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Firefox 148 Is Now Available for Download with AI Kill Switch and Other Changes

The biggest change in Firefox 148 is the long-awaited AI kill switch feature, which is implemented in Settings as “AI Controls”, allowing you to completely disable all the AI features that had been included in the past few releases. Firefox’s AI features can be disabled entirely or selectively.

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Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 7.0 Release Candidate

Today marks two weeks since the release of Linux kernel 6.19 and the opening of the merge window for Linux kernel 7.0, which means that it is time to test drive the Release Candidate (RC) versions during the next couple of months, the first one being available for download right now from Linus Torvalds’s Git tree.

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Atom E3950 Powers WINSYSTEMS SBC-ZETA-3950 Rugged Mini SBC

The SBC-ZETA-3950 uses the quad-core Intel Atom E3950 processor running at 1.6 GHz (2.0 GHz burst), with 2MB L2 cache and a 12W base power envelope.

AAEON UP Squared Series Gains Mainline Linux Support for 40-Pin GPIO in Linux 6.18

The UP Board family combines Intel processors with a 40-pin expansion header routed through an onboard FPGA. The FPGA handles signal level shifting, pin multiplexing, switching, and direction control, allowing pins to operate as I2C, UART, PWM, or GPIO.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 04, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. They Are So Afraid of Debian Developer Daniel Pocock Because of What He is Showing About Debian (Also: Ad Hominem is Invalid Defence or Rebuttal to the Evidence He Showed)
    Nothing at all more important for a new DPL to speak about?
  2. News Calm Now (July 4th), Time for Microsoft to Unearth First Batch of Mass Layoffs for July? (According to Microsoft's Media Operative, Tom Warren)
    many links
  3. [Meme] WikiLeaps
    old timers
  4. ‘This is the Criminalisation of Journalism’ — Julian Assange’s Counsel Jennifer Robinson
    It's even worse than she put it
  5. In Belarus, Like in Russia, Hardly Anyone Installs or Keeps Vista 11 (and GNU/Linux Doubled This Summer)
    only about 1 in 8 Belarusian Windows users are using Vista 11
  6. The Father John Shipton: The Goal of The US Government Was to Bankrupt WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and His Family
    "superpower in its attempt to destroy an Australian citizen."
  7. Birthday Gift for Assange and Encouragement for Him to Carry on With WikiLeaks
    When it comes to financing WikiLeaks, it looks like less of a barrier at this point
  8. The Share of Microsoft's Vista 11 is Going Down This Year in China
    Twilight for Microsoft
  9. The Media May Never Recover (Major Divestments in the Public's Right to Know)
    We shall be writing about press etc. and we'll explain the direction of the Web - albeit this topic is only indirectly related to Free software
  10. Things to be Pleased About
    Maybe GNU/Linux can exceed 5% by year's end or even reach 10% if one counts Chromebooks

    New

  11. GNU/Linux Growing Towards 6% "Market Share" in Bosnia And Herzegovina
    Vista 11 has been one of Microsoft's biggest failures in operating systems
  12. 13 Birthdays
    And new photo of Assange
  13. Links 03/07/2024: Holiday, Censorship in Social Control Media Debates, and Stellantis Has Mass Layoffs
    Links for the day
  14. [Meme] Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Again
    Now you work here... now YOU DON'T!
  15. GNU/Linux Seen as Sharply Rising in Bahrain, Windows Down to All-Time Low
    Let's see if these figures can hold up till the end of this year
  16. Another Day, More Slop/Spam From Brittany Day, This Time About Linux Mint 22 'Wilma'
    'Creative' plagiarism automated by chatbots
  17. Links 03/07/2024: "Microsoft Is Consolidating Its Retail Channels in Mainland China" and "Microsoft CEO of AI Says It's Fine to Steal Anything on the Open Web"
    Links for the day
  18. statCounter Measures GNU/Linux at 12% in Sudan
    strong adoption of GNU/Linux amid war
  19. FSFE Copies the FSF, It Also Copies Techrights
    Just copying a term that Techrights coined around 2007
  20. GNU/Linux in Denmark: From Under 1% to 8%
    this month
  21. [Meme] Publishing as "allegedly breaching national security law."
    China under CPC and HK under CPC is a sign of what may come next to the West
  22. Killing the Public's Right to Know in Five Simple Steps
    Julian Assange: Did I tell you about the time they forced me to plead guilty for 'conspiring' to expose war crimes?
  23. Links 03/07/2024: Rubik Cube Turns 50, History Of Perpetual Motion, and Censorship in Social Control Media
    Links for the day
  24. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  25. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 02, 2024
    IRC logs for Tuesday, July 02, 2024
  26. Happy Birthday (With the Family)
    So far they've managed to dodge or to avoid the tabloids
  27. IBM's "DEI" Means Proprietary Software
    Fedora Week of Diversity 2024, as we noted here last week, was just some niche event (online PR stunt)
  28. Techrights Thanks Readers for the Support
    People sacrifice a lot to inform and emancipate other people
  29. About Half of Web Requests in Republic Of Korea Come From Android, It Used to be Over 99% Windows (2010)
    The important thing is the trend
  30. Matt Campbell's LibrePlanet Talk on AccessKit (Making Free/Libre Software Accessible to Disabled People)
    "This talk will cover what we've accomplished so far, what's next, and how the community can help."
  31. It's Time to Say Goodbye to Microsoft and Bill Gates
    Nobody elected Bill Gates and why would Sunak wish to associate with an enabler of Jeffrey Epstein?
  32. Adam Monsen on Steadfast Self-hosting
    "Both the book and talk are about self-hosting free software, were created with free software, and are free software themselves."

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

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

    Span from 2024-06-27 to 2024-07-03
    1903 /n/2024/06/27/John_Gilmore_Cofounder_of_the_Electronic_Frontier_Foundation_Jo.shtml
    1748 /n/2024/06/30/Getting_Rid_of_Microsoft_Does_Not_Go_Far_Enough.shtml
    1544 /n/2024/06/27/IBM_s_Board_is_a_Men_s_Club_Unlike_the_FSF_s_But_Red_Hat_IBM_Ar.shtml

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