Framework Sponsorship Controversy and Community Backlash

An AWS outage takes down a lot more sites and services than it should have, the new Ubuntu release has some surprisingly bad bugs, the Xubuntu website is compromised, Discord proves that uploading IDs is a bad idea, and Framework disappoints by sponsoring the baddies.

News

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

Ubuntu 25.10 lands: Rustier and Wayland-ier, but Flatpak is broken

WireGuard bug

Xubuntu website got hacked and is serving malware (trojan)

Confirmation from Sean

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

Framework flame war erupts over Linux controversy

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