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2 articles First covered Apr 23, 2026, latest Apr 30, 2026

The Copy Fail launch graphic showing a stylized terminal prompt and the title text on a dark background.

'Copy Fail' lets a 732-byte script grab root on Ubuntu, RHEL, and SUSE. Patched April 29.

CVE-2026-31431 chains AF_ALG and splice() to write into the page cache of /usr/bin/su. Xint Code disclosed it on April 29, nine years after the bug shipped.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon desktop with GNOME 50

Open Source·7 days ago

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships Wayland-only, Rust coreutils, and post-quantum SSH by default

Canonical released Ubuntu 26.04 'Resolute Raccoon' on April 23. It's the first LTS without X11, ships kernel 7.0 and GNOME 50, and sets post-quantum SSH on by default.