Webinar – Windows Protected Print Mode: What You Need to Know Today

The clock is ticking. From July 1, 2026, Windows will actively prioritize its own IPP driver - and many organizations are not ready. Enabling Windows Protected Print Mode lays the foundation for a future-proof print environment, but employees can no longer print using conventional print solutions.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/webinar-windows-protected-print-mode-what-you-need-to-know-today-2/

📰 8 self-hosted services a total beginner can set up in a single weekend

Self-hosting is a hot trend of 2026, albeit with a reputation problem. Mention it to a friend, and they picture a rack of servers humming in a basement. Sounds cliché, but it’s true to an extent. Eventually, most folks end up there, but that isn’t necessary to get started. All you need is a computer, which could be a laptop, old desktop, a mini PC, or a single-board computer like a Raspberry Pi. Even without much Linux experience, a spare...

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https://www.xda-developers.com/self-hosted-services-a-total-beginner-can-set-up-in-a-single-weekend/

Microsoft wins more time in £270M pre-owned license battle

Microsoft has secured an extended stay in the ValueLicensing case while it asks the UK Supreme Court for permission to appeal. The £270 million dispute remains largely paused, but disclosure and confidentiality applications will continue toward a September hearing.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/microsoft-wins-more-time-in-270m-pre-owned-license-battle/

Microsoft’s Project Perception brings machine-speed defense to enterprise security

Microsoft will open Project Perception to public preview on August 3, introducing an agentic security system designed to continuously discover, assess, and remediate threats across an organization’s digital estate. Its Cyber Stack combines security telemetry, shared context, multiple AI models, specialized agents, and automated actions while keeping human defenders in control.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/microsofts-project-perception-brings-machine-speed-defense-to-enterprise-security/

AWS turns RAG into task-aware knowledge compression

AWS has introduced Task-Aware Knowledge Compression (TAKC), an open-source reference architecture that pre-compresses enterprise documents for specific jobs instead of retrieving only similar text at query time. The Bedrock-based design offers four compression levels, cutting context by up to 98.4% while targeting cross-document analysis and lower inference costs.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/aws-turns-rag-into-task-aware-knowledge-compression/

Отчёт о развитии FreeBSD за второй квартал 2026 года

Опубликован отчёт о развитии проекта FreeBSD за второй квартал 2026 года. Владлен Пополитов перевёл полный отчёт на русский язык. Выжимка интересных проектов.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65988

За 31 час разработчики Linux опубликовали 432 сообщения об уязвимостях ядра

В списке рассылки linux-cve-announce за период с 09:09 19 июля до 16:27 20 июля 2026 года было опубликовано 432 сообщения об уязвимостях в ядре Linux. Записи получили отдельные идентификаторы CVE и появились в открытом архиве рассылки.
На необычно крупную партию объявлений обратил внимание специалист по безопасности Ян Шауманн. В сообщении для списка oss-security он отметил, что такой поток показывает практическую невозможность вручную оценивать и расставлять приоритеты для каждого отдельного исправления ядра. В качестве наиболее надёжного подхода он назвал регулярное обновление всего парка систем, признав, однако, что в реальной инфраструктуре это не всегда легко осуществить. Исходное обсуждение опубликовано на Openwall.
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https://www.linux.org.ru/news/security/18346965

📰 AMD "Low Power" CPU Core Type Patches Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.3

Last month I wrote bout new AMD Linux patches introducing a new "low power" CPU core type as an alternative to their standard performance cores and dense efficiency cores. That work now is poised to land with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Low-Power-Core-Linux-7.3

В промежуточных выпусках Ubuntu 26.04 LTS будут поставляться новые версии стека виртуализации

Компания Canonical объявила о решении поставлять новые версии компонентов стека виртуализизации в будущих промежуточных выпусках Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Поставка будет налажена по аналогии с тем как в прошлых LTS-веках поставлялись новые версии ядра Linux и графического стека, перенесённые из обычных релизов Ubuntu, выпущенных после LTS-версии. Обновления будут выпускаться для пакетов qemu-hwe (гипервизор и эмулятор), libvirt-hwe (инструментарий для управления виртуализацией), edk2-hwe (OVMF-прошивка) и seabios-hwe (для совместимости с BIOS) каждые 6 месяцев в течение первых двух лет жизненного цикла LTS-ветки.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65985

Announcing the 4sysops IT answer engine

Are you still googling to search for blue links? Seriously? How about chatting for answers? In this post, explain how the specialized 4sysops answer engine helps you find solutions to your IT problems. Unlike an old-fashioned Google search, the 4sysops answer engine has access not only to a single search engine, but to five different AI-optimized web search services. Additionally, you can perform semantic search in the 4sysops knowledge base, along with Microsoft, AWS, and Google Cloud knowledge bases via MCP, and an increasing number of specialized IT knowledge resources. Another new feature is that you can now select text in an article or the chatbot for follow-up prompts. Some features discussed in this article are exclusive to logged-in users, so consider applying for membership if you haven't already. I mentioned AI search in my previous post about the new topic filter features, but since then, I've added new functionality to search.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/announcing-the-4sysops-it-answer-engine/

Microsoft launches EXTRA to globalize AI red teaming

Microsoft is expanding AI security testing beyond its own teams with the External Red Team Alliance (EXTRA), a global network of universities, independent researchers, and regional specialists. The initiative funds unrestricted safety research at 18 university labs across six continents and targets risks that can be missed by corporate testing alone.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/microsoft-launches-extra-to-globalize-ai-red-teaming/

Windows 11 Insider build 29634 requires an update before August 11

Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 29634.1000 brings a renewed flight certificate to the Experimental (Future Platforms) channel, and devices must install a build containing it before August 11, 2026. The release also completes the channel UI transition and adds on-device Voice Isolation for Voice Access.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/windows-11-insider-build-29634-requires-an-update-before-august-11/

Mission Center (Linux system monitor) adds battery, power draw + more info

A new version of the slick Linux system monitoring app Mission Center is available for download with expanded hardware coverage and resource reporting. Notably, Mission Center v1.2.0 adds a new Battery page in the Performance tab, surfaces per-partition usage details on the Disk page with free and used space reporting and adds a new graph to the bottom of the CPU page to relay temperature, power draw or CPU frequency – you can change it. The Memory page now puts reports compression (zRAM/zswap) stats, while the GPU page now lets change what the middle graph from Encode/Decode activity to power […]
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/mission-center-battery-power-draw-reporting

📰 Wayfire Wayland Compositor Closing In On v1.0 Release

The Wayfire modular and extensible Wayland compositor formally used by default on Raspberry Pi SBCs is nearing its v1.0 release. Wayfire 0.11 was released on Sunday for this Compiz-inspired, wlroots-powered compositor with that being their hopeful last planned version before Wayfire 1.0 releases...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayfire-0.11-Released

Linux Gaming Distros Aren't About FPS

By Brodie Robertson

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https://youtu.be/jkGCVUFMK-I

📰 NVIDIA and Linux Foundation Form Open Secure AI Alliance

NVIDIA, the Linux Foundation, Red Hat, Microsoft, IBM, Hugging Face, and dozens of industry leaders unite to develop open technologies for securing AI agents and software.

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https://linuxiac.com/nvidia-and-linux-foundation-form-open-secure-ai-alliance/

NetBird: Securely Connect Linux Machines with a WireGuard Mesh VPN

The post NetBird: Securely Connect Linux Machines with a WireGuard Mesh VPN first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .NetBird creates an encrypted WireGuard network between your devices without requiring a traditional VPN server or manual key exchange. In
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https://www.tecmint.com/securely-connect-linux-machines-netbird/

Использование GPU для ускорения обработки сетевых пакетов в ядре Linux

Для обсуждения разработчиками ядра Linux опубликован набор патчей c реализацией механизма KNOD, позволяющего использовать GPU AMD для ускорения обработки сетевых пакетов. KNOD взаимодействует с GPU напрямую, без обращения к фреймворкам в пространстве пользователя, таким как AMD ROCm и NVIDIA CUDA, самостоятельно управляет очередями GPU и выполняет JIT-компиляцию BPF-программ обработки пакетов для выполнения на GPU. Пакеты для обработки перенаправляются из памяти сетевого адаптера в GPU с использованием DMA и Device Memory TCP.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65983

📰 Qualcomm announce a big price rise - bad news for Valve's Steam Frame

Valve don't seem to be able to catch a break with their hardware releases - as Qualcomm reportedly plan to raise prices a lot.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/qualcomm-announce-a-big-price-rise-bad-news-for-valves-steam-frame/

📰 Ubuntu To Provide Virtualization HWE Stack For Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Ubuntu has long provided hardware enablement "HWE" stacks for Ubuntu LTS releases to provide a newer kernel and Mesa drivers and more for better supporting new/modern hardware on the long-term support Ubuntu Linux releases. With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Canonical will also now be providing a virtualization HWE stack for shipping newer virtualization / confidential computing features...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Virtualization-HWE-Stack