steal sensitive developer data and cryptocurrency wallets.

🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pypi-package-with-11m-monthly-downloads-hacked-to-push-infostealer/

#python

📰 RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Memory Protection Using AMD Trusted Memory Zone

The newest Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" feature enabled by AMD engineers is protected memory support using the Trusted Memory Zone (TMZ) support on newer GPUs...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-RADV-Protected-Memory

#amd

📰 Kdenlive 26.04 Video Editor Brings Monitor Mirroring, Animated Previews

Kdenlive 26.04 open-source video editor has been officially released as a major update with many new features and improvements. Here's what's new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/kdenlive-26-04-video-editor-brings-monitor-mirroring-animated-previews

#opensource

📰 Open source package with 1 million monthly downloads stole user credentials

If you're one of millions using element-data, it's time to check for compromise.

🔗 Source: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/open-source-package-with-1-million-monthly-downloads-stole-user-credentials/

#opensource

📰 Red Hat's Stratis Storage 3.9 Released With Online Encryption/Decryption/Reencryption

It's crazy to realize it has been ten years already since Red Hat abandoned their Btrfs plans for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and dropped it, which was a technology preview feature since RHEL6. In its place Red Hat engineers began developing Stratis for next-gen Linux storage with ZFS/Btrfs-like features but instead building atop XFS, LUKS, Device Mapper, and Clevis. After a while since the last major release, Stratis Storage 3.9 released today...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Stratis-Storage-3.9-Released

#linux

📰 openSUSE Lands Post-Quantum Hybrid Cryptography in Leap and Tumbleweed

openSUSE announced the availability of the libzupt library in Leap and Tumbleweed to provide quantum-resilient cryptography for encrypting and decrypting files and binary data in memory.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/opensuse-lands-post-quantum-hybrid-cryptography-in-leap-and-tumbleweed

#opensuse

📰 IPFire 2.29 Core Update 201 Linux Firewall Distro Released with DNS Firewall

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 201 hardened Linux firewall distro is now available for download with DNS Firewall, Intrusion Prevention System improvements, updated components, and other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/ipfire-2-29-core-update-201-linux-firewall-distro-released-with-dns-firewall

#distro #linux

📰 WayVNC 0.10 Released For Advancing This Leading VNC Server For Wayland

WayVNC 0.10 is out today as the newest feature release for this VNC server that works with Wayland compositors leveraging the wlroots library...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/WayVNC-0.10-Released

#wayland

📰 7-Zip 26.01 Now Allows Making Use Of Huge Pages On Linux For Faster Compression

7-Zip 26.01 was released on Monday and making this release significant are huge pages support on Linux and some users may be interested in the new options around the path generation mode for the output directory when extracting archives...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/7-Zip-26.01

#linux

📰 Proton 11.0 Beta 2 Updates VKD3D-Proton

Following the release of Proton 11.0 Beta 1 from two weeks ago that updated against Wine 11.0, this heart to Valve's Steam Play is now out with a second beta release...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proton-11.0-Beta-2

#proton #steam #wine

📰 Critical Unpatched Flaw Leaves Hugging Face LeRobot Open to Unauthenticated RCE

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical security flaw impacting LeRobot, Hugging Face's open-source robotics platform with nearly 24,000 GitHub stars, that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution.The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-25874 (CVSS score: 9.3), which has been described as a case of untrusted data deserialization stemming from the use of the.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/critical-cve-2026-25874-leaves-hugging.html

#opensource

📰 Critical Unpatched Flaw Leaves Hugging Face LeRobot Open to Unauthenticated RCE

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical security flaw impacting LeRobot, Hugging Face's open-source robotics platform with nearly 24,000 GitHub stars, that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution.The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-25874 (CVSS score: 9.3), which has been described as a case of untrusted data deserialization stemming from the use of the.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/critical-cve-2026-25874-leaves-hugging.html

#opensource

📰 Fedora Linux 44 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Fedora Linux 44 distribution is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.19 and featuring the latest GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environments, and many other enhancements.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/fedora-linux-44-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new

#fedora #gnome #kde #kernel #linux #plasma

📰 Most Linux regret is actually distro regret, and you probably gave up too soon

Let's say I'm introducing ice cream to an alien. I get a cone, put a dollop of vanilla ice cream onto it, and hand it over. The alien gives the ice cream a lick, says it doesn't like the flavor, and then states that, as a result, ice cream just isn't for them. Of course, people wouldn't allow the alien to believe that all ice creams taste bad because it didn't like the vanilla flavor; instead, they'd recommend different flavors of ice creams and...

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-regret-actually-distro-regret/

#distro #linux

📰 AMD's Lemonade SDK 10.3 Now 10x Smaller By Getting Rid Of Electron

Lemonade as the open-source local AI server backed by AMD and supported across AMD CPUs / GPUs / NPUs on Windows and Linux is out with a big update...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-10.3

#amd #linux #opensource

📰 NVIDIA 595.71.05 stable driver released for Linux

A tiny Recommended Driver update arrived for NVIDIA GPU owners on Linux, with version 595.71.05 now available.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/nvidia-595-71-05-stable-driver-released-for-linux/

#linux

📰 IBM Updates Linux Patches For Introducing ARM64 KVM Virtualization On s390

At the start of April was the peculiar announcement of IBM collaborating with Arm on "dual architecture" hardware. The initial fruits of that collaboration at least are Linux kernel patches for enabling ARM64 virtualization acceleration on IBM Z servers. As we approach the end of the month, IBM has now posted a second iteration of those patches for enabling AArch64 software to run on IBM s390 via the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-On-s390-IBM-Z-v2

#arm #kernel #linux

📰 Microsoft Reportedly Eyes Fedora Base for Azure Linux

Microsoft is reportedly considering a Fedora-based foundation for Azure Linux, citing potential x86_64-v3 performance improvements in Fedora ELN meeting logs.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/microsoft-reportedly-eyes-fedora-base-for-azure-linux/

#fedora #linux

📰 GTK2 Gets an Unofficial Revival Fork for Legacy Linux Apps

A Devuan community developer has launched GTK2-NG, a fork designed to maintain compatibility for legacy GTK2 software on current Linux systems.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/gtk2-gets-an-unofficial-revival-fork-for-legacy-linux-apps/

#linux

📰 Proton Experimental and Proton 11 Beta updated to fix issues with the EA App

Valve released a small tweak update to both Proton Experimental and the Proton 11 Beta, bringing in an update to help with the EA App.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/proton-experimental-and-proton-11-beta-updated-to-fix-issues-with-the-ea-app/

#proton