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Five Years of Collaboration Between the Global Encryption Coalition and Internet Society Chapters

On 14 May 2020, the Global Encryption Coalition (GEC) launched to promote and defend the use of strong encryption around the world.

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KDE Plasma 6.4 Desktop Environment Enters Beta Testing with Many New Features

KDE Plasma 6.4 promises a major UI revamp for the Spectacle screenshot utility, support for per-virtual-desktop custom tile layouts, KWin-X11 easy to use, but flexible X window manager, and the Aurorae theme engine for KWin window decorations.

Arch Linux Installer Now Supports Labwc, Niri, and River Wayland Compositors

Archinstall 3.0.5 is here to add support for the Labwc Wayland window-stacking compositor, Niri scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor, River dynamic tiling Wayland compositor, and XMonad dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell, as profiles.

You Can Now Upgrade Ubuntu 24.10 to Ubuntu 25.04, Here’s How

Ubuntu 24.10 was released on October 10th, 2024, and will be supported for a couple more months, until July 2025. Since this isn’t an LTS (Long Term Support) release, users might want to consider upgrading to Ubuntu 25.04 as soon as possible.

LinuxGizmos.com

LILYGO T-Embed SI4732 Combines ESP32 S3 with All Band Radio Tuning

LILYGO has introduced a new version of its T-Embed series that incorporates the SI4732 A10 tuner module. This version supports AM, FM, shortwave, and longwave radio bands in a handheld format that visually resembles devices like the Flipper Zero.

Tor Project blog

Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app

That's why today, we are excited to introduce oniux: a small command-line utility providing Tor network isolation for third-party applications using Linux namespaces. Built on Arti, and onionmasq, oniux drop-ships any Linux program into its own network namespace to route it through Tor and strips away the potential for data leaks. If your work, activism, or research demands rock-solid traffic isolation, oniux delivers it.

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Ubuntu is Replacing its Image Viewer and Terminal Apps

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on May 16, 2025

Quoting: Ubuntu is Replacing its Image Viewer and Terminal Apps - OMG! Ubuntu —

Loupe is to replace Eye of GNOME as the default image viewer in Ubuntu 25.10, while Ptyxis is set to supplant GNOME Terminal as default terminal emulator.

Neither app swap is a surprise, though I should caution that neither are a given yet. The nature of development is such that intentions can get waylaid by realities as testing throws up issues, incompatibilities, and other inconsistencies that require a rethink.

Still, it’s likely these will stick. Ubuntu devs have mooted making these switches before, even referring to Ptyxis as its ‘recommended replacement’ for GNOME Terminal during the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle.

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