OpenAI has quietly opened a sign-up page for a native ChatGPT desktop app on Linux — a long-standing request from the developer community that has, until now, gone unanswered. The page is a simple “notify me” form, but its existence…
Canonical wants ntpd-rs, a memory-safe Rust rewrite of the Network Time Protocol, to become Ubuntu’s default time synchronization client and server. To push that goal along, Canonical has become a Gold Sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation — the non-profit…
There is a interesting project called pgrust which used AI coding agents to rewrite PostgreSQL in Rust — and the latest in-development version reportedly passes 100% of Postgres’s own regression test suite. It’s an impressive technical stunt that has also…
Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” has officially reached end of life, cutting off the security patches and software updates that kept it safe. If you’re still running it, your system will no longer receive fixes — and the recommended path forward…
When Linux stable maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman posted the first-half-2026 CVE statistics to social.kernel.org, the headline number was striking: Linux led every other vendor by a wide margin. But his point wasn’t that Linux is the least secure software on the…
The Debian project has released Debian 13.6, the sixth point update to the stable “trixie” release, on July 11, 2026. As with all point releases, this isn’t a new version — it rolls up existing security fixes and a handful…
GitHub has begun rolling out OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 family across GitHub Copilot, and this time it arrives in three flavors. Announced on July 9, 2026, the lineup — Sol, Terra, and Luna — is designed so you can match the model…
A newly patched Linux kernel vulnerability, CVE-2026-46215, let any local user with access to a GPU render node escalate to root — no special permissions and no password required. The flaw affected mainline kernels from v6.18-rc1 through the fix, was…
A newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability in the FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) subsystem lets a local, unprivileged attacker escalate to root. Tracked as CVE-2026-31694, the flaw lives in the code that caches FUSE directory listings — and a working proof…
OpenSSH 10.4, released July 6, 2026, is a security-focused update. Here’s what actually changed and who needs to act. Fixes That Protect You From Malicious Servers Several fixes protect the client from a server that has already gone bad. Running…
