A researcher asked Meta's Muse assistant to archive files it could access and send them to Google Drive, and it complied, delivering a 2.7GB compressed (6.8GB unpacked) package. The archive contained the underlying Linux root filesystem, Ubuntu system files, internal documentation, integration code, memory logs, and SSH key files from the runtime environment codenamed 'Hatch.' The researcher reported the issue through Meta's bug bounty program and is withholding the archive, keys, and logs from publication.
mouse.dev
· 2026-09-22
Ubuntu has finished replacing the traditional GNU coreutils package with a Rust-based implementation across its system utilities. This marks a major step in the distribution's broader effort to rewrite core system components in memory-safe Rust rather than C.
news.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-16
A hobbyist documents replacing ChromeOS on a Lenovo IdeaPad Duet tablet, first with postmarketOS and later with a custom Ubuntu build after postmarketOS broke unexpectedly. The process involved entering ChromeOS 'developer mode,' booting from a USB image, and installing a full Linux distribution with a GNOME desktop onto the device's eMMC storage.
vhaudiquet.fr
· 2026-09-14
Canonical's Ubuntu 26.10 completes its migration to Rust-written core utilities after resolving TOCTOU security flaws that had forced cp, mv and rm to remain on their GNU versions in 26.04 LTS. The release, codenamed 'Stonking Stingray', now ships a full uutils suite covering tools like ls, cat, chmod and du.
omgubuntu.co.uk
· 2026-09-14
Microsoft has updated its Edge documentation to formally list which Linux distributions are officially supported, including Ubuntu 18.04+, Debian 10+, openSUSE 15.5+, and Fedora Linux 39+ on 64-bit systems. Edge has run on Linux for years unofficially, but this marks the first formal support list, arriving roughly seven years after Google published a similar list for Chrome.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-03
On August 25, 1991, Finnish student Linus Torvalds posted to a Usenet group that he was building a free operating system for 386/486 machines, calling it just a hobby project unlikely to rival GNU. Thirty-five years later, that hobby has grown into the dominant force in computing, powering most major websites, cloud platforms, and all of the world's fastest supercomputers.
zdnet.com
· 2026-08-25
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