Every two years, Canonical puts out a Long Term Support release that gets five years of security updates, which can be stretched further with Ubuntu Pro. In between those LTS releases, Canonical ships an interim version every six months, and each one is supported for nine months. Those releases don’t carry the same importance as…
If update notifications have stopped showing up on your Ubuntu 26.04 LTS install, that isn’t some random glitch. OMG Ubuntu’s Joey Sneddon has traced it back to a Launchpad bug report and a Discourse thread that both point to the same root cause. The issue is that update-notifier only sends a desktop notification when its…
The incredibly detailed zombie survival game Project Zomboid is set to level up in a huge way with the proper release of Build 42 on July 29th. An update that has been years in the making, filled to the brim with new stuff and upgrades across the game. Some of what’s in the update includes…
A few days back I wrote about upstream Linux kernel developers marking the Qualcomm crypto accelerator driver as “broken” and “harmful” due to its slow performance, history of bugs, and other limitations. Now this Qualcomm Crypto Engine “QCE” driver might be removed outright from the Linux kernel source tree after discovering it’s even worse than…
USN-8322-1 fixed a vulnerability in Apache Commons BeanUtils. It wasdiscovered that for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, during the update preparationphase, a previous fix for CVE-2014-0114 and CVE-2019-10086 wasincorrectly dropped. This update reintroduces the fix forCVE-2014-0114 and CVE-2019-10086. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Apache Commons BeanUtils incorrectly allowedaccess to the…
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has announced Buzz, a new open-source group chat and collaboration platform created to bring human team members and AI agents into the same workspace. Dorsey, also co-founder and current CEO of Block, described his new project as a platform for teams of any size, including both people and agents. He stated…
If Ubuntu 26.04 LTS hasn’t nagged you about pending updates in a while, there’s a reason for that. A Launchpad bug report and related discussion on the Ubuntu Discourse noticed that the distro’s update-manager no longer notifies when updates are pending unless the update notification tray icon is enabled. The rub? That tray icon as…
DistroWatch.com: AnuBitux Last Update: 2026-07-23 01:01 UTC AnuBitux is a Debian-based Linux distribution focused on managing cryptocurrencies. It is designed to work as a live environment and aims to provide a safe and simple solution to use and manage cryptocurrency wallets, to run tools and scripts to create secure wallets, and to recover access to…
23 Sarah’s Security Brief: Canonical just dropped USN-8579-1, disclosing three snapd vulnerabilities. Two are high severity. One lets local attackers escalate to root. If you are running Ubuntu 16.04 or later, you need to patch today. Here is every step below, with terminal output captured from a live Ubuntu 26.04 VM. Ubuntu just disclosed three…
When OpenClaw hype was at its peak in the beginning of 2026, a lot of people bought Mac Mini just to keep an agent running around the clock. I never understood why people would spend $500 on a device to run OpenClaw like agents that are merely inferences to a commercial LLM like Claude and…
