📰 Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors

Over 600 security boffins say planned surveillance crosses the line Europe, long seen as a bastion of privacy and digital rights, will debate this week whether to enforce surveillance on citizens' devices.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/eu_chat_control/

📰 The Spell Brigade is ending Native Linux support due to multiple issues

You'll still be able to play The Spell Brigade with Valve's Proton, but the Native Linux version is no longer going to be supported or updated..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/the-spell-brigade-is-ending-native-linux-support-due-to-multiple-issues/

📰 Pironman 5 Max Review: Best Raspberry Pi Case Money can Buy

Give your Raspberry Pi 5 a stunning makeover with this tower case.

🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/pironman-5-max-review/

📰 CUPS 2.4.13 Print Server Released With "Important" Security Fix

CUPS 2.4.13 is out today as the newest update to this widely-used, open-source print server. Driving this new point release is for addressing an important security vulnerability as well as a second less notable security issue...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/CUPS-2.4.13-Released

📰 This Linux-based operating system is the perfect secondary OS for your PC

Ubuntu Cinnamon combines familiarity and strong hardware support, making it the perfect secondary OS for your PC.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/perfect-secondary-linux-os-ubuntu-cinnamon/

📰 Akira ransomware exploiting critical SonicWall SSLVPN bug again

The Akira ransomware gang is actively exploiting CVE-2024-40766, a year-old critical-severity access control vulnerability, to gain unauthorized access to SonicWall devices.

🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/akira-ransomware-exploiting-critical-sonicwall-sslvpn-bug-again/

📰 Arm wrestles away 25% share of server market thanks to Nvidia's home-grown CPUs

Still far short of the 50% market share Arm infra chief was hoping for Nvidia isn’t the only one riding the AI boom. During the second quarter, Arm CPUs captured a quarter of the server market, according to a recent Dell’Oro Group report.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/nvidias_graceblackwell_drives_arms_cpu/

📰 Fedora 43 Beta Being Released Next Week

Fedora 43 Beta is declared a "GO" and ready for release next Tuesday...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-Beta-Next-Week

📰 Why ZFS is the ultimate filesystem for your NAS

The benefits of using ZFS on your NAS include enhanced data protection, scalability, and performance.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-zfs-is-the-best-filesystem-for-nas/

📰 Bcachefs Outlines Plans For Shipping As A DKMS Out-Of-Tree Kernel Module

With Linus Torvalds having recently marked Bcachefs as being "externally maintained" following ongoing disagreement over the generally accepted Linux kernel development practices, the plans were laid out today for shipping Bcachefs as an out-of-tree DKMS module...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-DKMS-Plans

📰 Proxmox delivers datacenter manager beta that makes it a more viable VMware contender

One console to manage multiple clusters is table stakes, but some users are betting on mixed environments Open source virtualization suite Proxmox has taken an important step towards becoming a stronger contender for those considering VMware alternatives by commencing beta testing for a datacenter management tool that can control multiple hardware clusters.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/proxmox_datacenter_manager/

📰 Samba 4.23 Released with SMB3 Unix Extensions Enabled by Default

Samba 4.23 enables SMB3 Unix Extensions by default, improving POSIX interoperability for Linux and UNIX clients with proper permissions and symlinks.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/samba-4-23-released-with-smb3-unix-extensions-enabled-by-default/

📰 Anti-cheat looks like a no-go on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck for Arena Breakout: Infinite

Arena Breakout: Infinite releases soon from Morefun Studios and sadly, this is yet another online multiplayer noscript that will not work on Linux / SteamOS..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/anti-cheat-looks-like-a-no-go-on-linux-steamos-and-steam-deck-for-arena-breakout-infinite/

📰 Linux 6.17 Fix Lands To Address Regression With "Serious Breakage" In Hibernation

This week's round of power management fixes for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel are on the more notable side with fixes for both AMD and Intel P-State drivers plus addressing a system hibernation issue that could lead to "serious breakage" and stems from a Linux 6.16 regression...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-PM-Hibernation-FIxes

📰 LMDE 7 Will Be Based on Debian 13, Linux Mint 22.3 Planned for December

LMDE 7 will be available for public beta testing this September based on Debian 13 "Trixie", while Linux Mint 22.3 is planned for December.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/lmde-7-will-be-based-on-debian-13-linux-mint-22-3-planned-for-december

📰 I'm out, says OpenSUSE: We're dropping bcachefs support from next kernel version

The first distro vendor to announces its move says nein, danke The next kernel will have no new bcachefs code – and the openSUSE versions that use that kernel are going further still.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/opensuse_to_drop_bcachefs_support/

📰 Q4OS 6.1 Distro Is Out Based on Debian 13 with KDE Plasma and Trinity Desktops

Lightweight distribution Q4OS 6.1 is now available for download based on Debian 13 "Trixie" and featuring the KDE Plasma and Trinity desktop environments.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/q4os-6-1-distro-is-out-based-on-debian-13-with-kde-plasma-and-trinity-desktops

📰 Intel Linux Graphics Driver Seeing 2~5% Faster Shader Compilation Times, Up To ~20%

A few days ago I wrote about Intel fixing some Panther Lake Xe3 graphics performance issues ahead of launch. The downside of those performance optimizations for Panther Lake was that they led to longer shader compilation times. The good news though is that some separate improvements were merged now for Mesa 25.3 to help enhance the Intel graphics shader compilation performance...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.3-Faster-Intel-Shader

📰 Fork that: Three alternative kernels show devs don't need Linux

Managarm, Asterinas, Xous – where disaffected code whisperers could go Between Rust, new file systems, clashes between developers, systemd absorbing its functionality, and more, rumors of possible Linux forks are being muttered again. But there is another, better way.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/three_new_microkernels/

📰 GNOME 49: Best New Features

GNOME 49 is released on 17 September with an array of new features and design changes that improve the day-to-day Linux desktop experience — the best of which I round up in this post. Ubuntu users will get (most of) GNOME 49’s new features in the Ubuntu 25.10 release, out on 9 October, 2025, and a beta build is due next week for impatient testers eager for an early-bird encounter with the changes on offer.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/gnome-49-new-features

📰 KDE Frameworks 6.18 Lets You Use Your Laptop’s Copilot Key for Launching Apps

KDE Frameworks 6.18 open-source software suite is out now with various improvements and bug fixes for KDE apps and the Plasma desktop. Here’s what’s new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6-18-lets-you-use-your-laptops-copilot-key-for-launching-apps