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New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.13

If you find a bug or have a suggestion for how we could improve this release, please let us know.

New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 16.0a6

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.12

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

Arti 2.3.0 released: Logging, Relay, Directory authority, and RPC development.

This release bumps the minimum MacOS version supported by Arti to 10.14, up from 10.12. Despite being supported on a technical level, we do not recommend the use of MacOS versions that old, as they are no longer receiving updates from Apple and may have unpatched security issues.

9to5Linux

KDE Frameworks 6.26 Improves Support for Kirigami and QtQuick-Based Apps

The KDE Frameworks 6.26 release is here to improve the appearance of the cross-fade transition when moving between pages in various Kirigami-based apps, and reduce the amount of blurriness seen in icons throughout QtQuick-based apps using the Kirigami.Icon component when using a low fractional scale factor like 150% or less.

TUXEDO BM 15 Is an Upgradable Business Linux Laptop with Smartcard and 4G LTE

TUXEDO BM 15 is powered by an Intel Core i5 120U processor with 10 cores, 12 threads, 5 GHz clock speed, 12 MB cache, and Intel Iris Xe Graphics, up to 64 GB DDR5 5600MHz Kingston RAM, up to 8 TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD storage, and a Full HD 15.6-inch matte display with 60 Hz refresh rate, 400 nits brightness, and 180 degree opening angle.

Dirty Frag Linux Kernel Flaw Allows Local Privilege Escalation, Patch Now

Dirty Frag is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Linux kernel modules that support ESP (Encapsulating Security Protocol), one of the protocols used in IPsec (Internet Protocol Security). This vulnerability is actually split into two CVEs, CVE-2026-43284 and CVE-2026-43500 (NVD entry pending).

Ubuntu Touch OTA 1.3 Improves Handling of Desktop Apps on Lomiri and Fixes Bugs

The Ubuntu Touch OTA 1.3 update is here two and a half months after the Ubuntu Touch OTA 1.2 update to improve the handling of desktop apps by allowing you to launch X11 apps outside of the Lomiri UI, such as from OpenStore or Snapz0r, fix the launching of GTK4 apps, and fix dangling placeholder windows and launcher entries when launching X11 apps.

KDE Gear 26.04.1 Is Out with More Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps

KDE Gear 26.04.1 is here to improve the search pop-up in the Dolphin file manager to stay hidden when launching kfind, add support for using the middle click to close a tab in the Kate text editor when the Close button is disabled, add an extractor script for monbus.es tickets to KItinerary, and prevent closing of tabs by QTabBar on middle mouse clicks in the Konsole terminal emulator.

LinuxGizmos.com

IOT-GATE-RPI5 is a Fanless Raspberry Pi CM5 Gateway with RS485 and CAN-FD

CompuLab has unveiled the IOT-GATE-RPI5, an industrial IoT edge gateway built around the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5. The system combines the BCM2712 quad-core Cortex-A76 processor with industrial interfaces, optional cellular connectivity, and support for wide operating temperatures.

Luckfox Aura is a Linux SBC with RV1126B processor, 3 TOPS NPU, and dual CSI

Luckfox has expanded its Linux SBC lineup with the new Aura, a compact board based on the Rockchip RV1126B processor. Similar to the earlier Pico Pi and Lyra Pi series, it combines a Raspberry Pi-sized form factor with a quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU, a 3 TOPS NPU, dual MIPI CSI interfaces, and 4K H.264/H.265 video support.

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Community Snapshot—April

Around the world, our community works locally, regionally, and globally to keep the Internet a force for good: open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy. Here is an overview of just some of their activities over the last few weeks.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 13, 2024

Degu rodent pet from Chile Zoo Photography

Updated This Past Day

  1. Ireland Last to Report Election Results
    Daniel Pocock's involvement in Australian politics goes back to his university days
  2. Never Sleeps, Never Slumbers
    We're going to try to improve not just in quantity but also in quality
  3. EPO Has Gotten So Bad That Workers Need to Ask to be Allocated a Desk (at Work)
    Wow!!!! An “allocated workplace”!!

    New

  4. Gemini Links 12/06/2024: The Rodent Revolution and Adding Twisty Puzzles
    Links for the day
  5. Links 12/06/2024: Ukraine War Updates and Many Patents Being Subjected to Squashing Bounties
    Links for the day
  6. [Meme] The Purpose of Life is to Find a Desk
    dogs have desks
  7. Tux Machines Parties Going Well Do Far
    Cross-posted from Tux Machines
  8. In Many Countries, Both Large and Small, Vista 11 is Losing Market Share (Despite New PCs Coming Preloaded With It)
    One need not even consider large nations in isolation
  9. By "Going Public" the Raspberry Pi Ensures It'll No Longer Serve the Public
    It'll be owned and controlled by whatever people wish to control it
  10. Dave Wreski Also Plays the Bot Game (Chatbot) at LinuxSecurity to Fake 'Articles' About "Linux"
    How much longer can they fool search engines (SEO) and readers?
  11. [Meme] Indisputable Success
    MICROSOFT buys shares of MICROSOFT
  12. Links 12/06/2024: 'Hey Hi' (AI) Bubble Imploding Already, Danish Media Threatens to Sue OpenAI
    Links for the day
  13. Links 11/06/2024: Floods in Germany and Brazil, Political Violence
    Links for the day
  14. Gemini Links 12/06/2024: Sketching Plants, OpenBSD Pubnix
    Links for the day
  15. "2025 the year of Linux on the Desktop"
    Charlie Stross quote
  16. In Bahrain, Historically Low on GNU/Linux Adoption, Things Change for the Better
    They have some people who understand Free software
  17. Daniel Pocock Received Twice as Many Votes as Andreas Tille (Debian Project Leader After 2024 Election)
    From the media yesterday...
  18. Debian is Built by Hundreds of Volunteers and 524 Irish People Voted for Daniel Pocock
    524 in that area went to the polling station to vote Daniel Pocock (Ind)
  19. [Meme] RMS is 'Too Old', Says Company Run by a Person 5 Years His Junior (Ginni Rometty) and 10 Years His Junior (Arvind Krishna)
    Never again?
  20. [Meme] Women in Computer Science
    Grace Hopper, Ada Lovelace etc.
  21. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  22. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 11, 2024
    IRC logs for Tuesday, June 11, 2024
  23. Togo: GNU/Linux Growing Fast This Year, Now Measured at 6%
    Sending Bill Gates with a suitcase to bribe African officials isn't enough anymore
  24. Free Software Projects Need to Chase Away Men Who Attack Women Rather Than The Women Who Complain
    A just society holds people accountable rather than covers up such blunders
  25. Improving the Image of Women in Free Software by Hiring and Promoting the Proficient Ones
    Million's shaman background isn't the problem, or even the superstitious ghost-chasing. The problem is that she has absolutely no background in Free software.
  26. They Say Cash is King
    People who value their freedom will pay with cash any time they can
  27. 'Team Microsoft' Wants to Leverage Our Popularity as a Weapon Against Us
    In the past 2 days we published 64 articles and served over a million HTTP/S requests
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-06-06 to 2024-06-12
    1665 /n/2024/06/08/Preserving_Information_About_Debian_s_SSH_Blunder_Amid_Revelati.shtml
    1568 /n/2024/06/10/Gemini_Protocol_Turns_5_Exactly_10_Days_From_Now_Let_s_Encrypt_.shtml
    1561 /n/2024/06/08/GNU_Linux_Now_20_in_Norway_s_Desktops_Laptops_Over_10_Across_Al.shtml
    1392 /n/2024/06/07/Firefox_is_Dying_and_China_s_Opera_Already_Outgrew_Mozilla_in_M.shtml
    1287 /n/2024/06/10/NotABug_org_as_Another_Cautionary_Tale_About_Outsourcing_One_e_.shtml
    1198 /n/2024/06/09/Bullying_by_the_Debian_Project_is_a_Disservice_to_Its_Reputatio.shtml
    1174 /n/2024/06/07/In_Asia_Mozilla_Firefox_Already_Fell_to_1_Below_Samsung_Interne.shtml
    1121 /n/2024/06/08/Edward_Brockelsby_how_expelled_hacker_took_over_Debian_s_SSH2_p.shtml
    899 /n/2024/06/10/Mozilla_Firefox_Web_Browser_Fell_below_2_in_Brasil_This_Month.shtml

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KDE Frameworks 6.26 Improves Support for Kirigami and QtQuick-Based Apps
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New/Existing Releases: EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.3.1, Debian-Based Parrot 7.2, Debian-Based Synex 13, and Arch-Based PrismLinux 2026.05.05
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GNU/Linux on Hardware: StarFighter, MultiSystem 2 Arcade, and Asahi on Macbook Air M2
Desktop/Laptop: 3 stories
Kernel Space: CPPC HighestFreq, Phomemo, and LVFS Sponsorship Announcement (IBM Ropes in Lenovo, Dell)
linux leftovers
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Cyber Show Going Static [original]
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Some of the latest articles
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mostly FOSS for today
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Some KDE news
Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers: Tor Browser 15.0.13, Article previews in RSS, Chrome, and Mozilla
Web related stories
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Putting together sites and pages
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Events and similar
Programming Leftovers
Development related news
GNU/Linux and Android Leftovers
mostly GNU/Linux picks
KDE/Qt: KStars and Photoflare
Some KDE development or Qt work
Open Hardware/Modding: 3D-printing, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and Pocket Linux Lab"
hardware projects and components
Kernel: Safe ZFS Tuning Practices for Production Databases, Scare-Mongering Over IPSec- and AFS-Related Bug, Still Some Buzz Over “Copy Fail”
kernel stuff
Red Hat Summit, Paid-for Puff Pieces, and Buzzwords Aplenty ("Quantum" Vapourware and Fetishising Slop)
IBM stuff
Ubuntu Snap Prompting Improvements, Ubuntu Problems, and Slopfest
Canonical leftovers
Security Leftovers
Security patches and more
BSD: OpenBSD Foundation 2026 Fundraising Campaign, FreeBSD, and "My journey to the BSDs"
BSD news
today's howtos
Instructionals/Technical leftovers
Hardware and Games: 2026 Steam Controller, New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, and GNU/Linux on PS5
gaming leftovers
TUXEDO BM 15 Is an Upgradable Business Linux Laptop with Smartcard and 4G LTE
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Dirty Frag Linux Kernel Flaw Allows Local Privilege Escalation, Patch Now
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Games: Marc Andreessen Egg Game, Transport Fever 3, and More
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Windows TCO, Proprietary TCO, and Linux
Security Leftovers: Security news
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we've repeatedly taken note of a shift to Free software there
Android Leftovers
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New to Ubuntu? Start With These 15 Pro Tips Before You Do Anything Else
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Linux is more popular and accessible than ever
Free and Open Source Software
This is free and open source software
Today in Techrights
Some of the latest articles
200 Weeks Since Launching New Tux Machines [original]
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Ubuntu Touch OTA 1.3 Improves Handling of Desktop Apps on Lomiri and Fixes Bugs
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Sharing, and Standards
mostly FOSS picks
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programming leftovers
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Mozilla has ideas
'Linux' Foundation Openwashing Services for Fake-Coins, Slop, and Other Ponzi Schemes
shameful, as usual
GNU/Linux Distributions and Related Leftovers
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Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, ESP32, and Various GNU/Linux Systems
hardware picks for today
Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
Especially Red Hat's official site
OpenBSD on the Sharp Zaurus and Hypothetical NetBSD Cyberdeck
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KDE Developers Working With Qt
Some Qt and QML work
Incus 7.0 LTS and Kubernetes v1.36 in Review
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Instructionals/Technical picks
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some software news/intros
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kernel issue
Security Leftovers
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Linux on PS5 benchmarked, with PlayStation games impressing on Steam Machine alternative
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I switched to a tiling WM and stopped wasting time on window management
The shift takes some time to internalize
Attack knocks Ubuntu websites, services and Snap store offline
If you’re having trouble accessing the Ubuntu website
KDE Gear 26.04.1 Is Out with More Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps
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Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replacement
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Latest Issues of Linux Magazine
With partial paywall
Announcing the new LibreOffice website!
LibreOffice’s website is the main source of information about the software (and project), and typically has 45,000 – 65,000 visitors every day
I stopped being afraid of Linux terminal commands once Claude started explaining them
I recently turned my RUST-server mini PC into a fully blown Linux machine running Linux Mint
Linux inherited Unix's superpower, and developers can't let it go
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Free and Open Source Software
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