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Tang Console: Compact FPGA Platform for Development and Retro Gaming

Sipeed has recently launched the Tang Console, described as a compact FPGA platform designed for developers and hardware enthusiasts. It offers a flexible and portable solution for applications such as hardware prototyping and retro gaming system emulation.

Toradex Adds SMARC iMX8M Plus and iMX95 to Its Embedded Portfolio

Toradex has introduced a new System on Module family to support projects requiring the SMARC standard. Featuring connectivity, advanced multimedia, and machine learning capabilities, the modules are compatible with Torizon Embedded Linux, offering long-term support and secure remote management.

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Understanding the User Interface of Gummi LaTeX Editor

After we finished installing it, now this tutorial will explain the user interface of Gummi LaTeX editor. We will explain the six parts of its window including the purposes of their contents in simple yet easy to understand way. This knowledge will be useful when you start writing LaTeX documents later. Now feel free to start reading!

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GNOME 47.3 Improves Frame Rate for Monitors Attached to Secondary GPUs

Coming about seven weeks after GNOME 47.2, the GNOME 47.3 release is here to improve input → output latency of cursor movements, implement wp_viewport support for cursor surfaces, enhance Xwayland support, and improve frame rate for monitors attached to secondary GPUs in copy mode.

GNOME 46.8 Release Speeds Up Thumbnail Loading in the Nautilus File Manager

Those of you still using the GNOME 46 desktop environment series will be happy to learn that the GNOME 46.8 release speeds up thumbnail loading in the Nautilus (Files) file manager, improves support for the Trisquel GNU/Linux distribution in the GNOME Boxes app, and adapts more components to the new GNOME Release Service.

Arch Linux Installer Archinstall Gets Support for the Wayfire Wayland Compositor

The biggest change in the Archinstall 3.0.2 release is support for the Wayfire Wayland compositor and stacked window manager. When installing Arch Linux, Wayfire can be selected as a standalone environment from the Profile > Desktop section, but you’ll also be able to use it in other desktop environments, such as Xfce 4.20.

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Connection for a Cause: One Woman’s Journey of Digital Empowerment

Growing up in a small village in Murang’a County, Kenya, Ruth Njeri had nearly no access to the digital world. Today, she is the lead engineer of the Tanda Community Network in Kibera—the largest slum in Africa—and is working to empower local women with technical knowledge, new skills, and increased opportunities.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 22, 2022

Critical Windows code-execution vulnerability went undetected until now | Ars Technica

Microsoft elevates security rating for vulnerability resembling EternalBlue.
SFP#18: IT-Security from a cryptographer's point of view with Cryptie

A cryptographer and privacy specialist Amandine Jambert, a.k.a. Cryptie, is our guest in the 18th Software Freedom Podcast episode. With her experience, Cryptie is the perfect person to tackle some basics about Security in Free Software.

Cryptie has been involved with Free Software for around 20 years now and has been a volunteer for the FSFE for 10 years. Together Cryptie and Bonnie Mehring discuss the basics of cryptography and discover what a privacy specialist is. They then move on to the basics of IT-Security and talk about prejudices against the security of Free Software. If you have wondered what is needed to make Software more secure this is the perfect episode for you to start with this topic and learn about the basics of IT-Security.
Running in Place: Staying Afloat With Language-Level Vulnerability Management - CPO Magazine

The patch management process can be painful, tedious, and time and labor intensive. Often, all this effort is for no other purpose than to maintain the operational status quo. And for devs or sysadmins, patch management has to happen on top of handling every-day activities as well as any other additional challenges that occur during service interruptions or system reboots.
New DDoS Botnet Malware Infecting Windows, Linux, and IoT Devices [Ed: Citing Microsoft as authority on security while it puts back doors in its very own products is ludicrous; this is Microsoft badmouthing "Linux" or concern-trolling for PR]

A cross-platform botnet, ‘MCCrash’ that starts out from malicious software downloads on Windows devices and spreads to a range of Linux-based devices was recently examined by the Microsoft Defender for IoT research team.
Changes/XServerProhibitsByteSwappedClients - Fedora Project Wiki

X server implementations (e.g. Xorg and Xwayland) will (by default) no longer allow clients with different endianess to connect.

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LinuxGizmos.com

Tang Console: Compact FPGA Platform for Development and Retro Gaming

Toradex Adds SMARC iMX8M Plus and iMX95 to Its Embedded Portfolio

Ubuntu Buzz !

Understanding the User Interface of Gummi LaTeX Editor

9to5Linux

GNOME 47.3 Improves Frame Rate for Monitors Attached to Secondary GPUs

GNOME 46.8 Release Speeds Up Thumbnail Loading in the Nautilus File Manager

Arch Linux Installer Archinstall Gets Support for the Wayfire Wayland Compositor

Internet Society

Connection for a Cause: One Woman’s Journey of Digital Empowerment

Security Leftovers

Critical Windows code-execution vulnerability went undetected until now | Ars Technica

SFP#18: IT-Security from a cryptographer's point of view with Cryptie

Running in Place: Staying Afloat With Language-Level Vulnerability Management - CPO Magazine

New DDoS Botnet Malware Infecting Windows, Linux, and IoT Devices [Ed: Citing Microsoft as authority on security while it puts back doors in its very own products is ludicrous; this is Microsoft badmouthing "Linux" or concern-trolling for PR]

Changes/XServerProhibitsByteSwappedClients - Fedora Project Wiki

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