COSMIC Desktop 1.3 Is Here: System76's Rust Linux Desktop Gets Frosted Glass and GPU Monitoring
System76 shipped COSMIC Epoch 1.3.0 on July 14, 2026, delivering the long-awaited frosted glass visual effect, deeper AMD/Intel/NVIDIA GPU monitoring, and a Rust-native NetworkManager backend to its from-scratch Linux desktop environment. »
Your PC's 2013 Secure Boot Certificate Just Expired — Debian 13.6 Ships the Fix
Debian 13.6 addresses an industry-wide Secure Boot crisis: the UEFI certificate authority that signs bootloaders on most PCs since 2013 has expired, and fwupd 2.0.20 brings the tooling to fix it. »
GhostLock and Januscape: Two Ancient Linux Kernel Bugs Disclosed in the Same Week
GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499) gives any logged-in user full root in five seconds and breaks out of containers. Januscape lets a VM escape its host. Both were disclosed in July 2026 — both are over 15 years old. »
Kali Linux 2026.2 Arrives with GNOME 50, Kernel 6.19, and VM Boot Times Three Times Faster
The July 2026 release of Kali Linux slashes VM boot times dramatically, ships GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.6, and adds nine new security tools including legba and oletools. »
Proton 11 Lands: Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux — EA Fixes Included
Valve's Proton 11.0-1 rebases on Wine 11.0, fixes the EA Desktop launcher lockup, and adds 18 previously unplayable Windows titles to Linux — pushing compatibility close to the 90% mark. »