First up in the news: Mint 23 is named, Ubuntu 26.04 coming up and its already causing controversy, Firefox gets more features, big tech making some changes, and the governments of the world are meddling, in good and bad ways… and we welcome another host!

In security and privacy: Flatpak getting more secure allegedly

The code name for Mint 23 is “Alfa”

26.04 Beta

Does Ubuntu Now Require More RAM Than Windows 11?

26.10 could drop btfrs zfs and luks

Firefox Announces Built-in VPN and Other New Features Including New Mascot

Google Now Lets You Change Your Gmail address

Samsung’s Messages App Is Shutting Down

Microsoft Mysteriously Freezes Accounts for VeraCrypt, WireGuard, Windscribe

Why did the FCC ban foreign-made consumer routers?

NHS staff resist using Palantir software

France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins

Student Loans Fiasco, and its IT underpins

LibreOffice Drama: TDF Removes Collabora Developers in One Sweep

Flatpak 1.16.4 Brings Important Security Fixes

CPUID website hacked: users report HWMonitor and CPU-Z delivering malware

Cloudflare aims to dethrone WordPress with EmDash, its new plugin-secure CMS

New & Update Flatpaks – Nora

26.04 – Another view