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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS “Resolute Raccoon” Daily Builds Are Now Available for Download

As expected, the first Ubuntu 26.04 LTS daily builds are based on the previous Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka”, which arrived earlier this month on October 9th. This means that the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS builds are powered by Linux kernel 6.17 and use the GNOME 49 desktop environment.

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What Is Meaningful Connectivity?

In Nepal, a couple of days’ hiking away from the Everest Base Camp, the communities of Khunde and Khumjung were considered connected by normal standards. After all, if people in the villages hiked up a mountain, they could get some reception to send messages. Meanwhile, in the local school’s computer lab, children were learning about the Internet through printouts. 

Connect, Discuss, Inspire: Dive Deep with Special Interest Groups

The Internet is as vast and diverse as the people around the world who use it every day. Because of this diversity—both in uses and users alike—there are countless topics or initiatives we could focus on to maintain and improve the Internet for everyone. 

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Silicon Labs SixG301 Series 3 SoCs Target Zigbee, Matter, and Thread Development

Silicon Labs has announced general availability of its new Series 3 platform, debuting with the SiMG301 and SiBG301 wireless SoCs. Built on a 22 nm process, the Series 3 family targets compute-intensive IoT applications that require higher security, integrated connectivity, and support for modern 2.4 GHz wireless protocols.

ASUS Adds Amston Lake Atom x7000RE Based Models to Its Windows 11 IoT Lineup

ASUS has expanded its industrial motherboard lineup with new Amston Lake models built on Intel’s Atom x7000RE processors. Designed for Windows 11 IoT environments, these compact boards combine low power operation with support for high resolution video, extended temperature tolerance, and flexible connectivity for automation and embedded computing.

Astra SL2600 processors from Synaptics combine Arm cores and RISC-V Coral NPU

Synaptics has unveiled the Astra SL2600, a family of multimodal processors designed for edge computing across consumer, enterprise, and industrial IoT applications. The lineup debuts with the SL2610 product line, targeting low-power and high-performance designs used in smart home, automation, robotics, and retail systems.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 06, 2024

Looking towards the Taipei Grand Hotel from Meiti Riverside Park, Taipei, Taiwan

Updated This Past Day

  1. Links 05/08/2024: Libraries, Games, and Social Control Media Against Free Speech
    Links for the day
  2. Technology and Sports Don't Blend (But Nowadays Sports Are Exploited to Sell/Promote Useless - or Sometimes Even Harmful - "Tech")
    Keep racism out of football and keep tech out of footballers' bodies, please
  3. How to Net a Top Job at Canonical? Be Pals With the Founder.
    It's not about what you know but who you know
  4. 'Deepfake' Equivalents Against Richard Stallman in Microsoft-Funded Sites
    This is defamation in a Microsoft-funded site
  5. Clytie Siddall & Debian at Murray River
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  6. Some Associations Won't Age Well. Just Avoid Them.
    There is no obligation or duty to meet everyone
  7. The Intel Leaks at Techrights Help Explain Where Intel Went Wrong
    Right now Intel is on top of the layoffs tally
  8. Going Greenwashing!
    NVIDIA still sells shovels for gold that does not exist in a hill nobody even heard of
  9. Android Reaches 60% in Venezuela (New High), GNU/Linux on 8% of Laptops/Desktops
    So says statCounter anyway
  10. Reminder: Any Time Microsoft Publicises Layoff Figures It Leaves Out Contract Workers and "Temps" (Discharged Without Credit)
    It's an HR trick

    New

  11. Internet Trolls and Criminals Not Tired of Trying to Bring Us Down
    the harder you push people, the stronger the reaction will be
  12. 60 Minutes
    with social control media and slop (plagiarism of what's left of the press), there's simply not much journalism left
  13. GNU/Linux Taking Off in New Zealand
    It basically doubled in not a very long time
  14. [Meme] Newer But Not (Much) Better
    Nothing like emojis to make your day!
  15. The Goals of Computer Science Versus the Goals of Consumerism (Planned Obsolescence)
    Newer is not always better (in every way)
  16. statCounter Sees GNU/Linux Share in Australia Doubling in 3 Years
    Let's watch what happens in the coming months
  17. Almost 4 Months Since Richard Stallman Gave a Public Talk (Latest Two Attempts Got 'Canceled')
    People cancelling people
  18. New Study: Social Control Media Going Out of Fashion as More People Recognise It For What It Really Is
    Social-engineering and mass censorship
  19. [Meme] Communist Party of GNOME
    Yes, that'll really end up well, right?
  20. GNOME Foundation Gets Lessons in 'Streisand Effect'
    Censorship typically backfires like this...
  21. Links 05/08/2024: Shape-Shifting Companies and Apple Admitting Defects
    Links for the day
  22. Fifty (50) and Going
    Of course the ultimate goal isn't sheer quantity but quality (or a good ratio between those two things)
  23. [Meme] Tech That Does Not Enhance Performance
    Stupid gadgets can only slow down athletes
  24. statCounter: Sharp Increase in GNU/Linux Usage in Canada This Summer
    Many Canadian schools use Chromebooks
  25. Still No Olympics
    Sport has been 'co-opted' and turned into an "industry" willing to be sponsored by - and advertise - junk foods
  26. [Meme] Violenceware
    UK riots
  27. We Have a New and Democratically-Elected Government That Won by a Very Wide Margin, We Don't Need Social Control Media to Bring "Arab Spring" to the United Kingdom
    When it was the "Arab spring" (in the Middle East and Northern Africa) we in the West cheered for it, but as the old wise saying goes, the chickens come home to roost
  28. Next Milestone for Desktop (or Laptop) GNU/Linux in Asia: Seven Percent
    It'll go higher later this month
  29. Gemini Links 05/08/2024: Greetings From Lynx and Back to Scripting
    Links for the day
  30. GNU/Linux in Italy Soars Again
    Over 5%, not much of that is Chromebooks
  31. Links 05/08/2024: Flint Sickness and Dropping Dropbox
    Links for the day
  32. Elon Musk is Using Social Control Media to Stir Up Political and Physical Violence in the UK (and Elsewhere)
    For the record
  33. GNU/Linux in Europe Now at 4%
    Nations in Europe and GNU/Linux - as in % share - in them
  34. Contrary to What Shallow "News" Sites Said, Canonical's Profits and Cash Flows Did Not Improve, Almost 50% Increase in Marketing Budget (Investment in Branding, Not Engineering, Just Like Microsoft)
    And "lots of bureaucracy," as an associate tells...
  35. Algerian Adoption of Android and GNU/Linux (at Microsoft's Expense)
    Operating System Market Share Algeria
  36. UK Needs ‘SLAPP’ Reform
    This system needs reform/overhaul
  37. The Potentially Inevitable Next FUD Campaign Will Say GNU/Linux Works for Communism, Russia, China, Boogeymen
    It does not even need to make any sense
  38. Microsoft Windows Fell From 35% to 22% 'Market Share' in China Since the Chinese Balloon Incident (Deterioration of Chinese/American Relations)
    Operating System Market Share China
  39. GNU/Linux on 486 Now
    4.86% that is
  40. Daniel Pocock Among ClueCon 2024 Speakers Next Monday
    They could not "cancel" him
  41. Bubbles Implode, It's Just a Matter of When
    Intel lost half its 'value' since spring
  42. GNU/Linux and ChromeOS in Japan: Nearly Trebling in the Past Half a Decade (COVID-19 Breakout)
    Japan has a large population that is very much connected to the Net a lot of the time, so even 2% can be a million users or more
  43. [Meme] Selling Sex and Greenwashing Lies
    There's profit in heating up the planet (which leads to suffering)
  44. Microsoft Falls to Lowest Market Share in Cuba: 14.6%
    Desktop Operating System Market Share in Mexico and in Cuba
  45. UK Riots Show the Corrosive Impact (and Collective Cost) of Social Control Media
    This also happened in 2011, which was when Twitter received a lot of the blame
  46. What Comes After Printer DRM? A Mouse That 'Phones Home' (Clicklogger) and Maybe Storage Devices That 'Phone Home' With Hashes of All Your Files to Calculate Bills Based on Usage?
    This is totally insane!
  47. [Meme] Advertisers Advertisers Advertisers Advertisers
    The latest creep
  48. In India, the World's Largest Population, GNU/Linux Has Grown This Summer While Vista 11 Lost Share
    as per statCounter
  49. Microsoft Windows Has Fallen to Just a Quarter of the World's "OS" Market Share
    the latest
  50. Mass Layoffs Won't Save Microsoft
    The borrowings have left Microsoft more in debt than it can pay back
  51. United States Of America: GNU/Linux Approaching 5% (Not Counting Chromebooks)
    We've decided to plot US trends in isolation
  52. Why IBM Employees Keep Saying the "I" in IBM Stands for India, Not International
    Maybe it wants more people to work for free, via Fedora
  53. IBM's Wayland Has Hurt Blind People, This is How Fedora's DEI Room Talks About That
    Some of the latest discussions
  54. IBM: We're Against Racism (Says the Biggest Racist in the Room)
    IBM became rich owing to eugenics
  55. IBM, Which Engaged in Eugenics Against Black People, Created "Fedora West Africa" Room and Only One Message Sent to It in Past 4 Months
    The room basically lasted less than a week (14 messages sent to room since it was established, only 1 in past 4 months)
  56. [Meme] A Pack of Corporate Hyenas
    Don't be fooled by IBM's true motivations
  57. 3 More Months Till Maturity (18)
    We don't plan any parties (or anything like that)
  58. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  59. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 04, 2024
    IRC logs for Sunday, August 04, 2024
  60. [Video] The Future and the Hope for Gemini Takeover (Because the Web Increasingly Sucks)
    how we generally envision the Web's demise (which already started happening years ago; a lot of Web traffic is nowadays just nuisance, such as "AI" bots that increase hosting bills and deliver nothing of value)
  61. “Ignoring office politics doesn't avoid them. It makes you the target."
    The quote is from Jennifer Brick
  62. GNU/Linux Rises to 5% in France
    More people flock away from Windows and look for true alternatives

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

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

    Span from 2024-07-30 to 2024-08-05
    2103 /n/2024/08/04/In_Europe_Even_Yandex_is_Closing_in_on_Microsoft.shtml
    806 /n/2024/08/04/The_Negative_Impact_of_DEI_on_Salaries_at_IBM_and_Fedora.shtml
    777 /n/2024/08/03/LinuxSecurity_Site_Breaks_Down_Many_Fake_Articles_Not_Accessibl.shtml
    593 /n/2023/12/01/New_Report_Provides_Numerical_Evidence_That_Google_Hired_Too_Ma.shtml

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