Late Night Linux

Great funding news for LVFS and KDE, why Europe probably needs some more home-grown distros, a conspiracy theory about Cloudflare seems unlikely, and we wonder what can be done about all the irresponsibly disclosed vulnerabilities that new tools are discovering. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.

News

LVFS Sponsorship Announcement

Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development

KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own

Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical?

‘Dirty Frag’ Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit

Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access

Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos

DirtyCBC: When Linux Kernel Decrypt-Before-MAC Turns Authenticated Encryption Into a Page-Cache Write

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Voice to text, visualising CSVs in the terminal, managing software from releases on GitHub, a mini Android tablet for your wall, and Amiga music on Linux in Discoveries. Plus Ubuntu embracing AI makes us wonder if we should just stop having the same old arguments.

Discoveries

VoxType

Tennis

tooler

SONOFF NSPanel Pro Gen2

Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator

News/discussion

The future of AI in Ubuntu

I wanted to reply with some clarifications

The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next?

Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

Upcoming Blender Development Fund and AI Policies

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There’s a new Ubuntu LTS release and quite a lot is new, Canonical’s infrastructure was taken down and we disagree about whether it could have been avoided, two recent examples of irresponsible vulnerability disclosure, and the Steam controller finally arrives with a hefty price tag.

Plugs

Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late

SeaGL 2026 Call for Presentations

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News

Canonical releases Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: What’s New Since Ubuntu 24.04?

An update on rust-coreutils

Pro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedown

The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed

Carrot disclosure: Forgejo and follow-up

Steam Controller: The Ars Technica review

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Whether you can trust small new distros, Amazon is officially abandoning Android on its new TV sticks in favour of their new Linux-based OS, and we have another pointless argument about AI bollocks.

News/discussion

Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore

Eternal November — this new influx of users may be better than the last one

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The French government makes a start on moving to the Linux Desktop, the EU has a terrible but open source age verification app, some clarity on one of the exciting office suite dramas, the media swallows Anthropic’s nonsense about their new magically powerful model, a quick KDE Korner, and more.

News

France’s digital agency dumping Windows desktops for Linux

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it

Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process

You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away

AGPLv3§7¶4 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

On Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing

UK gov’s Mythos AI tests help separate cybersecurity threat from hype

Mythos and Cybersecurity

A few notes about the massive hype surrounding Claude Mythos

Breathless parroting of Anthropic’s bullshit from the graun

NSA using Anthropic’s Mythos despite blacklist

KDE Korner

KDE at 30

Tighter KDE Connect Integration

KDE Gear 26.04

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Raspberry Pi prices have gone up yet again, more drama in the exciting world of open source office suites, Red Hat looks to be going all in on “AI”, Cloudflare vibe codes a WordPress rip off, and GIMP shares some interesting download numbers.

News/discussion

A new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75, and more memory-driven price increases

Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash

TDF ejects its core developers

Let’s put an end to the speculation

Memo: Red Hat Global Engineering plans to lean in to AI

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem – you have bigger problems

Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

Interesting GIMP numbers

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Steam stats suggest that gaming on Linux is more popular than ever, Wine improvements might entice even more gamers, Ubuntu might break things when it tightens up GRUB security and makes 6GB of RAM the minimum requirement for the desktop edition, and Ubuntu MATE is looking for new maintainers.

News

LAS 2026 Call for proposals extended till the 10th April

Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive

Ubuntu 26.10 could drop btrfs, ZFS and LUKS support from GRUB

Ubuntu quietly raises its minimum system requirements

Windows 11 has lower requirements

Ubuntu MATE – seeking maintainers

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Making silly URLs, visualising complex weather data, a TUI network discovery tool, and an open source version of a classic synthesizer in discoveries, plus the sad reality that it’s more or less impossible to avoid code that’s been generated by “AI” these days.

Discoveries

creepy link

Supercell Wx

whosthere

Ultramaster KR-106

AI in FOSS

systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added

New Xfce Wayland compositor is being developed with genAI

Automox Turnkey Results

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Age declaration and verification in Linux gathers pace, Google blesses us with some hoops to jump through to install the software we want on stock Android, the FSFE lost their payment provider, great new KDE Plasma and GNOME features, and more.

News

Just over a month until OggCamp!

Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late

Age verification isn’t sage verification when it’s inside operating systems

The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date

When you tell me to just not implement age declaration, do you understand you’re asking me to risk thousands of dollars in fines?

I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who’s behind the age verification bills.

meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety

450 FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us

This Week in Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Characters

Introducing GNOME 50, “Tokyo”

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Drama in the exciting world of office suites, new ThinkPads are properly repairable, hands on with the Android desktop convergence future, and more.

News/discussion

LibreOffice Online: a fresh start

LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic

LibreOffice 26.2 is here: a faster, more polished office suite that you control

Lenovo’s New T-Series ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability

Your Pixel phone can now become a full Android PC via USB-C

You will be able to install “unverified” Android apps with ADB

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