Epic’s vibe-coded games launcher is available to test on Ubuntu
Epic Games has confirmed that Fortnite is coming to Linux, and the launcher it will arrive through is available to try in preview on Ubuntu – a vibe-coded wonder that’s been royally roasted on the internet. The gaming company has also announced a rebuilt version of its anti-cheat tech for Linux, which will be required to run Fortnite to Linux. Easy Anti-Cheat v2‘s stricter system requirements include a signed kernel and TPM 2.0. Easy Anti-Cheat has been available on Linux for a while, including for PC games running via Proton. Not all games developers trust or use it as it’s […]
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If KeePassXC is your password-management app of choice on Linux, the new 2.8.0 update is going to please. KeePassXC 2.8.0 sees some “long-awaited new features” arrive, including a Qt6 port of the main app interface, auto-type support on Wayland via XDG Desktop Portals, fingerprint unlock and a new experimental Aarch64 AppImage. The Qt6 port has been a long-gestating effort. There’s no dramatic change to the way that KeePassXC looks and behaves (maybe a bit sharper on HiDPI), but it also benefits from being able to access improvements in platform capabilities, security and so on. Auto-type is what allows your saved login […]
Ubuntu has released security updates for the php2shell PHP flaw that’s led to websites being taken offline, and a key compromise at the eMudhra certificate authority. Desktop Ubuntu isn’t directly affected by php2shell, since PHP isn’t installed by default. The certificate issue is more of a browser-based concern, though Google, Apple, Mozilla et al blocked the bad certificates on 17 October. Ubuntu’s ca-certificates package update does remove two root certificates from the list that Ubuntu trusts, both of which had vouched for eMudhra. That helps protect tools like curl and wget that don’t use their own lists. Open Software Updater to check […]
New PS5 Linux hack pLinux5-NG supports newer firmware, allowing Linux and Steam games to run on Sony’s console. But not for long, welp.
Mozilla Firefox 158.0.1 is rolling out with some important security fixes. Now, I don’t tend to cover Firefox point releases as mainly ship minor fixes for things the majority of users won’t have noticed were wrong in the first place. The Firefox 158.0.1 update is more ‘meaty’ than usual fare. Among the security advisories this update covers are eight intermediate certificates belonging to the eMudhra certificate authority, whose private keys were compromised. Anyone holding those keys could issue certificates that browsers accept as genuine for any website. If they can also intercept a user’s connection, they could impersonate the site […]