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MongoBleed https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/news/mongodb-server-security-update-december-2025 Cloudflare has a new action plan after dealing with recent outages https://blog.cloudflare.com/fail-small-resilience-plan/ Ars details the worst offenders of “Enshitification” https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/as-internet-enshittification-marches-on-here-are-some-of-the-worst-offenders/ Accordin...

Libxml2 finds new maintainers https://hackaday.com/2025/12/23/libxml2-narrowly-avoids-becoming-unmaintained/ Project that use libxml2: Chromium, Webkit, Android, iOS, Linux Desktop Environments, libvirt, LibreOffice, PHP, Python (lxml), Ruby (Nokogiri), Perl, Inkscape (svg support), VLC, ffmpeg Meta uses the Steam Deck CPU Scheduler https://www.phoronix.com/news/Meta-SCX-LAVD-Steam-Deck-Server VOD...

Mozilla backpedals on AI? https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/ 2026 Year of the Linux Desktop? https://dominickm.com/2026-will-be-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop/ Will Josh and Bigpod understand Quantum Computing Enough to actually talk about it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing AI and Data Centers? Bubble pop This year or Next year? https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/24/the-yea...

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Links Ubuntu LTS News https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/ubuntu-unity-mate-26-04-lts-status Over 10,000 Docker Hub images are leaking credentials and auth keys https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-10-000-docker-hub-images-found-leaking-credentials-auth-keys/ Google Sets up MCP Servers (Model Context Protocol) https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/getting-started/intro https://techcr...

Links Micron Sunsetting Crucial and exiting the consumer memory space. https://www.reuters.com/business/micron-exit-crucial-consumer-memory-business-2025-12-03/ This means there are only two consumer memory manufacturers left globally Anthropic picks up Bun https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-bun-as-claude-code-reaches-usd1b-milestone React2Shell https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news...

AMD and nVidia are raising GPU prices https://wccftech.com/amd-raise-gpu-prices-by-at-least-10-percent/ No word from Intel Alma Linux 10.1 Released now with btrfs support https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-11-24-almalinux_101_release/ This is a feature change in a point update Also re enabled SPICE support and frame pointers and x86_64-v2 CPU support. Alex Gaynor (Rust for linux co-maintainer) steps...

$250 Smart “Earings” – Promising Nothing New https://gizmodo.com/lumia-smart-earring-2-health-tracking-price-release-date-2000687118 Windows Goes “Agentic” with it’s OS https://www.theverge.com/news/821948/microsoft-windows-11-ai-agents-taskbar-integration Insider build aannouncement https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/11/17/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26220-7262-dev-bet...

Valve Taking the “Ship it when it’s ready” quite literally. Steam Machine https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine Steam Frame https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamframe Steam Controller https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamcontroller Hardware Frontpage https://store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware Data Centers now attract more funding than oil spill research. https://techcrunch.com...

Amazon is suing Perplexity AI https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/perplexity-shopping-bot-not-welcome-at-amazon-shop/articleshow/125100148.cms Google Makes some changes to the Android Play Store https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/google-settlement-with-epic-caps-play-store-fees-boosts-other-android-app-stores/ Remembering the Morris Worm 37 Years Later https://ww...

AWS Summary from Last Week https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/ AI doesn’t use the top search results? https://www.techspot.com/news/110039-researchers-find-ai-search-pulls-internet-fringes-not.html XChat (not the IRC Client) has a rather serious flaw https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/05/x-is-now-offering-me-end-to-end-encrypted-chat-you-probably-shouldnt-trust-it-yet/ Send us feedback! mailto:cont...

Ohio linux fest December 6th Josh will be there Linus App Summit Proposal This proposes merging the Linux App Summit, Guadec, and Akademy conferences. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EujoBu7HMMUUPDOw-IZDbYYPEzZVdMEtN4-6YLDpXY0/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.l0vr69vkp0fe Gnome https://discourse.gnome.org/t/an-open-letter-a-proposal-for-a-unified-linux-app-summit-las-2026/31124/10 KDE https://discuss.kd...

An Open Source Printer? https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer The concern is the paper…. People Like using AI to generate images https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/ai-image-video/the-internets-obsession-with-the-same-ai-prompts-is-backfiring-heres-why EU Says Cookie banners are a little too messy https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-cookie-law-messed-up-the-internet-brussels-sets-out-to-...

Windows 11 makes online accounts even more mandatory https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-triples-down-and-blocks-even-more-microsoft-account-bypasses-on-windows-11-an-online-account-is-non-negotiable Red Hat’s Gitlab instance breached https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/red-hat-confirms-security-incident-after-hackers-breach-gitlab-instance/ https://www.bleepin...

Android Malware uses VNC https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/android-malware-uses-vnc-to-give-attackers-hands-on-access/ BcacheFS is gone now https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Removed-Linux-6.18 Qualcom won it’s lawsuit against ARM who plans to appeal https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/qualcomm-scores-big-win-over-arm-in-contentious-lawsuit-u-s-court-rejects-arms-lawsu...

Josh got a 3d printer and has thoughts https://us.elegoo.com/products/centauri-carbon https://us.polymaker.com/products/polydryer Google is bringing Android to PC’s? https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/google-is-building-the-android-pc-and-phone-convergence-platform-that-microsoft-failed-to-deliver-with-windows-qualcomm-calls-it-incredible EU asks Apple, Booking.com, Google and Mic...

What does Lawrence Systems do? Like actually. Whats the future look like with AI for the IT contractor. How does one get a career in IT administration these days? You can find out guest Tom Lawrence at https://lawrencesystems.com/ Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Musi...

NPM Hack, attackers only made $1,000 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-left-empty-handed-after-massive-npm-supply-chain-attack/ Apple Events Announcements https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/apple-event-september-9/id275834665?i=1000725761502 Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.co...

Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Google gets to keep Chrome https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/google-wont-have-to-sell-chrome-judge-rules/ Google will block sideloading on android https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/ TypePad is shutting down https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/one-ti...

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Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Mozilla says Germany might ban Ad Blockers https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/mozilla-warns-germany-could-soon-declare-ad-blockers-illegal/ Softbank buys approximately 1/3 of Intel at $2b https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/18/softbank-makes-2b-in...

Perplexity offers to buy Chrome from Google for $34.5billion USD https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/12/perplexity-offers-to-buy-chrome-for-billions-more-than-its-raised/ Dockerhub XZ backdoor https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/docker-hub-still-hosts-dozens-of-linux-images-with-the-xz-backdoor/ Reddit to block Internet Archive’s wayback machine https://www.theverge.com/news/757538/reddit-in...

OceanGate official blamed for safety lapses. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/titan-sub-oceangate-coast-guard-report/ – pdf with full US Coast Guard investigation https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/MBI-Titan-Report.pdf New OpenAI Models you can self host! https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-oss/ What’s Happening at Intel? – more Layoffs https://www.technewsworld.com/story/intels...

Distro Challenge https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/meta-pirated-and-seeded-porn-for-years-to-train-ai-lawsuit-says/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/28/microsoft-edge-is-now-an-ai-browser-with-launch-of-copilot-mode/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-visa-backlash-adult-games-removed-online-stores-steam-itchio-ntwnfb Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join...

systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success https://blog.tjll.net/the-systemd-revolution-has-been-a-success/#fnr.1 Google merges ChromeOS and Android https://www.techradar.com/phones/android/i-think-you-see-the-future-first-on-android-googles-android-leader-sameer-samat Daniel Stenberg writes about AI slop https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-slops/ the best CVE h...