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Arch Linux ISO Release for October 2026 Ships with the ArchInstall 4.5 Installer

Powered by Linux kernel 7.2.7, the Arch Linux 2026.10.01 ISO snapshot ships as a refreshed installation image that incorporates all the security patches, bug fixes, and updated packages that have been pushed to the Arch Linux software repositories throughout September 2026.

OpenMandriva Lx 26.09 “ROME” Released with KDE Plasma 6.7 and Linux Kernel 7.2

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.2 kernel series, OpenMandriva Lx 26.09 ROME features the latest KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment with the KDE Gear 26.08.1 and KDE Frameworks 6.29 software suites, as well as GNOME 50.3, Xfce 4.20, LXQt 2.4, MATE 1.28, Spectrwm, Hyprland 0.56.2, COSMIC 1.7, Sway 1.12, and others.

Systemd-Free Nitrux 7.0 Released with Linux Kernel 7.2 and Hyprland 0.55.4

Coming more than four months after Nitrux 6.1, the Nitrux 7.0 release is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.2 kernel series with CachyOS patches, namely Linux 7.2.6, and uses the Hyprland 0.55.4 Wayland compositor with the Lüv 0.8.9 icon theme, KDE Frameworks 6.26 software suite, and MauiKit 4.0.4.

Mozilla Thunderbird 157 Email Client Released with New Enterprise Policies

Mozilla Thunderbird 157 introduces two new enterprise policies, namely DisableChat and DisableFileLink, to disable the Thunderbird Chat functionality and the Thunderbird FileLink functionality, respectively, makes the IMAP/POP manual configuration port field optional, and updates the built-in Thundermail add-on to version 2.0.16.

Audacity 4.0.1 Audio Editor Restores Keyboard Shortcuts from Audacity 3

Audacity 4.0.1 adds support for exporting each track or each labelled region to its own file, restores the missing keyboard shortcuts from the Audacity 3 series, adds clickable carousel dots on the Welcome screen, adds a Liquid Glass app icon on macOS, and adds an “Open in file manager” option to the Cloud projects tab.

Archinstall 4.5 Arch Linux Installer Adds AArch64 Support for GRUB and Limine

Coming three months after Archinstall 4.4, the Archinstall 4.5 release introduces AArch64 support for GRUB and Limine EFI installations, AArch64 root partition type GUID support, RT kernel variants from upstream, optdepends support for the linux-firmware package, and Norwegian, Serbian, and Vietnamese translations.

Debian-Based and systemd-Free antiX Linux 26.1 Released with Updated Kernels

Still based on the Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series, antiX Linux 26.1 ships with updated packages from the upstream Debian Stable repositories and updated kernels across all supported architectures, namely the customised Linux 5.10.256 LTS kernel for the core edition and the Linux 6.6.139 LTS kernel for the 64-bit full edition.

OpenSSL 4.0.3 Is Out as Another Security Patch Release, Update Now

Coming a month after OpenSSL 4.0.2, the OpenSSL 4.0.3 release is here to address several important security vulnerabilities, including a use-after-free in X.509 extension cache under concurrent use (CVE-2026-84783), and a potential CPU DoS via O(n^2) fragment reassembly in QUIC (CVE-2026-42772).

You Can Now Upgrade Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Here’s How

To ensure a safe upgrade process for existing Ubuntu LTS users, Canonical delayed the upgrade path by about three weeks, but now it’s officially open, allowing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and enjoy its new features and improvements.

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What Has Happened to Singers Who Can Play Several Musical Instruments?

“Smart” phone is not a “Musical Instrument”

Seven Years Since COVID-19

Where did time go?

When People Get Back to Art

Notorious for not paying anything

Football and the UK’s High Court

Is this still about sports?

If ManCity is Guilty, the Establishment Needs to Similarly Crack Down on the Sham ‘Hey Hi’ ‘Industry’

OK, good start?

Anderon as IBM Layoffs in Disguise (October 1st, 2026)

It’s coming

When Planes Go Missing or the “Enemy is Within”

Can one trust air crews?

Corruption in Europe

Yes, in Europe

Addiction on the Net

his coming February marks 5 years since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. It (same month) also marks the time I quit all social control media ‘cold turkey’.

Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) the Much Bigger Culprit

OK only for Qatar?

LinuxGizmos.com

A733 development board with LPDDR5, PCIe storage and RISC-V coprocessor

Shenzhen Graperain Technology has featured an Allwinner A733 development platform with a gold-finger system-on-module and carrier board. It provides an octa-core Arm processor, 3-TOPS NPU, LPDDR5 memory, M.2 storage, GbE and multiple display and camera interfaces.

ESP32-S3 E Ink board with 800×480 display, mic array and IMU

Makerfabs has added a 7.5-inch model to its MaTouch E Ink family, pairing an 800 × 480 four-color electrophoretic display with an ESP32-S3 controller, four-microphone array, six-axis IMU, microSD storage and optional camera. The board is intended for applications including information displays, voice-controlled interfaces and low-power dashboards.

Dual 2.5GbE and DDR5-6400 across four Wildcat Lake NUC platforms

ASRock Industrial has announced four compact platforms based on Intel Core Series 3 “Wildcat Lake-U” processors. The lineup includes the NUC BOX-320 and NUC BOX-304 mini PCs, alongside the NUC-320 and NUC-304 motherboards, with up to 40 TOPS of AI performance, DDR5 memory, dual 2.5GbE networking, and multi-display support for embedded applications.

Forlinx 20-TOPS M.2 AI accelerator supports PCIe cascading for local LLM inference

Forlinx Embedded has listed an M.2 AI accelerator card based on Rockchip’s RK1820 and RK1828 processors, providing 20 TOPS of INT8 computing performance and up to 5GB of integrated DRAM. The module uses an M.2 2280 interface and is designed to handle local AI inference, including large language models, vision-language models, and computer vision workloads on embedded Linux and Android systems.

Internet Society

Why Internet Infrastructure Decisions Rarely Stay Localized

The open Internet is made up of countless interconnected networks. At its best, it is resilient enough to withstand disruptions. But even narrow policy and commercial choices can have ripple effects that shape what people can access, how information moves, and who gets to participate online.

A Safer Internet Starts with Taking Action: Introducing the Online Trust and Safety Hub

How can we best help people have a safe and secure experience online? How can we help them protect themselves from scams? Detect false information? Protect their data and systems?

Tor Project blog

New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 16.0a13

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

New Release: Tails 7.14

The Persistent Storage on the USB stick will be lost if you install instead of upgrading.

New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.24

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

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