Cozy News Corner for Week 19 of 2026 – Your source for Open Source news

2026-05-11 03:05:47 - No Comments

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News

Title: LVFS Has Turned Up the Heat on Vendors Who Won't Contribute
By: Sourav Rudra
https://itsfoss.com/news/lvfs-consumption-quota/

Title: Good Job Dell and Lenovo! Hope Others Follow You
By: Sourav Rudra
https://itsfoss.com/news/lvfs-finally-has-premier-sponsors/

Title: Copy Fail Linux Kernel Flaw Allows Local Users to Gain Root
By: Bobby Borisov
https://linuxiac.com/copy-fail-linux-kernel-flaw-allows-local-users-to-gain-root/

Title: Dirty Frag is a New Linux Exploit That Grants Root, and There's No Proper Patch Yet
By: Sourav Rudra
https://itsfoss.com/news/dirty-frag-linux-exploit/

Title: Linux Kernel Killswitch Proposed After Recent Vulnerability Disclosures
By: Bobby Borisov
https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-killswitch-proposed-after-recent-vulnerability-disclosures/

Title: More stable kernels with partial Dirty Frag fixes
By: []()
https://lwn.net/Articles/1071483/

Title: After Copy Fail, Linux Now Faces Dirty Frag Privilege Flaw
By: Bobby Borisov
https://linuxiac.com/after-copy-fail-linux-now-faces-dirty-frag-privilege-flaw/

Title: killswitch for short-term emergency vulnerability mitigation
By: []()
https://lwn.net/Articles/1071861/

Title: Should You Be Worried About The Copy Fail Linux Exploit?
By: Sourav Rudra
https://itsfoss.com/news/copy-fail-linux-exploit/

Title: Steam May 2026 Client Update Adds Controller Popups and Battery Controls
By: Bobby Borisov
https://linuxiac.com/steam-may-2026-client-update-adds-controller-popups-and-battery-controls/

Title: Valve Ships Second Steam Client Update in May with More Steam Controller Fixes
By: Bobby Borisov
https://linuxiac.com/valve-ships-second-steam-client-update-in-may-with-more-steam-controller-fixes/

Title: MinIO Is Done With Open Source, What Are Your Options?
By: Sourav Rudra
https://itsfoss.com/news/minio-moves-away-from-open-source/

Title: NHS England May Make Public GitHub Repositories Private Over AI Concerns
By: Bobby Borisov
https://linuxiac.com/nhs-england-may-make-public-github-repositories-private/

Title: Eden: NHS goes to war against open source
By: []()
https://lwn.net/Articles/1070864/

Title: Sovereign Tech Agency Opens Paid Standards Program for Open Source Maintainers
By: Sourav Rudra
https://itsfoss.com/news/sovereign-tech-standards-program/

Title: PHP Officially Retires Its Legacy License
By: Bobby Borisov
https://linuxiac.com/php-officially-retires-its-legacy-license/

Title: The retirement of the PHP license
By: []()
https://lwn.net/Articles/1071253/

Title: Microsoft Marks 45 Years of DOS by Open-Sourcing Its Oldest-Known Source Code
By: Sourav Rudra
https://itsfoss.com/news/ms-dos-early-code-open-sourced/

Title: Canonical Says Ubuntu Infrastructure Is Facing Cross-Border DDoS Attack
By: Bobby Borisov
https://linuxiac.com/canonical-says-ubuntu-infrastructure-is-facing-cross-border-ddos-attack/

Title: After Days of DDoS, Now Ubuntu's Twitter Account Seems to be Compromised
By: Abhishek Prakash
https://itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-twitter-compromised/

Title: Typical Microsoft! Turns Out VS Code Was Adding Copilot as a Git Co-Author Without Telling Anyone
By: Sourav Rudra
https://itsfoss.com/news/vs-code-credits-copilot-for-human-work/

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