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Malicious npm packages can now evade defenses, possibly signaling nation-state involvement. COSMIC Epoch 1.9 adds a native image viewer and on-screen keyboard. KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2 matures Union theming and fixes a KWin memory leak. Fedora weighs replacing LibreOffice with Collabora Office. The Linux kernel adds a taint flag for fuzzing-bot bind/unbind reports. Mir 2.30 now requires Rust. AlmaLinux launches a certification portal.
A leaked GitHub key left CDC-linked code and Azure systems potentially poisonable until it was revoked. Separately, an AI-driven campaign stole over 600,000 credit cards from online retailers, and a 292GB MongoDB leak exposed at least 30 million records, heavily affecting PepsiCo’s Latin America operations. Dutch privacy groups also pressed for bans on camera glasses over consent concerns.
Canonical reported $345M revenue for 2025, up from $292M, with $22.8M profit. Systemd 262 lands with an AI/LLM canary, LUO integration, and container tweaks. Linux 7.3 benchmarks show modest AMD Strix Halo gains; Ubuntu 26.10 is adopting it. Collabora proposed a VRR target limiter API for Linux graphics. SPECviewperf 15.0.1 arrived natively for Linux, and Alibaba will fund Omarchy with $3M.
Microsoft patched CVE-2026-66804, a Windows privilege-escalation flaw that let attackers plant a malicious DLL via a dangling COM registration. Google Cloud blamed a four-hour us-central1-b outage on a technician cutting fiber and installing wrong transceivers during a router upgrade. EFF urged the D.C. Circuit to vacate an FAA drone rule it says criminalized recording ICE/CBP. The EU’s draft Kids Act drew criticism over age checks and privacy.
Linux 7.3-rc4 landed with many LLM-spotted fixes and key x86 patches blocking bad Intel microcode and FRED crashes. Gzip 1.15 fixed long-standing bugs, including a decompression overflow. KDE set goals: enterprise features, better docs, next-gen styling. A first-person account described a firm where Claude Code writes all specs, code and tests; engineers just press enter. Windows updates still hurt: an idle PC spent seven hours updating.
Last Week Tonight featured an interactive map of the Trump family’s crypto ventures, tracing hundreds of entities and billions in income. Apple’s base M-series chips gained about 50% single-core and 83% multi-core performance from M2 to M5, aided by higher clocks and new matrix units. A head of school warns AI is repeating past ed-tech hype, urging schools to listen to teachers over vendors.