HPR4518: Cosy News Corner for Week 46 - Your source for Open Source news

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We just found out that Daniel Persson has his own YouTube Channel.

He's currently doing a series called "Cosy News Corner - Your source for Open Source news", and we're posting the audio of one sample episode here.

The link to the video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zZCa2neliA

The channel url is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnG-TN23lswO6QbvWhMtxpA and you can add the channel to your rss reader opml using the following line.

The link to the RSS for the Cozy News Corner podcast is https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=PLP2v7zU48xOIq-TXWuBrhGKNJCyZkblMZ

Title: Debian Mandates Rust for APT, Reshaping Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros

By: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols - TheNewstack

https://thenewstack.io/debian-mandates-rust-for-apt-reshaping-ubuntu-and-other-linux-distros/

The Complexity of Simplicity

Keynote given at TalosCon by Oxide Co-Founder and CTO Bryan Cantrill in Amsterdam on October 17, 2025.

"He went into Rust pretty skeptical honestly and it came back realizing that there were so many things that he viewed to be essential complexity that were actually accidental complexity."

If you have not learned Rust and you are unfamiliar with the most important thing about Rust to someone who's new to Rust is the way it handles errors, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5uN2634o

Title: Ubuntu's Rust Transition Hits Another Bump as sudo-rs Security Vulnerabilities Show Up

By: Sourav Rudra - It's FOSS

https://itsfoss.com/news/sudo-rs-issue-ubuntu/

Title: Snapchat Open Sources Cross-Platform UI Framework

By Loraine Lawson - TheNewstack

https://thenewstack.io/snapchat-open-sources-cross-platform-ui-framework/

https://github.com/Snapchat/Valdi

Title: # Solo.io Open Sources Agentregistry, With Support for Agent Skills

By: Heather Joslyn - TheNewstack

https://thenewstack.io/solo-io-open-sources-agentregistry-with-support-for-agent-skills/

Title: FFmpeg Calls Google's AI Bug Reports "CVE Slop"

By: Sourav Rudra - It's FOSS

By: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols - TheNewstack

https://itsfoss.com/news/ffmpeg-google-fiasco/

https://daniel.haxx.se/

Title: Ubuntu's New 15-Year Commitment Targets Long-Lived Enterprise Systems

By: Sourav Rudra - It's FOSS

https://itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-15-year-support-commitment/

Title: Mozilla Unveils Plans for New 'AI Window' Browsing Mode in Firefox, Opens Signups

By: Sourav Rudra - It's FOSS

By: Ajit Varma - Distilled

https://itsfoss.com/news/mozilla-ai-window-plans/

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/ai/

Title: Nitrux 5.0.0 Released: A 'New Beginning' That's Not for Everyone (By Design)

By: Sourav Rudra - It's FOSS

https://itsfoss.com/news/nitrux-5-release/

https://nxos.org/

Title: You Can Play Classic D3D7 Games on Linux With This New Project, But Don’t Expect Perfection

By: Sourav Rudra - It's FOSS

https://itsfoss.com/news/play-d3d7-games-on-linux/

https://github.com/WinterSnowfall/d7vk

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