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New Release: Tails 7.6

Tor bridges are secret Tor relays that hide that you are connecting to Tor. If connecting to Tor is blocked from where you are, you can use a bridge as your first Tor relay to circumvent this censorship.

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Powered by the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel series and using the Mesa 26.0 graphics stack, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta ships today with the latest and greatest GNOME 50 desktop environment, with the addition of graphical Ubuntu Insights management controls in the Telemetry panel of the GNOME Settings app.

Tails 7.6 Privacy-Focused Linux Distro Released with Automatic Tor Bridges

The monthly Tails releases continue with Tails 7.6, which introduces support for automatic Tor bridges, a feature that lets the Tor Connection assistant ask about Tor bridges based on your region. According to the devs, this feature uses the same technology as Tor Browser’s connection assistant.

LibreOffice 26.2.2 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 80 Bug Fixes

Coming a month after LibreOffice 26.2.1, the LibreOffice 26.2.2 release brings more bug fixes to address various issues, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users, as well as stability improvements contributed by LibreOffice’s global community of developers, QA engineers, and ecosystem companies.

Firefox 150 Promises Support for the GTK Emoji Picker on Linux, Beta Out Now

Firefox 150 promises new features like support for the GTK emoji picker on Linux, allowing users to insert emoji by using the Ctrl+. keyboard shortcut (see it below in action), and the ability to reorganize PDF pages directly in the Firefox PDF viewer, including moving, copying, and deleting pages.

FreeCAD 1.1 Released with Improved Wayland Support, New Tools, and More

Coming a year and four months after FreeCAD 1.0, the FreeCAD 1.1 release promises to improve Wayland support, implement three-point lighting to improve the rendering of 3D models, add a search bar to the Preferences Editor, and support transparent Part Design previews.

LinuxGizmos.com

Pine64 FOSDEM 2026 Update Details PineNote and PineTab2 Progress

Pine64 has published a community update following FOSDEM 2026, outlining recent development activity, hardware demonstrations, and production challenges affecting its device lineup. The update highlights progress on PineNote and PineTab2 software, early work on PineTime Pro, and the impact of the ongoing DRAM shortage on several products.

Book Explores ELBE Workflows for Embedded Linux Systems

A new book titled Building Embedded Systems with Raspberry Pi, Linux, and ELBE by Krishna Pattabiraman describes approaches for developing reproducible Debian-based embedded Linux systems using the ELBE build environment. The content focuses on structured system design, image generation, and long-term maintainability for Raspberry Pi–based platforms.

DietPi March 2026 Update Adds Immich, uv, and RustDesk Client

The March release of DietPi v10.2 introduces new software options including Immich, uv, and the RustDesk Client, along with a range of enhancements and bug fixes across supported single-board computers.

Internet Society

US Supreme Court Unanimously Defends Internet Access for Millions

The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of protecting people’s Internet access on Wednesday, 25 March.  

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 10, 2024

Pygmy hippopotamus with open mouth

Updated This Past Day

  1. Vista 11 is Rotting in The Netherlands
    Netherlands is notorious for some Microsoft fanboyism
  2. Edward Snowden's Leaks Proved That GCHQ Targeted Tor Network, So Why Not Other Security and Encryption Tools?
    This isn't "conspiracy theory" territories; it makes perfect sense for GCHQ (and NSA) to try to undermine the confidentiality of all communications
  3. Puff Pieces as a Service (Fake Articles for Sponsors to Link to)
    Channel Futures and Red Hat Summit, money seems to have changed hands

    New

  4. In 2 years Techrights Too Will Turn 20
    Still stronger than ever.
  5. Links 09/06/2024: Microsoft Adds Windows’ Mass Surveillance (Recall) in Hibernation First (Boiling Frog, Like UEFI 'Secure' Boot)
    Links for the day
  6. Gemini Links 09/06/2024: Advertising and RISC OS 5.30
    Links for the day
  7. Netherlands: GNU/Linux and Chromebooks at About 5% - Highest in a Year
    Maybe it's time to "Recall" what Microsoft truly is
  8. Bullying by the Debian Project is a Disservice to Its Reputation and Its Community (of Volunteers and Users)
    Debian even attacks its own users; Novell, Microsoft's lapdog, was never this aggressive
  9. For the First Time, Android Measured as Higher (in Web Usage) Than Windows in New Zealand
    Operating System Market Share New Zealand: Jan 2009 - June 2024
  10. [Meme] The Web as a Source of News
    News as webspam
  11. Microsoft's Windows Has Fallen to New Lows in India (Just 13.7% According to statCounter)
    Setting apart desktops and laptops, Windows is also down this month
  12. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  13. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 08, 2024
    IRC logs for Saturday, June 08, 2024

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

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

    Span from 2024-06-03 to 2024-06-09
    1328 /n/2024/06/07/Firefox_is_Dying_and_China_s_Opera_Already_Outgrew_Mozilla_in_M.shtml
    1295 /n/2024/06/08/GNU_Linux_Now_20_in_Norway_s_Desktops_Laptops_Over_10_Across_Al.shtml
    1210 /n/2024/06/05/The_EPO_is_Boiling_the_Staff_According_to_the_Central_Staff_Com.shtml
    1200 /n/2024/06/08/Preserving_Information_About_Debian_s_SSH_Blunder_Amid_Revelati.shtml
    1130 /n/2024/06/07/In_Asia_Mozilla_Firefox_Already_Fell_to_1_Below_Samsung_Interne.shtml
    1040 /n/2024/06/02/statCounter_Bing_Has_Lost_Market_Share_Since_the_Chatbot_Hype_i.shtml
    993 /n/2024/06/08/Edward_Brockelsby_how_expelled_hacker_took_over_Debian_s_SSH2_p.shtml

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Linux-friendly and Hackable Hardware Leftovers
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