📰 GNOME Mutter 51 Beta Released With Wayland Background Blur, Improved Frame Scheduling

Released overnight on Sunday were the beta versions of Mutter 51 and GNOME Shell 51. This follows GNOME 51 embarking on itsAPI/ABI freeze, feature freeze, and UI freeze a day earlier...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-51-Beta

Curl disappeared from Ubuntu 26.04 minimal images by mistake

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS’s minimal cloud images have been missing curl – accidentally, it turns out, so Canonical has put it back. Curl is a commonly-used command-line tool for fetching files from remote servers. It’s called on in countless install scripts, CI pipelines and one-liners you’ve no doubt pasted into your terminal without thinking twice about. But the package has been missing from the server-cloud-minimal images of 26.04 to date. That caught those running pared-back cloud installs unawares, breaking expected workflows, has it had been available in previous versions. The manual fix is to install curl from the repos which, in […]
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu-2604-server-cloud-minimal-curl-missing

Microsoft 365 and Salesforce silos can cost far more than licenses

A Microsoft 365 and Salesforce deployment can carry a hidden cost far beyond subscription fees. Manual data transfers, duplicate records, approval delays, integration maintenance, and cleanup work can push the real annual cost of a seemingly inexpensive tool from $15,000 to about $38,000.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/microsoft-365-and-salesforce-silos-can-cost-far-more-than-licenses/

AI adoption is turning into a cultural divide as the number of AI haters grows

AI adoption is creating an “us versus them” divide inside workplaces and society, with resistance increasingly tied to identity, authenticity, and trust. The backlash is growing as organizations invest in AI faster than they train employees to use it confidently and responsibly.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/ai-adoption-is-turning-into-a-cultural-divide-as-the-number-of-ai-haters-grows/

📰 Google Chrome Quietly Arrives on ARM64 Linux

Google has started offering native ARM64 Linux builds of Chrome for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE through its official download page.

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https://linuxiac.com/google-chrome-quietly-arrives-on-arm64-linux/

📰 Keychron announced "ZGM", open-source firmware for gaming mice

Coming sometime in Q1 2027, hardware vendor Keychron recently announced a new project to bring open-source firmwire to mice named ZGM — Zephyr Gaming Mouse.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/keychron-announced-zgm-open-source-firmware-for-gaming-mice/

Malware can silently hijack Chrome’s synced passkeys on Windows

Malware with ordinary user privileges can bypass the protections users expect from Google Password Manager passkeys, including fingerprints, PINs, and visible prompts. Unit 42 identified three attack paths against Chrome’s Google Cloud Authenticator that can produce valid login assertions or extract synced passkey keys without breaking passkey cryptography.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/malware-can-silently-hijack-chromes-synced-passkeys-on-windows/

Woodpecker CI 3.17

31 июля 2026 года опубликован выпуск Woodpecker CI 3.17.0 — свободной системы непрерывной интеграции и доставки, предназначенной для самостоятельного размещения. Woodpecker выполняет описанные в YAML-файлах конвейеры на отдельных агентах и поддерживает контейнерные исполнители Docker и Kubernetes. Исходный код проекта написан преимущественно на Go и распространяется под лицензией Apache 2.0.
Основное внимание в новой версии уделено безопасности агентов, разграничению доступа в Kubernetes и диагностике ошибок выполнения.
Основные изменения Woodpecker CI 3.17:
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https://www.linux.org.ru/news/clusters/18351594

Опубликован Midnight Commander 6 c поддержкой панельных плагинов

Выпущен консольный файловый менеджер Midnight Commander 6.0.3 (mc6), представляющий собой форк GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.33, расширенный поддержкой панельных плагинов и поставляемый со встроенным эмулятором терминала. Интегрированный в mc6 фреймворк панельных плагинов позволяет отображать в панелях не только файловые системы, но и контейнеры, Git-репозитории, базы данных и объекты удалённых хранилищ. Код проекта написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией GPLv3+. Готовые пакеты подготовлены для Debian и Ubuntu, Fedora и RHEL, а также Arch Linux в форматах DEB, RPM и pkg.tar.zst. Для Gentoo дополнительно предоставлен ebuild для установки через локальный overlay.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66018

📰 GNOME Boxes Preparing To Deliver Much Improved Virtualization Experience

GNOME Boxes as a front-end to libvirt and QEMU is preparing to deliver a much improved virtualization experience for those wanting to enjoy desktop VMs from the GNOME desktop...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Boxes-2026

Polar AI Browser brings workplace agents into logged-in web apps

Polar AI Browser is turning authenticated web sessions into an automation platform for workplace tasks. The macOS-only Chromium browser has raised $5.7 million and now gives IT teams a new agent that can operate across users’ signed-in services—along with new risks involving permissions, data exposure, and prompt injection.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/polar-ai-browser-brings-workplace-agents-into-logged-in-web-apps/

Using external fingerprint readers with Windows Hello Enhanced Sign-in Security

Windows Hello Enhanced Sign-in Security (ESS) can now use a compatible external fingerprint reader for Windows sign-in on Windows 11, version 24H2 and 25H2. ESS is a Windows Hello protection mode that isolates biometric processing and the connection to the reader from the main operating system. This article explains the hardware and update requirements, enrollment process, verification steps, and deployment limits for Windows administrators.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/using-external-fingerprint-readers-with-windows-hello-enhanced-sign-in-security/

Google опубликовал официальные Linux-сборки Chrome для архитектуры ARM64

Компания Google начала публикацию официальных сборок Chrome для Linux-систем на базе архитектуры ARM64. Сборки доступны в пакетах deb и rpm. Ранее официальные сборки Chrome для Linux публиковались только для архитектуры x86_64, а для архитектуры ARM64 были доступны только сторонние сборки Chromium, предлагаемые дистрибутивами. Официальная версия Chrome отличается поддержкой подключения к учётной записи в Google, интеграцией сервисов Google, синхронизацией данных между устройствами, упрощённой установкой дополнений из каталога Chrome Web Store, возможностью включения расширенного режима защиты и поставкой CDM-модуля (Content Decryption Module) Widevine для просмотра медиаконтента, защищённого авторскими правами (DRM), в таких сервисах, как Netflix, Spotify и Disney+.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66024

Microsoft releases Orchard for scalable AI agent development

Microsoft Research has released Orchard, an MIT-licensed framework that lets teams reuse Kubernetes-based environments, training pipelines, and evaluation workflows for AI agents. The project targets the infrastructure cost and complexity of developing agents for coding, web navigation, and personal-assistant tasks.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/microsoft-releases-orchard-for-scalable-ai-agent-development/

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📰 NVIDIA 610.57.04 Linux Driver Delivers Many Fixes

NVIDIA is kicking off the new month by releasing an updated R610 Linux driver build with quite a number of bug fixes...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-610.57.04-Linux-Driver

📰 Benchmarking Six Linux Distributions On The Framework Laptop 13 Pro

With the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro now shipping powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) and a brand new hardware design, I have spent the past week testing out various Linux distributions on this very nice high-end laptop. All of the modern Linux distributions tested have been playing nicely with this new Panther Lake laptop.

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#intel #linux

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https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-laptop-13-pro-linux

Ubuntu’s turning another system Deb package into a Snap

Ubuntu is transitioning another of its core system Deb packages to the sandboxed snap format, a move it says will improve security and allow for better desktop integration. The package in question is hwctrl, a small command-line tool preinstalled on Ubuntu desktop and server as part of Canonical’s rust-hwlib hardware API set. Canonical engineer Sergio Costas explained in a package change that due to “planned architecture changes for integration of hwctl with gnome-control-center and other front-ends, and for increased security, the HWCTL package will be snap-only from now onward”. If you’re on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, you will be automatically moved […]
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu-hwctl-deb-to-snap-transition

Dropbeat is yet-another slick music controller for GNOME Shell

Dropbeat is a new riff on a old tune, a panel-based music applet for GNOME Shell that gives you an alternate way to pause, play and skip tracks in MPRIS-friendly Linux media players. Applets of this ilk are legion, and this panel applet doesn’t do anything that different to ones you may have tried in the past or currently use (for all the bells and whistles, try the Dynamic Music Pill extension instead). But it does do some things differently. When installed, it adds a button to your panel that when clicked “shows a cool card to control your media […]
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/dropbeat-music-controller-gnome-extension

Выпуск мультимедиа-пакета FFmpeg 9.0

После пяти месяцев разработки опубликован мультимедиа-пакет FFmpeg 9.0, включающий набор приложений и коллекцию библиотек для операций над различными мультимедиа-форматами (запись, преобразование и декодирование звуковых и видеоформатов). Пакет написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензиями LGPL и GPL.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66025