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New Release: Tails 7.0

Tails 7.0 is dedicated to the memory of Lunar (1982–2024). Lunar was a traveling companion for Tails, a Tor volunteer, Free Software hacker, and community organizer.

LinuxGizmos.com

AAEON Intelli i14 Edge Combines Intel Core i9 and NVIDIA RTX in Compact AI Vision System

According to AAEON, the Intelli i14 Edge is equipped with a 24-core, 32-thread Intel Core i9 CPU capable of handling parallel and latency-sensitive workloads simultaneously.

TI expands C2000 portfolio with affordable real-time MCUs for motor control

The F28E12x devices integrate TI’s C28x digital signal processor core with advanced control peripherals and analog subsystems, enabling fast execution of Field-Oriented Control algorithms (FOC). With sensorless FOC running at electrical frequencies up to 2 kHz, designers can reach motor speeds of over 120,000 rpm.

LattePanda IOTA brings Intel N150 and RP2040 co-processor in palm-sized SBC

The IOTA is powered by an Intel Processor N150, a quad-core chip with a boost frequency of 3.6 GHz, compared to the 1.92 GHz Intel Atom x5-Z8350 in the V1.

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.

9to5Linux

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 197 Introduces a Complete OpenVPN Overhaul

Powered by Linux kernel 6.12.41 LTS, the IPFire 2.29 Core Update 197 release introduces a complete OpenVPN overhaul by updating to the OpenVPN 2.6 series, which provides stronger security, broader client compatibility, and a modernized codebase, without requiring any configuration changes from the user.

Ubuntu 25.10 Beta Released with Linux Kernel 6.17, GNOME 49, and More

Powered by the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel and featuring the recently released GNOME 49 desktop environment, Ubuntu 25.10 (codename Questing Quokka) promises some notable changes like sudo-rs as the default implementation of sudo and Dracut as the default initramfs-tools.

KDE Plasma 6.5 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing

KDE Plasma 6.5 is packed with lots of goodies for everyone, including major UI improvements to the Sticky Note widget, support for displaying ink levels on your printers, rounded bottom corners for Breeze-decorated windows, and support for syncing the clipboard text between the client and server on remote sessions.

GNOME 48.5 Improves Support for WPA(2) Enterprise Networks, Legacy Tray Icons

GNOME 48.5 is here about five weeks after the GNOME 48.4 release and improves support for WPA(2) Enterprise network connections, improves the order in which extensions are enabled or disabled, improves legacy tray icon support, and adds support for updating the viewport after changing the virtual monitor size.

Tails 7.0 Anonymous Linux OS Officially Released, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”

Highlights of Tails 7.0 include a Debian 13 “Trixie” base and a kernel from the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS series from the upstream Debian release, the latest GNOME 48 desktop environment by default featuring GNOME Console as default terminal emulator and GNOME Loupe as default image viewer.

Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.3 Is Out with GNOME 49, Improved Webcam Support

Just like PorteuX 2.2, the PorteuX 2.3 release is still powered by the Linux 6.16 kernel series, but it now ships with the brand-new GNOME 49 desktop environment, which also includes a new terminal emulator application called Ptyxis. So if you want to use GNOME 49 on Slackware, you can download PorteuX right now.

GNOME 49 “Brescia” Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of GNOME 49 include a new “Do Not Disturb” toggle in Quick Settings, a dedicated Accessibility menu in the login screen, support for handling unknown power profiles in the Quick Settings menu, HDR brightness controls, support for passive screen casts, and support for async keyboard map settings.

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 “Gigi” Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing

Based on the latest Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series, the beta version of the upcoming Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 release is powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series and features the Cinnamon 6.4.12 desktop environment.

Mozilla Thunderbird 143 Open-Source Email Client Arrives as a Bugfix-Only Release

Mozilla Thunderbird 143 is here to fix a startup crash, another crash that occurred when importing email, a UI hang when adding a new email account, a folder restoring issue when changing to a new drafts folder and then back, and an issue where the menu bar was hidden after updating from Thunderbird 128 ESR to Thunderbird 140 ESR.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 09, 2025

Ship blasting sand back to the coast in Queensland Australia

Updated This Past Day

  1. Microsoft Starts 2025 Like 2024: Mass Layoffs Every Month!
    It's a company in tailspin
  2. Why Government Data on "Job Openings" is Typically a Lie (Perpetrated in Part by Corporations)
    Millions (yes, millions!) of fake "openings" exist in the US alone, based on a survey done last year

    New

  3. Gemini Links 08/01/2025: Minimalism and Efficiency With Gemini Protocol and tilde.cafe "May be Shutting Down"
    Links for the day
  4. There Used to be an Actual Community in SUSE (OpenSUSE is Dying)
    Volunteers with programming skills don't want to become slaves of Microsoft resellers
  5. [Meme] Blindly Trust Rust
    First, you need to get it from a proprietary platform
  6. Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) is a Far Bigger Problem Than Some Unintentional Bugs (Not Back Doors) in Software
    What's a "memory safe programing [sic] language"? Rust has holes in itself, never mind programs made using Rust.
  7. Amid Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (2025) Executives Flock to Google
    The managers and executives typically know ahead of time what's coming
  8. Links 08/01/2025: HMPV Concerns and UK Deaths Soared in 2024
    Links for the day
  9. IBMers Question IBM's Decision to Send Money to "Chinese Military Companies" in Spite of US Sanctions
    Some people bring this up now
  10. [Meme] Real Money and Fake (Speculative, Fictional) Money
    "Looking for the next $400,000,000,000 in 'investment'"
  11. Microsoft LinkedIn Going 'the Way of the Epstein'
    LinkedIn is going downhill
  12. Will 2025 Bring Recovery of News Sites or Just More LLM Slop? Probably the Latter.
    The Web is deteriorating. Geminispace does not have LLM trash (yet).
  13. Engagement in Microsoft GitHub Falls, Expect More Layoffs and Office Closures
    Maybe it'll become an "open secret" if some rebellious whistleblower contacts us
  14. [Meme] Microsoft's January 6th
    Most Microsoft employees want to leave the company
  15. Links 08/01/2025: Arrest of Yoon Suk Yeol Still Due, Prime Minister of Canada Stepped Down
    Links for the day
  16. Gemini Links 08/01/2025: Why Mastodon Sucks and Fake Code Generated by Scanning Real Code
    Links for the day
  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 07, 2025
    IRC logs for Tuesday, January 07, 2025

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

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

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    1752 /n/2025/01/04/What_Would_Dennis_Ritchie_Say_About_the_Memory_Safe_Hype_or_Car.shtml
    1559 /n/2025/01/07/Microsoft_Continues_to_Attack_Users_Choice.shtml
    1014 /n/2025/01/01/GNU_Linux_Gained_About_0_5_Last_Year_According_to_StatCounter.shtml
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    691 /n/2025/01/06/British_Police_Register_a_New_Account_With_Unscrupulous_America.shtml
    588 /n/2025/01/03/In_Mexico_Windows_Down_to_All_Time_Low_GNU_Linux_Up_to_All_Time.shtml
    580 /n/2025/01/07/In_Europe_Russia_s_Yandex_About_to_Become_Bigger_Than_Microsoft.shtml
    560 /n/2025/01/04/Links_04_01_2025_Demolition_of_IBM_Building_Its_Birthplace_Micr.shtml
    535 /n/2025/01/02/When_Your_Get_Your_Latest_Technology_News_From_an_LLM_Slop_Farm.shtml
    526 /n/2025/01/05/Credit_to_Jessica_Lyons_at_The_Register_for_Covering_the_Commun.shtml
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    505 /n/2025/01/04/Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Almost_85_Funded.shtml
    504 /n/2025/01/03/Memes_Two_Dictators_Donald_Trump_Loves_TikTok.shtml

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The GNOME Project released today GNOME 49 “Brescia” as the latest stable version of this widely used desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions, a major release that introduces exciting new features.
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