Linux Action News 269

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Old school Ubuntu has a new cool, Google calls out Google, and some IoT news you can use. Sponsored By: Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Support Linux Action News Links: New versions of Ubuntu Touch, Mir, and Unity arrive — Various parts of Ubuntu's canceled desktop/fondleslab convergence project are all still ticking away – some officially and some thanks to user communities. Ubuntu Touch OTA-24 Release Mir release 2.10.0 Unity 7.6 is now available for Arch Linux Ubuntu Touch OTA-24 Released for Ubuntu Phone Users Google updates 2013 Chromecast for first time in over three years — In a new batch of Chromecast updates, Google has released new firmware for the first-generation Chromecast for the first time in years. Chromecast firmware versions and release notes Eufy cameras caught sending local footage to cloud — Paul Moore, a security researcher, posted on Twitter last week a frightening security situation with Eufy home security products including camera-equipped doorbells. Google says Google should do a better job of patching Android phones — Project Zero calls out Android and Pixel for not fixing a GPU vulnerability. ClamAV 1.0.0 Released — The first version of ClamAV, which is developed by the US-based tech company Cisco and the open-source community, was released back in 2002. 20 Years in the Making: ClamAV Finally Hits Version 1.0 Compute Accelerator Subsystem Being Introduced For Linux 6.2 — It's happening: the new "accel" compute accelerator subsystem is now queued for introduction with the Linux 6.2 kernel once that merge window opens in December. Red Hat Developers Announce Work On New “Composefs” File-System — Red Hat is working on Composefs as a way to construct and use read-only images that are verifiable and have some immediate use-cases around sharing of Podman container layers and with the verification support for use by OSTree. GitHub - composefs