As Phoronix reports, the Plasma 6.7 beta includes the module for the desktop environment’s TV-friendly UI, which was dropped from Plasma’s release schedule in 2024. It’s made for Linux PCs hooked up to TVs — like Valve’s upcoming Steam Machine, which runs on SteamOS and uses KDE Plasma.
Researchers at the security firm Calif say they used Anthropic’s cybersecurity AI to create a privilege escalation exploit, the Wall Street Journal reports:
Last September, Apple said it leveraged its hardware and operating system expertise into a technology called Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), which it described as “the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort, spanning half a decade.” With Claude, building the code that exploited the two MacOS bugs took five days, Calif says.
The open-source community is looking for a way out of the wave of new laws requiring operating systems to collect users’ ages.
Intel chips won’t be the only CPUs powering Google’s new Android-based laptops. Qualcomm also confirmed on Wednesday that it’s working on Googlebooks, but, like Intel, hasn’t given any details about the specific chips the laptops will feature:
Something special is coming this fall. In partnership with @Google, we’ve created Googlebook, a category of premium, powerful laptops built for intelligent experiences.
Discord has announced some big improvements available now in its Linux client. Phoronix notes that they include official support for more distros, support for hardware-accelerated video encoding, improved screen capture, better power efficiency on Steam Deck, support for Discord’s official auto-updater, and more.
Hopefully, this will mean smoother screen capture on my Fedora PC and better Discord performance overall for the record number of gamers using Linux.
