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What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News (tilvids.com)
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Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:50 Sponsor: Internxt 02:24 Kernel devs agree to remove AI disclosure, Torvalds goes off on A.I. 04:54 Kernel 7.3 released 06:24 Big influx of Rust code in Kernel 7.4 07:40 Bitwarden moves to a commercial license, mostly 10:06 KeePassXC supports auto-type on Wayland now 11:12 Mint shows more of their new apps 13:01 LibreOffice is getting record download numbers 14:49 Proposed AI assistant prototype for Ubuntu 17:43 OpenBSD gets Wine and runs Windows games 19:13 Cutefish desktop revived as a vibe coded MacOS Clone 21:06 Epic Game Stores new preview looks pretty bad 22:55 Big Tech funds study to warn against digital sovereignty 25:18 Massive PHP flaw discovered, and patched 27:47 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

Links Kernel devs agree to remove AI disclosure, Torvalds goes off on A.I. https://www.xda-developers.com/linus-calls-banning-ai-generated-code-utterly-stupid-as-linux-submissions-no-longer-need-llm-disclosure/

Kernel 7.3 released https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-kernel-7-3-release/

Big influx of Rust code in Kernel 7.4 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Rust

Bitwarden moves to a commercial license, mostly https://community.bitwarden.com/t/published-version-update-in-app-stores/102750

KeePassXC supports auto-type on Wayland now https://keepassxc.org/blog/2026-10-21-2.8.0-released/

Mint shows more of their new apps https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/linux-mint-new-system-monitor

LibreOffice is getting record download numbers https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/21/8-weeks-9-4-million-downloads/ https://linuxiac.com/libreoffice-hits-9-4-million-downloads-in-just-eight-weeks/

Proposed AI assistant prototype for Ubuntu https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/ubuntu-ai-launcher-prototype

OpenBSD gets Wine and runs Windows games https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175 https://linuxiac.com/wine-on-openbsd-yes-and-it-can-already-run-the-witcher-3/

Cutefish desktop revived as a vibe coded MacOS Clone https://itsfoss.com/news/cutefishos-vibe-coded-desktop/

Epic Game Stores new preview looks pretty bad https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/21/epic-rolls-out-vibe-coded-launcher-update-its-absolute-trash/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/epic-games-launcher-preview-is-slowly-becoming-actually-usable-on-linux/

Big Tech funds study to warn against digital sovereignty https://itsfoss.com/news/eu-cloud-sovereignty-cada-cost-study/

Massive PHP flaw discovered, and patched https://www.wiz.io/blog/php2shell-php-rce https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw98z6qlyvg3o

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[โ€“] 1 point 1 week ago (5 children)

About Linux kernel, not all of them share the opinion that LLMs are really helpful in every way. There is a talk about how they affect the kernel work on a daily basis, the first 35 minutes is the talk, rest questions and answers: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=NnV_cWeoo5Q -> I don't want to know how much energy is only wasted for all these thousands of bug reports that are duplicated, already fixed, stolen from researchers that were using LLM chats and so on. How can Linus still make such a strong claims when it is clearly not that helpful? When patches even include human fails from 20 years ago, because the data is trained by the whole history of human mistakes, too? Sad to hear about Bitwarden, but never used it. I always had the feeling this will happen. Even more sad about KeepassXC, because I used it and was happy, but never realized the vibecoding policy and I don't trust those who are not only using them on such important security applications, but especially that early. Was looking deeper into it and it seems there is an anti-AI fork called Chipass that forked the version before KeepassXC was introducing the new policy. I will look a bit deeper next days, but currently I am 80% sure to switch over to it. The browser integration for KeepassXC is not allowing LLMs and support Chi, so no issues at this front. Chi is hosted on Codeberg for those also want to give a look.

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    @half Oh, didn't know ChiPass supported the browser extension! I might have to try it out soon. Not too much of a fan of KeePassXC's LLM policies, so if ChiPass works with that then I'll probably switch (it's a fork so should have equivalent functionality right?)

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 week ago (3 children)

    @scallisto They mentioned it in a pinned issue, haven't tried, yet. ChiPass supports everything that KeepassXC could do at least one year ago. Newer features are likely not included, unless they already developed those in the last 6 months the project exists.

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