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elementary OS 7.1, Snap malware, France wants to ban VPNs
Season 1 Β· Episode 40

elementary OS 7.1, Snap malware, France wants to ban VPNs

Linux & Open Source News Β· Nick

October 8, 202341m 3s

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00:00 Intro

00:56 elementary OS 7.1 released

https://blog.elementary.io/os-7-1-available-now/

08:54 Malware lands in the snap store

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Snap-Store-Malicious-Apps

12:39 Sponsor: Thunderbird

https://mzla.link/tb-flatpak

14:29 France wants to ban VPNs

https://www.techradar.com/pro/vpn/france-vpns-might-be-banned-amid-sren-bills-new-unreasonable-amendments

https://adguard-vpn.com/en/blog/vpn-ban-france-new-law.html

18:28 GNOME weekly app updates

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/10/twig-116/

20:58 Plasma 6 updates

https://pointieststick.com/2023/10/06/this-week-in-kde-re-organized-system-settings/

24:15 Performance improvements for Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-Faster-NV-Prop

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.3-DCC-MSAA-RDNA3

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-LZ4-Hibernation-Patches

https://www.phoronix.com/news/wlroots-Tearing-Control-Merged

27:58 ARM x86 emulator is looking good

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-Emu-2310-Released

31:25 Studio One DAW comes to Linux

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/10/pro-audio-app-studio-one-now-supports-linux

34:22 X11 and GlibC vulnerabilities

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XOrg-Vulnerabilities-Since-1988

https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTU1NzA

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/major-linux-distros-targeted-by-hackers-exploiting-this-significant-flaw

37:13 Gaming News: Proton and Linux marketshare

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/proton-80-4-brings-more-game-support-to-steam-deck-and-desktop-linux/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-September-2023

40:37 Outro