schestowitz.com

Nigel Farage’s Racist Company (Disguised as Political Party) That’s Secretly Funded by American Oligarchs Spent $49,300 to Not Go Bankrupt

Will the same American oligarchs step in the foot the bill? Will 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square pocket American oligarchs’ illegal money?

AEK Athens Tomorrow

Tomorrow night

The Potential Reform UK Party Limited Insolvency (CR-2026-007405) Illuminates the Sordid State of British Media

A decision was consciously made not to mention this

Unrest in France

France has a history of social revolution

Friday

A few more days until Friday

Swatting is Illegal, Even When Attempted From Another Continent

Don’t shoot the messenger

A Glance at Insolvency Petition Against Nigel Farage Reveals Conflict of Interest

An overlooked problem

Firefox, Librewolf, and More

When sites fail to serve

Ubuntu Buzz !

BleachBit 6.0.6 Improves Linux Cleaning and Startup Performance

Linux Kernel Drops Legacy EDAC Drivers to Curb AI Patch Spam

Linux Kernel 7.3 Debuts with Better Hardware Support and Security

Linux Kernel 7.3 Debuts With Zen 6 Support and Speedier I/O

How to Install and Use Hirudo Security Scanner on Ubuntu

Modernizing Your Ubuntu Command Line: Essential CLI Upgrades

Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.1 Brings Volla Tablet Support and Morph Updates

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 Brings New Hardware Support & Important Security Fix

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Audacious 4.6.2 Open-Source Media Player Released with Wayland Improvements

Coming more than four months after Audacious 4.6.1, which only added support for XDG cache dir to store temporary files, a Georgian translation, and extended support for embedded lyrics, the Audacious 4.6.2 release adds support for SID files and parse more metadata and support for MPRIS OpenUri method.

Gentoo-Based MocaccinoOS 26.10 Released with COSMIC 1.10 and KDE Plasma 6.7.5

MocaccinoOS is a minimalist Linux distro that uses a custom-built package manager called Luet, which acts as a frontend for container-based software. MocaccinoOS aims to make Gentoo easy to use, while offering support for the most important cloud technologies and native vanilla Linux kernels.

MKVToolNix 103 “The Darkness” MKV Manipulation Tool Brings New Features

MKVToolNix 103 comes about two months after MKVToolNix 101, which only updated a couple of dependencies, and one month after MKVToolNix 102, which only fixed a security issue. MKVToolNix 103 is a more hefty update introducing support for setting stereo mode from the frame packing arrangement SEI message in the video stream for AVC/H.264 and HEVC/H.265.

GNU Linux-Libre 7.3 Kernel Released for Those Seeking 100% Freedom for Their PCs

Based on the recently released Linux 7.3 kernel series, the GNU Linux-libre 7.3 kernel is here to clean up blob names in new drivers for the Tyr Mali GPU, Morse Micro mm81x wifi, NXP wifi, and Realtek PHY, as well as new blob names in preexisting drivers, including nova-core, amdgpu, adreno, tegra, iris video decoder, rtw89, and mt76 wifi.

BleachBit 6.0.6 System Cleaner Adds Support for Ubuntu 26.10, openSUSE Leap 16.1

BleachBit 6.0.6 introduces native package support for Ubuntu 26.10 and openSUSE Leap 16.1 distributions, new cleaners for the Helium web browser and Docker Desktop, including Docker’s AI assistant, and support for cleaning more crash reports, GPU caches, and network state files in web browsers and VS Code-based editors.

Linux Kernel 7.3 Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Highlights of Linux 7.3 include a new sandboxing mechanism based on a pseudo-file system, Rust support for PowerPC systems, userfaultfd support for tracking the working set of virtual machine guest memory, SMB server support for Apple Time Machine, and full support for cgroup sub-schedulers.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 18th, 2026

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GNOME 51.1 Improves Drag and Drop Between Wayland and Xwayland Clients

GNOME 51.1 improves web login and banner layout, adds support for gnome-autoar for extracting extensions, improves mount notifications, improves the clock position on the lock screen, fixes Quick Settings preventing direct scanout, improves support for legacy authentication services messages, and fixes applying color filters when using full grayscale.

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Fanless Core Ultra industrial PC gains external EMC protection

Cincoze’s DX-1300 is a compact, fanless industrial computer based on Intel Core Ultra 200S processors, supporting up to 96GB of DDR5 memory and modular I/O expansion. Part of the company’s rugged DX series, the system is also compatible with the newly announced PPM-I360 external power protection module, designed to reduce electrical interference in industrial environments.

Server-class 46-core RISC-V CPU runs mainstream Linux

SpacemiT’s V100 is a server-class RISC-V processor developed with the XiangShan team, featuring 46 CPU cores, DDR5-4800 memory support, and PCIe 5.0 connectivity. Supporting up to 92 cores in dual-socket configurations, the chip is claimed to be the first to fully comply with the RISC-V Server Specification, enabling compatibility with mainstream Linux distributions.

Adafruit Floppsy Rev D Revives Floppy Disk Archiving with RP2350

Adafruit has previewed Floppsy Rev D, an RP2350-based floppy disk archiver and emulator designed to preserve and access legacy computer storage media. The standalone device supports floppy drives used with PCs and Apple Disk II systems, offering disk imaging, flux-level data capture, and emulation capabilities alongside a touchscreen interface and removable storage.

LILYGO T5 e-Paper Basic Adopts 4.7-Inch Display for Embedded Projects

LILYGO’s latest e-paper development board pairs an ESP32-S3 with a 4.7-inch display offering 960 × 540 resolution and 16-level grayscale. The board also includes battery monitoring, removable storage, and Wi-Fi and BLE connectivity for portable information displays and wireless embedded projects.