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📰 Ubuntu 25.10 Users Can Now Upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Here’s How A step-by-step and easy-to-follow tutorial (with screenshots) on how to upgrade your Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) installations to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon). 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-25-10-users-can-now-upgrade-to-ubuntu-26-04-lts-heres-how #ubuntu

📰 Ubuntu 26.10 Development Officially Begins as ‘Stonking Stingray’ Takes Shape by George WhittakerCanonical has officially kicked off development planning for Ubuntu 26.10, the next interim release of the popular Linux distribution. Codenamed “Stonking Stingray,” the release is scheduled to arrive on October 15, 2026, continuing Ubuntu’s predictable six-month development cycle.Although Ubuntu 26. 🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ubuntu-2610-development-officially-begins-stonking-stingray-takes-shape #linux#ubuntu

📰 Downloaded Cemu for Linux recently? You may have malware If you recently downloaded the Cemu emulator for Linux from the project’s GitHub, be aware: it may have added malware to your system. The team behind the Wii U emulator discovered that both the official AppImage and its Ubuntu ZIP assets for the Cemu 2.6 release available to download from GitHub were “compromised”. Cemu’s Flatpak was not affected, nor were the GitHub installers for Windows and macOS. To wit: if you downloaded Cemu 2. 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/cemu-linux-malware #appimage#flatpak#linux#ubuntu

📰Running Four Intel Graphics Cards Under Linux On Ubuntu 26.04 It's been nearly one year to the week since Intel introduced Project Battlematrix as their initiative for improving their Linux driver support for the Arc Pro B-Series with enhancements such as bettering the multi-GPU support in allowing up to eight Arc Pro GPUs per system as well as other open-source driver optimizations in the era of AI. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-pro-b70-four #intel#linux#opensource#ubuntu

📰 Fix HEIC images not loading in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS If your HEIC photos show a “Could not load image” error in Ubuntu 26.04’s Image Viewer, you’re not alone – it’s an intentional breakage, albeit one that’s easy to fix. HEIC files are a variant of HEIF which use H.265/HEVC compression. If you own an iPhone or a newer Android device, the stock camera app uses this format by default. But Ubuntu 26. 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/fix-heic-images-not-loading-ubuntu-26-04 #android#ubuntu

📰 After Ubuntu, Now Fedora is Jumping Onto the AI Bandwagon With Dedicated AI Developer Desktops Planned across three new Fedora releases, the initiative targets Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and ARM hardware. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17337726/fedora-ai-developer-desktops #amd#arm#fedora#intel#ubuntu

📰 Ubuntu 26.04 is polished, but Fedora 44 asked less from me out of the box After installing both distros on the same hardware, Fedora’s cleaner defaults and smoother app experience made a stronger first impression. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/ubuntu-2604-polished-fedora-44-less-out-box/ #fedora#ubuntu

📰 Ubuntu Snap Prompting Improvements If you haven’t tried Ubuntu’s ‘Permission Prompting’ feature for a while, there’s more reason to do so in the latest release. Canonical’s Oliver Calder has shared an update on recent improvements to the security feature, which sets out to “empower users” by letting them decide what software can access on the rest of the system at runtime rather than retrospectively. 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/ubuntu-snap-prompting-client-improved #ubuntu

📰 Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 Lands as UBports Prepares 24.04-2.0 UBports releases Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 while preparing 24.04-2.0, targeting a newer Morph Browser stack with Qt 6 work. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-touch-24-04-1-3-released/ #ubuntu

📰After Days of DDoS, Now Ubuntu's Twitter Account Seems to be Compromised A fake AI agent, a near-identical Ubuntu URL, and a crypto wallet prompt, here's how hackers used Ubuntu's own branding against its users. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17335930/ubuntu-twitter-compromised #ubuntu

📰 Ubuntu’s old Unity desktop remade in Wayfire and Libadwaita If Canonical hadn’t burned through cash and goodwill during its smartphone detour in the mid-2010s, Ubuntu would likely still ship with the Unity desktop today – albeit in an evolved form. What would that form actually look like? Well, you don’t have to shut your eyes and imagine, thanks to Ubuntu community member Muqtxdir, who’s experiment in “re-building ubuntu’s unity shell in a wayfire session through gtk4-layer-shell and libadwaita... 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/ubuntu-unity-desktop-wayfire-recreation #ubuntu

📰 Linux 7.0 Release, Age Verification Laws, Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 & Other April Happenings A lot happened in the Linux and open-source world during the month of April. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 shipped, a lot of news around age attestation/verification laws, the Linux 7.0 kernel was released, Linux 7.1 is bringing many exciting changes as well as removing of old hardware drivers, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition CPU was released, we began testing the Intel Arc Pro B70 "BMG-G31", and much more software and hardware content that... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/April-2026-Highlights #fedora#intel#kernel#linux#opensource#ubuntu