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The Organizations on the Front Lines of a Safer Internet Need Our Help

When telling the story of the Internet, people often place emphasis on notable entrepreneurs and tech companies and the economic value they create. But that’s just part of the story. An often-forgotten part is how much the Internet owes its design and success to the work of nonprofits, researchers, standards bodies, civil society groups, and public-interest institutions that believed the network should work for everyone.

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LILYGO showcases new IoT devices with ESP32-C5 and Nordic nRF52840 MCUs

LILYGO has listed two compact development boards for wireless IoT applications: the T-Display C5, a small ESP32-C5-based board with a color LCD and dual-band Wi-Fi 6, and the T-Echo Card, a rugged LoRa-enabled device with GNSS, Bluetooth, NFC, solar charging, and an IP66-rated enclosure.

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WINSYSTEMS’ SBC-477 PowerTier Series is a family of compact rugged single board computers for industrial and MIL/COTS applications, combining 13th Gen Intel Core Raptor Lake processors with DDR5 memory, dual Ethernet, Mini PCIe expansion, TPM 2.0 security, and extended-temperature operation.

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GStreamer 1.28.5 Multimedia Framework Adds Support for H.266/VVC Decoding

Coming about a month after GStreamer 1.28.4, the GStreamer 1.28.5 release is here to add support for H.266/VVC decoding to the gopbuffer element, fix subtitle green flickering with VA decoders on AMD GPUs, improve HEVC with alpha decoding in the H.265 decoder, and add ts-clocksync to the threadshare element.

Linux Mint’s Cinnamon 6.8 Desktop Environment Will Fully Support Wayland

The Linux Mint devs have been working hard on making Cinnamon’s Wayland session as stable as possible, and it looks like Cinnamon 6.8 will finally remove the “experimental” status of the Wayland session and fully support Wayland. Here are some of the features they’ve implemented so far:

Proton 11 Officially Released with Support for More Games Running on Linux

Based on Wine 11, Proton 11 release promises support for more Windows games that you can now play on your Linux box, including Universe Generator: The Golden Sword, DCS World Steam Edition, Resident Evil (1996), Resident Evil 2 (1998), Dino Crisis, From Dust, Blaite, and Dino Crisis 2.

KDE Plasma 6.6.6 Released with Numerous Bug Fixes and Various Improvements

Coming two months after KDE Plasma 6.6.5, the KDE Plasma 6.6.6 release is a bugfix one that addresses numerous issues, including a clipboard-related issue that could make XWayland-using apps lag or freeze after locking the screen.

TUXEDO Computers Plans to Rebase TUXEDO OS on Debian Testing

Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers announced today that they plan to rebase their TUXEDO OS distribution on Debian GNU/Linux, moving away from Ubuntu, but still shipping a custom KDE Plasma desktop environment.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 07, 2025

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  1. The Register Bill
    The Register MS - putting the "MS" in your centre of the universe

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  2. Microsoft Sites Now Talking About September's Mass Layoffs at Microsoft
    It's noteworthy that even Microsoft's MSN now covers the latest revelations about mass layoffs
  3. Gemini Links 06/09/2025: SpellBinding Moving and "The Cloud" Ridiculed
    Links for the day
  4. Slopwatch: On "the Apology Industry", Chatbots (Punchbag for Customers), and Fake Articles About "Linux"
    "news reporting priorities changed"
  5. Links 06/09/2025: "Covid Incidence on the Rise" and Many Attacks on the Press Worldwide
    Links for the day
  6. Nobody Denies That SecureBoot Will Cause Problems After September 11
    Not even Microsoft
  7. Gemini Links 06/09/2025: Infinite Scrolling and Posting from Emacs
    Links for the day
  8. Links 06/09/2025: GitHub Meltdown Over Slop, "U.S. Jury Says Google Should Pay $425 Million in Privacy Lawsuit"
    Links for the day
  9. Despite Its Severe Financial Problems Gnome Foundation Inc Paid Rosanna Yuen Over 100,000 Dollars Last Year
    maybe relocation should be considered
  10. The "Left" and the Right"
    It poisons everything
  11. Mozilla and Rust Are Not Leftists
    they're part of the mass consumerism machine
  12. Disposable to Microsoft
    There is an extensive set of people who got used by Microsoft, only to be thrown away a month later or a year later or a decade later
  13. The UEFI 9/11 - Part VII - This Coming Week Many PCs Will Refuse to Boot "Linux" (Because of Microsoft's Expired Certificate)
    The real solution is, disable "secure boot" or "SecureBoot" while it's still possible. [...] Just like submarine patents, a lot of this problem was "hibernating" for a while
  14. The Thing Nobody in Red Hat Wants to Talk About Openly
    There is a real sentiment or worry among Red Hatters, Europeans and Americans in particulars (because of higher salary expectations)
  15. Slopwatch: Small Parade of Fake News About "Linux" and Scams Borrowing the Name (or Word) "Linux"
    In practice, LLMs are a risk
  16. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  17. IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 05, 2025
    IRC logs for Friday, September 05, 2025
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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    2644 /n/2025/09/02/Admission_That_a_Third_Party_or_Parties_Funds_the_SLAPPs_Agains.shtml
    2466 /n/2025/09/01/The_UEFI_9_11_Part_IV_External_Interference.shtml
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    2279 /n/2025/08/30/Slopwatch_Google_News_Assisting_Plagiarism_and_Anti_Linux_FUD_S.shtml
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    1962 /n/2025/09/06/Links_06_09_2025_GitHub_Meltdown_Over_Slop_U_S_Jury_Says_Google.shtml
    1786 /n/2025/09/04/Links_04_09_2025_Science_Hardware_and_Eyes_on_China.shtml
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