📰 Why I replaced WPS Office with this lightweight alternative and saved my sanity

High resource usage was driving me insane, so I ditched it for something better.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/why-i-replaced-wps-office-with-this-lightweight-alternative/

📰 15 ransomware gangs ‘go dark’ to enjoy 'golden parachutes'

PLUS: China's Great Firewall springs a leak; FBI issues rare 'Flash Alert' of Salesforce attacks; $10m bounty for alleged Russian hacker; and more Infosec In Brief 15 ransomware gangs, including Scattered Spider and Lapsus$, have announced that they are going dark, and say no more attacks will be carried out in their name.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/14/in_brief_infosec/

📰 After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'

Student thought she had the hang of this 'Linux' thing and its kooky CLI Who, Me? It's Monday morning, and a week of possibilities presents itself to IT pros everywhere. Which is why The Register brings you another edition of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which we remind you what not to do with your day, your week, and your career, by sharing stories of your worst workplace mistakes and the contortions you made to survive them.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/who_me/

📰 Valve fixes Baldur's Gate 3 issue on Steam Deck / SteamOS

Baldur's Gate 3 players on Steam Deck and SteamOS may have noticed recently it appeared like it uninstalled itself, here's what's going on..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/valve-fixes-baldurs-gate-3-issue-on-steam-deck-steamos/

📰 DRAGON BALL GEKISHIN SQUADRA works great on Linux PCs and Steam Deck

Bandai Namco Entertainment released DRAGON BALL GEKISHIN SQUADRA, a free to play MOBA set in the Dragon Ball universe and it works well on Linux / Steam Deck..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/dragon-ball-gekishin-squadra-works-great-on-linux-pcs-and-steam-deck/

Turntable Adds Offline Scrobbling, Resizing & More Bling - OMG! Ubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/turntable-offline-scrobbling-resizable-update

📰 Jonathan Riddell Leaving KDE Development After 25 Years

Prominent KDE developer Jonathan Riddell who was formerly involved with Kubuntu and then KDE Neon, served for a while on KDE Plasma release management, and other significant contributions over the years announced he's stepping away from the KDE world...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Riddell-Leaves-KDE

Super Mario Bros Remastered open source fan project brings an impressive remake to PC

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/super-mario-bros-remastered-open-source-fan-project-brings-an-impressive-remake-to-pc/

"Rustmaker" Merged For LibreOffice 26.2 Development As Latest Rust Integration - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Code-Maker-LibreOffice-262

📰 The cute co-op game LEGO Voyagers has released and it's Steam Deck Verified

LEGO Voyagers is the cutest looking co-op game and it's available today, along with it getting Steam Deck Verified for the release..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/the-cute-co-op-game-lego-voyagers-has-released-and-its-steam-deck-verified/

📰 libxml2 Maintainer Stepping Down - "More Or Less Unmaintained For Now"

The maintainer of the libxml2 project announced he is stepping down from this widely-used open-source library without any replacement maintainer yet determined...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Libxml2-No-Maintainer

📰 This Raspberry Pi project turned it into the ultimate travel gadget

Turn your Raspberry Pi into a lightweight, portable camera backup hub for effortless photo storage while traveling.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/this-raspberry-pi-project-turned-into-the-ultimate-travel-gadget/

📰 Godot 4.5 Open-Source Game Engine Released With A Multitude Of Improvements

Godot 4.5 is out today as the latest update to this leading open-source and cross platform game engine...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Godot-4.5-Released

📰 Google confirms fraudulent account created in law enforcement portal

Google has confirmed that hackers created a fraudulent account in its Law Enforcement Request System (LERS) platform that law enforcement uses to submit official data requests to the company.

🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-confirms-fraudulent-account-created-in-law-enforcement-portal/

📰 Linux Patches Posted For Enabling The Tenstorrent Blackhole SoC

Patches were posted this past weekend for enabling the mainline Linux kernel to run on the Tenstorrent Blackwhole SoC of A0 silicon on the Blackhole P100 and P150 PCIe accelerator cards...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Blackhole-SoC-Patches

📰 Intel USBIO USB IO Expander Drivers Expected To Be Merged For Linux 6.18

Queued up in the past few days to the USB subsystem's "usb-next" Git branch are the Intel USBIO drivers for Linux 6.18. These drivers are needed to support the web cameras on various newer Intel laptop models...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-USBIO-USB-Drivers-6.18

📰 Linux Mint picks up the pace with LMDE 7 and Wayland-ready Cinnamon

Devs sketch plans for two more releases this year, blending Debian foundations with modern display tech The Linux Mint team plans to speed up its release cycle and get two more versions out in the next few months.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/16/two_more_linux_mint_releases/

📰 Fedora Workstation 43 Beta Is Running Well On AMD Strix Halo / Framework Desktop

Fedora 43 Beta is releasing today as we work toward the official release in either late October or early November. I have been testing out the Fedora Workstation 43 Beta candidate to great success on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" powered Framework Desktop. Here are some benchmarks of Fedora Workstation 42 compared to the Fedora Workstation 43 Beta.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/fedora-43-beta

📰 Firefox 144 to Strengthen the Encryption of Logins in the Firefox Password Manager

Firefox 144 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with various new features and improvements. Here’s what to expect!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/firefox-144-to-strengthen-the-encryption-of-logins-in-the-firefox-password-manager

📰 This 17MB Linux distro runs on just about any PC

The surprising power of a 17MB Linux distribution.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/17mb-linux-distro-runs-any-pc/

📰 Key KDE developer Jonathan Riddell quits

Former head of Kubuntu and neon says adiós after 25 years Sad news for KDE: one of the core people guiding the project for the whole century so far has left the building.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/16/key_kde_dev_quits/