📰 Lekuo SouthBridge Max Puts An AMD B650 Chipset Onto A PCIe Card For More I/O

For those looking at expanding the SATA, NVMe, and/or the USB/USB-C capabilities of your system, the Lekuo SouthBridge Max PB65MX3 is an interesting creation that I have been trying out. The Lekuo SouthBridge Max puts an AMD B650 chipset onto a low-profile PCIe add-in card to provide all of the above without any bifurcation required. Given that it's an AMD B650 chipset, it also "just works" nicely under Linux.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/lekuo-southbridge-max

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📰 Audacity 3.7.9 Audio Editor Adds FFmpeg 9 Support, Fixes Data Loss Issues

Audacity 3.7.9 is out with FFmpeg 9 support, Windows ASIO improvements, and important fixes for project corruption and data loss.

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Microsoft offers workshop for incident response plans

Microsoft is offering organizations a two- or three-day Cybersecurity Incident Response Workshop to test whether their incident response plans work under pressure—not just on paper. Led by Microsoft’s Detection and Response Team (DART), the exercise uses simulated attacks, threat hunting, and guided decisions to expose gaps in roles, tools, telemetry, and coordination before a real breach does.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/microsoft-offers-workshop-for-incident-response-plans/

OpenAI’s Astra reaches “critical” cyber capability threshold

OpenAI says its unreleased Astra model is the first of its systems to reach the “Critical” cybersecurity level, meaning it can autonomously discover unknown vulnerabilities and chain them into attacks against hardened environments. The designation has already changed Astra’s rollout: parts of training were paused, safeguards were strengthened, and advanced cyber capabilities will initially be restricted to selected testers and the Daybreak Blue defensive program. Astra is expected soon, but no public release date has been confirmed.
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Выпуск gswitch 0.6.6, утилиты исправления текста в неверной раскладке

Состоялся выпуск gswitch 0.6.6 – свободной утилиты для Linux (X11 и Wayland), которая по команде исправляет уже набранный текст в неверной раскладке. Программа не пытается угадывать язык во время ввода: пользователь сам запускает преобразование последнего слова, текста после последнего Enter или выделенного фрагмента.
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https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18372460

Excel Canvas will turn workbook data into live Copilot dashboards

Microsoft is preparing Excel Canvas, a Copilot-powered workspace that converts workbook data into interactive charts, metrics, and insights without requiring users to build each visualization manually. The feature is expected to reach general availability for Excel on Windows and the web this month, with the resulting views staying synchronized as the underlying workbook changes.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/excel-canvas-will-turn-workbook-data-into-live-copilot-dashboards/

LibreOffice broke a download record with its latest release

LibreOffice 26.8 was download more than 1 million times in its first week of release, which The Document Foundation say is the highest first-week figure of any release of the free office suite. Released on 26 August, LibreOffice 26.8 saw 1,031,162 downloads from the official website, which provides installers for Windows, macOS and Linux, during the first seven days. As many Linux users update via other sources, like the Snap Store, Flathub and PPAs, the real figure will be even higher than that. “This is the highest number of downloads in the first week of any LibreOffice release”, The Document […]
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📰 Iranian Hackers Pose as Recruiters to Deliver Cross-Platform RATs Through Coding Tests

The Iranian Nimbus Manticore hacking group has been attributed to two previously undocumented malware families that highlight the continued evolution of its toolset and likely expand its targeting footprint to infect Linux and Apple macOS systems using cross-platform remote access trojans (RATs) developed using Node.js and JavaScript.Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky is tracking the.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/iranian-hackers-pose-as-recruiters-to.html

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GitSpawn lets poisoned repositories run code through AI coding agents

A repository’s own `.git/config` can still trigger attacker-controlled code through Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, goose, and other AI coding agents before trust prompts, authentication, model calls, or tool approvals occur. Manifold Security’s GitSpawn research found eight flaws across seven agents; fixes are available for several tools, but Hermes Agent, Qwen Code, Grok Build, and a second Claude Code path remained vulnerable during September testing.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/gitspawn-lets-poisoned-repositories-run-code-through-ai-coding-agents/

Arduino’s VENTUNO Q went up for pre-order, sold out

Arduino's VENTUNO Q is now up for pre-order, priced from $299. The development board comes with Ubuntu preinstalled and is built around Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ8 platform.
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📰 Linux Gets A Reverse-Engineered Driver For ASUS ROG NVMe Enclosure RGB Lighting

If you are into RGB lighting, you can even find NVMe external enclosures these days with RGB LEDs like the ASUS ROG Strix Arion. Now thanks to reverse engineering there is a Linux driver for allowing the RGB lighting controls for the ASUS ROG Strix Arion NVMe enclosure...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-ROG-Strix-Arion-RGB-Linux

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Google has launched Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber

Google has launched Gemini 3.8 Flash and the security-focused Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, extending the rapid rollout that began with Gemini 3.7 Flash. The Cyber edition targets trusted defenders with autonomous vulnerability discovery and patching, while retaining the Flash family’s speed and introductory pricing.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/google-has-launched-gemini-3-8-flash-and-gemini-3-8-flash-cyber/

📰 AWS to Acquire DuckLabs, DuckDB Project Stays Open Source

AWS has signed an agreement to acquire DuckLabs, while the open-source DuckDB project will remain independent under the DuckDB Foundation.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/aws-to-acquire-ducklabs-duckdb-project-stays-open-source/

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Выпуск nginx 1.31.5 и njs 1.0.1

Опубликован выпуск основной ветки nginx 1.31.5, в которой продолжается развитие новых возможностей. В параллельно поддерживаемую стабильную ветку 1.30.x вносятся только изменения, связанные с устранением серьёзных ошибок и уязвимостей. В дальнейшем на базе основной ветки 1.31.x будет сформирована стабильная ветка 1.32. Код проекта написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией BSD.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66201

GitHub Copilot can now approve pull requests, with admin controls

GitHub Copilot can now submit approvals on pull requests that count toward branch-protection requirements, moving its code review role beyond comments and recommendations. The capability is in public preview, but it remains disabled until administrators explicitly authorize it.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/github-copilot-can-now-approve-pull-requests-with-admin-controls/

Meta reportedly rolls out Muse Spark 1.3 for coding and agentic workloads

Meta is reportedly rolling out Muse Spark 1.3 through Muse Code and the Meta Model API, promising major gains in coding and agentic performance without raising the price from Spark 1.2. However, publicly detailed Meta material still centers on Muse Spark 1.2, so administrators should verify that 1.3 is available in their region and API account before changing production workloads.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/meta-reportedly-rolls-out-muse-spark-1-3-for-coding-and-agentic-workloads/

New identity governance and access features in Microsoft Entra

Microsoft released several generally available and preview updates for Microsoft Entra in September 2026. The changes focus on tenant governance, user-centric access reviews, lifecycle workflow management, passwordless Teams device identities, hybrid identity provisioning, and AI traffic controls. You should also plan for three upcoming changes that affect dynamic group rules, API permissions, and the Security Administrator role.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/new-identity-governance-and-access-features-in-microsoft-entra/

📰 First Arch Linux ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 7.2 Is Now Available for Download

Arch Linux 2026.09.01 is now available for download as Arch Linux’s ISO release for August 2026, powered by Linux kernel 7.2 and featuring the latest Archinstall 4.4 text-mode installer.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/first-arch-linux-iso-powered-by-linux-kernel-7-2-is-now-available-for-download

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📰 My Raspberry Pi 5 paid for itself in less than a year thanks to Docker containers, but that's almost impossible now

Having spent a lot of time with the Raspberry Pi 4 and Zero, I was beyond ecstatic when the fifth iteration of this uber-popular single-board computer hit the shelves. After all, this tiny gizmo packs a better CPU (and GPU) than its predecessor, making it better than the RPi 4 for projects where I need more computational prowess. On top of that, it has an onboard power connector and a PCIe 2.0 slot that I’d wanted on this SBC family for years.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/my-raspberry-pi-5-paid-for-itself-in-less-than-a-year-thanks-to-docker-containers/

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Canonical joins the Open Secure AI Alliance

Canonical recently joined the Linux Foundation’s Open Secure AI Alliance to help make open-source security tools for AI systems and autonomous agents. The alliance formed in July 2026 in response to the security breach at Hugging Face, when OpenAI models undergoing a safety test broke out of their sandbox to access Hugging Face’s systems – aided by config errors rather than super-intelligence. Commercial AI models refused to help in assessing attack logs due to their guardrails, so Hugging Face engineers had to run an open-weight model on their own infrastructure to complete their analysis – and underscore the need for […]
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