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Calibre 9.8 E-Book Manager Adds Local OpenAI-Compatible AI Provider Support

Calibre 9.8 E-Book Manager Adds Local OpenAI-Compatible AI Provider Support

Calibre 9.8 has been released, bringing a range of improvements across its content server, ebook editor, AI features, text-to-speech system, and bundled news sources. A major highlight is expanded AI integration. Calibre now supports any local provider that offers an…

Linux Mint Starts Publishing HWE ISOs with Newer Kernels

Linux Mint Starts Publishing HWE ISOs with Newer Kernels

Linux Mint has announced that it will start offering updated HWE (Hardware Enablement) ISO images to improve installation support on newer hardware. These refreshed images will include more recent Linux kernels than those found in the standard release ISOs. In…

Copy Fail Linux Kernel Flaw Allows Local Users to Gain Root

Copy Fail Linux Kernel Flaw Allows Local Users to Gain Root

Security researchers have revealed Copy Fail, a serious Linux kernel vulnerability that allows a local attacker to gain root privileges. Specifically, an unprivileged user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file and potentially leverage…

How to Set Up Samba File Sharing on Ubuntu 26.04

How to Set Up Samba File Sharing on Ubuntu 26.04

Setting up Samba file sharing on Ubuntu 26.04 enables seamless file exchange between Linux and Windows systems on your local network. Samba implements the SMB/CIFS protocol, allowing Ubuntu to act as a file server that Windows, macOS, and other Linux…

nftables Firewall Mastery: The complete Configuration for Ubuntu 26.04

nftables Firewall Mastery: The complete Configuration for Ubuntu 26.04

Introduction If you have been relying on UFW for years, it has probably served you well for basic scenarios. But the moment you need NAT, port forwarding, rate limiting with custom thresholds, or complex chain logic, you quickly hit a…

Microsoft Reportedly Eyes Fedora Base for Azure Linux

Microsoft Reportedly Eyes Fedora Base for Azure Linux

Recent Fedora Enterprise Linux Next (ELN) meeting notes suggest that Microsoft is exploring the possibility of rebasing Azure Linux on Fedora’s package ecosystem. During the April 21 ELN SIG meeting, contributors discussed enabling Fedora package builds optimized for the x86_64-v3…

Notepad Next 0.14 Code Editor Adds Line Sorting and Search Improvements

Notepad Next 0.14 Code Editor Adds Line Sorting and Search Improvements

Notepad Next, a cross-platform text and source code editor inspired by Notepad++ and aimed at delivering a similar experience beyond Windows, has released version 0.14. The highlight of this update is a security fix for CVE-2026-42214, an arbitrary code execution…

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 201 Launches with DNS Firewall

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 201 Launches with DNS Firewall

IPFire, a Linux-based open-source firewall distribution designed for network security, routing, VPN, intrusion prevention, and related gateway tasks, has issued IPFire 2.29 Core Update 201. According to devs, this is one of its more significant recent releases because it adds…

DietPi 10.3 Released with Prometheus Monitoring Support

DietPi 10.3 Released with Prometheus Monitoring Support

DietPi, a lightweight and performance-oriented Debian-based Linux distribution designed for SBCs like Raspberry Pi and server systems (with optional desktop environments), has rolled out version 10.3—the third maintenance update in the 10.x series. This release introduces support for the Orange…

Ubuntu Plans Gradual AI Features Built Around Local Inference

Ubuntu Plans Gradual AI Features Built Around Local Inference

Canonical has outlined its roadmap for bringing AI capabilities into Ubuntu over the coming year, taking a gradual and measured approach rather than delivering everything in a single release. The plan focuses on introducing AI features only when they are…