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The Ubuntu Unity project is in trouble because its maintainer, a Linux whiz kid, has had less time to work on it due to his studies. Now other team members are appealing to the wider Ubuntu community for help.

Taking to the Ubuntu forums earlier this week, Unity team member Maik Adamietz admitted that things in Unityland aren't faring that great, and for a perfectly good reason that no one can really fault it for. Project leader Rudra Saraswat, who created the Unity Remix project in 2020 to rescue the replaced-by-GNOME interface from obscurity when he was just 10 years old, suddenly has other things on his plate.

Now a teenager, Saraswat is busy with his studies and simply can't dedicate the time to keep Unity operating properly.

The entire US economy right now is 7 companies sending a trillion fake dollars back and forth to each other, but it's totally not a bubble according to grampa Powell.

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The upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle is expected to land initial support for USB3 with Apple Silicon devices.

Being worked on the past few months for upstream inclusion into the mainline Linux kernel has been patches for USB3 support on Apple M1 and M2 devices. Sven Peter has been leading the charge. These patches were updated earlier this month and now look good to go for making it into the next Linux kernel merge window.

Just released into Early Access with Native Linux support, VEIN could be the next big survival game with a whole lot of features that just look and sound great. It may not be all that impressive graphically compared to some other survival games, with a rather flat-looking style to it, but it seems the list of features and general world interactivity make up for it.

You know the drill when it comes to this though - the world ended, it's a zombie apocalypse. It's been done over and over again. Where it actually sounds interesting is everything else. The environment is dynamic and changes with the seasons along with "long-scale" random events. There's also some intelligent AI they say that can "see, hear, feel, and smell you, and react intelligently to those senses".

Additionally there's a lot of character customization, nearly everything is usable in some way down to simple things like knocking on doors and turning on taps. Then you get into the building systems where you can build up a safehouse, you need to go hunting and till the land for crops and there's even vehicles too. So far, it seems like it has everything to make it quite a hit.

Death by Scrolling is a rather unique twist on some of the ideas from survivor-like bullet hells, from Ron Gilbert / Terrible Toybox and MicroProse Software.

MicroProse didn't reply to our key request, so I had to pick up a personal copy for this one. Glad I did, as I've been having a lot of fun dying repeatedly as death eventually catches up to us all. This game gives us a whole new meaning to doom scrolling. Instead of endlessly swiping on social media or the news, you can doom scroll a little pixel character up the screen away from the grim reaper and all sorts of critters out to get you.

The Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative has uncovered three more security vulnerabilities affecting the X.Org Server and the derived XWayland source code.

Olivier Fourdan announced publicly today the newest X.Org Server and XWayland security vulnerabilities uncovered by the Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative. In turn xorg-server 21.1.19 and XWayland 24.1.9 were released as the newest point releases for addressing these security issues.

Probably more Ubuntu enthusiasts have noticed that Unity, the official Ubuntu flavor that brings back the once-beloved Unity desktop for the first time since gaining official status, has failed to deliver a 25.10 release. Well, there’s a reason for that, and now its maintainers are publicly asking for help.

In a post published yesterday, one of the Ubuntu Unity team members explained that project lead Rudra Saraswat, who’s been at the center of development since the remix’s early days, no longer has time to maintain the project due to university studies.

Turnbound looks like it could be a really good one, a PvP inventory management auto-battler that does things quite differently to others in the genre. It also has a demo available you can try out right now, and the game will be coming to Early Access sometime soon.

Like other inventory battlers, it's all about what you stick in your bag and building up combos. However, it sets itself apart in a big way. Instead of your combined inventory battling your opponents, you battle all the individual tiles from the items in the bag. Really think the idea, setting and style of this are fantastic.

BPF lets users load programs into a running kernel. Even though BPF programs are checked by the verifier to ensure that they stay inside certain limits, some users would still like to ensure that only approved BPF programs are loaded. KP Singh's patches adding that capability to the kernel were accepted in version 6.18, but not everyone is satisfied with his implementation. Blaise Boscaccy, who has been working to get a version of BPF code signing with better auditability into the kernel for some time, posted a patch set on top of Singh's changes that alters the loading process to not invoke security module hooks until the entire loading process is complete. The discussion on the patch set is the continuation of a long-running disagreement over the interface for signed BPF programs.

One might hope that signing BPF programs would just be a matter of attaching a signature to the program, and then checking that signature. Alas, things are a bit more complicated. BPF uses "compile once — run everywhere" (CO-RE) relocations to let compiled programs run on multiple different kernel versions. Thus, the version of the BPF program on disk is not exactly the same as the version presented to the kernel for loading, which invalidates any signatures on the BPF binary.

The Arch Linux team has once again been forced to respond to a distributed denial-of-service attack targeting its AUR repository infrastructure. As a result, DDoS protection has been enabled for aur.archlinux.org to help mitigate the ongoing disruption.

While this measure helps keep the AUR website accessible, it has introduced a significant side effect: pushing to the AUR is currently not possible.