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New Release: Tails 7.0

Tails 7.0 is dedicated to the memory of Lunar (1982–2024). Lunar was a traveling companion for Tails, a Tor volunteer, Free Software hacker, and community organizer.

New Release: Tor Browser 14.5.7

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

LinuxGizmos.com

TI expands C2000 portfolio with affordable real-time MCUs for motor control

The F28E12x devices integrate TI’s C28x digital signal processor core with advanced control peripherals and analog subsystems, enabling fast execution of Field-Oriented Control algorithms (FOC). With sensorless FOC running at electrical frequencies up to 2 kHz, designers can reach motor speeds of over 120,000 rpm.

LattePanda IOTA brings Intel N150 and RP2040 co-processor in palm-sized SBC

The IOTA is powered by an Intel Processor N150, a quad-core chip with a boost frequency of 3.6 GHz, compared to the 1.92 GHz Intel Atom x5-Z8350 in the V1.

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.

9to5Linux

KDE Plasma 6.5 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing

KDE Plasma 6.5 is packed with lots of goodies for everyone, including major UI improvements to the Sticky Note widget, support for displaying ink levels on your printers, rounded bottom corners for Breeze-decorated windows, and support for syncing the clipboard text between the client and server on remote sessions.

GNOME 48.5 Improves Support for WPA(2) Enterprise Networks, Legacy Tray Icons

GNOME 48.5 is here about five weeks after the GNOME 48.4 release and improves support for WPA(2) Enterprise network connections, improves the order in which extensions are enabled or disabled, improves legacy tray icon support, and adds support for updating the viewport after changing the virtual monitor size.

Tails 7.0 Anonymous Linux OS Officially Released, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”

Highlights of Tails 7.0 include a Debian 13 “Trixie” base and a kernel from the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS series from the upstream Debian release, the latest GNOME 48 desktop environment by default featuring GNOME Console as default terminal emulator and GNOME Loupe as default image viewer.

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 “Gigi” Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing

Based on the latest Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series, the beta version of the upcoming Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 release is powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series and features the Cinnamon 6.4.12 desktop environment.

Mozilla Thunderbird 143 Open-Source Email Client Arrives as a Bugfix-Only Release

Mozilla Thunderbird 143 is here to fix a startup crash, another crash that occurred when importing email, a UI hang when adding a new email account, a folder restoring issue when changing to a new drafts folder and then back, and an issue where the menu bar was hidden after updating from Thunderbird 128 ESR to Thunderbird 140 ESR.

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.

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GNOME 49 “Brescia” Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

posted by Marius Nestor on Sep 17, 2025,
updated Sep 18, 2025

Highlights of GNOME 49 include a new “Do Not Disturb” toggle in Quick Settings, a dedicated Accessibility menu in the login screen, support for handling unknown power profiles in the Quick Settings menu, support for YUV422 and YUV444 (HDR) colour spaces, support for passive screen casts, and support for async keyboard map settings.

GNOME 49 also introduces support for media controls, restart, and shutdown actions on the lock screen, support for dynamic users for greeter sessions in the GNOME Display Manager (GDM), and support for per-monitor brightness sliders in Quick Settings on multi-monitor setups.

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GNOME 49 released with new video player, document viewer, improved app store and disabled X11 session | GamingOnLinux

GNOME 49 "Brescia" has been officially released today with improvements big and small across this popular Linux desktop environment.

Some of the highlights you can expect to see include Showtime their fancy new video player, that they say "prioritizes a distraction-free viewing experience" with some essential features like adjustable playback speed, multiple audio and subtitle tracks, rotating video, and screenshot capture. Another new app with Papers as their new document viewer that supports "viewing, searching, annotating, and organizing formats like PDF, DjVu, TIFF, and comic-book archives (CBR, CBZ, CBT, CB7), with added features such as digital signature integration".

GNOME 49 Officially Released, This is What's New - OMG! Ubuntu

GNOME 49 features new default apps, new lock screen features, smoother interface animations and a glut of usability and accessibility improvements.

But it’s a feature removal which makes makes this release rather more notable.

GNOME 49 is the first version of the desktop to not support running on Xorg/X11 by default.

Distro makers and packagers can choose to re-enable X11 support in GNOME 49 at build-time, but the ‘official’ release has disabled it.

Linuxiac:

GNOME 49 Desktop Environment Released, This Is What’s New

Six months after the launch of version 48, GNOME 49 “Brescia,” named after the Italian city that hosted this year’s GUADEC conference, was released today and is now available for anyone interested in trying it.

So let’s start with the novelties. One of the biggest shifts is in multimedia. The long-standing Totem video player has been replaced by Showtime, a new app built on GTK 4 and Libadwaita.

According to devs, Showtime focuses on a distraction-free experience, hiding controls during playback until needed. It includes essentials like playback speed adjustment, multiple audio and subtitle tracks, video rotation, and screenshot capture.

LWN:

GNOME 49 released

Version 49 of the GNOME desktop environment has been released. Changes include new default video (Showtime) and PDF-viewing (Papers) applications, a number of calendar improvements, and updates to the Web, Maps, and Software applications.

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