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Vivaldi 8.0 is out with a dramatic new look and UI layouts

A bold new look arrives in Vivaldi 8.0, the latest update to the Chromium-based web browser. Vivaldi 8.0 sees the browser’s main UI elements (the bits that make a browser looks like a browser, so tabs, toolbars, panels, and content) drop their boundaries to form a continuous look. Hence the named Unified. “Unified is not a visual refresh. It is a rethinking of how the Vivaldi interface works as a system” the company says in its press release (a suspiciously AI-sounding parallelism that falls apart when your brain moves past ‘that sounds impressive’ since er, it is actually a visual […]

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[$] BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond

José Marchesi and the GCC-BPF developers opened the BPF track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management, and BPF Summit with a 90-minute summary of what has changed for GCC's BPF support in the past year. This kind of session has become something of a tradition. There were similar updates in 2025 and 2024. This time around, GCC seems to be closing in on feature parity with the LLVM toolchain — as the slides detail.

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OpenBSD 7.9 released

The OpenBSD 7.9 release is out, right on schedule. There is the usual long list of new features, including improved architecture support, CPU scheduling on heterogeneous systems, the ability to hibernate a suspended system after a configurable delay, socket splicing, a __pledge_open() system call giving special access to the C library, and much more. See the announcement and the full changelog for details.

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[$] Support for private memory nodes

Gregory Price started his session in the memory-management track of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit by saying that, in current kernels, if a NUMA node has memory, the assumption is that anybody can make use of it. He is trying to implement the opposite policy — to make some memory off-limits for all processes except those designed specifically to use it. The session was used to present his goals and to discuss how they might be implemented.

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Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, and libsndfile), Debian (bind9, evince, firefox-esr, openjpeg2, pdns, and rsync), Fedora (erlang-cowlib, evince, expat, firefox, kernel, mingw-expat, mysql8.0, mysql8.4, nss, opencryptoki, pgadmin4, proftpd, python-django5, python-django6, python-dotenv, rsync, rust-nu, rustup, and strongswan), Oracle (nginx, nginx:1.24, ruby, ruby:3.3, and squid), Slackware (bind and rsync), SUSE (buildah, distribution, distribution-registry, docker, firefox-esr, helm, libpainter0, libsdb2_4_2, postgresql-jdbc, runc, and vim), and Ubuntu (gnutls28, gst-plugins-good1.0, jq, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, openvpn, rsync, and unbound).

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Morrolinux: Protecting Your Data and Reputation

In today’s digital era, and even more with the rise of AI, the protection of your data and reputation has never been more crucial. As we navigate the vast landscape of information technology, understanding the foundational principles of IT security ... Read more The post Morrolinux: Protecting Your Data and Reputation appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).