No Tux Allowed
A Tech Podcast about tech things, rambles, and sometimes a penguin.
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A Tech Podcast about tech things, rambles, and sometimes a penguin.
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Social Media Meta Social Media Addiction Trial officially begins https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-federal-trial-child-social-media-addiction/ France Social media Age Verification struck down in court https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2vj433xqlo Was cited as a constitutional right to privacy issue AI Dystopia Google to allow users to remove watermarks from Gemini Output https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-will-allow-users-to-remove-watermarks-from-geminis-output AI models are now attacking everything and even when trying to give fake names in the prompts their still attacking real places https
Github Adds a new feature to Dependabot to add a cooldown period https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/github-adds-3-day-dependabot-cooldown.html https://github.blog/security/supply-chain-security/the-case-for-a-cooldown-why-dependabot-now-waits-before-issuing-version-updates/ Google AI search is getting more popular https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/googles-ai-search-is-rapidly-becoming-the-default-new-data-shows/ Cloudflare apparently has tools to block scrapers too, dunno how we missed this https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/03/cloudflare-launches-a-tool-to-combat-ai-bots/ Sam Altman says we might
EU Fines Google for antitrust AGAIN https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/eu-fines-google-1-billion-for-digital-markets-act-breaches-in-search-and-play-store/ Canonical snap-confine has a root access flaw HackerNews (Josh has issues with this report) https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/ubuntu-snap-confine-flaw-could-give.html Original report https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2026/07/21/cve-2026-8933-snap-confine-local-privilege-escalation Microsoft Says outage due to maintenance bug https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-blames-massive-microsoft-36
Valve Watch: Steam Deck LCD parts are being discontinued https://www.techpowerup.com/350758/valve-silently-discontinues-steam-deck-lcd-spares-at-ifixit Google vs Epic finally settles: App stores allowed https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/third-party-app-stores-coming-to-google-play-next-week-as-epic-settlement-withdrawn/ Josh has been playing Star Citizen https://starcitizen.com/en/ Bigpod sets up Openclaw https://openclaw.ai/ Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Suppo
Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux A
Microsoft extends Windows 10 Support for another year https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/windows-10-users-can-get-free-security-updates-until-2027-heres-how/ Costs $30 requires one drive and cloud backup enabled The end of Physical media in gaming Sony to end physical disk sales https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/07/sony-will-stop-making-physical-copies-of-playstation-games-in-2028/ Xbox testing a way to digitize existing physical game copies https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/xbox-reportedly-testing-a-way-to-digitize-physical-games-in-the-wake-of-playstation-killing-gam
About half of US adults are using AI chat bots https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/06/17/americans-and-ai-2026-chatbots-smart-devices-and-views-on-impact/ Most are still skeptical about it Mark Zuckerburg wants to create a “prediction market” https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/mark-zuckerberg-wants-meta-to-launch-its-own-prediction-market/ Currently doesn’t have fiscal money but a point system Valve Watch: Steam Machine shows up on a pre-order https://store.steampowered.com/hardware/steammachine You can build your own steam machine Steam OS https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/
Judge rules Google can be held liable for “AI Overview” summaries https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/nobody-needs-ai-to-search-the-internet-court-says-in-ruling-against-google/ FIFA Video Stream had a flaw that allowed “anyone to modify the contents” https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/bug-in-fifa-world-cup-internal-system-gave-anyone-ability-to-modify-tv-stream/ Anthropic has a golden advertising ticket https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/anthropics-latest-feud-with-the-trump-admin-may-actually-help-it-sales-data-suggests/ UK now Requires ID to use Social Media https://www.bleepingcomput
bigpod talks: wwdc 2026 so much AI Valve Watch - still waiting is disapointed Antropic releases and unreleases Fable 5 Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh htt
Security News: Redhat NPM packages were found to be compromised https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/red-hat-npm-packages-compromised-to-steal-developer-credentials/ These packages were not in a public repo redhat publishes for customers Another compromised github account Chrome Adds Per Device Session Cookie Protection https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-chrome-adds-session-cookie-theft-protection-for-all-users/ This should prevent things like the LTT youtube channel hack. At the possible tradeoff of user privacy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGXaAWbzl5A&pp=ygUY
Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux A
Plex increases lifetime license by 200% https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/plexs-200-lifetime-pass-price-hike-tries-forcing-users-to-another-subscription/ Use Jellyfin - https://jellyfin.org/ Tor Project launches a new crowdfunding campaign to fund “Internet Freedom projects” https://cyberinsider.com/tor-launches-crowdfunding-campaign-to-support-internet-freedom-projects/ https://internetfreedom.torproject.org/ Google Accidently leaks an unfixed Chrome vulnerability https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-accidentally-exposed-details-of-unfixed-chromium-flaw/ https://issues.
Valve Watch HDMI 2.1 comes to AMD on Linux https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/amd-is-adding-hdmi-2-1-support-for-linux-thats-good-news-for-the-steam-machine/ The Steam Controller Screams when dropped https://kotaku.com/valves-new-steam-controller-screams-when-you-drop-it-2000695650 Steam machine SKU and Price speculation rampant https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/steam-machine-2026-pricing-specs/ Steam Frame Shows up Steam Frame Compatibility Requirements posted https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamframe/compat Steam Frame shows up on Qualcom’s website https://www.qualcomm.com/xr-vr-ar/devic
Valve Watch Valve received “Game Consoles” in a shipment according to manifests https://videocardz.com/newz/valve-may-be-preparing-steam-machine-stock-as-game-consoles-reach-us-warehouse These might be Steam Machines, a Steam Deck restock, or even the Steam Frame Linux Kernel sees a new vulnerability, thanks to AI kernel.org announcement of it being fixed https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026042214-CVE-2026-31431-3d65@gregkh/ EU describes it more digestably. https://cert.europa.eu/publications/security-advisories/2026-005/ Ghostty terminal is leaving github, but of course they wanna
Valve Watch The Steam Controller Appears https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/04/steam-controller-the-ars-technica-review/ US Consumers lost $2.1 Billion due to Social Media Scams https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/27/consumers-lost-2-1-billion-to-social-media-scams-in-2025-ftc-reports/ US lawmakers are attempting to regulate AI https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-lawmakers-take-ai-chatbots-fraud-new-bills-2026-04-28/ Identity Systems are failing in the world of AI https://technode.global/2026/04/28/we-built-identity-systems-for-an-internet-that-no-longer-exists/ Send us feedback! mailto:co
Oscar Hedaya joins us to talk about his safe https://www.thespacesafe.com/ EU To Require all Batteries be user “serviceable” starting next year https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/07/10/council-adopts-new-regulation-on-batteries-and-waste-batteries/ Deezer says half of it’s new music is AI Generated https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/deezer-says-44-of-new-music-uploads-are-ai-generated-most-streams-are-fraudulent/ Time Cook CEO of Apple is stepping down https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/tim-cook-stepping-down-as-apple-ceo-john-ternus-taking-over/ Send us feedback! mail
Multiple Wordpress Plugins found with Backdoors https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/someone-planted-backdoors-in-dozens-of-wordpress-plugins-used-in-thousands-of-websites/ Netgear makes it’s way into FCC approval https://www.pcmag.com/news/netgear-scores-the-first-exemption-from-the-fccs-foreign-made-router-ban Waymo is slowly coming closer to London https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/london-gets-closer-to-its-first-robotaxi-service-as-waymo-begins-testing/ AI Segment Gallup polls says workers are hesitant to use AI https://apnews.com/article/ai-workplace-poll-gallup-gemini-chatgpt-e4c129e9773255
Articles: https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-ii/ Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://
Trivy Used Wrong Github actions Trigger leading to massive hack Github account was likely compromised https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/trivy-vulnerability-scanner-breach-pushed-infostealer-via-github-actions/ This got Cisco got hacked https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-source-code-stolen-in-trivy-linked-dev-environment-breach/ Axios NPM account compromised https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/axios-supply-chain-attack-pushes-cross.html Google paid $17.1million in Bug Bounty Rewards in 2025 https://security.googleblog.com/2026/03/vrp-2025-year-in-review.html AI is g
Ubuntu proposes removing btrfs, xfs, and zfs from signed grub builds (aka secureboot) https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/streamlining-secure-boot-for-26-10/79069 Meta and YouTube are found “negligent” in court case over social media addiction https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/25/jury-finds-meta-and-youtube-negligent-in-landmark-social-media-addiction-trial/ Systemd project implements Age Attestation merge request https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954 system76 employee steps in https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954#issuecomment-4032221990 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2026
MS Exchange Went Down, Again! https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-exchange-online-outage-blocks-access-to-mailboxes/ https://x.com/MSFT365Status/status/2033549405387706854 https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-officecom-outage-as-exchange-online-mailbox-go-down/ So much for the namesake Office 365 which has been advertised for being available 365 days per year. This is the 8th time they’ve had an outage in the last 12 months. Another AI Lawsuit over Training Data https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/16/merriam-webster-openai-encyclopedia-brittanica-lawsuit/ You know bu
YouTube is Still the King of Online Video Streaming and it ain’t Close https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/youtube-surpasses-disney-paramount-wbd-in-2025-ad-revenue/ Sidenote: YouTube expanding Deepfake Detection Services https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/youtube-expands-ai-deepfake-detection-to-politicians-government-officials-and-journalists/ Meta Bought Moltbook https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/meta-acquired-moltbook-the-ai-agent-social-network-that-went-viral-because-of-fake-posts/ OpenSUSE is possibly for sale? EQT is exploring options https://www.reuters.com/business/eqt-eyes-potential-6-
Apple Lists a Laptop for $600??? https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/say-hello-to-macbook-neo/ Two Options 256GB SSD or 512GB SSD It’s literally an iPhone Pro Anthropic AI is a US National Security Threat? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/technology/anthropic-defense-dept-openai-talks.html AWS and MS Azure confirm that customers can still use Claude https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/06/microsoft-anthropic-claude-remains-available-to-customers-except-the-defense-department/ California Now Requires Age Verification for Operating Systems and App Centers https://www.tomshardware.com/software/ope
US Army and Telemetry Data https://www.fastcompany.com/91497039/army-internet-surveillance-west-point-study the 1,000 most frequently requested internet resources on Army networks over a two-month period and found that 21.2% were “tracker domains.” A follow-up dataset showed that while trackers made up roughly 19% of the top domains, they accounted for nearly 42% of actual web requests. Data Centers in Space aren’t really that bad of an idea https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers Meta Buying AMD? https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/meta-could-end-up-owning-of-10-amd-in-new-chip-deal/ Me
David J. Farber, Passes Away at 91 NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/technology/david-farber-dead.html Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Farber Social Media is on Trial and it Might Actually Mean Something https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/22/tech/social-media-addiction-trial-tobacco-moment?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit Discord Mandates Age Verification, and Teamspeak is Overwhelmed https://kotaku.com/discord-alternative-teamspeak-age-verification-check-rivals-2000669693 Ubiquity is Enabling Russia https://hntrbrk.com/ubiquiti/ Send us feedback! m
