The FOSS Force News Wire pulls mostly FOSS related news stories from a variety of sources and is updated every 30 minutes. The News Wire is also available as an RSS feed at http://fossforce.com/newswire. Time stamps are in UTC, so “4 hours ago” means it was published this hour EDT.
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The Missouri v. Biden ‘Settlement’ Is A Fake Victory For A Case They Lost
Last week, Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri got into a heated exchange during a Senate hearing with Stanford’s Daphne Keller. Schmitt, who,...Read more
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The telnyx packages on PyPI have been compromised
The SafeDep blog reports that compromised versions of the telnyx package have been found in the PyPI repository: Two...Read more
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Rivian gets another $1B from Volkswagen
The two companies have been collaborating on a joint venture that would see Rivian tech go in VW's EVs.Read more
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Iranian hackers claim breach of FBI director Kash Patel’s personal email account
Handala, a pro-Iranian hacking group allegedly working for Iran’s government, published emails it said were taken from the Gmail account of FBI...Read more
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Ubuntu Rust Strategy Expands Again With ntpd-rs Proposal
Canonical continues to expand Rust adoption in Ubuntu by targeting time synchronization with ntpd-rs, aiming to improve security in core services.Read more -
What’s sending mail to some@example.com, an@example.com, and tqznopjxm4@pomail.net ?
I noticed two things today in logs: In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 postfix-3.11.1_1,1 Where did they come from?Read more
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HyprLTM-Net v0.3.0 Is Here and It’s a Major Update!
Alhamdulillah, I started HyprLTM-Net as a personal project for my Hyprland setup, which by the way I am still quietly improving, and...Read more
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KDE Plasma 6.6 Showing Frequent Performance Advantage Over GNOME 50 With NVIDIA R595 Driver
Earlier this week I provided benchmarks looking at KDE Plasma 6.6's performance advantage over GNOME 50 for Linux gaming with AMD Radeon...Read more
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Yes, you need a smart bird feeder in your life - and this one's on sale
Offering insight into which birds are visiting your feeder this spring, the Birdfy smart feeder is $60 off during Amazon's Big Spring...Read more
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The most popular Amazon Spring Sale deals, according to thousands of readers
Amazon's Spring Sale is live, and we've got the scoop on the top products ZDNET readers are clicking on the most, from...Read more
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Coyote Linux – security-focused distribution
Coyote Linux is a security-focused Linux distribution designed to deliver firewall, VPN, IP routing, and related networking services. The post Coyote...Read more
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CachyOS Censors "Radicals" Opposed to Age Verification
In response to concerns about Age Verification features in SystemD, the CachyOS team says, "If you don’t want to use SystemD find...Read more
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Amazon Spring Sale live blog 2026: The top deals you can't miss
We're live-tracking the best Amazon Spring Sale deals over 60% off on home, tech, and more, as the sale continues into the...Read more
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Best Amazon Spring Sale Apple deals 2026
I've rounded up deals on some of the hottest tech from Apple during Amazon's Big Spring Sale.Read more
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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon Beta is Released: Here’s What’s New
Canonical released the beta version of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon with Linux Kernel 7.0, GNOME 50 and many Rust-rewritten tools. The...Read more
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Looking for a tablet that does it all? This Samsung model is on sale for $239
The Galaxy Tab A11+ is well-equipped for a variety of tasks, currently on sale for Amazon's Spring Sale.Read more
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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta Shows You There's Potential in the Stable Release
Canonical has opened up Resolute Raccoon for testing, and the beta shows promise.Read more -
Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware
The tech giant's claim that it has not seen any successful spyware attacks targeting Apple devices with Lockdown Mode enabled comes amid...Read more
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Intel Xe Driver Improves Memory Pressure / Out-Of-Memory Behavior For vRAM With Linux 7.1
Following the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver pull request landing transparent hugepages for device pages as an SVM win, another round of...Read more
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AMD Announces The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
AMD this morning finally announced the long-rumored Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 flagship processor with 3D V-Cache for both of the CCDs...Read more