Flatpak vulnerability, Gentoo refuses AI, Cosmic will theme apps

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00:00 Intro

01:17 Flatpak has a sandbox escape flaw

https://linuxiac.com/flatpak-patch-addresses-major-sandbox-escape-flaw/

05:08 Cosmic will be able to theme all GTK apps

https://blog.system76.com/post/hammering-out-cosmic-features

11:50 Gentoo doesn’t want AI assisted contributions

https://linuxiac.com/gentoo-council-implements-ban-on-ai-assisted-contributions/

15:48 Framework is struggling on software

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/frameworks-software-and-firmware-have-been-a-mess-but-its-working-on-them/

19:51 Nouveau maintainer works for Nvidia, submits more code

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ben-Skeggs-Joins-NVIDIA

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-NVIDIA-Copy-Acceleration

23:36 Ubuntu 24.04 beats Windows 11 by 20%

https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-16-windows-linux

25:46 Terraform vs OpenTofu license battle

https://thenewstack.io/opentofu-project-denies-hashicorps-allegations-of-code-theft/

28:37 Fedora & OpenSUSE wants reproducible packages

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-More-Reproducible-RPM

https://news.opensuse.org/2024/04/18/factory-bit-reproducible-builds/ https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/buy-in/

32:10 Solid improvements coming to Plasma 6.1

https://pointieststick.com/2024/04/12/this-week-in-kde-explicit-sync/

32:52 Gaming: NTSYNC driver, x86 on ARM emulation

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Merging-NTSYNC

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-Emulator-2404

41:13 Outro

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