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Darktable 5.6.1 RAW Image Editor Improves UI Performance and Fixes More Bugs

Darktable 5.6.1 comes two months after Darktable 5.6 with a small UI performance boost by reverting the increased preview pipe dimension, as well as support for copying color labels, ratings, and manually applied geotags to images created by AI denoise and upscale, in addition to EXIF data and tags.

LibreOffice 26.8 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Highlights of LibreOffice 26.8 include the Paragraph Composer in Writer as a text layout algorithm that balances word spacing across consecutive lines, along with support for OpenType font variations, and the ability to detect paragraph direction automatically when documents or plain text are opened or pasted.

Armbian 26.8 Released with Linux 7.1, Revamped Installer, and UEFI ISO Images

Coming almost three months after Armbian 26.5, the Armbian 26.8 release adds support for new ARM boards and chips, including Anbernic RG DS and RG Vita Pro, Radxa Cubie A7Z and Dragon Q6A/Q8B, Seeed reComputer RK3576 and RK3588 DevKits, as well as TI BeagleBadge and TMDS64EVM.

COSMIC 1.7 Desktop Environment Improves COSMIC Files, COSMIC Edit, and More

Coming only a week after COSMIC 1.6, the COSMIC 1.7 release is a small update that updates the COSMIC Compositor with improved support for scalable cursors so that they won’t be blurry when their size is increased, the ability to increase the zoom with each keypress, and support for magnifying the cursor when it’s shaken.

Ardour 9.8 Open-Source DAW Is Now Available with Initial Scales Support

Coming two and a half months after Ardour 9.7, the Ardour 9.8 release introduces initial scales support to let you visualize out-of-scale notes and choose if you want to avoid creating them entirely when composing and improvising in a specific musical key, as well as support for the Novation Launchkey 88 Mk4 and Arturia Drumbrute controllers.

OpenSSL 4.0.2 Released with Important Security and Bug Fixes

Coming two and a half months after OpenSSL 4.0.1, the OpenSSL 4.0.2 release is here to address several important security vulnerabilities, including a heap buffer overflow in CMS key unwrapping (CVE-2026-63072), excessive memory use buffering DTLS records (CVE-2026-54874), and a client-side memory leak in OCSP response checking (CVE-2026-54876).

Happy 35th Birthday, Linux!

It was on August 25th, 1991, that the 21-year-old Finnish student Linus Benedict Torvalds made his now-famous announcement on the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he was working on a free operating system for 386 (486) AT clones, just as a “hobby”.

Shelly 3.1 Package Manager Is Out with Support for Building Arch Linux Packages

Shelly 3.1 is here to introduce support for building Arch Linux packages through a new shelly build command that’s part of the native package-management library, not a wrapper around makepkg. It writes makepkg-compatible entries and produces archives that pacman and other Arch Linux tools understand.

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Rianne in Bearlin

Brett Wilson LLP is Extremely Rude

It probably goes without saying, it’s actually an understatement

Confirmed: Evri Support (Over E-mail) is Just a Bot!

I opened two tickets with Evri recently.

Bad Engineering by Design

Is failure intentional?

4-Week Staycation

Staying in Manchester all August

RMS Asks About Problems With systemd

HE good news of the day is, RMS is open to feedback – including to criticism – on systemd.

Wedding Anniversary in 3 Weeks

ime flies.

Patent Troll InterDigital Proves UPC is a Sham, Needs to be Scuttled ASAP

welve years ago we travelled around the same time SCOTUS delivered Alice and with 35 U.S.C. § 101 it became easier to squash software patents in the US. Now in Europe we see the opposite trend. This means I’d need to get back to writing a lot more about patents.

You Know You Secretly Hate Women When…

he thing you want to do to women is put them in cages (even your own wife!) You insist women are not women and then argue about nature, replacing science with ideology You naturally come to realise women keep a distance from you (they probably explain to one another why) You cheat on women casually You assume what’s theirs is actually men’s (like you) You antagonise women except those who flatter you

I Try My Best to Boycott YouTube and You Should Too

he ‘video sharing’ [sic] site YouTube is getting more aggressive over time and it tries to block people from accessing videos in a way that suits them.

LinuxGizmos.com

FireWire HAT with PCIe 2.0 for Tapeless DV and HDV Capture

A recent Crowd Supply campaign features the Firehat, an open-source FireWire HAT designed for PCIe-capable single-board computers including the Raspberry Pi 5 and Radxa ROCK 2F. The board uses a VIA VT6315N IEEE 1394 controller and targets direct DV and HDV capture from older digital camcorders and tape decks using Linux.

Upcoming Jetson Orin Nano 2 boosts edge AI performance to 78 TOPS

NVIDIA has announced the Jetson Orin Nano 2, an updated edge AI platform aimed at robotics, drones, machine vision, and other embedded AI applications. The new module provides up to 78 TOPS of AI performance, 8GB of memory, and an 8-core Arm CPU while retaining the compact form factor of the previous Jetson Orin Nano generation.

Fanless Edge box runs Linux on Rockchip RV1126B with 3-TOPS NPU

The Forlinx FCU3101 is a fanless edge AI computing system based on Rockchip’s RV1126B/RV1126BJ processor, providing local AI inference, Ethernet, serial, and digital I/O connectivity for industrial vision, security monitoring, and data acquisition applications.

IAR webinar to examine static and runtime analysis for AI-assisted embedded development

IAR will host a September 15 webinar focused on the use of AI-generated code in regulated embedded development, with discussion covering static analysis, runtime checking, and CI/CD workflows used to support software verification and compliance activities.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 11, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Our Lawsuits Against the 'Cancel Mob' (Ringleaders) Helped Reduce Anti-Free Software Online Abuse
    That's not to say that lawsuits are the best way to handle terrible people. But that can help.
  2. The Two Lies Microsoft is Telling in "the News" This Week (to Distract From Layoffs and Decreased Interest in Slop/Chaff)
    Microsoft is run by liars and frauds who SLAPP critics
  3. Tux Machines Already Destroyed SLAPPs
    Attacks on the mere publication of GNU/Linux news won't be tolerated
  4. Always Check Your Inputs
    Garbage in, garbage out. Or wrong assumptions, wrong corollary.

    New

  5. Tomorrow is the Last Day of the Fund-Raising Campaign of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
    They will probably extend the date, as usual
  6. Fixing Patents in Europe, Little by Little (by Transparency and Reporting of Suppressed Facts)
    Tomorrow and throughout the weekend we shall focus some more on the EPO
  7. PCLinuxOS is Available for Download Again
    PCLinuxOS is important to us also because its founder, back then the partner of Susan, helped create Tux Machines more than 21 years ago
  8. Links 10/07/2025: Microsoft E-mail 'Services' Collapse Again, "Yet Another Strava Privacy Leak"
    Links for the day
  9. Gemini Links 10/07/2025: Automating Git Repo Updates and Small Web 'Zine'
    Links for the day
  10. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    mostly Linux stuff
  11. Audiocasts/Shows: Going Linux, FLOSS Weekly, and RHEL Clones
    3 new picks
  12. We Are Already Fighting - With Considerable Success - SLAPPs in the UK
    we intend to tell the full story
  13. Bullies With Pens and Papers (or Apple Macs With Templates)
    Not all barristers are evil, but there are perhaps "rotten apples"
  14. Slopwatch: webpronews.com, linuxsecurity.com, linuxjournal.com
    a pile of trash disguised as 'articles'
  15. Links 10/07/2025: Linda Yaccarino Divorces MElonazi Site, Wildfires Hit Syria
    Links for the day
  16. The History and the Policy of the EPO's Stance on Breastfeeding (Corporate Monopolies Versus Babies' Health)
    "The Case for Introducing a Breastfeeding Policy at the EPO"
  17. Gemini Links 10/07/2025: Inventing Chords and "Nightmare Boss"
    Links for the day
  18. Igor Ljubuncic Once Again Shows That for Technical Reasons Wayland Still Sucks, Performs Considerably Worse Than What Existed for Decades
    That is aside from compatibility factors and other crucial factors
  19. Links 10/07/2025: "Apple Vs The Law" and Twitter Became Full Nazi Bar
    Links for the day
  20. Unable to Find Anyone to Work as Their Media Lawyer, Brett Wilson LLP Will Continue Losing Female Staff
    What sort of sick person would wish to join Brett Wilson LLP to carry this baton?
  21. Microsoft-Sponsored Propaganda Site Has Removed False 'Hit Piece' About Dr. Stallman (With Fake and Misrepresented Imagery) But Only After 4 Years
    So they only removed that page some time around 2025, i.e. about 4 years after it had been published
  22. Dan Neidle Said That Tax Evasion Facilitator Mr Zahawi (Working to Silence Bloggers Through Brett Wilson LLP) Targeted Not Only Him (But The Others Kept Quiet)
    "Mr Neidle said after repelling Mr Zahawi he was contacted by bloggers and tweeters who had received similar threats. They deleted their work “and in most cases never commented publicly on anything again”."
  23. SLAPP Funding Transparency Urgently Needed in the UK and Elsewhere (in Practice, Not Just in Theory)
    Writing about crime - including Microsoft crime - is not a crime
  24. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  25. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 09, 2025
    IRC logs for Wednesday, July 09, 2025
  26. Elodie Bergot Still Doing Illegal Things at the EPO, Based on the Local Staff Committee Munich
    They keep taking away from the staff while compelling the staff to do illegal things
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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