Ubuntu 26.10 is changing what your machine kills when memory runs out. Applications are meant to go first, and the services that hold the session together now sit behind them. Thirty-nine of those services move to an OOM score of -500, with
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Google’s September 2026 Pixel Update Bulletin contains patches beyond what’s in that month’s regular Android Security Bulletin. According to GrapheneOS, some of those extra patches touch standard Android platform code, the kind that runs on non-Pixel devices, not just Pixel-branded hardware. None
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Yeah, Valve has not bothered putting out a proper announcement for this. I got to know about this thanks to Liam Squires-Hand, who covered it briefly yesterday. The gaming giant has open-sourced the Android compatibility layer it built for the recently launched
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Mozilla and Mistral have announced a partnership that brings the Mistral Small 4 model to Firefox Smart Window, the browser’s AI-powered window that lets users chat their way through a web browsing session. Both companies portray this as pushback against a browser
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In April this year, we saw Andy Nguyen turning the PS5 into a Linux-powered gaming PC that ran Steam games and emulators, making good use of the hardware on-board. Sadly, he has now announced that he is walking away from the PS5
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GNOME is still the initial desktop environment for most people who step into the world of Linux, trying their first distribution. I say that because the mainstream picks like Ubuntu and Fedora Workstation both ship it by default, bringing new users directly
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Ubuntu has managed to do away with GNU Core Utilities in its default stack. The last three holdouts, cp, mv and rm, have moved to uutils’ coreutils; the Rust reimplementation Canonical has been feeding into the distro since 2025. They had been
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Rune has left behind its proprietary old self for a new open source identity under the GPLv3, letting you clone, read, or build off it from GitHub. The relicensing came via a string of moves, one of which was the commit that
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Most of us carry a phone every day, but very few of us could say what’s actually going on inside one. That gap is exactly what CircuitMess is trying to fill or should I say, has been trying to fill. The Croatian
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Mirko Brombin, the creator of Bottles, has got Microsoft 365 running on Linux. His posts on X showcase an installation that completes on a Windows 10 or 11 Wine prefix, signs in with his existing license, and launches at least one editor.
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