Late Night Linux – Episode 356

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 (theregister.com/2025/10/20/amazon_aws_outage)

Ubuntu 25.10 lands: Rustier and Wayland-ier, but Flatpak is broken (theregister.com/2025/10/14/ubuntu_2510_is_here)

WireGuard bug (bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apparmor/+bu…)

Xubuntu website got hacked and is serving malware (trojan) (reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1oad1m6/xubuntu_we…)

Confirmation from Sean (floss.social/@bluesabre/115401767635718361)

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach (theverge.com/news/797051/discord-government-id…)

Framework flame war erupts over Linux controversy (theregister.com/2025/10/14/framework_linux_con…)

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