Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow gets a Steam release

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/tom-clancys-splinter-cell-pandora-tomorrow-gets-a-steam-release/

Telegram, Please Learn Who's a Threat and Who's Not
https://news.itsfoss.com/telegram-unfair-community-ban/

📰 Linux Gains Tool For Defragmenting exFAT Filesystems

A new release of exfatprogs is now available as the user-space programs on Linux for the exFAT file-system to complement the in-tree kernel driver for the Microsoft exFAT support...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-exFAT-Defrag

📰 KDE's 29th anniversary is here and they need your funding

KDE the free software community that develops the likes of the KDE Plasma desktop, has turned 29 years old and they're doing a fresh fund-raiser..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/kdes-29th-anniversary-is-here-and-they-need-your-funding/

📰 AMD EPYC 9005 Brings Incredible Performance To The Cloud With Amazon M8a Benchmarks

Last week Amazon/AWS announced the new EC2 M8a instances as their latest-generation, general-purpose compute instances now powered by AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. Amazon announced the M8a as having up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price performance over M7a. With my testing of both at 32 vCPUs, the new AMD EPYC Turin instance provided 1.59x the performance over the prior-generation EPYC Genoa instance!

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/ec2-m8a-amd-epyc-turin

📰 Fastmail’s New Desktop App is Available on Linux

Paid web-based email service Fastmail has launched an official desktop app — available for Linux as well as macOS and Windows. The new Fastmail desktop app offers the same interface and feature set as the web client, but running in a windowed, standalone app with system integrations, like dock icon with badging, the ability to make it the default email client, desktop notifications, offline support, etc.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/fastmail-desktop-app-for-linux

📰 Fake LastPass, Bitwarden breach alerts lead to PC hijacks

An ongoing phishing campaign is targeting LastPass and Bitwarden users with fake emails claiming that the companies were hacked, urging them to download a supposedly more secure desktop version of the password manager.

🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-lastpass-bitwarden-breach-alerts-lead-to-pc-hijacks/

📰 Valve Developer Contributes Open-Source Driver Fixes For 12 Year Old Hawaii GPUs

Valve's open-source Linux graphics team continues carrying out great feats from getting NVIDIA DLSS working on the open-source NVK driver to enhancing Linux GPU driver support for hardware long forgotten about by the hardware vendors. The latest improvement from Valve's stellar group of open-source contributors are some fixes that benefit old Radeon Rx 200 series graphics cards that are more than one decade old...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Fixes-2025-Hawaii-GPUs

📰 ONLYOFFICE 9.1 Released With More Features Etc

The free ONLYOFFICE productivity suite has been updated with a host of new features, including an improved PDF Editor. Details on what's new inside this post.You're reading ONLYOFFICE 9.1 Released With More Features Etc, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/onlyoffice-9-1-new-features

📰 5 reasons why Linux beginners should be using Flatpak

App management on Linux can be confusing for new users, and Flatpak simplifies it.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/5-reasons-why-linux-beginners-should-be-using-flatpak/

📰 PyTorch 2.9 Released With Easier Install Support For AMD ROCm & Intel XPUs

PyTorch 2.9 is out today ahead of the PyTorch Conference happening next week in San Francisco. Notable with PyTorch 2.9 is better AMD ROCm and Intel XPU installation support via expanded wheel variant support...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/PyTorch-2.9-Released

📰 3 firmware security failures that show how little motherboard manufacturers care

Motherboard manufacturers are responsible for one of the most important parts of your PC's boot process, yet they just don't care about security.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/firmware-security-failures-show-motherboard-manufacturers-dont-care/

📰 Debian TC Overrules systemd Maintainers on /var/lock Permissions

Debian’s Technical Committee overrules systemd maintainers, requiring /var/lock to remain writable in line with Debian Policy.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/debian-tc-overrules-systemd-maintainers-on-var-lock-permissions/

📰 PipeWire 1.6 Nears Stable Release with Massive Internal Refactoring

PipeWire 1.6 multimedia framework is coming soon—expect smarter link negotiation, refined audio handling, and faster response times.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/pipewire-1-6-nears-stable-release-with-massive-internal-refactoring/

📰 My Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is the perfect network monitoring tool

This half-sized Pi board handles network monitoring with ease using Uptime Kuma, Grafana, and Prometheus.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w-perfect-network-monitoring-tool/

📰 Proposed Patches Make Upstream Linux Kernel Usable For The OpenWrt One Router

Announced nearly one year ago was the OpenWrt One as a router/AP that is "hacker-friendly" and open-source. The OpenWrt One is powered by a Filogic 820 SoC and features WiFi 6. This official OpenWrt device is manufactured by Banana Pi. While there is downstream open-source code available for customizing the OpenWrt One to your heart's content, the upstream Linux kernel support to date hasn't been full-featured...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenWrt-One-Useful-Linux

📰 4 Proxmox changes I made that delivered 90% of my reliability gains

These Proxmox tricks made my self-hosting and experimentation server more reliable.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/proxmox-changes-i-made-that-delivered-90-of-my-reliability-gains/

📰 Building an NVR on my NAS was the best decision for my home security (and sanity)

My Frigate container may not have anything to do with backups, but it's an essential part of my NAS.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/building-an-nvr-on-my-nas/

📰 Valve Developer Contributes Major Improvement To RADV Vulkan For Llama.cpp AI

Valve's Linux graphics driver team contributions aren't limited to just enhancing the rasterization and ray-tracing graphics performance of the open-source Linux GPU drivers for gaming. Beyond other interesting contributions from that talented group of open-source Linux graphics developers over the years and for other areas like enhancing old GPU hardware support, merged this week for the Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver is a massive improvement to...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Valve-Boost-Llama.cpp

📰 Calibre 8.13 Released with Virtual Library Improvements

Calibre 8.13 e-book manager improves Virtual Libraries with multi-line editing, fixes Linux export issues, and resolves several long-standing bugs.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/calibre-8-13-released-with-virtual-library-improvements/