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KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing

Some of the highlights of KDE Plasma 6.7 include per-screen virtual desktops, Wayland session restore, a global push-to-talk feature, a dedicated setup UI for configuring shared printers, a “multi-GPU swapchain” feature for Vulkan support, and a full-featured print queue viewer app.

Fragnesia Is Yet Another Local Privilege Escalation Flaw in Linux Kernel

Fragnesia (CVE-2026-46300) is a bug in the IPsec XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem, part of the Dirty Frag vulnerability class. It’s called Fragnesia because the skb “forgets” that a frag is shared during coalescing. The good news this time is that the mitigations for Dirty Frag also apply to Fragnesia.

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Coming three weeks after PipeWire 1.6.4, the PipeWire 1.6.5 release is here to add a whole bunch of extra security checks and hardening fixes to the pipewire-pulse server, improve renegotiation in audioconvert when the graph rate changes and the resampler is disabled, and fix a crash in ALSA when logging.

KDE Receives Over €1M from Sovereign Tech Fund for Software Development

The Sovereign Tech Agency is well known for funding open source projects through its Sovereign Tech Fund program, and it provided over €24.6 million EUR in funding to support more than 60 open source projects globally, including big names like Python Software Foundation, FreeBSD, Eclipse Foundation, OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF), and Drupal.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 14, 2026

Bottle feeding a young calf

Updated This Past Day

  1. IBM's Kyndryl Down Almost 20% in 5 Days, IBM Down 35% in About 6 Months, Further 'Staff Reductions' at Red Hat (Problems Paying Salaries!)
    Will this year's festivities be Krishna's last?
  2. More Mass Layoffs at Microsoft, Only Weeks After the "Buyout" Nonsense (Glorified Severance to Highest-Paid American Staff)
    Next up it is LinkedIn

    New

  3. Links 13/05/2026: Sudan War Enters Fourth Year and Strait of Hormuz Leaves Safe Passage a Gamble
    Links for the day
  4. Gemini Links 13/05/2026: Useless Protests and Foofaraw on Geminispace
    Links for the day
  5. Mainstream Media: Microsoft Says No Layoffs. Microsoft: OK, There Are Layoffs.
    Where is Waggener Edstrom/Frank Shaw now?
  6. IBM is in a Freefall, When Will IBM's CEO Fall on His Sword?
    Since he controls the Board, is anyone in a position to fire him?
  7. At GitLab, "AI" is "All India"
    It says "as much as 30%," but they also hire and it's clear what demography is targeted
  8. Verified Accounts of Microsoft Offering 'Retirement' (Layoffs) to People in Their 40s, Over Two Decades Earlier Than Retirement Age
    It's not even about performance, it's about age (or "cost" as well as location; they cheapen the labour)
  9. Links 13/05/2026: Slop Turns Into 2008-Style Subprime Bubble, Mass Layoffs at Starbucks
    Links for the day
  10. They Don't Like the Layoffs, So They Are Rebranding Them
    Layoffs are layoffs
  11. IBM Downgraded as the Shares Sink to New Lows
    The current strategy of IBM is financial engineering, wage reductions, and mass layoffs that the corporate media refuses to even write about
  12. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  13. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 12, 2026
    IRC logs for Tuesday, May 12, 2026
  14. Gemini Links 13/05/2026: TUIs and Internet Radio
    Links for the day
  15. How the European Patent Office Became a Crime and Corruption Hub, One of Europe's Biggest
    incomplete outline
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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