Les mots de passe disparaissent un peu plus de WhatsApp : du moins, l'application étend l'emploi des passkeys. Déjà déployés pour l'accès à la messagerie, ils arrivent pour la sauvegarde.

Une version bêta de l'application Google Maps explore une manière radicale d'économiser l'énergie. L'idée ? Retirer le maximum d'éléments à l'écran et basculer dans un affichage en noir et blanc.

The Universal Blue project has announced the Fall update for the Fedora-based Bazzite gaming distribution. This release brings Bazzite up to Fedora 43, includes support for additional handheld gaming systems, as well as drivers for a number of steering wheel devices, and more.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-21-openjdk and libtiff), Debian (pdns-recursor and xorg-server), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, dtk6core, dtk6gui, dtk6log, dtk6widget, fcitx5-qt, fluidsynth, gammaray, kddockwidgets, LabPlot, mingw-qt6-qt3d, mingw-qt6-qt5compat, mingw-qt6-qtactiveqt, mingw-qt6-qtbase, mingw-qt6-qtcharts, mingw-qt6-qtdeclarative, mingw-qt6-qtimageformats, mingw-qt6-qtlocation, mingw-qt6-qtmultimedia, mingw-qt6-qtpositioning, mingw-qt6-qtscxml, mingw-qt6-qtsensors, mingw-qt6-qtserialport, mingw-qt6-qtshadertools, mingw-qt6-qtsvg, mingw-qt6-qttools, mingw-qt6-qttranslations, mingw-qt6-qtwebchannel, mingw-qt6-qtwebsockets, nheko, python-pyqt6, qt-creator, qt6, qt6-qt3d, qt6-qt5compat, qt6-qtbase, qt6-qtcharts, qt6-qtcoap, qt6-qtconnectivity, qt6-qtdatavis3d, qt6-qtdeclarative, qt6-qtgrpc, qt6-qthttpserver, qt6-qtimageformats, qt6-qtlanguageserver, qt6-qtlocation, qt6-qtlottie, qt6-qtmqtt, qt6-qtmultimedia, qt6-qtnetworkauth, qt6-qtopcua, qt6-qtpositioning, qt6-qtquick3d, qt6-qtquick3dphysics, qt6-qtquicktimeline, qt6-qtremoteobjects, qt6-qtscxml, qt6-qtsensors, qt6-qtserialbus, qt6-qtserialport, qt6-qtshadertools, qt6-qtspeech, qt6-qtsvg, qt6-qttools, qt6-qttranslations, qt6-qtvirtualkeyboard, qt6-qtwayland, qt6-qtwebchannel, qt6-qtwebengine, qt6-qtwebsockets, qt6-qtwebview, unbound, xorg-x11-server-Xwayland, and zeal), Oracle (kernel and libtiff), Red Hat (redis:6), Slackware (tigervnc and xorg), SUSE (java-21-openjdk, java-25-openjdk, strongswan, and xorg-x11-server), and Ubuntu (amd64-microcode, binutils, and xorg-server, xwayland).

EA a commencé à modifier la manière dont sont organisés les défis sur Battlefield 6. Certains ont été simplifiés pour que l'on puisse les compléter plus vite. Le studio a aussi intégré une option permettant de renouveler les challenges quotidiens et hebdomadaires -- mais dans une certaine limite.

C'est la fin d'une ère chez SpaceX : les travaux pour détruire le site de lancement numéro un à Starbase ont commencé. Des décombres jaillira ensuite un nouveau pad, modernisé, qui permettra de mieux accompagner l'arrivée de la prochaine génération du Starship.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Pixnapping attack; Fil-C; Debian ftpmasters; GoFundMe complaints; Safer user-space access.
• Briefs: Man pages 6.16; Btrfs on AlmaLinux; Fedora Linux 43; ICANN report; PSF grants; Rust Coreutils 0.3.0; Tor Browser 15.0; Quotes; ...
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Six ans après, Game of Thrones reste l'une des séries les plus marquantes de la dernière décennie. La célèbre adaptation par HBO des romans du Trône de Fer de George R.R Martin peut toujours être vue en streaming légal en France. Plusieurs options de SVOD ou VOD existent.

Alejandro Colomar has announced the release of version 6.16 of the GNU/Linux man pages. This release includes new or rewritten man pages for fsconfig(), fsmount(), and fsopen(), as well as a number of newly documented interfaces in existing man pages. The release is also available as a PDF book.

ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) has announced a report on "the critical role of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) within the Domain Name System (DNS)". The report is aimed at policymakers and examines recent cybersecurity regulations in the US, UK, and EU as they apply to FOSS in the DNS system; it includes findings and guidelines "to strengthen the FOSS ecosystem that is critical to the secure and stable operation of the Internet". From the report's summary:

This ecosystem depends on a global network of maintainers and contributors who are often unpaid volunteers. While many are unpaid volunteers, the DNS space is unique in also relying on a handful of long-lived maintenance organizations. This creates a model based on community collaboration rather than the commercial contracts that define a traditional software supply chain, which introduces unique risks related to financial sustainability for the maintenance organizations and maintainer burnout for volunteers.

These unique characteristics mean that regulatory frameworks designed for proprietary software may not be well-suited for FOSS and therefore could have severe unintended consequences to the stability of critical Internet infrastructure.

Thanks to SSAC member Maarten Aertsen for the tip.

A new class of attacks on Android phones, called "Pixnapping", was announced on October 13. It allows a malicious app to gather output rendered in a victim app, pixel-by-pixel, by exploiting a GPU side-channel. Depending on what the victim app displays, anything from sensitive email and chats to two-factor authentication (2FA) codes could be captured—and shipped off to an attacker's site.

Version 15.0 of the Tor Browser has been released:

This is our first stable release based on Firefox ESR 140, incorporating a year's worth of changes that have been shipped upstream in Firefox. As part of this process, we've also completed our annual ESR transition audit, where we reviewed and addressed around 200 Bugzilla issues for changes in Firefox that may negatively affect the privacy and security of Tor Browser users. Our final reports from this audit are now available in the tor-browser-spec repository on our GitLab instance.

This release inherits the vertical tabs feature, unified search button, as well as other new features and usability improvements in Firefox that have passed the Tor Project's audit.

Des photographes étaient sur place, le 28 octobre 2025, pour assister au premier vol du X-59, l'avion supersonique qui doit démontrer qu'il est possible de franchir le mur du son sans faire trop de bruit. Les clichés sont remarquables.

La France a lancé officiellement le chantier du nouveau radar Aurore, qui viendra prendre la suite du radar GRAVES. Objectif : donner au pays de nouveaux « yeux » pour observer tout ce qui se passe en orbite terrestre basse.

Debian's ftpmaster team has been responsible for allowing new packages to enter Debian, removing old packages, and otherwise maintaining Debian's package archive for more than two decades. As of October 26, the team is no more and its duties are being split between two new teams. The Archive Operations Team will focus on the infrastructure required to support the Debian archives, and the DFSG, Licensing & New Packages Team, which is responsible for reviewing packages entering the new queue. In time, this move could speed up processing of new packages, as well as making the teams more sustainable, but only after new members are recruited and trained. For now, the same folks are doing the work but spread across two teams.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.17.6, 6.12.56, 6.6.115, 6.1.158, 5.15.196, 5.10.246, and 5.4.301 stable kernels. As always, each contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users of these kernels are advised to upgrade.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (gimp, python-authlib, and xorg-server), Fedora (chromium and git-lfs), Mageia (poppler and tomcat), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, redis, and redis:6), SUSE (fetchmail, grafana, ImageMagick, kernel-devel, libluajit-5_1-2, proxy-helm, python-Authlib, and xen), and Ubuntu (linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15 and squid, squid3).

Suite à la panne majeure d'AWS, qui a causé des perturbations sur Signal, Elon Musk s'en est pris à l'application, jugeant inadmissible la dépendance de la messagerie instantanée à Amazon. Mais pour sa patronne, Meredith Whittaker, il n'a pas compris le véritable enjeu.

Sans crier gare, le prototype d'avion supersonique X-59 s'est placé sur la piste de décollage ce 28 octobre et a mis les gaz pour décoller. Il vient ainsi d'effectuer ton tout premier vrai vol.

Octobre 2025 a été un mois animé sur le terrain nucléaire. La France vient à ce propos d'annoncer la mise en service opérationnel d'un nouveau missile nucléaire pour ses sous-marins. Et la nouvelle génération de ce missile est dès à présent en chantier.