📰 Hackers claim Discord breach exposed data of 5.5 million users

Discord says they will not be negotiating with threat actors who claim to have stolen the data of 5.5 million unique users from the company's Zendesk support system instance, including government IDs and partial payment information for some people.

🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-claim-discord-breach-exposed-data-of-55-million-users/

📰 Wireshark 4.6 Open-Source Network Protocol Analyzer Released as a Major Update

Wireshark 4.6 open-source network protocol analyzer is now available to download with manjor new features and improvements. Here's what's new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/wireshark-4-6-open-source-network-protocol-analyzer-released-as-a-major-update

📰 5 Raspberry Pi projects that don’t require soldering

Discover 5 innovative Raspberry Pi projects that skip the soldering, from converting Hi-Fi speakers to streaming devices to creating an AI-art generator display.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/raspberry-pi-projects-that-dont-require-soldering/

📰 PipeWire 1.4.9 Fixes Audio Regression and Improves ALSA Recovery

PipeWire 1.4.9 multimedia framework fixes an audio regression, improves ALSA recovery, and refines SOF card handling for smoother playback.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/pipewire-1-4-9-fixes-audio-regression-and-improves-alsa-recovery/

📰 Meta will move React to Linux Foundation to address vendor dominance fears

Independent technical governance will hope to unite fractured ecosystem Meta will contribute React, React Native, and JSX (JavaScript XML) to a new React Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation, and said that "it is important that no single company or organization is overrepresented."…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/meta_react_foundation/

📰 Linux Driver Support Ready For Intel Panther Lake's NPU 5

In addition to Intel talking up their Panther Lake SoC and its Xe3 integrated graphics at their Tech Tour in Arizona last week, they also hosted sessions on additional aspects of Panther Lake like the IPU 7.5 for web cams and the new NPU 5 IP for AI acceleration. For those wondering, the Intel NPU 5 support under Linux is already largely squared away...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-5-Panther-Lake-Linux

Firefox's New Profile Manager Goes Live For Everyone Next Week - OMG! Ubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/firefoxs-new-profile-manager-goes-live-for-everyone-next-week

📰 Intel's Lunar Lake isn't as efficient as Arm, but it's getting surprisingly close

Apple's M-series chips have dominated the efficiency conversation for years, and have legitimized Arm as a computing platform in a way no other manufacturer has. Ever since the first M1 showed just how far Arm-based silicon could go in a laptop, Intel's CPUs have been playing catch-up. With Lunar Lake, Intel finally seems to be closing that gap... though not entirely.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/intel-lunar-lake-isnt-efficient-arm-close/

Meta Unveils OpenZL: A New Open Source Data Compression Framework
https://linuxiac.com/meta-unveils-openzl-a-new-open-source-data-compression-framework/

📰 Proton 10.0-3 release candidate live for testing better Windows game compatibility on Linux / Steam Deck

Valve have released a new release candidate build for the Windows compatibility layer Proton, with Proton 10.0-3 available for users to test..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/proton-10-0-3-release-candidate-live-for-testing-better-windows-game-compatibility-on-linux-steam-deck/

📰 Microsoft Hyper-V Support Further Improved With Linux 6.18

Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization support within the Linux kernel continues to be steadily enhanced and it's inched along further for Linux 6.18...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-Hyper-V

📰 NVIDIA Posts Latest Linux Driver Patches For Open-Source vGPU Support

Just over one year ago NVIDIA posted open-source Linux GPU driver code for GPU virtualization "vGPU" support. That NVIDIA vGPU driver work was recently revised while still posted under a request for comments (RFC) flag...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-vGPU-RFC-v2

📰 Pacsea Is a New TUI That Makes Arch Package Browsing Easier

Pacsea is a new Rust-written terminal TUI for Arch Linux that unifies official and AUR package searches into a single interface.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/pacsea-is-a-new-tui-that-makes-arch-package-browsing-easier/

📰 Zero-day in file-sharing software leads to RCE, and attacks are ongoing

Usually we’d say patch up… not this time Security research firm Huntress is warning all users of Gladinet's CentreStack and Triofox file-sharing tools to urgently apply an available mitigation, as a zero-day is being actively exploited and there's no patch available.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/zeroday_in_filesharing_software_leads/

📰 5 Linux distros that are perfect for running in a VM

Supercharge your VM workloads with these neat distros.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distros-that-are-perfect-for-running-in-a-vm/

📰 Linux Now Disabling TPM Bus Encryption By Default For Performance Reasons

Introduced last year in Linux 6.10 was TPM bus encryption and integration protection for Trusted Platform Module 2 (TPM2) handling. The intent was on better TPM security after a prior security demonstration showed TPM key recovery from Microsoft Windows BitLocker as well as TPM sniffing attacks. Shortly after being merged it was limited to just an x86_64 default where it had been tested the most at the time.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Default-Disable-TPM2-HMAC

📰 Coreboot 25.09 Released With 19 More Motherboards Supported, Better amdfwtool For Turin

Coreboot 25.09 was released this evening as the latest feature update to this open-source solution common to Google Chromebooks and other select motherboards/systems as an alternative to proprietary BIOS / system firmware...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-25.09-Released

📰 Phosh 0.50 Released, GNOME App Aims To Help You Learn Assembly

For going along with the recent release of the GNOME 49 desktop, Phosh 0.50 has been released for this Wayland compositor focused on mobile devices...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Phosh-0.50-Released

📰 Intel XPU Manager Deprecates Data Center GPU Max Series & GPU Flex Series

Last week during the Intel Tech Tour in Arizona, the Intel XPU Manager 1.3.3 software was released. Intel XPU Manager is a management and monitoring tool focused on Intel data center GPUs for simplifying administration, reliability, and maximizing utilization. Somewhat surprisingly, the Intel XPU Manager now deprecated the Data Center GPU Max Series as well as the Data Center GPU Flex Series...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-XPU-Manager-1.3.3

📰 CachyOS is the best Arch-based Linux distro out there

Arch Linux is one of the more popular Linux distros already, but CachyOS takes that base and makes it even better and more accessible.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/cachyos-best-arch-based-linux-distro/

📰 KDE Frameworks 6.19 Is Out, Here’s What’s New

KDE Frameworks 6.19 fixes 7z crashes, refines Breeze Icons, and delivers better performance across core libraries.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kde-frameworks-6-19-released/