"You can find the full release notes in the usual place": LibreSSL 4.4.0, 4.3.4, 4.2.3 released https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20261025115016

CEO fraud (or more generally executive fraud) is a subset of Business Email Compromise fraud which allegedly loses Australian businesses $84M/year: CEO Impersonation Fraud https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/10/26/ceo-impersonation/

If ‘Image Generation and AI Art’ were a Family Feud guess, it would be the top answer for AI creative searches nationwide: Survey Says! AI Images and Video Lead Creative Searches - FOSS Force https://fossforce.com/2026/10/survey-says-ai-images-and-video-lead-creative-searches/

Four practical tests help you decide before you deploy a Gemini-powered app on Cloud Run with GitHub Actions: Cloud Run vs. GKE - How to pick the platform that fits the job | We Love Open Source • All Things Open https://allthingsopen.org/articles/cloud-run-vs-gke-how-to-choose

DistroWatch's review of Ubuntu 26.10: DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD. https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20261026#ubuntu

It's Google, so as soon as you decide you like it and incorporate it into you workflow in a way that makes in indispensible, they'll likely drop it: Google open sources its Elephant-Goldfish Model plugin for AI coding - BetaNews https://betanews.com/article/google-open-sources-its-elephant-goldfish-model-plugin-for-ai-coding/

AI models change fast, but rebuilding agents every time a provider changes its offerings is costly: Stop building agents that can't change models https://www.infoworld.com/article/4239696/stop-building-agents-that-cant-change-models.html

"He contrasted the introduction of the iPhone in 2007 with a fake flying car everyone was sharing recently, and how there feels like this palpable shift away from making the present better, to “inventing the future” that almost certainly won’t happen": Why big tech stopped building useful stuff https://www.rubenerd.au/why-big-tech-stopped-building-useful-stuff/

Epic Games is using a lot of AI nowadays across Unreal Engine, Fortnite, the new Epic Games Launcher and probably plenty of other projects. Sweeney has been really open about how they've gone completely off the deep end with AI: Epic's Tim Sweeney believes AI notices on Steam are a "political statement" for the "hate mob" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/epics-tim-sweeney-believes-ai-notices-on-steam-are-political-statement-for-the-hate-mob/

The EXT4 file-system changes were merged Sunday night for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window: EXT4 Lands Optional Buffered IOmap For Significant Performance Win With Large Writes - Phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-EXT4

The impressive PlayStation 5 Linux project is continuing on, and recent updates to it have again expanded what it can support. Even though one of the main people behind it quit, others seem to have taking it upon themselves to continue it on: PlayStation 5 Linux project upgraded to support PS5 Pro and newer firmware https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/playstation-5-linux-project-upgraded-to-support-ps5-pro-and-newer-firmware/

With a bug report going back to August, Cache Aware Scheduling was found to have caused problems on an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370: Linux Fixes AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Regression Due To Cache Aware Scheduling - Phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-CAS-Regression-AMD-HX-370

Linus Torvalds merged the "char/misc" changes for the Linux 7.4 kernel driver on Saturday: Google's C Binder Driver Removed With Rust Binder Ready For "Few Billion Devices" - Phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Char-Misc

Core memory management patches to the Linux kernel have typically been routed to mainline via Andrew Morton's "MM" branch, which is where also a variety of broader memory management related patches are also queued like all the ongoing work to DAMON/DAMOS. Kernel maintainers have now agreed to a new "Core MM" tree as the home for all of the core memory management changes moving forward: Linux 7.4 Begins Employing New "Core MM" Tree - Phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Core-MM-Tree

Adventures in Linux and KDE: Help shape the future of desktop icons https://pointieststick.com/2026/10/23/help-shape-the-future-of-desktop-icons/

OpenClaw, the AI digital assistant, is looking to establish itself as an essential tool for users — but if it is as profligate in its use of tokens as its creator, then users could be in for some huge usage bills: OpenClaw creator spent $10 million on AI tokens last month https://www.infoworld.com/article/4239758/openclaw-creator-spent-10-million-on-ai-tokens-last-month.html

The list covers desktops, X servers, and a Wayland-hosted X11 layer. Basically, projects that are resisting a Waylan-only Linux future: These Projects are Keeping X11 Dream Alive on Linux https://itsfoss.com/projects-keeping-x11-alive/

The laws do not adequately respect minors’ rights to play, speak, and learn online. More fundamentally, these laws don’t help young people stay safe online—a goal that lawmakers should pursue: Two States Can Now Restrict Social Media Access—Here’s What To Do Next  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/two-states-can-now-restrict-social-media-access-heres-what-do-next

"Through my own writing life, nothing has done more to improve my writing than diligent participation in peer-based workshops; that's where a group of writers, all at about the same stage in their artistic development, gather to read one another's work and offer feedback specifically aimed at improving each other's stories": Critique and writing (23 Oct 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/23/better-to-give/

Open-source developer Mark Harmstone who is known for his work on developing a Btrfs file-system driver for Windows has spent the past few years working on a new hobby operating system: Moxnox - NT-Like, POSIX-Compatible Hobby OS Running Atop Btrfs - Phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/news/Moxnox-OS