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Google Retires Gemini CLI for Closed-Source Antigravity CLI
On June 18 Google cut off Gemini CLI for free, Pro, and Ultra users and pushed them to a new tool, Antigravity CLI. It's more than a rename — and enterprise customers are the exception.
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Dirty Frag's Patch Spawned Fragnesia, a New Linux Root Bug
The patch for a Linux root exploit called Dirty Frag turned out to hide a second one. Fragnesia was found by an AI auditing tool — a clean illustration of why the page-cache-write bug class keeps outrunning the people patching it.
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Apache HTTP/2 Just Got an RCE Patch. Default Configs Are the Target.
CVE-2026-23918 is a double-free in Apache 2.4.66's mod_http2. Two frames crash the worker. On Debian and the official Docker image, the same bug becomes a viable RCE path. The fix shipped May 4.
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Ubuntu's Bad Week: Root Hole, DDoS, and an LTS in the Crossfire
Three things hit Ubuntu in nine days: a root-level Linux kernel exploit dropped without coordinated patches, a pro-Iran DDoS that knocked Canonical's web infrastructure offline, and the 26.04 LTS release landing in the middle of both. Here's what it means for whatever you use Ubuntu for.
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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 'Resolute Raccoon': Wayland-Only, Rust-Forward
Canonical released Ubuntu 26.04 LTS — codenamed Resolute Raccoon for Steve Langasek — on April 23. It is the first Ubuntu LTS without an Xorg session, ships GNOME 50 on Linux 7.0, and replaces GNU coreutils with a Rust implementation by default.
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France Orders All Ministries to Ditch Windows for Linux
France's digital agency DINUM is migrating its own workstations to Linux and has ordered every government ministry to submit plans to eliminate extra-European software dependencies by autumn 2026 — the most concrete digital sovereignty mandate any EU state has issued.
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California's Age Verification Law Has an Open-Source Problem
California's Digital Age Assurance Act requires every operating system to verify user age and expose an API for apps. At least one open-source OS has responded by banning California users entirely.