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Pop!_OS 24.04 has been released
https://blog.system76.com/post/pop-os-letter-from-our-founder/

Linux Kernel 6.18 released.

Check the changes here: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.18

Blender 5.0 has been released
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-0/

Beyond technicalities... My honest reaction to the 'sudo-rs' news was like this at first glance. 😁

Ubuntu 25.10 has already transitioned to 'sudo-rs', which is a sudo-replacement written in Rust, for more security and safety. Today, 2 security vulnerabilities were discovered in Ubuntu 25.10 due to 'sudo-rs'. 😂 Rust makes it harder to do bugs, but not…

Ubuntu 25.10 has already transitioned to 'sudo-rs', which is a sudo-replacement written in Rust, for more security and safety.

Today, 2 security vulnerabilities were discovered in Ubuntu 25.10 due to 'sudo-rs'. 😂

Rust makes it harder to do bugs, but not impossible of course.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/sudo-rs-security-ubuntu-25.10

Firefox 145 has been released: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/145.0/releasenotes/

It adds support for a number of multimedia codecs to be played from inside the browser, as well as editing/commenting on PDF files.

The browser is the new OS nowadays. 👻

KDE Plasma 6.5 is out
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.5.0/

Users beware: Xubuntu website serving malware instead of OS downloads

https://cybernews.com/security/xubuntu-site-compromise-hackers-peddle-malware/

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 has been released.

Based on Debian 13, away from Ubuntu so that if it pulls the trigger one day Linux Mint will always continue to exist. 👻
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4924

Ubuntu 25.10 has been released.
https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka

openSUSE 16.0 has been released.
https://news.opensuse.org/2025/10/01/next-chapter-opens-with-leap-release/

Firefox DNS privacy: Faster than ever, now on Android
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/dns-android/

The TDF 2024 report is here, which highlights the current status of LibreOffice development and its financial situation.

They have received around $1.3 million in in funding, 90% of which were from donations.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09/15/tdf-annual-report-2024/

Linux Mint 22.2 has been released.
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4881

Someone is DDoS'ing Arch Linux infrastructure.

Must be someone who couldn't install it. 👻
https://archlinux.org/news/recent-services-outages/

ffmpeg 8.0 has been released.
https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.0

LibreOffice 25.8 has been released.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/08/20/libreoffice-25-8/

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Writing a new article has been a challenge for us since the beginning of this new AI age. You may not have heard it, but AI has absolutely destroyed content websites across all categories. People now use ChatGPT or Perplexity or Google AI Overview to get…

Firefox 142 has been released.
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/142.0/releasenotes/

Writing a new article has been a challenge for us since the beginning of this new AI age.

You may not have heard it, but AI has absolutely destroyed content websites across all categories. People now use ChatGPT or Perplexity or Google AI Overview to get direct answers (which are stolen from content websites) directly from these search engines rather than reading a blog post.

This means we are not getting visitors to our website, which removes the point of publishing a new piece of content on that website in the first place.

We are literally feeding AI companies and algorithms free content, curated from our own experiences.

This introduces yet another block on our way in publishing new content: Why do so, only for AI companies to come and steal our content for free and present it for their users while we get $0?

Web publishing is absolutely hard at this age, and I am not sure where to go from here.

Ad revenues were pennies anyways even before the AI age, and now they have gone to near zero.

Other small blogs have either already disappeared, or doubled down on cheap content making with AI in order to continue playing the game.