Spanish PM Sánchez loses key housing crisis vote after eviction of woman, 87
The defeat raises pressure on Sánchez to call a snap election, after a series of scandals affecting his party and allies.
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Friday, 2 October 2026
Californian accused of shipping $300M worth of Nvidia chips to China without Uncle Sam’s approval
Prosecutors claim Greg Lui helped China procure advanced hardware to develop, ahem, 'super intelligence’
[$] Beyond the &
Rust has a number of kinds of smart pointers, both in the standard library and defined by users.
OpenAI's wandering AI agents earn it a California subpoena
Plus: Attorneys-general say investigators should have direct access to AI companies' records when things go wrong
AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform OS Updated With ROCm 10.0, Linux 7.2
With the AMD Ryzen AI Halo mini PC that launched this summer that focused on local AI, one of the biggest surprises for me when reviewing the unit was finding that the Linux preload wasn't just a stoc
Hvordan kunne mystisk sort kassevogn forsvinde fra militær og politiet i den vestjyske efterårsnat?
Efter en biljagt efter en sort kassebil på tre og en halv kilometer gav myndighederne op.
Linux Test Project suite stable release for September 2026
The Linux Test Project has announced its latest stable release for September 2026.
Børn hjælper miljøet: 'De voksne skal fjerne skraldet'
systemd-appd Out For Review To Centralize Tracking Of User's Apps
The newest systemd component being worked on and drafted for an initial pull request is systemd-appd as a new mechanism to centralizing the tracking of user's apps...
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (dogtag-pki, expat, freerdp, gawk, gdb, ghostscript, gvfs, kernel, kernel-rt, libpcap, openssh, pki-core, rsync, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk3), Debian (c
Imagination Talks Up Their Open-Source Vulkan Driver, Volcanic Architecture Plans
Imagination Tech was at XDC 2026 Toronto this week to talk up their ongoing work around their PowerVR Mesa Vulkan driver (and PVR upstream DRM kernel driver) with this driver continuing to improve, pl
School protests send shivers down French government's spine
A movement that started nearly two weeks ago has spread, and in France young people on the streets spells trouble, writes Hugh Schofield.
Intel Iris Open-Source Driver Now Supports Efficient 64-bit Addressing Mode
As a follow-up to the news one month ago of Intel Nova Lake P's graphics introducing a new 64-bit GPU mode, the latest driver-side enablement has now landed for Intel's Iris Gallium3D OpenGL driver fo
Redaktør om dronesag: 'Det kan godt være, at de ikke skød mod et fly, men de skød i hvert fald sig selv i foden'
Ny droneredegørelse fra Forsvaret kaldes troværdig, men forløbet har skabt usikkerhed, lyder det fra chefredaktør på forsvarsmedie.
Politiet efterforsker, om overfald på unge kvinder ved Risskov kan hænge sammen
Østjyllands Politi fraråder, at private laver en patruljegruppe efter overfald på kvinder ved Aarhus.
Fortinet sounds the alarm over actively exploited FortiMail zero-day
No login required, exploitation underway, and some admins are still waiting for patches
Blå partier vil politianmelde Sikandar Siddique
Partierne mener blandt andet, at Frie Grønnes leder har begået dokumentfalsk i forbindelse med boligsagen, som kostede ham pladsen i Borgerrepræsentationen.
Ubuntu's Next Rust Effort May See OpenPGP Replaced By Sequoia PGP
Canonical engineer Richard Scott McNew published a status update surrounding the Rust programming language efforts in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release.
Apex Compute Developing Open-Source Mesa Vulkan Driver For Their Hardware
Apex Compute is the company started in California in 2024 that aims to produce high-efficiency AI accelerators for real-time edge AI inferencing.
'Ål you can eat.' Restauranter serverer kritisk truet fisk
Efteråret er sæson for ålegilder, men vi bør slet ikke spise ål, mener havbiolog.
Coreboot 26.09 Released With Framework Laptop 12 Support, AI Review Comment Policy
Coreboot 26.09 released yesterday as the latest quarterly feature release to this open-source software for replacing proprietary BIOS and system firmware on a growing selection of devices...
KDE Nearing Decision Point On BuildStream-Based KDE Linux
KDE Linux developers have been experimenting with a build of their Linux distribution based on BuildStream to ship as an OS image rather than a set of Arch Linux packages.
Se kortet: Her er der frivillige i klassen
Skolevenner kan være en god løsning til at skabe mere ro i klassen.
YouTube-brødre idømmes bøde på 140.000 kroner
Oskar og Elias Holes selskab er blevet pålagt en bøde for flere brud på markedsføringsloven.
DTU har været udsat for et hackerangreb
Oplysninger om op mod 200.000 nuværende og tidligere medarbejdere, studerende, gæster og samarbejdspartnere kan være berørt.
Kommuner kalder på lovændring efter boom i udenlandske vielser
Sådan som reglerne er i dag, må kommunerne ikke tage betaling for selve vielsen
Flere pensionister finder vej til folkeskolen, men særligt en kommune har kastet sin kærlighed på det grå guld
Herning Kommune ser mange fordele i, at frivillige voksne deltager i undervisningen.
Opråb fra ti kommuner: Genvejsfærger skal på finansloven
Ti kommuner kommer nu sammen med Landdistrikternes Fællesråd med et fælles opråb til to ministre om at støtte deres genvejsfærger med et fast beløb på finansloven.
Vodka-tampon og skjult reklame: I dag afgøres retssag om populære YouTube-brødre
Fredag afgøres retssag om flere brud på markedsføringsloven efter youtuberes video om at smugle vodka.
Henrik er tilbage på skolebænken efter mere end 50 år
Seoul warns 'further action' if Ukraine does not apologise over prisoner-of-war row
President Lee Jae Myung also accused Kyiv of "attempting to provoke a war on the Korean Peninsula".
Thursday, 1 October 2026
Siemens Slams The Door Shut On Promising Open-Source Radioss Project
As a major disappointment to the open-source community, Siemens has decided to end -- and close-up access -- to the OpenRadioss project as the open-source version opened up by Altair Engineering under
Steam On Linux Dives Down To 3.05% For September
Steam on Linux use in March hit an all-time high of around 5.33% marketshare.
Spain and China are cosying up - to the anger of many in the EU
Amid global tumult, the two countries' alliance is not the only unlikely pairing.
AI agents hacked the hackers, stealing email addresses from security research org
Chained Zammad flaws enabled session hijacking, code execution, and root escalation in seconds
Fedora 45 Beta Performance: The Satisfyingly Boring Benchmarks
While there have been a number of Ubuntu 26.10 development benchmarks in recent weeks and more on the way, some Phoronix readers have asked about the lack of any early Fedora 45 tests given its recent
Mesa Drops Its Poorly Maintained & Rarely Used Direct3D 10 User-Mode Driver
Back in 2021 the Direct3D 10 User-Mode Driver "d3d10umd" was introduced as a new Gallium3D state tracker to work as a Windows WDDM UMD driver similar to Windows WARP while leveraging LLVMpipe for bett
Revurderet droneredegørelse var 'befriende' rig på detaljer
Ud over erkendelsen af et fejlagtigt tidsforløb hæfter DR's forsvarskorrespondent sig ved mængden af detaljer i ny droneredegørelse.
Putin warns West that Russia is ready to use every weapon to protect Kaliningrad
The Russian leader insists Moscow is "not threatening anyone" and is merely responding to statements by Western leaders.
Ubuntu 26.10 Beta Released With Linux 7.3 Kernel, GNOME 51 Desktop
Ubuntu 26.10 beta is now available for the official Ubuntu editions as well as the various community flavors...
Kan DR-journalist lære at blive vinterbader?
Kan en computer male et bedre portræt end et menneske?
AI-genereret maleri af kong Frederik deler vandene og diskuteres på sociale medier, for er man lykkedes med at skabe et mere vellignende maleri, eller udvasker man kunstens formål?
Debatten: Mindre velfærd i fremtiden?
Forsvaret erkender fejl, men afviser skud mod fly
Soldater skød, mens passagerfly overfløj terræn, erkender forsvaret - men afviser skud mod selve flyet.
'Vores tilværelse bliver totalt smadret': Birger frygter for fremtiden som gammel i en fattig kommune
En række langelændere frygter efterhånden for tilværelsen som gammel efter massive besparelser.
EU’s hodgepodge tech policy exposes members to Chinese vendor risks, says think tank
RUSI wants procurement rethink that could put US suppliers under scrutiny too
Nearing A 10 Second Kernel Build, Xeon 600 & Other September Excitement On Phoronix
During the past month on Phoronix were 284 original news articles and another 19 featured Linux hardware reviews/multi-page benchmark articles.
Suspected Chinese spies spoofed an Anthropic exec, ex-White House official in AI phishing
Your invite to a fake AI policy advisory committee has strings attached
Some Networking Fixes Being Diverted To Linux 7.4, AI/LLM Activity Still Increasing
With the vast array of wired and wireless networking drivers within the Linux kernel and range of protocols and other networking features, it's a big expanse of code for AI/LLM agents to analyze and c
[$] Coping with the onslaught of kernel security bugs
By now it is no secret that large language models (LLMs) have made it easy for people to identify security bugs, and that has resulted in a flood of bug reports to almost every free-software project,
Microsoft catches hackers exploiting Zimbra bug before disclosure
Attackers were probing the mail server flaw weeks before it had a CVE to its name
Russia targets busy bridge in central Kyiv
The Pivdennyi bridge came under fire as a metro train was travelling across - the first such attack on Kyiv's bridges.
Qt Creator 21 IDE Beta Enables More AI Functionality By Default
Following yesterday's release of the Qt 6.12 LTS toolkit, The Qt Group today released Qt Creator 21 in beta form as the latest version of their integrated development environment focused on C/C++ as w
Russian dissident Garry Kasparov says US warned him of danger to his life
"My family and I will not truly be safe as long as Putin is in power," says the former chess world champion.
MI5 warns UK academics their research may have helped Chinese spies
Institutions told to trace who is really financing their work or risk falling foul of national security law
CVE-2026-86950: The Great Glyph Grift - An in-the-wild iOS bug with a possible WhatsApp zero-click path
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CISO thought he had a 'r3@lg00dp@$$w0rd' but forgot to patch
Replacing letters with symbols still doesn’t make it good.
Rust 1.99.0 released
Version 1.99.0 of the Rust language has been released.
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (corosync, gawk, gdb, nodejs24, and thunderbird), Debian (expat, firefox-esr, libsmpp34, mkvtoolnix, network-manager-l2tp, pgextwlist, python-django, rub
AMD RMPOPT Optimization Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.4
In addition to the very nice AMDGPU IOMMU optimization for iGPUs set to debut in the Linux 7.4 kernel, over on the AMD EPYC server side for servers running SEV-SNP virtual machines is a separate, nice
Watch: Why are students protesting at schools in France?
The BBC's Hugh Schofield is in Paris as a wave of school protests over overcrowded classes and teacher shortages spreads across France.
Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?
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Clearing Out Linux's Old 32-bit ARM Platform Code Is Itself A Challenge
Longtime ARM Linux maintainer Arnd Bergmann over the past year has been working to clear out a number of old ARM platforms from the mainline kernel tree.
England's schools are getting better at mopping up cyber incidents
Two-thirds report immediate recovery, although teachers remain divided over whose job security is
Trump's AI rebrand causes 'unprecedented' demand for Slovenian website names
The president wants AI to be called super intelligence - or SI - the same initials used by Slovenian domains.
Intel Optimization Zone 1.2 Released With New Guides & Recommendations
Earlier this year Intel announced the "Optimization Zone" as their new initiative to provide a centralized place to collect all their resources for maximizing performance and software tuning on Intel
UK privacy watchdog starts over with new board and Manchester HQ
The Information Commission replaces the Information Commissioner, putting statutory powers under collective control
NVIDIA Olympus SMT Optimizations For Vera CPU Showing 3~6% Performance Gains
Back in August I wrote about NVIDIA working on Linux scheduler improvements for helping the SMT performance on their new Vera CPU with Olympus cores.
Qualcomm Continues Doing More For Their Open-Source Linux Graphics Drivers
Rob Clark, who originally started working on the reverse-engineering Freedreno and MSM DRM graphics driver projects prior to even being employed by Qualcomm, presented this week at XDC 2026 Toronto ar
New Linux Patches Trying To Mainline Renesas SH7305 CPU Support
The Renesas SH7305 isn't a new processor and is well known for powering various Casio graphing calculators over the past decde and a half.
Raspberry Pi 5 2GB Price Increases To $77.50 USD
During the last round of price hikes on Raspberry Pi devices due to RAM pricing, they were able to keep the 1GB and 2GB single board computer versions steady.
Fewer women than ever in UK's 'old boys' club' cyber industry
Younger workers often overlooked for senior roles due to historical issues and fears they’ll get pregnant, says survey
Wednesday, 30 September 2026
ESXi Exploitation in the Wild
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OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 Released With More AI Apps, Snaps & PGO + LTO Optimizations
For ending out the month of September the OpenMandriva Linux distribution crew released OpenMandriva ROME 26.0 as their long overdue release held up by various technical issues and a reported sabotage
Thursday, 1 October 2026
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 1, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: PostgreSQL and the kernel; Rust on the GPU; KDE Plasma; C and memory safety; Rust radio; KDE funding; Chromium development. Briefs: File-notification
Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Valve's Work On Foveated Rendering For The Open-Source Turnip Driver On The Steam Frame
As part of Valve's work on developing the Steam Frame VR headset, they worked on foveated rendering support for the Mesa Turnip driver that supports the Qualcomm Adreno graphics with open-source Vulka
Thursday, 1 October 2026
Swiss glaciers suffer 'disastrous' year of ice loss, threatening water supplies
Scientists say such rapid melting is no longer surprising given the pace of climate change.
Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Major rsync upgrade in Debian because of 33 CVEs
apt-listchanges --which=both -f text --since=3.4.1+ds1-5+deb13u4 /var/cache/apt/archives/rsync_3.5.0+ds1-0+deb13u1_amd64.deb apt-listchanges: Reading changelogs... apt-listchanges: News rsync (3.5.0+d
Rosenberg: Putin shows no sign of stopping the war as Russia doubles down on Ukraine
A foreign policy speech by the Russian president will be keenly watched, but all signs point to the full-scale invasion continuing.
Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else
US model makers can train on web data - but distilling theirs is a 'national security risk'
More AI In Open-Source, CachyOS, Ryzen AI Halo, Framework Laptop 13 Pro & Other Q3 Hits
With the third quarter wrapping up, here is a look back at the most interesting content on Phoronix over the past three months...
16-year-old researcher found a Microsoft bug, got admin access to databases with 17.3 trillion rows
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Branch Target Reuse: Spectre-v2 Attacks in JIT Engines
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EDG C/C++ Front-End Open-Sourced
Edison Design Group has open-sourced their EDG C/C++ front-end that has been known in the commercial world for its extensive dialect support and other features.
Six smugglers jailed for manslaughter over worst Channel small boats disaster
Thirty-one migrants died when their boat went down in November 2021
[$] The year in Plasma and what's ahead
A lot has happened in the KDE Plasma desktop environment in the last year.
Kernel Recipes videos posted
The full set of videos from the recently concluded Kernel Recipes conference has been posted
Framework Desktop With AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 Starts Out At $6799 USD
Framework Computer today opened the pre-order process for their updated Framework Desktop featuring the new AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 496 "Gorgon Halo" SoC with 192GB of LPDDR5x-8533 memory...
OpenJDK vs. GraalVM vs. Eclipse Temurin vs. Semeru Java Performance
Immediately following the OpenJDK 8 through OpenJDK 27 benchmarks I expanded the scope of testing to look at how recent OpenJDK releases have been comparing to alternative JVMs like GraalVM, Temurin,
Reports from the 2026 Python Language Summit
The 2026 Python Language Summit was held on July 14 in Kraków, Poland; there is now a series of reports available on the topics that were discussed there. They include the memory buffer protocol, garb
[$] Comparing Chromium development at Google and Igalia
Sharon Yang is a Chromium developer who worked at Google on the browser and now works on it at Igalia.
The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board 2026 election approaches
The election for members of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board will be held electronically after the close of the upcoming Linux Plumbers Conference.
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds:1.4, container-tools:rhel8, go-toolset:rhel8, grafana, httpd:2.4, nodejs:22, postgresql:12, and postgresql:15), Debian (libwebsockets, openssl, a
Qt 6.12 LTS Released With QML Hot Reloading, StyleKit In Experimental Form
Qt 6.12 is now available as the newest version of the Qt6 toolkit and also serving as a Long Term Support (LTS) release...
Rusticl Had A Great Year For Rust OpenCL In Mesa With 3.1 Support, More Drivers
Rusticl lead developer Karol herbst provided a status update on this Mesa Rust-based OpenCL driver during the XDC 2026 conference happening in Toronto...
attezt: device attestation, PKCS11 and ACME
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Linux 7.4 To Support The NPU On AMD Ryzen AI Max 400 Series "Gorgon Halo"
While the AMD Ryzen AI 400 series "Gorgon Halo" systems are nearing the marketplace, the NPU support for Linux was seemingly overlooked until now.
More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in basic cyber skills
Government survey puts the figure at 808k, says detecting and removing malware most common weakness
The Cuckoo's Egg
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UK rail cops' £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches
British Transport Police’s six-month facial recognition pilot produced one alert, and it was a false positive
Spectre bug is back, this time to haunt JIT engines
Researchers find a way to recover stale indirect branch prediction entries
Tuesday, 29 September 2026
Fake Express Packages on npm Spread a Linux Worm
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Ukraine's prized steel industry left in ruins by Russian missile campaign
Ukraine's remaining steelworks, a vital part of its economy, have all but ground to a halt because of relentless attacks.
Fires and blockades as students stage school protests across France
More than 400 people, mainly minors, were arrested on Tuesday, the country's interior minister says.
Firefox 157.0 released
Version 157.0 of the Firefox browser has been released
Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injections
It's a worm attack, AI-style
FBI to ShinyHunters: 'We know how to find you'
Federal cops have 'a very particular set of skills'
[$] Native support for Rust on the GPU
Christian Legnitto is the maintainer of rust-gpu and Rust CUDA, two libraries that make it possible to program a computer's graphics processing unit (GPU) from Rust.
Custom malware used in Citrix 0-day attacks targeting govt, banks, professional services
Two questions remain: who is abusing the CVEs? And why did Citrix take so long to disclose?
Getting root on OnePlus 15 from an untrusted app
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Spain announces ban on evictions after protests over 87-year-old woman's removal from flat
The ban is part of a number of proposals that must be approved in parliament within 30 days.
AI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from inside tech companies
Glow Security finds more than 13,000 publicly accessible images that expose corporate development work
Apple patches CoreGraphics zero-day already exploited in targeted attacks
Meta-spotted flaw could hand attackers arbitrary code execution via a maliciously crafted file
OpenAI benches GPT-6.1 Astra for overstepping the mark
Turns out teaching an AI to keep going can make it rather bad at knowing when to stop
'I was lured into a trap': Evan Gershkovich on moment that led to 16 months in Russian jail
The US journalist says he realised he was a "a pawn in a greater game" when he was not interrogated or tortured by FSB agents.
Former X-Force hackers chase the offensive cyber gold rush
RemoteThreat launches with $7M, 1,000 attack tools, and ambitions to equip enterprises and Uncle Sam for AI-speed operations
Czech Republic ready for Wembley 30 years after Euro '96
The Czech Republic are returning to Wembley for a Nations League game with England, just over 30 years after their Euro '96 heartbreak there.
OpenAI’s dirty deeds Down Under included security bypass attempts, using exposed keys, source code siphon
Admits its agents side-swiped four Australian government sites
Migrants using longer, more dangerous routes across Channel
The government says it is bearing down on dangerous small boat crossings.
Monday, 28 September 2026
JadePuffer crims hijacked Azure identities and used them to blow up cloud resources
Smells like more agentic ransomware, Redmond warns
Watch: RAF Fairford suspects are bailed, what happens now?
The men were all UK nationals in their 20s who live in London and were arrested under the Explosives Act and on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act.
People escape historic Kyiv building hit by Russian drone
The BBC's Paul Adams reports from the scene of the strike on Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences.
HardenedBSD August / September 2026 Status Report
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Ex-soldier's telecom hacking spree earns him 70 months
Active-duty campaign targeted at least ten organizations and sought $1 million in ransom payments
Certainties in life: Death, taxes, and critical Citrix vulns under attack
Sunday NetScaler patch dump fixes trio of critical vulns and five more serious messes
OpenAI pauses some training amid allegations its rogue agents behaved more badly than first thought
Amid allegations that agents may have gone off the rails thousands of times, China set up some kind of agentic incident hotline
Sunday, 27 September 2026
LuaRocks Security Incident September 2026
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Saturday, 26 September 2026
Honeypot on the boykisser forum
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Dissecting House of Apple 2 on modern glibc
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How I Found a $113,337 AF_ALG Linux Local Privilege Escalation Before Copy Fail
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Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
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Friday, 25 September 2026
As Merz scrambles for support, Germany's identity crisis is laid bare
Voters are turning away from the centre in Germany as fears grow about the economy and migration.
Why is the Pope in France?
The highpoint of Leo's visit to France is set to be a giant Mass attended by more than half a million people in Paris on Saturday.
Fake Google Security Team ad says 'no script reading' in voice phishing - then prints the script
More mockery and memes from the Dark Web Roast
ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to 'protect our business'
Data theft and extortion biz, that is
Crooks use fake desktop apps to fool HR staff into giving them remote access
Nothing in the attack chain screams malicious software, except none of the impersonated HR and payroll providers actually offers a desktop app
Bitget blames North Korea for $387.5M crypto wallet raid
Familiar fingerprints point to Kim’s regime … to the surprise of nobody
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