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📰 GNOME Shares Its Vision for the Future of GNOME Shell

GNOME designers outline long-term ideas for GNOME Shell, including editable Quick Settings, improved search, Mosaic tiling, and a transparent panel.

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https://linuxiac.com/gnome-shares-its-vision-for-the-future-of-gnome-shell/

LightDM returns from the dark with first release in 4 years

LightDM, Ubuntu’s former display manager, has had its first new release in four years – the first under new maintainers. LightDM v1.33.0 is a ‘catch up’ release that adds Qt6 support (Qt5 still works) and clears a backlog of fixes that had built up since the previous release. There shouldn’t be any breaking changes either, per the release notes. LightDM is a backend that handles logging in to user sessions. A GUI ‘greeter’ sits on top for user interaction. Ubuntu used the unity-greeter, but other distros and desktops roll their own. Linux Mint switched to LightDM in 2017 with slick-greeter […]
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/lightdm-new-release-new-maintainers

mold 2.42.0

После четырёх месяцев разработки состоялся выпуск 2.42.0 высокопроизводительного кроссплатформенного линкера mold.
Проект написан на языке C++ (стандарт C++20) и распространяется по лицензии MIT.
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 c++, mold, линковка, утилита

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https://www.linux.org.ru/news/development/18357840

CVE-2026-68820 puts Windows 10, 11 and Server users on a patch deadline

Microsoft has patched CVE-2026-68820, a Windows WinSock privilege-escalation vulnerability already being exploited in the wild. The flaw affects Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server releases from 2012 through Server 2025, making the August updates a high-priority deployment for administrators.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/cve-2026-68820-puts-windows-10-11-and-server-users-on-a-patch-deadline/

📰 Intel ANV Driver Enables Vulkan Video AV1 Encoding For DG2/Alchemist GPUs

Hyunjun Ko of Igalia continues working on Vulkan Video support for Intel graphics hardware on Linux with the ANV driver. Merged now for Mesa 26.3-devel is enabling AV1 video encoding via Vulkan Video on DG2/Alchemist hardware...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-DG2-Vulkan-Video-AV1

Exchange Server August 2026 update disables OWA Light and fixes Pwn2Own bug

Microsoft’s August 2026 Exchange Server security update permanently disables OWA Light and addresses an authentication-bypass vulnerability that security researchers demonstrated at Pwn2Own. The release also determines whether Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 customers can continue receiving updates: only organizations enrolled in Period 2 Extended Security Updates are eligible.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/exchange-server-august-2026-update-disables-owa-light-and-fixes-pwn2own-bug/

📰 Mojo 1.0 Programming Language Officially Released

Modular releases Mojo 1.0, delivering a stable foundation, Python-style lambdas, improved LSP support, and stronger memory-safety diagnostics.

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https://linuxiac.com/mojo-1-0-programming-language-officially-released/

Mistral Regional Endpoints add EU processing

Mistral Regional Endpoints are now generally available, allowing customers to route inference through Europe or the US. The EU option costs 10% more, but regional deployments currently exclude agents, batch processing, and file-management tools.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/mistral-regional-endpoints-add-eu-processing/

📰 LACT 0.10 Released With New NVIDIA Overclocking Controls, Blackwell Hotspot Sensor

LACT is one of the popular third-party Linux GPU configuration and monitoring utilities that works across NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel graphics. This GUI provides GPU overclocking controls plus a wealth of information reporting, which is especially great considering the lack of any official GUI control panel for AMD Radeon and Intel Arc graphics on Linux. With today's LACT 0.10 release, there are yet more features in tow...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/LACT-0.10-Released

📰 Manjaro 26.1 Essentially Goes Final with Linux Kernel 7.1 and Plasma 6.7

Manjaro’s latest stable update effectively brings the 26.1 “Bian-May” release to its final state, with Linux 7.1, Plasma 6.7, and major package updates.

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https://linuxiac.com/manjaro-26-1-essentially-goes-final-with-linux-kernel-7-1-and-plasma-6-7/

QEMU 11.1

11 августа состоялся выпуск QEMU 11.1.0, свободного эмулятора процессорных архитектур и платформы виртуализации. По данным официального объявления в списке рассылки qemu-devel, в релиз вошло более 3200 коммитов от 285 разработчиков. Это второй функциональный выпуск QEMU в 2026 году после QEMU 11.0, опубликованного в апреле.
Одним из основных направлений развития стала архитектура RISC-V. В QEMU появилась поддержка big-endian для доступа RISC-V к данным: состояние порядка байтов контролируется битами MBE, SBE и UBE, а для моделирования процессоров, работающих только в big-endian, предусмотрено свойство big-endian. При этом выборка инструкций RISC-V по-прежнему остаётся little-endian.
Кроме того, для RISC-V в QEMU 11.1 реализованы:
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https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18357384

Your first shortened TLS certificates expire in September

Public TLS validity dropped from 398 days to 200 days on March 15, 2026, the first of three cuts on the way to 47 days in March 2029. Most CAs moved early, so certificates issued from late February onward begin expiring in September and through October. By 2029 that works out to roughly eight renewals per certificate per year.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/your-first-shortened-tls-certificates-expire-in-september/

Fake job interviews deliver a trojanized WireGuard VPN client to IT pros

Sandworm-linked attackers are using fake IT recruitment campaigns to trick system administrators into installing a modified WireGuard VPN client. The malware targets both Windows and Linux, decrypts hidden code, and downloads additional payloads after the victim connects to the supposed corporate VPN.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/fake-job-interviews-deliver-a-trojanized-wireguard-vpn-client-to-it-pros/

📰 Bottles game manager v66 brings UMU from Open Wine Components to help run games

Bottles v66 has some major changes for this game manager to make the experience a lot nicer, with UMU from Open Wine Components to help run games.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/bottles-game-manager-v66-brings-umu-from-open-wine-components-to-help-run-games/

Mark Zuckerberg’s AI-for-everyone vision runs into a compute problem

Matthew Berman supports Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of widely available superintelligence, open-source AI, and AI-driven invention—but identifies a major weakness: equal access to models does not mean equal access to intelligence. Unfortunately, at the end of the podcast, Berman projects his own U.S. tribalistic views onto Zuck.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/mark-zuckerbergs-ai-for-everyone-vision-runs-into-a-compute-problem/

📰 Nailed it: Toolstation gives its store IT an ASUS NUC refurb

SPONSORED FEATURE: Toolstation swapped aging Linux tills across branches for compact ASUS NUCs on ChromeOS Flex, cutting support tickets and freeing counter space.

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https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/08/12/sponsored-nailed-it-toolstation-gives-its-store-it-an-asus-nuc-refurb/5284128

📰 Redox OS Enjoys installer Improvements, Performance Enhancements

A new blog post out today from the Redox OS crew highlights all of the interesting improvements made to this Rust-based, open-source operating system over the course of July...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-July-2026

📰 GNOME 51 could bring a floating search overlay to the Shell

The next version of GNOME Shell, out in September, is likely to include a redesigned search experience. In current versions of the desktop, when you start a search from the GNOME Shell overview, a dedicated search results screen replaces the one you’re looking at, i.e., the workspace row and dash (aka dock) are obscured.

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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/gnome-51-search-redesign

📰 Kimwolf v7 Android Botnet Makes HTTP/2 DDoS Traffic Look Like Legitimate Browsing

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new version of the Kimwolf/AISURU Android and Internet of Things (IoT) botnet that comes with significant improvements to improve its operational resilience and conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.The new version, tracked as Kimwolf v7, was discovered by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 in February 2026."Kimwolf v7 adds an HTTP/2-based.

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Rio Terminal Emulator for Linux: Speed Up Your Command-Line Workflow

The post Rio Terminal Emulator for Linux: Speed Up Your Command-Line Workflow first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Rio is a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust that gives you built-in tabs, splits, and a command palette. So
The post Rio Terminal Emulator for Linux: Speed Up Your Command-Line Workflow first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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https://www.tecmint.com/rio-terminal-emulator-for-linux/