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The Data Dump Dilemma: Why Public Digital Platforms Risk Failing the People They Serve

In Assam, India, a man named Ibrahim Ali was denied Indian citizenship because his father Nurul Islam’s name was recorded as “Late Nurul” in a digitized document based on a 1965 voter roll. A woman from Baksa district was declared a foreigner because she couldn’t recall her father’s electoral details from the 1960s. 

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PNY preorder listing shows Nvidia DGX Spark at $4,299.99

According to the product brief, DGX Spark can support models of up to 200 billion parameters locally with its 128GB of coherent LPDDR5x system memory. Using the built-in ConnectX networking, two DGX Spark systems can be linked together to enable inference on models of up to 405 billion parameters, with Nvidia highlighting support for workloads such as Llama 3.1 405B.

SpecFive Strike Handheld Linux Workstation with LoRa Mesh

The device comes in a PETG enclosure featuring a 4.3-inch touchscreen and a full QWERTY keyboard, giving it the appearance and usability of a pocket-sized Linux laptop. A 5000 mAh internal battery provides 3 to 6 hours of runtime, and charging is handled through a dedicated USB port.

Hackabone Project Offers BeagleBone-Based Embedded Linux Training with Emulated Framework

The project name, short for “Hack-a-Bone,” reflects its emphasis on hands-on learning with the BeagleBone platform. While real hardware can be used, Hackabone reduces the barrier to entry by providing a browser-accessible emulation environment that mimics both the development host and target board.

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Slimbook Refreshes Its Flagship Linux Laptop, Introduces Slimbook Manjaro III

First in the line is the Slimbook EVO, Slimbook’s flagship laptop introduced last year, which now features the brand-new AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 processor with 10 cores and 20 threads, next-generation NPU with 50 TOPS designed for local execution of AI models, up to 128 GB RAM, and up to 16 TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 storage.

PipeWire 1.4.8 Brings Low Latency to FireWire Devices Using the ALSA Drivers

PipeWire 1.4.8 brings low latency for FireWire devices using the ALSA drivers by forcing the IRQ mode in Pro-Audio mode even if there are multiple capture and playback devices, improves compatibility with Apple HomePod Minis by adding fp_sap25 encryption to the RAOP module, and improves support for the Razer BlackShark v3 gaming headset.

KDE Gear 25.08.1 Released with More Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps

KDE Gear 25.08.1 is here to fix an issue in the KTorrent app that caused it to constantly write to a magnet file, fix an issue with the account moderation tools page in the Tokodon app, and fix an infinite loop in git blame in the Kate text editor that occurred when using the Flatpak version.

Fwupd 2.0.15 Adds Support for NVIDIA ConnectX-6, ConnectX-7 and ConnectX-8 NICs

Coming about two weeks after fwupd 2.0.14, the fwupd 2.0.15 release adds support for updating the firmware on more hardware, including the NVIDIA ConnectX-6, NVIDIA ConnectX-7, and NVIDIA ConnectX-8 NICs, Jabra Evolve2 child devices, as well as the Foxconn SDX61 modem.

TUXEDO Computers Now Supports Fully Automated Installations of Debian 13

With TUXEDO WebFAI, anyone can set up their Linux installations fully automated and as fully functional as those done at TUXEDO Computers during production. TUXEDO WebFAI also brings you the latest tested Linux distribution versions from the TUXEDO Computers servers.

Hyprland 0.51 Wayland Compositor Adds Fully Configurable Trackpad Gestures

Hyprland 0.51 is here to introduce several new features, such as support for fully configurable trackpad gestures, support for setting the scroll factor per device, an ignoremaster option to swapwithmaster, a cursor:invisible option to allow hiding the cursor, and support for DPMS animations.

Puppy Linux BookwormPup64 10.0.12 Is Out Based on Debian 12.12 “Bookworm”

Puppy Linux BookwormPup64 10.0.12 is a new Woof-CE build that includes all upstream security updates from the recently released Debian 12.12 “Bookworm” operating system series, which arrived last week, along with Debian 13.1 “Trixie”, featuring 135 bug fixes for miscellaneous packages and 83 security updates.

Ubuntu 25.10 Is Now Powered by Linux Kernel 6.17 Ahead of the Beta Release

Development on Ubuntu 25.10 commenced in late April 2025, shortly after the release of Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin), and it initially shipped with Linux kernel 6.14, which was already backported to the long-term supported Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) series with the release of Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS last month.

Steam Client Adds Advanced Options to the In-Game Overlay for AMD & NVIDIA GPUs

The big news for Linux gamers is the implementation of advanced options for the in-game performance overlay for AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, improved Steam UI scaling in XWayland, improved system display scale in the in-game overlay, and improved Big Picture update progress UI.

KDE Plasma 6.4.5 Fixes Brightness Flickering Issues with AMD GPU Drivers

Coming a little over a month after KDE Plasma 6.4.4, the KDE Plasma 6.4.5 release adds a workaround for brightness flickering issues with the AMD GPU graphics drivers when changing GAMMA_LUT often. The workaround can be disabled by setting the KWIN_DRM_DISABLE_AMD_GAMMA_WORKAROUND variable to 1.