📰 Bottles 67.1 Improves Windows App Startup Performance on Linux

Bottles 67.1 makes Adaptive Launch smarter, brings OpenXR support through Linux runtimes like WiVRn and Monado, and improves UMU game handling.

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📰 AVX-512 xor_gen For Linux Updated & Looking Real Good For RAID Arrays

Being worked on the past few months for the Linux kernel has been an AVX-512 optimized version of xor_gen() that is used for generating and validating parity blocks such as with Linux's software RAID 5 and RAID 6 arrays. The latest iteration of AVX-512 xor_gen() was posted today and shows some impressive results on AMD Zen 5 hardware...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AVX-512-xor-gen-v5

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https://phoronix.com/news/AVX-512-xor-gen-v5

Vivaldi 8.2 is out with a calculator in the address bar

Vivaldi 8.2 rolled out today (3 September 2026) and lets you do quick and private math calculations directly in the address bar. This may prove useful when you don’t want to open to a new tab or a calculator app. I’ve often narrowed my eyes at an online checkout page after applying a coupon code (don’t judge), muttering “that can’t be right”. A quick number crunch later and, of course, it always is. You can click to copy the the result to your system clipboard, ready to paste elsewhere. Previous versions Vivaldi let you do local calculations from the Quick Commands menu, […]
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Ubuntu 26.10 snapshot 3 is available for testing

The third monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 26.10 is now available for testing.
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📰 Linux Kernel 7.1 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 7.2

Linux kernel 7.1 reached end of life and all users are now recommended to upgrade their systems to the latest Linux 7.2 kernel series as soon as possible.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-7-1-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-7-2

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📰 Malicious .git Configs Can Make Claude, Codex, Cursor, and Other AI Agents Run Attacker Code

Manifold Security has disclosed eight security flaws across seven command-line AI coding agents in which a repository's own Git configuration names a command that the agent runs on the developer's machine, four of them still unpatched at publication.The command executes as the user, outside the agent's sandbox and without an approval prompt, and exploitation requires the repository to arrive.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/malicious-git-configs-can-make-claude.html

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