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Mozilla Firefox Quietly Adds Brave’s Adblock Engine

OnApril 24, 2026
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Firefox 149 quietly adds Brave’s adblock-rust engine as an experimental content-blocking prototype, disabled by default and without filter lists.

Fwupd 2.1.2 Adds AMD EntrySign HSI Check and More Hardware Support

OnApril 24, 2026

Fwupd 2.1.2 adds an AMD EntrySign HSI check, native CBOR parsing, safer firmware parsing limits, and support for more hardware.

Bitwarden Confirms Short-Lived npm Compromise Affecting CLI Package

OnApril 24, 2026

Bitwarden has confirmed a brief supply-chain compromise of its CLI 2026.4.0 npm package, with no evidence of vault data exposure.

Someone Made a Windows 95 Subsystem for Linux

OnApril 24, 2026
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WSL9x is not Microsoft WSL, but a retro Windows 95 and 98 project that makes Linux run where nobody expected it.

Ventoy 1.1.12 Fixes Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Install Failure

OnApril 23, 2026

Ventoy 1.1.12 fixes Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS install failures, resolves VirtualBox UEFI display issues, and improves Windows and WinPE boot handling.

OpenVPN 2.7.2 Fixes Two Security Flaws and Improves Password Handling

OnApril 22, 2026
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OpenVPN 2.7.2 fixes two security flaws, adds long password support in the management interface, and includes several bugfixes for Windows users.

Linux May Drop Legacy 3Com, AMD, and Xircom Ethernet Drivers

OnApril 22, 2026

The Linux kernel may drop 18 old Ethernet drivers for ISA- and PCMCIA-era hardware as maintainers question whether the aging code still has active users.