📰 Google’s Brotli 1.2 Released After Two Years with Faster Compression

Brotli 1.2 arrives after two years, improving speed, binary size, and Python security for Google’s open-source compression library.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/googles-brotli-1-2-released-after-two-years-with-faster-compression/

OpenVPN Vulnerability Exposes Linux, MacOS Systems To Script Injection Attacks
https://cybersecuritynews.com/openvpn-vulnerability-exposes-systems/

Three More X.Org Server & XWayland Security Vulnerabilities Made Public - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-3-Vuln-Oct-2025

📰 SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 Announced: "Enterprise Linux That Integrates Agentic AI"

SUSE today formally announced SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16. Given we are in the year 2025, SUSE is heavy on hyping up AI capabilities with SLES 16...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/SUSE-SLES-16-Released

📰 Bolt Graphics unveils Zeus GPU built on RISC-V and path tracing tech

Onboard cores use a Linux stack based on Ubuntu Ubuntu Summit One of the more unexpected talks at last week's Ubuntu Summit 25.10 in London was by Antonio Salvemini of Bolt Graphics, who introduced the company's forthcoming range of Zeus graphics accelerator hardware. These are very unlike any conventional GPUs – or indeed anything else.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/bolt_graphics_zeus_gpu/

📰 AMD XDNA Linux Driver Preps For New Ryzen AI "NPU3A" Revision

Yesterday the GitHub-hosted AMD XDNA driver code saw a new tagged release as version 202610.2.21.17. That itself wasn't too interesting but while diving into there is new yet-to-be-merged code for a new "NPU3A" revision to their NPU3 IP in Ryzen AI...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-AI-XDNA-NPU3A

Ubuntu’s Kernel Vulnerability Let Attackers Escalate Privileges and Gain Root Access
https://cybersecuritynews.com/ubuntus-kernel-vulnerability/

10 npm Packages Caught Stealing Developer Credentials on Windows, macOS, and Linux
https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/10-npm-packages-caught-stealing.html

TrueNAS 25.10 Open-Source NAS Released with NVMe-oF, ZFS Enhancements
https://linuxiac.com/truenas-25-10-open-source-nas-released-with-nvme-of-zfs-enhancements/

📰 AMD On Track With openSIL For Zen 6 Platforms, openSIL FAS 1.0 Published

In addition to talking up the openSFI firmware collaboration between AMD and Intel at the OCP Global Summit 2025, AMD engineer Raj Kapoor provided a status update on the company's much anticipated openSIL effort for working to ultimately replace AGESA with a new open-source CPU silicon initialization codebase...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-openSIL-October-2025

LMDE 7 vs Linux Mint 22.2 - Same Desktop, Totally Different BEASTS! https://youtu.be/DvTzyWMO-zY

📰 Minecraft Java modding is about to get a lot easier and more interesting

Mojang announced a big change is coming to Minecraft: Java Edition, one that could make it a whole lot easier to make mods and perhaps make them more exciting..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/minecraft-java-modding-is-about-to-get-a-lot-easier-and-more-interesting/

Inside Canonical's plan to make Ubuntu 26.04 the Linux desktop that finally goes mainstream | ZDNET
https://www.zdnet.com/article/inside-canonicals-plan-to-make-ubuntu-26-04-the-linux-desktop-that-finally-goes-mainstream/

Ubuntu 25.04 Users Can Now Upgrade to Ubuntu 25.10, Here's How
https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-25-04-users-can-now-upgrade-to-ubuntu-25-10-heres-how

📰 LVFS + Fwupd Serve Up More Than 135 Million Firmware Downloads For Linux Users

The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) that goes hand-in-hand with the Fwupd open-source firmware updating utility celebrated the milestone on Wednesday of crossing 135 million firmware updates...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LVFS-Fwupd-135-Million-Download

📰 Here's How You Can Customize Linux Desktop for Halloween [Dot Files Included]

Forget pumpkin carving. This year, I carved out a haunted Hyprland setup straight from the underworld of Arch Linux 👻.

🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/hyprland-halloween-customization/

📰 Qt Creator 18 Open-Source IDE Released with Experimental Container Support

Qt Creator 18 open-source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is now available for download with various improvements. Here’s what’s new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/qt-creator-18-open-source-ide-released-with-experimental-container-support

📰 TypeScript Overtakes Python to Become GitHub’s #1 Programming Language in 2025

TypeScript now ranks #1 on GitHub, while Python and JavaScript continue to grow strongly across AI and web projects.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/typenoscript-is-github-top-programming-language-for-2025/

📰 Docker Compose vulnerability opens door to host-level writes – patch pronto

Windows Desktop installer also fixed after DLL hijack flaw rated 8.8 severity Docker Compose users are being strongly urged to upgrade their versions of the orchestration tool after a researcher uncovered a flaw that could allow attackers to stage path traversal attacks.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/10/30/docker_compose_desktop_flaws/

📰 KDE tidies up Plasma 6.5 with 60-odd fixes and smoother setup for OEMs

Big release with a lot of new features – and a few inevitable glitches The KDE Plasma 6.5 graphical shell arrived last week for Unix-like operating systems, and now 6.5.1 is here for the more cautious. The team's squashed over 60 bugs – and they're by no means all new.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/10/30/kde_65_651/

📰 Ubuntu getting optimisations for modern processors with architecture variants

Canonical announced they're working on architecture variants of Ubuntu, to hopefully result in better optimisation and performance on modern processors..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/ubuntu-getting-optimisations-for-modern-processors-with-architecture-variants/