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13 Oct 2026 edition

10 articles · 5 sources ·

Top topics: Open Source · AI · DevOps

Open Source

[$] KDE Linux at two

KDE Linux, the KDE Project's second stab at creating its own distribution, was first introduced as "Project Banana" at the Akademy conference in 2024 by Harald Sitter. Nate Graham announced the first alpha-quality…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source

Nix and Lix local root-privilege-escalation vulnerabilities

The Lix and Nix projects have jointly disclosed a set of vulnerabilities that can be used to escalate privileges to root on systems running the Lix or Nix daemons. "All systems that build untrusted derivations are…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source

[$] Owning C types from Rust code

Rust's system of ownership and borrowed references is convenient when it can correctly model a program's needs. The Rust for Linux project has worked to provide adapters between Rust's semantics and the existing C code…

Source: LWN.net daroc
Open Source Django Python

Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cjose, curl, emacs, environment-modules, flatpak, flatpak-builder, gd, glibc, kernel, libxml2, pcre2, and rsyslog), Debian (chromium, keystone, libgit2, librsvg, nagios4,…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source

Asterinas 0.19.0 released

Asterinas is a project to build a new operating-system kernel in Rust; it was covered here in 2025. Version 0.19.0 of the Asterinas kernel has been released; changes include a new graphics subsystem capable of running…

Source: LWN.net corbet
Open Source

GitLab 19.4: New MCP Tools & AI Governance Controls Overview

Expand your AI agents' capabilities while enforcing enterprise-grade safeguards with new MCP tools and tool governance in GitLab 19.4. In this walkthrough, Developer Advocate Daniel Helfand showcases how GitLab 19.4…

Source: GitLab GitLab