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Cinnamon 6.6 Desktop Environment Released with Redesigned Application Menu

The biggest change in Cinnamon 6.6 is a redesigned application menu applet that now lets you toggle between symbolic or full color icons for categories, support for color system buttons on hover, configurable Places and Bookmarks, as well as many visual changes.

AerynOS 2025.12 Released with GNOME 49.2, Mesa 25.3, and KDE Plasma 6.5.4

Powered by Linux kernel 6.17.10, AerynOS 2025.12 ships with the latest GNOME 49.2 desktop environment by default on the live ISO, along with the latest recently released KDE Plasma 6.5.4 desktop environment for those who prefer to install AerynOS with KDE Plasma instead, and the latest COSMIC Beta desktop environment.

Thunderbird 146 Introduces Configuration UI for Setting Up OpenPGP Keyservers

Highlights of Thunderbird 146 include the ability to configure your preferred OpenPGP keyserver via the UI with a new OpenPGP Keyservers section in Privacy & Security settings. Two OpenPGP keyservers are already predefined in Thunderbird, but you can add as many as you like. Here’s what it looks like!

Canonical to Package and Distribute AMD ROCm within Ubuntu’s Repositories

The AMD ROCm open software ecosystem enables hardware-accelerated AI/ML and HPC workloads on AMD Instinct and AMD Radeon graphics cards to simplify the deployment of an AI infrastructure and delivery of AMD AI solutions in data centers, workstations, laptops, WSL, and edge environments.

Parrot 7.0 Beta Ethical Hacking Distro Switches to KDE Plasma as Default Desktop

The biggest change in the upcoming Parrot 7.0 release is the switch from the lightweight MATE desktop environment to the more modern KDE Plasma as the default desktop environment for all editions, along with extending the classic terminal green style across the entire system.

Firefox 147 Promises Support for the XDG Base Directory Specification, Beta Out Now

Firefox 147 promises support for the Freedesktop.org XDG Base Directory Specification, zero-copy hardware-decoded video support on AMD GPUs to improve video playback performance, support for the Safe Browsing V5 protocol, and WebGPU support for all Apple Silicon Macs.

KDE Plasma 6.5.4 Desktop Environment Released with Numerous Bug Fixes

Coming three weeks after KDE Plasma 6.5.3, the KDE Plasma 6.5.4 update looks like a bugfix release only addressing a regression in menu sizing that was accidentally backported to Plasma 6.5.3, and a Plasma 6 regression that broke the ability to activate the expanded items pop-up in the system tray with a keyboard shortcut.

Tor Project blog

Twenty contributors, three days, one goal: Bringing the Tor community together

It's been a while since we last had such a meeting and therefore a bunch of Tor folks stepped up trying to get one organized. We wanted to figure out whether we as a community can actually get such a meeting off the ground, what it would cost and what lessons we could draw for similar gatherings yet to come. This blog post is a report back from our experiences and will hopefully inspire the community to set up similar meet-ups in the future.

Internet Society

Why the UN’s Next Decision on Internet Governance Matters for Everyone

This week is a pivotal one for the future of the Internet. National governments will convene at the United Nations headquarters in New York City to negotiate who will shape our digital future and how. It is critical that countries reaffirm their longstanding support for including the global Internet community’s stakeholders at the table.

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Firefox 143 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New

posted by Marius Nestor on Sep 15, 2025,
updated Sep 17, 2025

Firefox 143 is yet another small update that only brings a couple of new features, one of them being the ability to preview when a website asks for camera access in the permission dialog, which may come in handy when switching between multiple cameras.

Another new feature in Firefox 143, a privacy one for that matter, is the ability to prompt users to choose whether they want to keep or delete the files they download while using the private browsing mode. This preference can also be set in about:settings.

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Update (by Roy)

Firefox 143 Released with Copilot Chatbot, Web App Creation + More [Ed: Mozilla is preloading Microsoft spyware inside Firefox; this is like the final nail in the coffin to many, after Mozilla also offloaded Firefox to Microsoft's GitHub]

Mozilla Firefox 143 brings new features and improvements, including access to Microsoft's Hey Hi (AI) chatbot, date info in the address bar, and web app support.

Firefox 143.0 is out with Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Copilot Hey Hi (AI) Integration

Firefox 143.0, the new monthly release of the popular free open-source web browser, is available to download. The new release of Mozilla’s web browser added support installing websites as web apps for backdoored Windows user. For running website, there’s a new “Add tab to taskbar” icon in the right corner of address bar.

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Firefox 143.0 released

Version 143.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include the ability to pin tabs by dragging them to the edge, previews in the camera permissions dialog, improved fingerprinting protection, and (optional) automatic deletion of files downloaded in private browsing mode.

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