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Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization
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XDA ☛ Someone used Claude Code to reverse-engineer the Apple AirPods 3, and now head-tracking works on Linux
Getting Linux to play nicely with Apple hardware has been notoriously difficult, but the open-source community hasn't given up. In fact, the community is actively developing ways to get Linux to work on MacBooks.
The Apple AirPods have been less painful, as they work as standard Bluetooth headphones on Linux. However, the cool head-tracking tech didn't make it over. Now, someone has used Claude Code to figure out how it works, and you can get it working on Linux right now.
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Hackaday ☛ This Week In Security: More Linux Bugs, Biggest Crypto Theft Ever, Prusa Printers, Residential Proxies
Linux kernel bugs which can be triggered remotely, without any login, are rare. Most kernel vulnerabilities need an attacker to already be running code on the machine. CVE-2026-98432 is one of those: a use-after-free in the IPv4 TCP handshake code, rated CVSS 9.8, which Atlas has written up in detail. It goes all the way back to Linux 4.4.
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Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)
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Akseli Lahtinen ☛ Desktop icon behavior survey results
Note that this data does not decide anything, but it works as a guidance for us.
There's a lot of writing for me to read about the icons, so I will go through that over time. But thank you for these responses, as it will help us KDE folk figure out how to fix the desktop icon situation, as it's still bit flakey.
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