📰 AliExpress accused of fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio trick that also muted a dev's headphones

Sawtooth waves you can't hear still mess with your Bluetooth. Firefox and Brave say they've got you covered.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/24/aliexpress-accused-of-fingerprinting-shoppers-with-silent-audio-trick-that-also-muted-a-devs-headphones/5291662

#firefox

📰 Early Linux 7.3 Kernel Benchmarks Show Some Performance Improvements, Some Regressions

Being halfway through the Linux 7.3 kernel merge window and prior to wrapping up and sending back the HP Z4 G6i workstation powered by the Xeon 678X Granite Rapids WS processor, I decided to run some benchmarks to see how Linux 7.3 Git is performing relative to the prior stable kernel series. Here are the first benchmarks of this early state of Linux 7.3 with some performance improvements as well as some regressions.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-73-early-benchmarks

#kernel #linux

📰 Ubuntu 24.04 gets a big open-vm-tools update

A major update to open-vm-tools, a package that integrates Linux virtual machines with VMware hypervisors, is rolling out to users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. “Without SRUing the newer version users get issues running on more recent hypervisors”, Canonical’s Lena Voytek explained in a backport request. It’s a full backport from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS to support platform enablement to benefit those running 24.04 LTS. The open-vm-tool package goes from v12.3.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu-2404-open-vm-tools-update

#linux #ubuntu

📰 Linux gaming gets another boost as Proton adds support for 16 niche games

If you're a Steam Deck or Steam Machine user, this is great news.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/protons-latest-stable-update-includes-support-niche-games/

#linux #proton #steam

📰 Mozilla Presents Their Plan For Shipping JPEG-XL In Firefox 157

While Firefox 152+ already offers experimental JPEG-XL support, Mozilla formally announced today their plans for officially shipping JPEG-XL image format support in the Firefox web browser...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-JPEG-XL-2026-Plans

#firefox

We Have Too Many Linux Distros
YT - Brodie Robertson —> youtube.com/watch?v=4ju8ZFwzdOA

📰 Omarchy Linux Just Got $8 Million From Tech's Biggest Names

A new nonprofit is being setup that would house all that money, and Hyprland is the first external project to benefit.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17427570/omarchy-launches-omacom-foundation

#linux

📰 Kernel 7.2: RK3588 media, smarter GPU memory, and Rust foundations

Linux kernel 7.2 adds broad core, Rust, and hardware-support updates, with Collabora contributing 102 patches across graphics, media, virtualization, networking, power management, and SoC enablement.

🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/kernel-7.2-rk3588-media,-smarter-gpu-memory,-and-rust-foundations.html

#kernel #linux

📰 New AF_ALG Restrictions With Linux 7.3 Due To The Security & Maintenance Nightmare

The past few Linux kernel cycles have chipped away at AF_ALG functionality for that interface for user-space programs to access the kernel's internal cryptography API. Linux has been dropping AF_ALG features like zero-copy support and offloading. AF_ALG was quickly deprecated in Linux 7.2 while now for Linux 7.3 it's being further restricted...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-AF-ALG-Restrictions

#kernel #linux

📰 Vanilla OS 3 “Reunion” Released with Reproducible Builds, ARM64 Support

Vanilla OS 3 “Reunion” is now available for download based on Debian GNU/Linux and powered by Linux kernel 7.1 and featuring the latest GNOME 50 desktop environment.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/vanilla-os-3-reunion-released-with-reproducible-builds-arm64-support

#debian #gnome #gnu #kernel #linux

📰 Linux ath11k Driver Improvements For Qualcomm WiFi 6 Hardware Yields 7x Lower Latency

A patch series being worked on for the ath11k mainline wireless networking driver for Qualcomm WiFi 6 / 802.11ax chipsets is yielding 7x lower latency or 2.2x throughput at identical latency...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ath11k-7x-Lower-Latency

#linux

📰 Ubuntu 26.10 ‘Stonking Stingray’ hits feature freeze

Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed ‘Stonking Stingray’, entered feature freeze on 20 August – though the formal announcement arrive later than usual. From this point onwards, development focus shifts from landing major changes to improving them, along with the rest of the package set, ahead of the final, stable Ubuntu 26.10 release in October.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu-2610-hits-feature-freeze

#ubuntu

📰 Happy 35th Birthday, Linux!

Today is Linux’s 35th birthday so join me in wishing Linux many more awesome years to come and to celebrate its amazing journey.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/happy-35th-birthday-linux

#linux

📰 Lots Of New Audio Hardware Support In Linux 7.3

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE submitted all of the sound feature updates last week for the Linux 7.3 kernel. Besides the continued AI/LLM-generated patch churn, the sound code for Linux 7.3 sees a lot of new hardware support...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Sound

#kernel #linux

📰 This Tiny USB Device Turns Your Phone Into a Keyboard, Mouse, and SSH Terminal

The $42 open source dongle gives you BIOS-level keyboard and mouse control plus SSH access. No software installation is needed on the target machine.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17428059/openterface-keymod-crowdfunding-campaign

#opensource

📰 KDE Remote Desktop Experience Improving For Closing The X11 vs. Wayland Gap

KDE developer David Edmundson is out today with a blog post around improvements that have been ongoing for the Plasma 6.8 release in improving the KDE remote desktop experience. As part of ensuring a good Wayland experience and hitting all the needs fulfilled by X11, Plasma 6.8 is seeing improvements for its remote desktop functionality...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-68-Better-Remote-Desktop

#kde #plasma #wayland

📰 OpenSSL 4.0.2 Released with Important Security and Bug Fixes

OpenSSL 4.0.2 open-source TLS/SSL and crypto library is now available for download with fixes for several security vulnerabilities and bugs.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/openssl-4-0-2-released-with-important-security-and-bug-fixes

#opensource

📰 DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM Still Being Worked On For Intel Xe3P / Nova Lake

The in-development Linux 7.3 kernel is marking Nova Lake Xe3P graphics as stable in being enabled by default and no longer hidden behind the "force probe" flag. While on-by-default, there still are some features that have yet to land like the DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM functionality...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-DP-2.1-ALPM-v5

#intel #kernel #linux

📰 The Modern NTFS Linux Driver Adds Read Support For Windows System Compression (WOF)

The pull requests for the existing Paragon NTFS3 kernel driver as well as the new modern "NTFS" drivers have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 7.3 kernel cycle. Besides bug fixes, most notable among these NTFS file-system drivers are Windows System Compression "WOF" read support for the modern NTFS driver...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-NTFS-Driver-WOF

#kernel #linux

📰 PackageKit 2.0 Is Coming with a Complete API Break After More Than a Decade

PackageKit 2.0 is being planned with a complete interface break, major code cleanup, and a redesigned Linux offline update experience.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/packagekit-2-0-is-coming-with-a-complete-api-break-after-more-than-a-decade/

#linux