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pbxscience.com/kde-plasma-6-… KDE Plasma 6.8.2 Released: A Stability Update Focused on KWin, Wayland and Everyday Desktop Fixes. KDE has released Plasma 6.8.2, the second maintenance update in the Plasma 6.8 series, arriving one week after Plasma 6.8.1... #Linux #Fedora #Kubuntu

pbxscience.com/what-are-self… What Are Self-Hosted VPN Alternatives You Fully Control? A compromised or compelled control server could also distribute false public keys to nodes and enable a man-in-the-middle attack.... #vpn #openvpn #wireguard

pbxscience.com/tailscale-pat… Tailscale Patches “Tailworm” SSH Flaws That Let a Compromised Device Gain Root on Other Servers. The flaws were disclosed in a report called “Tailworm” by researcher Erica Windisch of Cyberdione Labs. They could let an attacker who already controls...

pbxscience.com/freebsd-co-fo… FreeBSD Co-Founder Ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in Ten Days, Ships Ten Releases. One of the original founders of the FreeBSD project, has released Daemonarchy, an installable #FreeBSD image that brings the look and workflow of the Omarchy desktop to #BSD....

pbxscience.com/reagent-open-… ReAgent: Open-Source Tool Uses AI to Rebuild Compilable C/C++ from Binaries, but Embedded Developers Need Not Panic. An open-source project called ReAgent is now testing that assumption by using AI to reconstruct compilable, testable C/C++ code from..

pbxscience.com/why-canonical… Why Canonical Is Reviving Ubuntu Core Desktop? Canonical has restarted work on Ubuntu Core Desktop, its immutable, snap-based desktop operating system. The project went quiet after a 2023 preview, but a new dedicated team is now building it toward..

pbxscience.com/windows-11-ge… Windows 11 Gets Ready for Intel APX: A Major x86 Upgrade Is on the Way. The x86 architecture is preparing for one of its biggest changes in years. Intel's Advanced Performance Extensions (APX), first introduced in 2023, are now starting to show up..

pbxscience.com/ginux-vs-linu… Ginux vs Linux Kernel: Is the Rust Kernel from Rocky Linux's Creator Really Better? Ginux is a new operating system kernel created by Gregory Kurtzer, the founder of CentOS and Rocky #Linux. It is written mainly in #Rust and targets x86-64 machines....

pbxscience.com/nintendo-purg… Nintendo Purges 401 Emulator Repositories as AI-Built Game Ports Test the Console "Box" Model. Two moves by platform holders in recent weeks show how differently they are reacting to a fast-growing trend: game code being decompiled or recompiled....

pbxscience.com/will-magnetic… Will Magnetic Tape Make a Comeback for Consumers as Flash Shortages and Soaring HDD Prices Bite? Nikkei Asia reported this week that Fujifilm plans to raise its magnetic tape production capacity fivefold, its largest investment in the medium in 20 ..

pbxscience.com/xbox-cto-says… Xbox CTO Says Helix OS Is Built on Windows, Disputes Report of Internal Clash Over Handheld. The report says Windows team wanted the upcoming Xbox handheld to run a streamlined version of Windows 11 Home, while the Xbox team preferred to build and ..

pbxscience.com/google-previe… Google Previews Multi-Party Compute, a Crypto Custody Service for Banks, Ahead of Early-2027 Launch. Google has unveiled a security service designed to help banks and other financial institutions store and move cryptocurrencies and tokenized assets..

pbxscience.com/kde-fixes-a-1… KDE Fixes a 15-Year-Old Bug That Made USB Copy Progress Bars Misleading. KDE developers have fixed a bug in KIO, the I/O framework behind Dolphin and other KDE software, that kept file-copy progress bars from telling the truth for 15 years.... #Linux

pbxscience.com/openai-plans-… OpenAI Plans to Buy Google TPU Chips, Loosening Nvidia’s Grip on a Key Customer. Google originally built TPUs for its own use and later rented them to outside customers, among them Anthropic, Apple and Citadel Securities...

pbxscience.com/teamviewer-15… TeamViewer 15.83.3 Released, Fixing Nine High-Severity Vulnerabilities. TeamViewer released version 15.83.3 of its remote desktop software on October 27 . On the same day, the company published two security bulletins, TV-2026-1011 and TV-2026-1012....

pbxscience.com/droiddeck-bri… DroidDeck Brings Steam to Android, but Only If Your Chip Is on the List. An open-source app called DroidDeck is drawing attention for a simple promise: install one APK on a supported Android device, sign in to your own Steam account, and play Windows..

pbxscience.com/horizon-a-rus… Horizon: A Rust Rewrite of Minecraft Java Edition Draws Attention Within Weeks. An open-source project called Horizon, which reimplements Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3 from scratch in Rust, has quickly gained traction on GitHub....

pbxscience.com/linux-kernel-… Linux Kernel Memory Management Receives a 46-Patch Batch of Urgent Fixes, Many Found with LLM Help. A series titled "[PATCH 00/46] mm: various (urgent?) fixes" has landed on the Linux memory-management mailing list.... #Linux

pbxscience.com/firefox-159-r… Firefox 159 Released: Security Fixes, Saved Passwords in the Sidebar and Scroll-Driven Animations. Mozilla released Firefox 159.0 to the stable channel on October 27, 2026, for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android…

pbxscience.com/nvidia-releas… NVIDIA Releases Hotfix Driver 621.12 to Fix Video Playback Freezes and Black Screens on RTX 50 Series. NVIDIA has released GeForce/RTX Spark Hotfix Driver 621.12, a fix for video playback freezes and black screens that appeared on some GeForce RTX 50 ..