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The new Steam hardware is getting close, Arch Linux’s AUR is compromised, and curl is having a month off from vulnerability reports. Plus updates on using the Kagi search engine, retro handhelds, and 3D printing.
Plugs
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Graham’s talk
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News
Steam Machine and Steam Frame are shipping this summer
Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day [archived] 2
Arch Linux’s AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware 4.5
Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages
Arch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack
Arch Linux locks down AUR signups amid wave of malicious commits
curl summer of bliss
Retro gaming handhelds
R36S
Fakes
R36H
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A new Firefox release confuses Félim, Plex makes no sense in a world where Jellyfin exists, Will considers paying for the Kagi search engine, and another small Android tablet for your wall. Plus what we learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit.
News/discussion
Firefox 151.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing
Kagi
Shelly Wall Display
Ubuntu Summit
Ubuntu Summit 26.04 Timetable
Ubuntu Summit videos
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Steam Deck price rises point toward high prices for the new Valve hardware, Lenovo puts its name to a cheap retro handheld and regrets it, Wikipedia management seems to be acting like a typical big tech company and the workers are organising, Bambu pisses off its 3D printer customers and Joe got given a free unrelated 3D printer, and we don’t believe that the Raspberry Pi 6 will arrive as late as 2028.
News
Steam Deck back in stock, with updated pricing
The golden age of handheld gaming is already over [archived]
Lenovo pulls its controversial G02 retro handheld from sale – starting a chain reaction that could decimate the retro gaming market
Sellers circumvent Lenovo’s retro handheld ban with cheap wholesale storefronts
Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia
We’re Wiki Workers United, a global solidarity union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation
Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs
Comprehensive Response to Bambu’s AGPLv3 Violations – Software Freedom Conservancy
‘Fuck you, Bambu’: How one private message could change the face of 3D printing [archived]
No Raspberry Pi 6 before 2028
Don’t expect a Raspberry Pi 5 in 2023, says Eben Upton [21st Dec 2022]
Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! [28th Sep 2023]
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Debian’s ambitious aim to make all packages reproducible pushes us closer to a better future, yet more talk about age verification for VPNs, Firefox gets more users on mobile thanks to regulation, Opera’s gaming browser comes to Linux, Valve releases CAD files for the Steam Controller, and the Steam Frame might be coming soon. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.
News/discussion
Debian Release Team: Debian Must Now Ship Reproducible Packages
EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push
EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox’s way
Opera GX Lands on Linux
Steam Controller and Puck CAD files officially released under a Creative Commons license — Valve encourages users to create accessories for the device
Steam Frame coming soon?
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Great funding news for LVFS and KDE, why Europe probably needs some more home-grown distros, a conspiracy theory about Cloudflare seems unlikely, and we wonder what can be done about all the irresponsibly disclosed vulnerabilities that new tools are discovering. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.
News
LVFS Sponsorship Announcement
Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development
KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own
Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical?
‘Dirty Frag’ Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit
Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access
Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos
DirtyCBC: When Linux Kernel Decrypt-Before-MAC Turns Authenticated Encryption Into a Page-Cache Write
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Voice to text, visualising CSVs in the terminal, managing software from releases on GitHub, a mini Android tablet for your wall, and Amiga music on Linux in Discoveries. Plus Ubuntu embracing AI makes us wonder if we should just stop having the same old arguments.
Discoveries
VoxType
Tennis
tooler
SONOFF NSPanel Pro Gen2
Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator
News/discussion
The future of AI in Ubuntu
I wanted to reply with some clarifications
The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next?
Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
Upcoming Blender Development Fund and AI Policies
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There’s a new Ubuntu LTS release and quite a lot is new, Canonical’s infrastructure was taken down and we disagree about whether it could have been avoided, two recent examples of irresponsible vulnerability disclosure, and the Steam controller finally arrives with a hefty price tag.
Plugs
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SeaGL 2026 Call for Presentations
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News
Canonical releases Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: What’s New Since Ubuntu 24.04?
An update on rust-coreutils
Pro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedown
The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
Carrot disclosure: Forgejo and follow-up
Steam Controller: The Ars Technica review
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Whether you can trust small new distros, Amazon is officially abandoning Android on its new TV sticks in favour of their new Linux-based OS, and we have another pointless argument about AI bollocks.
News/discussion
Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore
Eternal November — this new influx of users may be better than the last one
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The French government makes a start on moving to the Linux Desktop, the EU has a terrible but open source age verification app, some clarity on one of the exciting office suite dramas, the media swallows Anthropic’s nonsense about their new magically powerful model, a quick KDE Korner, and more.
News
France’s digital agency dumping Windows desktops for Linux
Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it
Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process
You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away
AGPLv3§7¶4 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware
Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
On Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing
UK gov’s Mythos AI tests help separate cybersecurity threat from hype
Mythos and Cybersecurity
A few notes about the massive hype surrounding Claude Mythos
Breathless parroting of Anthropic’s bullshit from the graun
NSA using Anthropic’s Mythos despite blacklist
KDE Korner
KDE at 30
Tighter KDE Connect Integration
KDE Gear 26.04
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Raspberry Pi prices have gone up yet again, more drama in the exciting world of open source office suites, Red Hat looks to be going all in on “AI”, Cloudflare vibe codes a WordPress rip off, and GIMP shares some interesting download numbers.
News/discussion
A new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75, and more memory-driven price increases
Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash
TDF ejects its core developers
Let’s put an end to the speculation
Memo: Red Hat Global Engineering plans to lean in to AI
If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem – you have bigger problems
Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Interesting GIMP numbers
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Steam stats suggest that gaming on Linux is more popular than ever, Wine improvements might entice even more gamers, Ubuntu might break things when it tightens up GRUB security and makes 6GB of RAM the minimum requirement for the desktop edition, and Ubuntu MATE is looking for new maintainers.
News
LAS 2026 Call for proposals extended till the 10th April
Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time
Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive
Ubuntu 26.10 could drop btrfs, ZFS and LUKS support from GRUB
Ubuntu quietly raises its minimum system requirements
Windows 11 has lower requirements
Ubuntu MATE – seeking maintainers
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Making silly URLs, visualising complex weather data, a TUI network discovery tool, and an open source version of a classic synthesizer in discoveries, plus the sad reality that it’s more or less impossible to avoid code that’s been generated by “AI” these days.
Discoveries
creepy link
Supercell Wx
whosthere
Ultramaster KR-106
AI in FOSS
systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added
New Xfce Wayland compositor is being developed with genAI
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Age declaration and verification in Linux gathers pace, Google blesses us with some hoops to jump through to install the software we want on stock Android, the FSFE lost their payment provider, great new KDE Plasma and GNOME features, and more.
News
Just over a month until OggCamp!
Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late
Age verification isn’t sage verification when it’s inside operating systems
The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date
When you tell me to just not implement age declaration, do you understand you’re asking me to risk thousands of dollars in fines?
I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who’s behind the age verification bills.
meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety
450 FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us
This Week in Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Characters
Introducing GNOME 50, “Tokyo”
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Drama in the exciting world of office suites, new ThinkPads are properly repairable, hands on with the Android desktop convergence future, and more.
News/discussion
LibreOffice Online: a fresh start
LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic
LibreOffice 26.2 is here: a faster, more polished office suite that you control
Lenovo’s New T-Series ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability
Your Pixel phone can now become a full Android PC via USB-C
You will be able to install “unverified” Android apps with ADB
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Discord delays their age-gating rollout but legislators are pushing for operating systems including Linux to verify ages, LLM licence laundering might mean the end of copyleft, and how and why you might want to detect Meta’s spy camera glasses.
News
Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What’s Changing
US state laws push age checks into the operating system
California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup
I have actually read the text of California law CA AB1043 and, honestly, I don’t hate it
Do you really think that circumventing these things will always be a simple firmware mod or hardware hack?
Relicensing with AI-assisted rewrite – Tuan-Anh Tran
Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
No right to relicense this project
Hide from Meta’s spyglasses with this new Android app
Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You’re Being Watched, Too
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The freedom to install what you want on stock Android ROMs is still in jeopardy, an interesting update on SETI@home, Intel looks to contribute to graphics on Linux, and Mozilla works towards Web standards. Plus making a Wii U gamepad, UPS software, free NASA ebooks, and making cool posters with mapping data in Discoveries.
News/Discussion
The FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and Android will be locked-down in under 200 days
Keep Android Open
Open letter to Google
FLX1s
Enthusiasts used their home computers to search for ET—scientists are homing in on 100 signals they found
Intel Hiring More Linux Developers – Including For GPU Drivers / Linux Gaming Stack
Launching Interop 2026
Discoveries
Creating a Wii U gamepad
Network UPS Tools
NASA eBooks
MapToPoster
maptoposter-docker
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Discord’s new age gating policy might be a real opportunity for open source but it’s not clear that we have anything that can compete, the complex and bizarre tale of an AI agent writing a blog post attacking a FOSS maintainer, why we lost some trust in a major tech publication, the Firefox AI kill switch arrives, and a quick KDE Korner.
News
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Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally
Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach
Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Actually Handed Over.
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
The obnoxious GitHub OpenClaw AI bot is … a crypto bro
Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
Sorry all this is my fault
Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls / AI Kill Switches
KDE Korner 4
A quick anti-FUD FAQ to debunk “the KDE is forcing systemd!” hoax
KDE endorses the UN’s Open Source Principles
Plasma 6.6
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The professional-grade audio workstation Ardour has a great new version, LinkedIn does a shocking but not surprising amount of browser fingerprinting, Firefox is getting a button to turn off the AI nonsense, a new way to prevent slop “contributions” to your project, another tale of someone failing to switch to Linux, and why we should talk more about why open source software can be better than proprietary alternatives. With guest host Kevin from Linux Dev Time.
News/discussion
Ardour 9.0 — What’s new
Linkedin-extension-fingerprinting
AI controls are coming to Firefox
Introducing Vouch: explicit trust management for open source
I went back to Linux and it was a mistake
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Pricing and release dates for the new Steam hardware are delayed, Xfce is getting a new Wayland compositor that’s written in Rust but it might take a while, the Sudo dev could do with sponsorship, Lennart Poettering and friends are cooking up something (but it’s not exactly clear what that is), KDE Linux is progressing nicely, and more. With guest host Kevin from Linux Dev Time.
News
Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs
Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
Xfwl4 (Xfce’s Wayland Compositor) FAQ
Xubuntu Development Update February 2026
Sudo’s maintainer needs resources to keep utility updated
Ikea’s new Matter smart home devices are having connection problems
Introducing Amutable
Busy months in KDE Linux
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Malware in the Snap store highlights the risks of modern package management, but users accidentally ending up with a totally different desktop environment shows the perils of the older approach. Plus the UK government wants to do more age-gating, and we hear about a project to get kids into Free Software.
News
Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains
Linux Mint user gets Gnomed
It looks like they followed these instructions to install Proton VPN (including selecting gdm)
They aren’t alone
AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty
UK government rolls back key part of digital ID plans
Lords back UK social media ban for under-16s
Under-16 social media ban would expand age-gating for millions and silence young people
UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs
Mission:Libre
Carmen tells us about her project that aims to get kids into Free Software.
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