Linux NewsVLC is Wrongly Blamed for Microsoft Defender's Clumsiness
VLC takes a long time to play MP3 on Windows? Blame it on Microsoft Defender, not VLC.
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 13, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: BPF and binfmt_misc; CrossPoint ebook firmware; KVM planes; BPF formal verification; shadow-utils; new storage-code testing features. Briefs: Django releases; GNOME shell; LightDM 1.33.0; QEMU 11.1; uutils 0.10; Software Stewardship Lab; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
Rsync 3.5 Released As "Extraordinary" Update To Fix 33 Security Issues
Rsync as the widely-used, open-source remote sync software for synchronizing files and directories across networks is out today with a very important update...
Wireshark 4.6.8 Packet Analyzer Released with Bug Fixes and Protocol Updates
Wireshark 4.6.8 arrives as the latest stable maintenance release, delivering fixes and refinements across the popular packet analysis tool.
Wireshark 4.6.8 Improves Protocol and Capture File Support, Fixes More Bugs
Wireshark 4.6.8 open-source network protocol analyzer is now available for download with updated protocol and capture file support, as well as various bug and security fixes.
Comma.ai Launches A PCIe Gen4 x4 To USB4 Dock With Open-Source Firmware
George Hotz of Comma.ai and Tinygrad today announced the Tiny Chestnut eGPU Dock and the "Chestnut" Dock complete with an AMD Radeon RX 9060 8GB GPU too. Making this Chestnut / Tiny Chestnut Dock interesting is that it runs on open-source firmware...
[$] Block-layer error injection
Storage code has to cope with hardware that fails in inconvenient ways, but coaxing a healthy disk into producing those failures on demand, for testing, is usually not possible. The kernel provides several ways to inject block-layer I/O errors, but none of those can select the operation to fail, pick the status code to return, or target a disk directly without employing a stacked device on top. Use of a stacked device means the test runs against the mapper device, not the disk it was meant to exercise. A patch series from Christoph Hellwig adds a configurable error-injection interface that does all three things that the current error-injection code lacks, controlled by a per-disk debugfs file.
SimpleX Chat Wants Its 400K+ Users to Become Investors Too
The funds will go towards keeping the project up and running.
LightDM returns from the dark with first release in 4 years
LightDM, Ubuntu’s former display manager, has had its first new release in four years – the first under new maintainers. LightDM v1.33.0 is a ‘catch up’ release that adds Qt6 support (Qt5 still works) and clears a backlog of fixes that had built up since the previous release. There shouldn’t be any breaking changes either, per the release notes. LightDM is a backend that handles logging in to user sessions. A GUI ‘greeter’ sits on top for user interaction. Ubuntu used the unity-greeter, but other distros and desktops roll their own. Linux Mint switched to LightDM in 2017 with slick-greeter […]
Shelly 3.0.4 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Adds New Search Experience
Shelly 3.0.4 graphical package manager for Arch Linux distributions is now available for download with a new search experience, initial text-mode UI, improved AppImage integration, and more.
Tenstrorrent Posts GCC Compiler Patches For Ascalon XG Core
While the Tenstorrent Ascalon X is known as their high performance out-of-order RISC-V RVA23 CPU core for extreme performance over the H and S models, a new GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patch today from Tenstorrent makes known a new Ascalon XG core...
GNOME Shares Its Vision for the Future of GNOME Shell
GNOME designers outline long-term ideas for GNOME Shell, including editable Quick Settings, improved search, Mosaic tiling, and a transparent panel.
[$] A look at CrossPoint e-reader firmware
There are a number of small, inexpensive, low-powered e-reader or e-paper devices that have promise as ebook readers with one minor problem: the firmware they ship with does not realize their full potential. To solve that problem, the CrossPoint Reader project looks to provide replacement firmware that offers necessary features, better performance, and a more pleasant reading experience. On August 7, the project released version 1.5.0, which opens large EPUBs more quickly, provides offline dictionary lookups, and has reworked settings for changing layout and font options. The release also improves support for right-to-left text as well as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) text rendering.
QEMU 11.1 released
Version 11.1 of the QEMU emulator has been released. The release contains more than 3,200 commits from 285 authors and includes a long list of improvements; see the announcement and changelog for the details.
GCC 17 Compiler Adding "-m128bit-atomic" For 128-bit Atomic Memory Operations
Merged today to the GNU Compiler Collection Git code is the new -m128bit-atomic option for next year's GCC 17 feature release...
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