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New Release: Tor Browser 14.5.7

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

9to5Linux

Firefox 144 to Strengthen the Encryption of Logins in the Firefox Password Manager

Firefox 144 is yet another small update that only promises to strengthen the encryption used for the logins saved in the Firefox Password Manager using a more modern encryption scheme by switching from 3DES-CBC to AES-256-CBC.

Fedora Linux 43 Beta Released with Linux 6.17, GNOME 49, and KDE Plasma 6.4

Powered by the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel series, the Fedora Linux 43 beta ships with the soon-to-be-released GNOME 49 desktop environment for the flagship Fedora Workstation edition, as well as the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment on the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop edition.

Canonical to Package and Distribute NVIDIA CUDA within Ubuntu’s Repositories

The CUDA toolkit provides developers with a parallel computing platform and programming model that uses NVIDIA GPUs for general-purpose processing. Until now, developers had to download CUDA from the NVIDIA website to install it on Ubuntu, but soon that will no longer be the case.

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

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.

Giada 1.3 Open-Source Loop Machine Adds Support for Multiple Audio Connections

Giada 1.3 is a small update, but an important one as it introduces support for multiple audio output configurations (more than stereo), along with improvements to the JACK Audio Connection Kit support to enable support for multiple output connections.

LinuxGizmos.com

ASUS Ascent GX10 Compact AI Supercomputer Now Available for Preorder

The GB10 Superchip combines a 20-core Arm v9.2 CPU with an integrated Blackwell GPU and fifth-generation Tensor Cores, supporting FP4 precision for efficient AI inferencing. The chip delivers up to 1,000 TOPS (1 petaFLOP) of AI performance, paired with 128 GB of LPDDR5x coherent unified memory. ASUS notes that this configuration enables handling of AI models with up to 200 billion parameters, with the ability to fine-tune models around 70 billion parameters locally.

3.5” SBC with MediaTek Genio 700/510 for Low-Power AIoT Edge Applications

The board integrates the MediaTek Genio 700 (MT8390) at up to 2.2 GHz or the Genio 510 (MT8370) at 2.0 GHz, combining dual Cortex-A78 and hexa Cortex-A55 cores with a shared 2 MB L3 cache. It is paired with 4GB or 8GB of LPDDR4-4000 memory and 64GB or 128GB of onboard eMMC 5.1 storage, eliminating the need for external memory modules and improving system reliability.