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How To Adjust Low Battery Warning on Kubuntu 22.04

This tutorial will help you protect your data and GNU/Linux filesystem on a battery that is not in 100% health anymore by re-adjusting low battery power warning on Kubuntu. By doing this, your system will show a notification of low battery at your choice for example at 55% is warning and 50% is critical and do something like shutdown automatically if that happens. We wish you the best!

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US Government Networks Get a Security Boost: White House Roadmap Tackles Routing Vulnerabilities

Released earlier this week, the White House’s Roadmap to Enhancing Routing Security (“the Roadmap”) is an important step by the US government toward strengthening routing security in the United States. The US has long lagged behind the rest of the world when it comes to routing security.

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KDE Slimbook Plasma VI Linux Ultrabook Launches with AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

KDE Slimbook Plasma VI is powered by an AMD Ryzen 8845HS CPU with 8 cores and 16 threads, up to 5.1GHz, and 24MB cache, along with the AMD Radeon 780M integrated GPU with 12 cores and RDNA 3. The machine also comes with an NPU (neural processing unit) of up to 10 TOPS, making it ready for local AI workflow.

QEMU 9.1 Improves ARM and RISC-V Support, Adds Compression Offload Support

Coming more than four months after QEMU 9.0, the QEMU 9.1 release introduces compression offload support via Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA) or User Space Accelerator Development Kit (UADK), along with enhanced support for postcopy failure recovery.

LinuxGizmos.com

RDK X3 Development Board: Raspberry Pi 4B Form Factor with 5TOPs BPU

The D-Robotics RDK X3 Development Board, recently showcased by Waveshare, is a versatile platform designed for edge AI applications, offering a powerful combination of processing and inference capabilities. The board comes in a form factor similar to the Raspberry Pi 4B, including a 40-pin GPIO for easy expansion.

Minisforum UM760 Slim Offers Dual M.2 PCIe 4.0 Slots and DDR5 Memory Support

The Minisforum UM760 Slim is a compact mini PC designed for a variety of computing needs. It features a silent cooling system and is built around the AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS processor, paired with an AMD Radeon 760M GPU, providing a balance of performance and power efficiency.

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New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 14.0a4

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

'A newspaper without borders': Mediapart now available as .onion

Readers can now access Mediapart's reporting via https://www.mediapartrvj4bsgolbxixw57ru7fh4jqckparke4vs365guu6ho64yd.onion/. 

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It Has Been Over a Year Since We Quit Social Control Media and We Don't Miss It

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 07, 2024,
updated Sep 07, 2024

Age Restrictions for Social Media

"Age Restrictions" aren't enough to make "social" [sic] "media" [sic] 'safe' or beneficial. It's just outright toxic and it is enabling abusers like the one we've just sued.

We'll never come back to Social Control Media. It has nothing to offer us. We advise others to consider doing the same.

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