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Dynamic Music Pill adds word-by-word lyrics highlighting An updated version of Dynamic Music Pill, the GNOME Shell extension that shows track info and lyrics in your panel or dock with more animated flourishes than your average now-playing applet, is out. If you’re prone to a bit of desk-side crooning, Dynamic Music Pill v1.3.0 adds two new lyrics provider APIs, BetterLyrics and BiniLyrics with TTML parsing to provide word-by-word karaoke-style highlighting. If one of these new lyrics providers has word-level timing for the track you’re listening to, you get it, but, if not, it falls back to line-by-line as before (or plain static text if nothing synced is […] You're reading Dynamic Music Pill adds word-by-word lyrics highlighting, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission. 👉@sysadminoff https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/dynamic-music-pill-update-lyrics

📰 Fastfetch 2.67 System Information Tool Adds New Interactive Configuration Generator Fastfetch 2.67 adds an experimental browser-based config editor, interactive TUI generation, watch mode, and multiple Linux-related fixes. 🔗 Source: #linux 👉@sysadminoff https://linuxiac.com/fastfetch-2-67-system-information-tool-adds-new-interactive-configuration-generator/

📰 HyperX Driver Coming For Linux 7.3 Just To Report A Microphone's Mute Status A new driver coming for the Linux 7.3 kernel is HID-HyperX. It's not some new driver to support fancy hardware and some nifty features but rather mundane in nature due to the poor behavior of a high-end HyperX USB gaming microphone... 🔗 Source: #kernel #linux 👉@sysadminoff https://www.phoronix.com/news/HID-HyperX-QuadCast-2-Linux-7.3

OpenAI pauses Astra work as critical cyber risk remains unresolved OpenAI says it is pausing internal Astra activities that do not meet strengthened security requirements after evaluations showed the upcoming model may possess “Critical” cyber capabilities. The company has expanded testing and introduced tighter controls while it continues assessing whether Astra can autonomously develop zero-day exploits or execute novel attacks against hardened real-world systems. Source 👉@sysadminoff https://4sysops.com/archives/openai-pauses-astra-work-as-critical-cyber-risk-remains-unresolved/

Microsoft Edge sets 2026 deadline for killing uBlock Origin and other MV2 extensions Microsoft Edge will begin disabling Manifest V2 extensions this month, putting uBlock Origin users on notice that the browser’s full phase-out is now scheduled for the end of 2026. Enterprise-managed devices get a longer runway, with Microsoft delaying their transition until early 2027. Source 👉@sysadminoff https://4sysops.com/archives/microsoft-edge-sets-2026-deadline-for-killing-ublock-origin-and-other-mv2-extensions/

Use AI to analyze Windows performance traces (`.etl`) with ETW MCP and WPA MCP When a PC is slow, hangs, or feels laggy, Windows can record a detailed performance trace while the problem occurs. A performance trace is a separate binary file (.etl) that captures fine-grained timing data about CPU, disk, memory, waits, and similar activity. Microsoft's early-preview tools ETW MCP and WPA MCP let an AI assistant ask questions about that .etl file in plain language, so you spend less time hunting through unfamiliar charts and tables. Source 👉@sysadminoff https://4sysops.com/archives/use-ai-to-analyze-windows-performance-traces-etl-with-etw-mcp-and-wpa-mcp/

Windscribe’s deGDID script blocks Windows tracking—but can break Microsoft services Windscribe has released deGDID, a free, open-source PowerShell script that removes Microsoft’s Global Device Identifier (GDID) from Windows and blocks the system from creating it again. The privacy tradeoff is significant: the protection can disrupt Xbox, Outlook, Microsoft Store, and other Microsoft-connected services. Source 👉@sysadminoff https://4sysops.com/archives/windscribes-degdid-script-blocks-windows-tracking-but-can-break-microsoft-services/

📰 Intel Makes Progress On HDMI 2.1 FRL With Their Linux Driver For Meteor Lake & Newer Following AMD making progress with HDMI Fixed Rate Link (FRL) and other HDMI 2.1 functionality for their open-source Linux kernel graphics driver, Intel is out today with a big set of 44 patches working on HDMI 2.1 FRL support for their kernel graphics driver with Meteor Lake hardware and newer... 🔗 Source: #amd #intel #kernel #linux #opensource 👉@sysadminoff https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-HDMI-2.1-FRL-Linux-2026

Nearly three-quarters of European businesses now rate a potential US tech “kill switch” as a major threat Nearly three-quarters of European businesses now rate a potential US tech “kill switch” as a threat comparable to ransomware. A Proton survey also found that 54.5% could operate for no more than one day without US cloud and digital services, while many are seeking sovereign alternatives for email and cloud storage. Source 👉@sysadminoff https://4sysops.com/archives/nearly-three-quarters-of-european-businesses-now-rate-a-potential-us-tech-kill-switch-as-a-major-threat/

Microsoft finds another way to push Copilot into Outlook Microsoft is adding a “Wrap up your day” prompt to New Outlook that launches Copilot without requiring users to start a chat. The feature scans recent email activity, produces an evening briefing, and suggests priorities for the next day—while offering no dedicated switch to disable the prompt. Source 👉@sysadminoff https://4sysops.com/archives/microsoft-finds-another-way-to-push-copilot-into-outlook/

Claude Opus 5 wipes a Windows profile after mistaking `/c/Users` for a backup path A Claude Opus 5 session reportedly erased an entire Windows user profile after misreading a Unix-style `/c/Users/...` path and issuing `rm -rf` against it. The incident highlights how quickly an AI coding agent can turn a routine backup task into irreversible data loss when it has unrestricted filesystem access. Source 👉@sysadminoff https://4sysops.com/archives/claude-opus-5-wipes-a-windows-profile-after-mistaking-c-users-for-a-backup-path/

Calibre 9.13 fixes ebook search that wasn’t working in the content server A new bug-fix release of Calibre, the open-source e-book manger, view and converter, is available for download. Calibre 9.13 resolves a number of PDF-related issues, including one for Linux distributions that ship an ‘ancient’ version of the libxml2 library. To avoid errors that could cause when converting PDFs on Linux, Calibre now preloads its html5-parser library. A comment in the file explains: “QtWebEngineProcess on some ancient Linux systems probes for GPU backends which loads swrast_dri.so which links against system libxml2, which overwrites or global libxml2 symbols. So we preload lxml and html5_parser as a workaround. Thankfully this is basically only […] You're reading Calibre 9.13 fixes ebook search that wasn’t working in the content server, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission. 👉@sysadminoff https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/calibre-9-13-bug-fix-update

📰 AMD Updates HDMI 2.1 VRR & ALLM Patches But Will Miss Out On Linux 7.3 Complementing the HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support that AMD already upstreamed to the Linux kernel, AMD engineers have been further ironing out their HDMI 2.1 implementation for the open-source AMDGPU Linux kernel driver. The latest quest has been getting HDMI 2.1 variable rate refresh (VRR) support upstreamed along with HDMI Auto Low-Latency Mode (ALLM)... 🔗 Source: #amd #kernel #linux #opensource 👉@sysadminoff https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-HDMI-VRR-ALLM-v2

📰 Calibre 9.13 E-Book Manager Improves PDF Output, Content Server, and More Calibre 9.13 open-source ebook manager is now available for download as a bugfix release that addresses various regressions introduced in the previous release and other issues. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/calibre-9-13-e-book-manager-improves-pdf-output-content-server-and-more #opensource 👉@sysadminoff

📰 Zapscape Is The Latest Linux Vulnerability For KVM Guest-To-Host Escape, LPE Made public earlier today is Zapscape as a guest-to-host escape vulnerability affecting the Linux KVM x86 code for the past six years. This 2020 kernel change to KVM x86 can also be used as a local privilege escalation (LPE) exploit too where /dev/kvm is world-writable on some Linux distributions like RHEL... 🔗 Source: #kernel #linux 👉@sysadminoff https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Zapscape-Vulnerability

ByteDance is training a 10 trillion-parameter AI model, the largest ever built ByteDance, the Chinese tech company behind TikTok and other content platforms, is developing a potential AI model with 10 trillion parameters, making it roughly 2 trillion parameters larger than Anthropic's Mythos, according to sources familiar with the project. Source 👉@sysadminoff https://4sysops.com/archives/bytedance-is-training-a-10-trillion-parameter-ai-model-the-largest-ever-built/

📰 Proxmox VE Officially Expands Beyond x86 With Arm64 Support Proxmox VE gains its first official Arm64 edition, bringing KVM, LXC, ZFS, Ceph, clustering, and enterprise support to Arm servers. 🔗 Source: #arm 👉@sysadminoff https://linuxiac.com/proxmox-ve-officially-expands-beyond-x86-with-arm64-support/

NatJack finds every tested NAT implementation vulnerable to attack NatJack research presented at Black Hat USA 2026 found exploitable behavior in all 32 tested NAT products and configurations, spanning Windows, Linux, and macOS. The attack class can hijack active connections, poison DNS responses, or disable connectivity without requiring IP spoofing or Layer 2 access. Source 👉@sysadminoff https://4sysops.com/archives/natjack-finds-every-tested-nat-implementation-vulnerable-to-attack/

В freenginx и nginx добавили проверку размера текстовой переменной перед тем как записывать в неё данные (+ CVE) TL;DR: Столкнувшись с третьим обнаруженным за 2026 год переполнением буфера (и, по версии F5, RCE если нет ASLR) при работе с регэкспами и переменными, разработчик freenginx Максим Дунин решил, что пора это прекращать, и добавил в свой продукт проверку размера переменной перед тем как записывать в неё данные. Оттуда это нововведение утащили к себе и nginx, что даёт надежду на прекращение новых CVE на эту тему.Теперь подробности.( читать дальше... )Уязвимость появилась в версии nginx 0.9.6, исправления попали в версии freenginx 1.31.3, nginx 1.30.4, nginx 1.31.3.( читать дальше... )  buffer overflow, freenginx, nginx, уязвимость 👉@sysadminoff https://www.linux.org.ru/news/security/18354205

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