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Firefox 148 Is Now Available for Download with AI Kill Switch and Other Changes

The biggest change in Firefox 148 is the long-awaited AI kill switch feature, which is implemented in Settings as “AI Controls”, allowing you to completely disable all the AI features that had been included in the past few releases. Firefox’s AI features can be disabled entirely or selectively.

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Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 7.0 Release Candidate

Today marks two weeks since the release of Linux kernel 6.19 and the opening of the merge window for Linux kernel 7.0, which means that it is time to test drive the Release Candidate (RC) versions during the next couple of months, the first one being available for download right now from Linus Torvalds’s Git tree.

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Atom E3950 Powers WINSYSTEMS SBC-ZETA-3950 Rugged Mini SBC

The SBC-ZETA-3950 uses the quad-core Intel Atom E3950 processor running at 1.6 GHz (2.0 GHz burst), with 2MB L2 cache and a 12W base power envelope.

AAEON UP Squared Series Gains Mainline Linux Support for 40-Pin GPIO in Linux 6.18

The UP Board family combines Intel processors with a 40-pin expansion header routed through an onboard FPGA. The FPGA handles signal level shifting, pin multiplexing, switching, and direction control, allowing pins to operate as I2C, UART, PWM, or GPIO.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 09, 2025

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  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)
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  3. Gemini Links 08/01/2025: Minimalism and Efficiency With Gemini Protocol and tilde.cafe "May be Shutting Down"
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  4. There Used to be an Actual Community in SUSE (OpenSUSE is Dying)
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  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
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  10. [Meme] Real Money and Fake (Speculative, Fictional) Money
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  11. Microsoft LinkedIn Going 'the Way of the Epstein'
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  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...
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  18. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 07, 2025
    IRC logs for Tuesday, January 07, 2025
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