Tux Machines

Do you waddle the waddle?

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Tor Project blog

New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 16.0a13

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

Arti 2.7.0 released

This release continues our ongoing development towards using Arti as a relay and as a directory authority, with much of the work focusing on document parsing, directory mirror support, and DNS stream handling. Additionally, arti now has RPC support for modifying and inspecting its configuration.

New Release: Tails 7.14

The Persistent Storage on the USB stick will be lost if you install instead of upgrading.

Internet Society

Why Internet Infrastructure Decisions Rarely Stay Localized

The open Internet is made up of countless interconnected networks. At its best, it is resilient enough to withstand disruptions. But even narrow policy and commercial choices can have ripple effects that shape what people can access, how information moves, and who gets to participate online.

A Safer Internet Starts with Taking Action: Introducing the Online Trust and Safety Hub

How can we best help people have a safe and secure experience online? How can we help them protect themselves from scams? Detect false information? Protect their data and systems?

schestowitz.com

Taylor Swift’s Advantage and Mistake (Outsourcing Her Work)

China’s Fentanylware

Reform UK is ‘The Company’, It Should be Shut Down for Acting as Proxy for Foreign Plutocrats and Convicted Felons Who Try to Shift Britain to the Right

OSINT shows that Reform UK is a giant scam in “political” clothing, selling itself using racism and tribalism

Reform UK is Not a Political Party, It’s a Private Company That Takes Bribes From Overseas Masters

Based on leaks

What Has Happened to Singers Who Can Play Several Musical Instruments?

“Smart” phone is not a “Musical Instrument”

Seven Years Since COVID-19

Where did time go?

When People Get Back to Art

Notorious for not paying anything

Football and the UK’s High Court

Is this still about sports?

If ManCity is Guilty, the Establishment Needs to Similarly Crack Down on the Sham ‘Hey Hi’ ‘Industry’

OK, good start?

Anderon as IBM Layoffs in Disguise (October 1st, 2026)

It’s coming

When Planes Go Missing or the “Enemy is Within”

Can one trust air crews?

LinuxGizmos.com

A733 development board with LPDDR5, PCIe storage and RISC-V coprocessor

Shenzhen Graperain Technology has featured an Allwinner A733 development platform with a gold-finger system-on-module and carrier board. It provides an octa-core Arm processor, 3-TOPS NPU, LPDDR5 memory, M.2 storage, GbE and multiple display and camera interfaces.

ESP32-S3 E Ink board with 800×480 display, mic array and IMU

Makerfabs has added a 7.5-inch model to its MaTouch E Ink family, pairing an 800 × 480 four-color electrophoretic display with an ESP32-S3 controller, four-microphone array, six-axis IMU, microSD storage and optional camera. The board is intended for applications including information displays, voice-controlled interfaces and low-power dashboards.

9to5Linux

Ubuntu 26.10 Beta Released with Linux Kernel 7.3 and GNOME 51

Powered by the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel series and using the latest Mesa 26.2 graphics stack, Ubuntu 26.10 Beta ships today with the recently released GNOME 51 desktop environment and the 100% Rust coreutils migration, as the default core utilities now run entirely on the Rust-based uutils implementation.

Arch Linux ISO Release for October 2026 Ships with the ArchInstall 4.5 Installer

Powered by Linux kernel 7.2.7, the Arch Linux 2026.10.01 ISO snapshot ships as a refreshed installation image that incorporates all the security patches, bug fixes, and updated packages that have been pushed to the Arch Linux software repositories throughout September 2026.

OpenMandriva Lx 26.09 “ROME” Released with KDE Plasma 6.7 and Linux Kernel 7.2

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.2 kernel series, OpenMandriva Lx 26.09 ROME features the latest KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment with the KDE Gear 26.08.1 and KDE Frameworks 6.29 software suites, as well as GNOME 50.3, Xfce 4.20, LXQt 2.4, MATE 1.28, Spectrwm, Hyprland 0.56.2, COSMIC 1.7, Sway 1.12, and others.

Systemd-Free Nitrux 7.0 Released with Linux Kernel 7.2 and Hyprland 0.55.4

Coming more than four months after Nitrux 6.1, the Nitrux 7.0 release is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.2 kernel series with CachyOS patches, namely Linux 7.2.6, and uses the Hyprland 0.55.4 Wayland compositor with the Lüv 0.8.9 icon theme, KDE Frameworks 6.26 software suite, and MauiKit 4.0.4.

Mozilla Thunderbird 157 Email Client Released with New Enterprise Policies

Mozilla Thunderbird 157 introduces two new enterprise policies, namely DisableChat and DisableFileLink, to disable the Thunderbird Chat functionality and the Thunderbird FileLink functionality, respectively, makes the IMAP/POP manual configuration port field optional, and updates the built-in Thundermail add-on to version 2.0.16.

Audacity 4.0.1 Audio Editor Restores Keyboard Shortcuts from Audacity 3

Audacity 4.0.1 adds support for exporting each track or each labelled region to its own file, restores the missing keyboard shortcuts from the Audacity 3 series, adds clickable carousel dots on the Welcome screen, adds a Liquid Glass app icon on macOS, and adds an “Open in file manager” option to the Cloud projects tab.

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