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New Release: Tor Browser 14.5.7

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

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Firefox 144 to Strengthen the Encryption of Logins in the Firefox Password Manager

Firefox 144 is yet another small update that only promises to strengthen the encryption used for the logins saved in the Firefox Password Manager using a more modern encryption scheme by switching from 3DES-CBC to AES-256-CBC.

Fedora Linux 43 Beta Released with Linux 6.17, GNOME 49, and KDE Plasma 6.4

Powered by the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel series, the Fedora Linux 43 beta ships with the soon-to-be-released GNOME 49 desktop environment for the flagship Fedora Workstation edition, as well as the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment on the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop edition.

Canonical to Package and Distribute NVIDIA CUDA within Ubuntu’s Repositories

The CUDA toolkit provides developers with a parallel computing platform and programming model that uses NVIDIA GPUs for general-purpose processing. Until now, developers had to download CUDA from the NVIDIA website to install it on Ubuntu, but soon that will no longer be the case.

Firefox 143 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New

Firefox 143 is yet another small update that only brings a couple of new features, one of them being the ability to preview when a website asks for camera access in the permission dialog, which may come in handy when switching between multiple cameras.

Giada 1.3 Open-Source Loop Machine Adds Support for Multiple Audio Connections

Giada 1.3 is a small update, but an important one as it introduces support for multiple audio output configurations (more than stereo), along with improvements to the JACK Audio Connection Kit support to enable support for multiple output connections.

LinuxGizmos.com

ASUS Ascent GX10 Compact AI Supercomputer Now Available for Preorder

The GB10 Superchip combines a 20-core Arm v9.2 CPU with an integrated Blackwell GPU and fifth-generation Tensor Cores, supporting FP4 precision for efficient AI inferencing. The chip delivers up to 1,000 TOPS (1 petaFLOP) of AI performance, paired with 128 GB of LPDDR5x coherent unified memory. ASUS notes that this configuration enables handling of AI models with up to 200 billion parameters, with the ability to fine-tune models around 70 billion parameters locally.

3.5” SBC with MediaTek Genio 700/510 for Low-Power AIoT Edge Applications

The board integrates the MediaTek Genio 700 (MT8390) at up to 2.2 GHz or the Genio 510 (MT8370) at 2.0 GHz, combining dual Cortex-A78 and hexa Cortex-A55 cores with a shared 2 MB L3 cache. It is paired with 4GB or 8GB of LPDDR4-4000 memory and 64GB or 128GB of onboard eMMC 5.1 storage, eliminating the need for external memory modules and improving system reliability.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 01, 2024

Close-up of the face of a sleeping Polar Bear

Updated This Past Day

  1. From 9 to 5 to 996 and 24/7
    In terms of labour rights, the West has moonwalked back to Medieval standards
  2. Chatting to People Without Possessing a 'Smart' Phone
    Meeting in person is "limitless minutes"
  3. [Meme] A Techno-Yuppies's View of Society
    If only I could take a selfie now to share in Facebook/GAFAM, sponsors of the EFF
  4. Planning Our 18th Anniversary
    When I left my job, as I had planned since 2019, I was able to devote all my time to the site

    New

  5. Microsoft Running Totally False and Very Outdated (3 Months) Pieces Only Hours Before Julian Assange's First Speech in More Than Half a Decade
    This was false at the time. It's still false.
  6. Gemini Links 30/09/2024: Stargazing, PeerTube, and More
    Links for the day
  7. Links 30/09/2024: More Layoffs at Microsoft ("Mobile"), War in Middle-East Escalating Further (Ground Invasion May be Imminent)
    Links for the day
  8. [Video] Julian Assange Arrives Safely at France to Speak to Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)
    Just out
  9. You Know Julian Assange is About to Give an Important Talk Because of the Media Smears, Preceding the Talk by Less Than a Day
    Do not be easily incited by relics disguised as "journalists"
  10. IBM is Still Spending a Lot of Money Just to Hide the Massive Scale of This Month's Layoffs
    "If One Madison Avenue has leaking toilets, it doesn't make the news. But if the place is hemorrhaging jobs thanks to Alvind, the company has to pay more money to keep that out of the news. Not all the media like the IBM company. IBM needs to bleed for all the layoffs the senior executives have done in the US. Couldn't happen to nicer people."
  11. Welcome Back, Julian Assange
    The "big day" is tomorrow
  12. Links 30/09/2024: Snapshot Blogging, Right to Remain Silent, and More
    Links for the day
  13. Gemini Links 30/09/2024: "Tower Defender" and Fake Swish
    Links for the day
  14. Short Explanation of the History of the Free Software Movement
    also gives credit to Richard Stallman
  15. [Meme] The EPO's Vision of 'Artificial Intelligence'
    First they attack the integrity of the task or destroy the complexity of it by throwing away the law (it gets in the way of profits anyway)
  16. This Spammy Nonsense Helps Microsoft Paint Itself as "15-20 Hours a Week" Job (in Reality It's More Like 60 Hours a Week)
    what MSN (Microsoft) published 2 hours ago is misleading marketing junk
  17. Blind Worship of Technology is a Misguided Fool's Errand
    Andy Farnell of the Cybershow used the metaphor of "golden calf" last week
  18. In a Multi-Polar World GAFAM Will Matter (and Control) a Lot Less
    A lot of things long taken for granted are going to be challenged in years to come, including the status of Microsoft
  19. Links 30/09/2024: Monopsonies and Political Catchup
    Links for the day
  20. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  21. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 29, 2024
    IRC logs for Sunday, September 29, 2024
  22. Torvalds (the Son) Isn't a Freedom Fighter, But He Deals With Politics
    Depending on how Torvalds (the son) defines "politics", he actually deals with politics all the time
  23. [Meme] GNU at 41
    Happy birthday, GNU
  24. The GNU/Linux Operating System Started 41 Years Ago
    The media has its darling "Linux", but a lot of the time when it says "Linux" it actually means something else
  25. This Should be a Reminder for Wikileaks to Quit Twitter (X) and Use Its Own Site
    What if Wikileaks got some "Musk leaks"? What would happen then?
  26. In September Microsoft Had Several Waves of Mass Layoffs, Even More Than in Prior Months
    It meanwhile looks like "open"AI is not only running out of money (to borrow) but also talent and leadership; the bubble is imploding as there's no profit in the 'sacred cow', which is vapourware
  27. IBM (and Probably Red Hat) Layoffs Until the End of November
    many people will be let go without being allowed to talk about it
  28. Gemini Links 30/09/2024: London Docklands Museum, MNT Pocket Reform, LLM Misnomers
    Links for the day

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

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

    Span from 2024-09-24 to 2024-09-30
    968 /n/2024/09/26/Why_We_Keep_Saying_Bryan_Lunduke_is_a_Liability.shtml
    776 /n/2024/09/28/WINAMP_Reminds_Us_That_Choosing_GitHub_is_Sign_of_Failing_to_Un.shtml
    617 /n/2024/09/24/A_Year_Since_the_Big_Switch_Part_III_Deliberate_Deceit_and_Misu.shtml

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