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📰Bork in Prague: SUSE's keynote gods demand their tribute Linux vendor touts European independence while rate limits, Chromium popups, and cold sparks steal the show BORK!BORK!BORK! The keynote gods are a fickle bunch, as SUSE discovered at its annual shindig in Prague. What should have been a slick edge demo instead served up error pages to unsuspecting attendees, while keynote presentations attracted some unwelcome visitors.… 🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/never_anger_the_keynote_demo/ #chromium#linux

📰Raspberry Pi owners are missing this one free tweak that changes everything A couple of years ago, when I was working on my Raspberry Pi 5, I noticed that it was very slow. I googled possible reasons, and the main one was its lack of RAM. It has 4 gigs of RAM, but I noticed that running multiple Chromium tabs made it run at a snail's pace. So, I looked for ways to increase the RAM. Given that I was using an SD Card as a hard drive, using a swap file wasn't really an option. However, I found a program called ZRAM and... 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/free-tweak-old-pi-changes-everything/ #chromium#raspberry

📰 New AgingFly malware used in attacks on Ukraine govt, hospitals A new malware family named 'AgingFly' has been identified in attacks against local governments and hospitals that steal authentication data from Chromium-based browsers and WhatsApp messenger. 🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-agingfly-malware-used-in-attacks-on-ukraine-govt-hospitals/ #chromium

📰 Latest Raspberry Pi OS Release Disables Passwordless sudo by Default Raspberry Pi OS 2026-04-13 is now available for download with a much-improved Control Center app, passwordless sudo disabled by default, Chromium enhancements, and many other changes. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/latest-raspberry-pi-os-release-disables-passwordless-sudo-by-default #chromium#raspberry

📰 Latest Raspberry Pi OS Release Disables Passwordless sudo by Default Raspberry Pi OS 2026-04-13 is now available for download with a much-improved Control Center app, passwordless sudo disabled by default, Chromium enhancements, and many other changes. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/latest-raspberry-pi-os-release-disables-passwordless-sudo-by-default #chromium#raspberry

📰HarfBuzz 14.0 Released With New GPU Accelerated Text Rendering Library HarfBuzz is the open-source text shaping engine originally born out of the FreeType project and now widely-used by GNOME, KDE, Java, Flutter, Godot, Chromium, LibreOffice, and countless other applications. HarfBuzz 14.0 released today and making this release quite exciting is introducing a GPU-accelerated text rendering library... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/HarfBuzz-14.0-Released #kde#opensource#chromium#gnome

📰 Chromium on MediaTek: From testing to real-world performance on Genio 700 & 720 A deep dive on the current status of Chromium enablement on MediaTek Genio SoCs, including what the numbers look like when MediaTek’s hardware codecs are driven by Chromium’s V4L2 paths. 🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/chromium-hardware-codecs-on-mediatek-genio-700-and-720-from-test-plans-to-real‑world-performance.html #chromium