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Calibre 9.8 E-Book Manager Improves Content Server, Native TTS Engine, and More

Coming two weeks after Calibre 9.7, the Calibre 9.8 release is here to improve the Edit Book feature by allowing you to reset the zoom to 100% by right-clicking in the preview panel, and improve the Content Server by allowing you to see book details by clicking on book titles/covers in the /mobile view.

First Arch Linux ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 7.0 Is Now Available for Download

Arch Linux 2026.05.01 is out now as the first Arch Linux ISO release to be powered by Linux kernel 7.0, which should give users a boost when detecting hardware, especially on newer devices, but especially on older ones where previous Arch Linux ISOs failed to detect some of the components.

Shotcut 26.4 Video Editor Adds Vulkan GPU Support to Speech to Text on Linux

Coming two months after Shotcut 26.2, the Shotcut 26.4 release is here to introduce Vulkan GPU support to Speech to Text on Linux and Windows systems, 10-bit VP9 MP4 (E-AC-3) and 10-bit VP9 WebM (Opus) export presets, and new aspect ratio grid options to the player grid button, including 1:1 Frame, 16:9 Frame, 4:3 Frame, and 9:16 Frame.

Grml 2026.04 Linux Distro Is Out with Linux Kernel 6.19, Based on Debian 14 Forky

Coming four months after Grml 2025.12, the Grml 2026.04 release is powered by the Linux 6.19 kernel series and incorporates all the latest package updates and security patches from the upstream software repositories of the Debian Testing branch as of April 2026, which will become Debian 14 “Forky” sometime in 2027.

Linux Mint 22.3 HWE ISOs Now Available for Download with Linux Kernel 6.17

Earlier this month, the Linux Mint project announced that they have decided to adopt a longer development cycle for future Linux Mint releases, starting with the upcoming Linux Mint 23 release, planned for Christmas 2026, so that they can focus more on fixing bugs than shipping newer features.

LibreOffice 26.2.3 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 40 Bug Fixes

Coming a month after LibreOffice 26.2.2, the LibreOffice 26.2.3 release brings more bug fixes to address various issues, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users, as well as stability improvements contributed by LibreOffice’s global community of developers, QA engineers, and ecosystem companies.

AerynOS 2026.05 Released with Linux Kernel 7.0, New Logo, and More

The biggest change in the AerynOS 2026.05 release is that the underlying OS is now powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.0 kernel series. This should provide AerynOS with slightly faster performance, better hardware support, and various other enhancements.

Wireshark 4.6.5 Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities and Updates Protocol Support

Coming two months after Wireshark 4.6.4, the Wireshark 4.6.5 release is here to update support for the AFP, AIN, ANSI_TCAP, ASAM CMP, ATN-ULCS, BEEP, BGP, BT HCI, BT HCI ISO, BT-DHT, CAMEL, ChargingASE, CMIP, COSEM, DAP, Darwin, DCP ETSI, DECT NR+, DISP, DMX, DNS, E1AP, E2AP, F1AP, FC-SWILS, Frame, FTAM, GLOW, GNW, GOOSE, and GPRSCDR protocols.

Tor Project blog

Tor Project Statement on the Abrupt Cancellation of RightsCon 2026

Tor's work is rooted in the belief that everyone should be able to speak freely, safely, and privately. We build tools that help people connect, communicate, organize, and seek information; especially those facing censorship, surveillance, repression, discrimination, and other forms of vulnerability. The disruption of a space dedicated to advancing these shared goals represents a serious gutpunch to the global human rights community.

New Release: Tails 7.7.1

We are not aware of these vulnerabilities being exploited in practice until now.

LinuxGizmos.com

ESP-FLY micro drone kit offers ESP32-S3-based flight control and ESP-NOW support

The ESP-FLY DIY Kit is a compact micro drone platform built around the Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-S3, developed as a collaboration between Seeed Studio and Max Imagination. The kit targets educational and hobbyist use, combining a small airframe with wireless control options and a customizable firmware environment.

Geniatech AIM-M-K and AIM-B2 integrate Ara240 for local AI inference

Geniatech has shared information about the AIM-M-K and AIM-B2 AI accelerator modules based on the NXP Ara240 NPU. Both designs target edge inference workloads, offering up to 40 TOPS of INT8 performance for applications such as computer vision, transformer models, and generative AI.

MiciMike board converts Google Home Mini into local Home Assistant voice device

Crowd Supply recently featured the MiciMike Home Mini Drop-In PCB, an open hardware replacement for the first-generation Google Home Mini that enables fully local Home Assistant voice control. It installs without case modifications or soldering, reusing the original hardware.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 14, 2025

Bright modern abstract eyeballs painted on the side of a building

Updated This Past Day

  1. The Word About the Upcoming Talk by Richard Stallman - Scheduled for Friday This Week - Has Spread ("The Cost of Freedom," Lausanne, Switzerland)
    So the word is spreading
  2. Microsoft Front Group Starts the Year by Championing Underage (or Child) Labour
    the fake 'FSF'

    New

  3. Links 13/01/2025: Conflicts, Prisoner Exchange, and Homes on Fire
    Links for the day
  4. Angola: Microsoft Windows Falls Below 10%
    Microsoft has a really bad 2024 in Africa
  5. [Meme] Twitter ("X") Has Been Grooming Radicals Since 2022
    Musk's very own "grooming gang"
  6. [Meme] What Free Speech Ought to Mean
    It does not sound like RMS suggests anything other than quitting social control media
  7. Gemini Links 13/01/2025: RestFest, Yule, and Deedum
    Links for the day
  8. Modern Web Browsers as Web Censorship Software
    We continue to recommend Geminispace
  9. Two Weeks From Now Dr. Richard Stallman Speaks at The Summit of Future 2025 (India)
    he will be giving a "Keynote Address" in India
  10. Microsoft is Tight With Money: It's About the Salaries ('Cost' of the Workers)
    a question of cost, not skill
  11. Google Got People Sort of Addicted to Android So It Can Cash in (Services, App Store, Advertising) Decades Later
    This is not software freedom
  12. The Free Software Foundation Reaches 370k Dollars in Funding, Due Date is January 17th When Richard Stallman is Guest of Honour in Lausanne (Switzerland)
    Even fellow board members seem unaware of it
  13. Record Lows for Windows (Microsoft) in Botswana
    The market share of Vista 11 is seen as going down
  14. Preserving Deleted Articles About Bill Gates Talking Like a Drug Dealer About Computer Users
    Now it's 2025. Different challenge.
  15. Links 13/01/2025: Disinformation, Social Control Media Actively Promoting Nazism, and Catchup With Ukraine
    Links for the day
  16. TPM Boosters Inside Debian (TPM Isn't About Security, It is About Control Over Users and Their Machines)
    We're not rushing to any conclusions
  17. Aaron Swartz Died 12 Years Ago After a Vicious Government Campaign to Stop Him
    The Aaron Swartz story is a reminder of the importance of having verifiable/verified information out there for the general public to see
  18. Links 13/01/2025: GitLab Enshittification and Minimalism and Efficiency with Gemini Protocol
    Links for the day
  19. Links 13/01/2025: Hardware, Health, and Conflicts
    Links for the day
  20. Chatbots Are Not Data-Driven, They're Human-Censored and Rely on Wage Slaves (and Sometimes Unpaid Volunteers)
    This is the Microsoft wage slavery
  21. Microsoft Appears to Have Fallen to Only 15% in Maldives
    This is a problem for Microsoft
  22. Rumours of IBM Canada Layoffs
    We'll keep a vigilant eye on this
  23. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  24. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 12, 2025
    IRC logs for Sunday, January 12, 2025

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

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

    Span from 2025-01-07 to 2025-01-13
    2408 /n/2025/01/06/Fedora_Seems_to_be_Dying_of_Neglect_by_IBM.shtml
    2080 /n/2025/01/08/Communications_Assistance_for_Law_Enforcement_Act_CALEA_is_a_Fa.shtml
    1964 /n/2025/01/07/Microsoft_Continues_to_Attack_Users_Choice.shtml
    1613 /n/2025/01/11/Microsoft_in_Trouble_as_Azure_Breaks_and_Only_Days_After_Promis.shtml
    1328 /n/2025/01/10/More_IBM_Layoffs_2025.shtml
    959 /n/2025/01/08/Microsoft_Starts_2025_Like_2024_Mass_Layoffs_Every_Month.shtml
    845 /index.shtml
    767 /n/2025/01/07/In_Europe_Russia_s_Yandex_About_to_Become_Bigger_Than_Microsoft.shtml
    701 /n/2024/12/21/On_BetaNews_Latest_Technology_News_We_are_moderately_confident_.shtml
    700 /n/2025/01/09/Computers_as_a_Heat_Source.shtml
    679 /n/2025/01/09/Free_Software_Cannot_Rely_on_Politicians_They_Don_t_Even_Care_A.shtml
    678 /n/2025/01/07/All_the_Latest_Articles_in_This_Fake_News_Site_Are_SPAM_LLM_Slo.shtml
    649 /n/2025/01/13/Aaron_Swartz_Died_12_Years_Ago_After_a_Vicious_Government_Campa.shtml
    597 /browse/latest.shtml
    597 /n/2025/01/09/Sometimes_the_EFF_Prefers_to_Talk_About_Sex_Not_Tech_or_Unneces.shtml
    586 /n/2025/01/10/Guardian_Digital_Inc_linuxsecurity_com_is_Again_Spamming_or_Goo.shtml
    585 /n/2024/12/30/In_2024_Under_Linux_Foundation_Management_Linux_com_Produced_an.shtml
    564 /n/2025/01/08/Amid_Mass_Layoffs_at_Microsoft_2025_Executives_Flock_to_Google.shtml
    551 /n/2025/01/08/Engagement_in_Microsoft_GitHub_Falls_Expect_More_Layoffs_and_Of.shtml
    523 /n/2025/01/11/After_a_Year_of_Layoffs_in_Microsoft_Nigeria_and_Microsoft_in_A.shtml

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