Internet Society

Closing AI’s Language Gap: Why the Internet Society Is Joining a Global Commitment

For the Internet to truly be for everyone, people need to be able to access information in their own language. People can learn more, engage more, and be safer online—if they can fully understand the information they are reading and seeing online. However, of the over 7,000 languages spoken around the world, most information is only available in a few languages.

Tor Project blog

New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 16.0a12

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

schestowitz.com

This Site Turns 24

Still active

3,300 Posts

As planned

Abandoning CentOS After 17 Years

Better late than never

Replacing Industrial Areas With Trees

Put away the gadgets

Autumn “Officially” Began Today

The real and meaningful astronomical event

Support the Locals

It’s better for more than just moral reasons like solidarity

Falling Behind Intentionally

Combatting FOMO

An Impact of Slop Plagiarism

We’re drowning in seas of words

“You’d Think They Would Have Learned Their Lesson From Blockchain.”

A passing fad of mass plagiarism, not “intelligence” by any stretch of imagination

Replacing Microsoft, Microsoft is Drowning

The old pool

9to5Linux

NVIDIA 595.104.02 Linux Graphics Driver Is Out Now with Better Wayland Support

Coming a month after NVIDIA 595.99.02, the NVIDIA 595.104.02 release addresses a failure that could occur when allocating GPU page tables larger than 2 GiB (INT_MAX) and an issue where unvalidated VkHdrMetadataEXT values were forwarded to the Wayland color-management-v1 protocol, which could cause a crash.

VLC 3.0.24 Released with APV and Atrac3/Atrac9 Decoding, FFmpeg 8.1 Support

Coming almost ten months after VLC 3.0.23, the VLC 3.0.24 release is a major update in the VLC 3.0 series that introduces FFmpeg 8.1 support, support for the APV decoder, support for Atrac3/Atrac9 decoding, support for CEA-708 closed captions in MP4, and SRT listener mode support.

Mozilla Firefox 156.0.1 Is Now Available for Download with Various Bug Fixes

Firefox 156.0.1 is here only a week after Firefox 156 to fix an issue that caused the web browser to become unresponsive on some web pages that use CSS anchor positioning and to fix a bug causing elements inside a link to not show their CSS :active styles while being clicked.

Giada 1.6 Loop Machine Adds Time-Stretching Playback Mode for Sample Channels

Coming more than three months after Giada 1.5, the Giada 1.6 release introduces elastic (time-stretching) playback mode for sample channels, allowing tempo and pitch to be changed independently, and switches to a more efficient memory layout to improve audio buffer performance and internal data handling.

Flatpak 1.18.3 Fixes Subsandbox Startup and Updates Meson Wrap Subprojects

Flatpak 1.18.3 comes a month after Flatpak 1.18.2, which fixed a crash in the system helper that occurred when iterating cache directories, a portal bug causing it to pass the wrong file descriptor when sandbox-expose-fd-ro triggers fd remapping collision, and a system helper issue causing it to track the wrong D-Bus sender for pulls.

openSUSE Tumbleweed ARM Updates Improve Raspberry Pi Support, Add Linux 7.2

September’s snapshots for openSUSE Tumbleweed ARM bumped the kernel to Linux 7.2.5, the GNU C Library (Glibc) to version 2.44 with its large AArch64 push, the QEMU virtualization suite to version 11.1.1, the GIMP image editor to version 3.2.6 with AArch64-specific fixes, and the Shotwell image organizer to version 33.0 with its GTK4 port.

GNU Wget 2.3 Released with New Features, Improvements, and Bug Fixes

Highlights of GNU Wget 2.3 include support for converting CSS files with the --convert-links argument, support for iframe srcdoc and the data-src and data-srcset HTML tags, new --progress=dot argument, support for printing headers without downloading via the --spider (-S) argument, and support for Content-Length: 0 to POST, PUT, and PATCH requests per RFC 9110.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: September 20th, 2026

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NixOS-Based Garuda Linux Dr460nized and Mokka Editions Are Out Now

The Garuda Nix Subsystem has been around for some time as an add-on for Garuda Linux installations, allowing you to dual-boot with a NixOS installation living in the same partition via a subvolume. The subsystem has now been rebranded to Garuda Nix and can be used directly from a Garuda Linux live system.

MX Linux 25.3 “Infinity” Is Out with Linux Kernel 7.2, Based on Debian 13.7

Coming four months after MX Linux 25.2, the MX Linux 25.3 release is based on the latest Debian 13.7 “Trixie” operating system release and features the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel on the standard ISOs, while a Liquorix-flavored Linux 7.2 kernel is now used on the Xfce AHS (Advanced Hardware Support) ISO.

LinuxGizmos.com

wolfSSL adds post-quantum algorithms and AURIX TC4xx support alongside wolfIP

wolfSSL has detailed several embedded security updates covering deterministic networking, post-quantum cryptography and automotive hardware security. The updates include the wolfIP TCP/IP stack, NIST-validated post-quantum algorithms in wolfCrypt, native Falcon and FrodoKEM implementations, and wolfHSM support for Infineon’s AURIX TC4xx family.

Fanless OnLogic controllers pair Core Ultra with CODESYS and fieldbus expansion

OnLogic has added two SoftPLC-oriented industrial computers built around Intel Core Ultra processors and pre-configured CODESYS environments. The Helix 521-PLC targets low-profile deployments, while the larger Helix 524-PLC adds PCIe expansion with an available Hilscher netX fieldbus interface for industrial networking and real-time control applications.

MINIX mini PC uses 5-core Intel Wildcat Lake processor with 24-TOPS AI performance

MINIX has listed the N304-AI, a compact mini PC based on Intel’s Core 3 304 processor with integrated Intel Graphics and an Intel AI Boost NPU. The system provides 16GB of LPDDR5X memory, dual M.2 NVMe storage, dual Gigabit Ethernet and triple 4K display support.