Late Night Linux – Episode 344

Intel kills its Linux distro without any notice, the UK government might ban state organisations from paying ransomware ransoms, we laugh at a vibe coding disaster, KDE’s new immutable arch-based distro, and more.

News

All good things come to an end: Shutting down Clear Linux OS (community.clearlinux.org/t/all-good-things-com…)

Clear Linux OS terminated as Intel trims the fat (theregister.com/2025/07/21/intel_clear_linux_d…)

Final Benchmarks Of Clear Linux On Intel: ~48% Faster Than Ubuntu Out-Of-The-Box (phoronix.com/review/clear-linux-48p-ubuntu)

UK to lead crackdown on cyber criminals with ransomware measures (gov.uk/government/news/uk-to-lead-crackdown-on…)

Hacker Plants Computer ‘Wiping’ Commands in Amazon’s AI Coding Agent (404media.co/hacker-plants-computer-wiping-comm…)

Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database (theregister.com/2025/07/21/replit_saastr_vibe_…)

Terribly edited video (linkedin.com/posts/ugcPost-7352449777982214144…)

KDE Linux (kde.org/linux)

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