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New Release: Tails 7.0

Tails 7.0 is dedicated to the memory of Lunar (1982–2024). Lunar was a traveling companion for Tails, a Tor volunteer, Free Software hacker, and community organizer.

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Ubuntu 25.10 Beta Released with Linux Kernel 6.17, GNOME 49, and More

Powered by the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel and featuring the recently released GNOME 49 desktop environment, Ubuntu 25.10 (codename Questing Quokka) promises many interesting changes like sudo-rs as the default implementation of sudo and a Wayland-only session for Ubuntu Desktop.

KDE Plasma 6.5 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing

KDE Plasma 6.5 is packed with lots of goodies for everyone, including major UI improvements to the Sticky Note widget, support for displaying ink levels on your printers, rounded bottom corners for Breeze-decorated windows, and support for syncing the clipboard text between the client and server on remote sessions.

GNOME 48.5 Improves Support for WPA(2) Enterprise Networks, Legacy Tray Icons

GNOME 48.5 is here about five weeks after the GNOME 48.4 release and improves support for WPA(2) Enterprise network connections, improves the order in which extensions are enabled or disabled, improves legacy tray icon support, and adds support for updating the viewport after changing the virtual monitor size.

Tails 7.0 Anonymous Linux OS Officially Released, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”

Highlights of Tails 7.0 include a Debian 13 “Trixie” base and a kernel from the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS series from the upstream Debian release, the latest GNOME 48 desktop environment by default featuring GNOME Console as default terminal emulator and GNOME Loupe as default image viewer.

Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.3 Is Out with GNOME 49, Improved Webcam Support

Just like PorteuX 2.2, the PorteuX 2.3 release is still powered by the Linux 6.16 kernel series, but it now ships with the brand-new GNOME 49 desktop environment, which also includes a new terminal emulator application called Ptyxis. So if you want to use GNOME 49 on Slackware, you can download PorteuX right now.

GNOME 49 “Brescia” Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of GNOME 49 include a new “Do Not Disturb” toggle in Quick Settings, a dedicated Accessibility menu in the login screen, support for handling unknown power profiles in the Quick Settings menu, HDR brightness controls, support for passive screen casts, and support for async keyboard map settings.

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 “Gigi” Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing

Based on the latest Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series, the beta version of the upcoming Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 release is powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series and features the Cinnamon 6.4.12 desktop environment.

Mozilla Thunderbird 143 Open-Source Email Client Arrives as a Bugfix-Only Release

Mozilla Thunderbird 143 is here to fix a startup crash, another crash that occurred when importing email, a UI hang when adding a new email account, a folder restoring issue when changing to a new drafts folder and then back, and an issue where the menu bar was hidden after updating from Thunderbird 128 ESR to Thunderbird 140 ESR.

LinuxGizmos.com

TI expands C2000 portfolio with affordable real-time MCUs for motor control

The F28E12x devices integrate TI’s C28x digital signal processor core with advanced control peripherals and analog subsystems, enabling fast execution of Field-Oriented Control algorithms (FOC). With sensorless FOC running at electrical frequencies up to 2 kHz, designers can reach motor speeds of over 120,000 rpm.

LattePanda IOTA brings Intel N150 and RP2040 co-processor in palm-sized SBC

The IOTA is powered by an Intel Processor N150, a quad-core chip with a boost frequency of 3.6 GHz, compared to the 1.92 GHz Intel Atom x5-Z8350 in the V1.

ASUS Ascent GX10 Compact AI Supercomputer Now Available for Preorder

The GB10 Superchip combines a 20-core Arm v9.2 CPU with an integrated Blackwell GPU and fifth-generation Tensor Cores, supporting FP4 precision for efficient AI inferencing. The chip delivers up to 1,000 TOPS (1 petaFLOP) of AI performance, paired with 128 GB of LPDDR5x coherent unified memory. ASUS notes that this configuration enables handling of AI models with up to 200 billion parameters, with the ability to fine-tune models around 70 billion parameters locally.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 05, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Microsoft Azure Laying Off Thousands, Not Hundreds!
    1,500 layoffs in Azure alone
  2. [Meme] Future of IBM/Red Hat
    Red Hat: our future is partnering with this Microsoft thing where there have been mass layoffs every year since 2020

    New

  3. Links 04/06/2024: Suppression in China Amid Tiananmen Massacre Anniversary, EU Cracking Down on Encryption
    Links for the day
  4. Gemini Links 04/06/2024: New Feed Reader and Upcoming Closure of Chess Over Gemini
    Links for the day
  5. Microsoft Laid Off About 20,000 Workers in 2023, Not 10,000 Like the Media Likes to Say (Also Not Counting Temps and Contractors)
    face-saving spin
  6. Links 04/06/2024: Water Shortages and Attacks on Power Plants
    Links for the day
  7. [Meme] Faking Azure 'Demand'
    The bubble is imploding
  8. Last Month the Media Said Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Would Resume in July, Based on Sources. More People Say the Same This Month.
    When Microsoft said it would lay off about 2,000 people in the gaming division (and shut down whole studios) some corporate media cited sources claiming that the bloodbath would follow two months later - i.e. in July
  9. Microsoft's Windows Down to Single-Digit Market Share (Less Than 10%) in About 18 Countries in Africa
    According to statCounter data
  10. GNU/Linux Has Become a Lot More Mainstream
    it seems clear that the Developing World is adopting software developers
  11. Debian.ie (Ireland) is With Daniel Pocock ('Whack-a-Mole' at WIPO Just Doesn't Work)
    Microsofters pondered aloud about doing the same toTechrights
  12. Voting for Debian Developer Daniel Pocock in Ireland This Week
    Voting day is Friday
  13. Correcting the Term "Former" Debian Developer (or Emeritus Debian Developer)
    As it turns out, there's a complication associated with this term
  14. 'Stochastic Parrots' (a Term Coined by Timnit Gebru) Have Failed Microsoft and Now There Are Mass Layoffs in What Microsoft Repeatedly Dubbed a Strategic Growth Area
    Meanwhile, Microsoft is over 100 billion dollars in debt
  15. Phoronix Classifieds
    one job opening as "newsworthy"?
  16. [Meme] Attack the Messenger (the Author, Publisher)
    Never mind if what's reported is factual
  17. Amid Mass Layoffs at Microsoft in Africa GNU/Linux Surges in Usage
    it's up to 3.9%
  18. Mass Layoffs in Microsoft Azure Again, for the Fourth Year in a Row
    Thousands laid off again
  19. Links 03/06/2024: Spacecraft on the Moon, Tiananmen Square Censorship Ramping Up
    Links for the day
  20. Gemini Links 04/06/2024: Canon Construction, Coming Out, Abandoning Mobile Phones, and Microsoft's Anti-GPL Plagiarism
    Links for the day
  21. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  22. IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 03, 2024
    IRC logs for Monday, June 03, 2024

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-05-29 to 2024-06-04
    1719 /n/2024/05/30/The_Campaign_to_End_Richard_Stallman_Part_III_The_Reddit_Mob_So.shtml
    1491 /n/2024/05/30/The_Campaign_to_End_Richard_Stallman_Part_IV_The_Legitimate_Con.shtml
    1090 /n/2024/06/01/The_War_on_Free_Software_Reporters_Part_III_Doxing_and_LARPing.shtml
    980 /n/2024/06/02/statCounter_Bing_Has_Lost_Market_Share_Since_the_Chatbot_Hype_i.shtml
    976 /n/2024/06/01/Free_Software_is_the_Future_Open_Source_is_Just_Openwashing_Pro.shtml
    903 /n/2024/05/27/What_is_Secure_Boot.shtml

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