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Shotcut 24.09 Video Editor Brings Fixes for Major New Bugs, Improvements

Shotcut 24.09 is here only two weeks after Shotcut 24.08 to address some major bugs reported by users, including seeking and frozen video issues with some files or scenarios, wrong frame rate for Android Camera videos, as well as the missing Reverb audio filter on the Windows version.

KDE Frameworks 6.6 Is Out with Support for Cross-Desktop Thumbnail Generators

The monthly KDE Frameworks releases continue and KDE Frameworks 6.6 is here to implement a major change, namely support for de-facto standard, cross-desktop thumbnail generators. This implementation will enable support for thumbnails from third-party applications in the Dolphin file manager, such as the STL file thumbnailer for those working with 3D models or 3D printers.

TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen3 Linux Laptop Launches with AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen3 is powered by AMD‘s top-tier processor, the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX, featuring 16 cores and 32 threads, 64 MB L3-Cache, 85 W TDP, up to 5,4 GHz clock speed, and AMD Radeon 610M graphics. The Linux laptop also features NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060/4070 graphics with 8 GB GDDR6 VRAM and 115 W TGP.

Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) Is Now Available Powered by Linux Kernel 6.8

Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS is here six and a half months after Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS as an up-to-date installation media designed for those of you who want to install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) on a new computer and don’t want to download hundreds of updated packages from the repositories after the installation.

Ardour 8.7 DAW Released with Track Dragging, Combined Rulers, MIDI Scene Markers

Coming five months after Ardour 8.6, which was a hotfix release to correct a drawing bug in Ardour 8.5, the Ardour 8.7 release introduces track dragging by allowing you to drag selected tracks and busses up or down with the mouse, more unified rulers for locations, ranges, and arrangement, markers for MIDI Scenes, and parallelized disk I/O for reading and writing audio and MIDI to storage.

KDE Plasma 6.2 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What’s New

KDE Plasma 6.2 promises new features like per-monitor brightness control, the ability to override apps that are blocking sleep or screen locking, Wayland color management protocol support, full Sticky Keys support on Wayland, as well as support for turning on the “autoscrolling” feature of the Libinput driver.

LibreOffice 24.8.1 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 89 Bug Fixes

LibreOffice 24.8.1 is here three weeks after the LibreOffice 24.8 release and addresses more of those pesky bugs, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users, thus improving its overall stability and reliability of the open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite.

KDE Gear 24.08.1 Brings More Improvements to Your Favorite KDE Apps

Coming three weeks after the release of KDE Gear 24.08, this first maintenance update improves the Spectacle screenshot utility to allow you to paste screenshots copied to the clipboard into another app when Spectacle is configured to save screenshots in a format other than PNG.

New Steam Client Update Improves Compatibility with More Linux Desktops

The new Steam Client update is here to make the Steam Families feature available for all users, as a replacement for Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View, providing users with new and existing family-related features.

LinuxGizmos.com

ODROID-M2 Leverages RK3588S2 SoC and Supports LPDDR5 Memory

The ODROID-M2 builds on the success of the Hardkernel ODROID-M1 series, offering enhanced computing power for industrial embedded systems. Powered by the RK3588S2 SoC, the ODROID-M2 provides significant improvements in both processing power and memory performance.

ASRock Industrial SBC-374: A Versatile Platform Accommodating Meteor Lake-PS Intel Processors

The ASRock Industrial SBC-374 is a robust single board computer designed for embedded applications. It features Intel Core Ultra Processors (Meteor Lake-PS) on an LGA 1851 socket and is supported by an AMI SPI BIOS with secure flash options, suitable for demanding tasks in secure environments.

MSI’s MS-CF17: An Ultra-Low-Power 3.5″ SBC with Intel Raptor Lake-P Processors

The MS-CF17 from MSI is an advanced single-board computer that combines high performance with a compact, fanless, ultra-low-power design. Featuring Intel’s latest 13th Gen Raptor Lake-P processors, the board is also available in an industrial-grade variant, making it suitable for demanding applications.

Tor Project blog

New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 14.0a5

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 09, 2024

Finland. This vintage Finnish travel poster shows scenes from summer and winter. Circa 1948.

Updated This Past Day

  1. [Video] The World Would be Better Off After Social Control Media 'Addiction' and LLMs Hype
    Can we just abandon that false notion that modernity (or novelty) implies greater good? It does not.
  2. [Meme] Some Uber-Propaganda Right There in Media That Takes Bribes From the Companies It 'Covers'
    Losing over 45 billion dollars and being deep in debt
  3. [Video] Openwashing of GAFAM and Large Language Models (LLMs) With OSI as a Key Culprit (Enabler, Collaborator, Facilitator)
    deeply corrupt OSI
  4. This August It Seems Like Vista 11's Share is Going Down While GNU/Linux is Up Sharply (at Its Expense)
    Are people deleting Vista 11 and replacing that with GNU/Linux?
  5. [Meme] The Infantilisation of IBM, Once a Computing Giant With Computer Science Veterans
    Gimmicks are not meant to work better
  6. Cops Scouring Social Control Media Looking for Who to Arrest
    This isn't just happening in the UK

    New

  7. This Month All South American Nations Except Two Estimated to Have More Android Than Windows
    Operating System Market Share South America
  8. Links 08/08/2024: COVID-19 Revisionism and Automattic's Latest Spyware
    Links for the day
  9. Links 08/08/2024: Businesses and Man Pages
    Links for the day
  10. Attacking "Linux" Using Microsoft Chatbots (Guardian Digital, Inc as SEO Spamfarm of FUD)
    That explains a lot
  11. Using Chatbot to 'Write' Articles About Chatbots in a "Linux" Site (Brittany Day at linuxsecurity.com Again)
    Calling out the slop again
  12. Links 08/08/2024: Stocks Still Falling, "Paranoia on Parade"
    Links for the day
  13. Gemini Links 08/08/2024: Slack and Grace, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
    Links for the day
  14. Looks Like GNU/Linux is Growing a Lot in Somalia This Year
    there is nobody "too stupid" (racist insult, too) to adopt GNU/Linux, unlike Windows
  15. Let's Encrypt (Outsourced Encryption) in Geminispace Has Collapsed to Just 2.5% of the Whole (It Used to be About 12%), Capsules Choose to Self-Sign Instead
    Encryption in Gemini does not mandate outsourcing; more capsules "get" it and quit outsourcing the certificate management to the monopolists' and GPL violators' front group, Linux Foundation
  16. [Meme] When Social Control Media Giants Become Like Cross-national Governments That Police Everybody's Speech
    With "X", an Anglophobic Musk and the "Royal" family in Saudi Arabia exercise control over most British politicians (e.g. what they can and cannot say, whether they can go "viral" etc.)
  17. Microsoft's Ponzi Enabler OpenAI Perishes, Traffic Takes Another Significant Tumble (Again), Down About 78% in Just 3 Months!
    The bubble is bursting
  18. Months After Africa Became 100% Android Majority Asia is Almost the Same
    The main exceptions are Japan and Russia (more Windows than Android)
  19. Oman in 2024: GNU/Linux Growing From 1.4% to 3.54%, Windows Falling From 83% to 66%
    In 2024 alone GNU/Linux has already gained more than 2%
  20. [Meme] No Program Source or Source Data... But Other Than That, It's "Open"
    Open... for business
  21. [Meme] The Goals Changed Somewhere Along the Way
    Twitter as a weapon
  22. Disinformation Sites Would Not Stand a Chance Without Social Control Media, Which Fueled Them
    They're doing an "Arab spring" on a country they don't care for and try to undermine
  23. Links 08/08/2024: Spotify Shrinking and Nvidia Cheating
    Links for the day
  24. [Video] Microsofters at IBM and Cultural Changes That Doom IBM's Future
    Red Hat even hired many managers from Microsoft, sometimes despite them having no background in technology!
  25. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  26. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 07, 2024
    IRC logs for Wednesday, August 07, 2024
  27. [Meme] UK Government Belatedly Recognises the Role Social Control Media Plays in Violent Unrest
    Video coming soon...
  28. statCounter Sees Over 4 Out of 5 Web Requests Coming From Android, About 1 in 30 Comes from Windows
    Are Microsoft shareholders aware of trends like these?
  29. [Video] Debian With More Money: What Canonical, Under Microsoft and GAFAM Control, Has Turned Into
    We decided to revisit the subject later this week, based on further input on the matter
  30. Gemini Links 08/08/2024: Comparisons on Intel CPUs and Comprehensive NNCP Guide
    Links for the day

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

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

    Span from 2024-08-02 to 2024-08-08
    2642 /n/2024/08/04/In_Europe_Even_Yandex_is_Closing_in_on_Microsoft.shtml
    2372 /about.shtml
    1296 /txt/index.shtml?q=user/register
    946 /n/2024/08/05/Contrary_to_What_Shallow_News_Sites_Said_Canonical_s_Profits_an.shtml
    869 /n/2024/08/04/The_Negative_Impact_of_DEI_on_Salaries_at_IBM_and_Fedora.shtml

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today's howtos
second howtos cluster
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