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As part of AMD's ongoing effort for getting HDMI 2.1 support squared away in their upstream AMDGPU kernel graphics driver, sent out today were the latest patches around passive variable refresh rate "Passive VRR" for HDMI connections...
Audacity 3.7.9 open-source digital audio editor and recording software is now available for download with support for the latest FFmpeg 9 multimedia framework and various bug fixes.
Linux From Scratch 13.1 is now available with GCC 16.2, Binutils 2.47, Glibc 2.44, Linux 7.1.8, and 46 updated or added packages.
by Malana VanTyler AI security means hardening everything around the model, not just the model itself. AI workloads have moved out of the research sandbox and into production, which means they now carry the same operational weight as any other critical service. If you want to understand what is AI security in practical terms, start here. It's not a separate discipline bolted onto your existing stack. It's an extension of it. The systems around a model matter as much as the model itself, and for teams running Linux and open-source infrastructure, that means applying familiar discipline to some new risks. AI Security Is Becoming Part of the Linux Infrastructure Treat AI workloads like production infrastructure, not side projects. A model doesn't run in isolation. It depends on an operating system, a container runtime, storage, APIs, identity systems, and a pile of dependencies. If any of those layers are weak, prompt filtering or output moderation won’t be enough. Security teams that onl
Audacity 3.7.9 is out with FFmpeg 9 support, Windows ASIO improvements, and important fixes for project corruption and data loss.
In 2024 the Python 3.13 release added an experimental just-in-time (JIT) compiler to optimize the way that CPython executes Python code. Since then, work has proceeded on the JIT, albeit perhaps less formally than some might like. In June, Python's steering council (SC) put out an announcement that no new development on the JIT land (with the exception of bug and security fixes) in Python's main branch, until it accepts a Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) that would make the case for the JIT as a supported part of CPython. That has led to the creation of PEP 836 ("JIT Go Brrr: The Path to a Supported JIT Compiler for CPython"), which is currently under discussion. As it stands, it seems likely that work on JIT will continue, but when that will happen is less certain.
Version 155 of the Firefox web browser has been released. Notable changes include a count in the address bar of how many ad trackers Firefox has blocked, container reordering, and ensuring that mailto: links are only opened by explicit user actions. There is also a change of the domain used for "captive portals" (such as the ones used to sign into hotel WiFI): Firefox now uses "firefox-portal-detection.com" instead of "detectportal.firefox.com", which may require a change in network allow lists. The release also includes a number of changes that may impact web developers, as well as a number of bug fixes and security fixes.
Apart from being faster, Firefox 155 is also the only non-Chromium browser that supports uBlock Origin, as Google removed it entirely yesterday.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gzip, iperf3, libxml2, mingw-sqlite, mysql:8.4, nginx:1.26, nodejs:24, php, and tar), Debian (expat and libdbd-csv-perl), Fedora (apache-ivy, bind, bluez, bubblewrap, curl, emacs, epiphany, expat, freerdp, gdk-pixbuf2, GitPython, hcloud, kbd, kernel, lego, libopenmpt, mqttcli, nebula, opkssh, python-mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin, python-pip, rpki-client, rubygem-mechanize, srt, and subfinder), Mageia (c-ares, clamav, expat, mingq-expat, firefox, nspr, nss, flatpak, hplip, jbig2dec, nodejs, openssl, perl-Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication, perl-Date-Manip, perl-HTML-FormHandler, perl-HTTP-Date, perl-Mojolicious, perl-Plack, postgresql15, postgresql18, python-hpack, redis, roundcubemail, thunderbird, varnish, and vim), Oracle (golang and libxml2), Red Hat (bind, bind9.18, dracut, glib2, golang, gzip, kernel, kernel-rt, openssl, osbuild-composer, tar, and unbound), SUSE (7zip, busybox, bzip2, c-ares, chromedriver, chromium, cpio, cur
Mozilla has added native ad blocking to Firefox on iOS, letting users block many ads and trackers without installing an extension.
If you are into RGB lighting, you can even find NVMe external enclosures these days with RGB LEDs like the ASUS ROG Strix Arion. Now thanks to reverse engineering there is a Linux driver for allowing the RGB lighting controls for the ASUS ROG Strix Arion NVMe enclosure...
The tiny board had no business running my homelab experiments, but here we are!
For those looking at expanding the SATA, NVMe, and/or the USB/USB-C capabilities of your system, the Lekuo SouthBridge Max PB65MX3 is an interesting creation that I have been trying out. The Lekuo SouthBridge Max puts an AMD B650 chipset onto a low-profile PCIe add-in card to provide all of the above without any bifurcation required. Given that it's an AMD B650 chipset, it also "just works" nicely under Linux.
erynOS shares its August 2026 progress, including a rewritten Lichen TUI installer, Btrfs support, and a repository-wide rebuild covering over 1,700 recipes.
KDE Linux made major progress in August with automatic Btrfs snapshots, Dolphin file rollback, security improvements, and several important fixes.
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