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From Curiosity to Confidence: CodificaKids Builds Digital Trust in Rural Brazil

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Community Snapshot—August

Around the world, our community works locally, regionally, and globally to keep the Internet a force for good: open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy.

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i.MX95 SMARC module offers LPDDR5, Wi-Fi 6 and PCIe Gen3

MYIR’s MYC-JMX95X is a SMARC 2.2 System-on-Module based on NXP’s i.MX95 processor. The module features six Cortex-A55 cores, Cortex-M7 and Cortex-M33 auxiliary cores, a 2-TOPS NPU, LPDDR5 memory, eMMC storage, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and a range of high-speed expansion interfaces.

ODROID-M1S goes Lite with 2GB RAM, NVMe and 4K video

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Tor Project blog

New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.22

This version includes important security updates to Tor.

Tor VPN Beta: What we've learned building our own VPN for Android from scratch

And for years, we heard this again and again in our user research. People wanted a simple way to protect their entire device, which inspired the idea for Tor VPN back in 2021. We focused on Android first, where the need was greatest and where we could reach the most users in censored regions. We built Tor VPN Beta as a first version, with the expectation that we would learn from real-world use. And when we first launched Tor VPN Beta for Android in a limited release last fall, the primary use case quickly became much clearer: unblock the internet. This has shaped how we've prioritized development and user support in the time since the initial launch, and how we think about the product moving forward.

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KDE Frameworks 6.30 Improves Baloo File Indexer, KWallet, and System Monitor

The monthly KDE Frameworks releases continue, and KDE Frameworks 6.30 is here to improve in-window dialogs in Kirigami-based apps to be better highlighted against the rest of the window content when using a dark theme and update Plasma System Monitor graphs to request “tabular numerals” for the legends when using a font that supports them, improving alignment.

NVIDIA 615 Linux Graphics Driver Improves Support for Vulkan-Native Games

The NVIDIA 615 graphics driver series introduces support for revision 2 of the VK_NV_low_latency Vulkan extension to enable out-of-the-box Proton support for NVIDIA Reflex in Vulkan-native games, support for cgroups-based memory partitioning, and support for the VK_EXT_cluster_acceleration_structure Vulkan extension.

MocaccinoOS 26.09 Adds x86-64-v3 Optimized Builds for Improved Performance

Still powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.18 LTS kernel series, namely Linux 6.18.50, MocaccinoOS 26.09 improves Intel CPU/platform support, including for Raptor Lake systems, improves ASUS ROG/Armoury hardware support for asusctl, and adds optional x86-64-v3 optimized builds for improved performance on supported modern CPUs.

KDE Plasma 6.7.5 Desktop Environment Is Out with Many Improvements and Fixes

Coming more than a month after KDE Plasma 6.7.4, the KDE Plasma 6.7.5 release is here to improve the way HDR content looks when using an ICC profile, improve the Spectacle utility to be faster at taking screenshots, and update Discover only to offer to open and install DEB packages on distros that natively support it.

GStreamer 1.28.7 Open-Source Multimedia Framework Adds Support for OpenCV 5

Coming about a month after GStreamer 1.28.6, the GStreamer 1.28.7 release is here to add support for building against OpenCV 5, add a missing API version suffix in the HIP support library filename, restore gap event sending in the MPEG-PS demuxer, and limit the number of remote sources being tracked in the rtprecv element.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: September 6th, 2026

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OpenVPN 2.7.7 Released with Various Improvements, Bug and Security Fixes

OpenVPN 2.7.7 is here to reduce the number of future keys from 16 to 4 when using EPOCH data channel format, leading to less log spam in userland and fewer resources used in in-kernel implementations. According to the devs, the previous calculation was wrong, and 4 spare keys are sufficient for 100+ Gbit/s links.

Shelly 3.1.3 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves AppImage Support

Shelly 3.1.3 is here to introduce a new button for removing all built AUR package archives and their matching signatures from Shelly’s cache, support for configuring environment variables for each installed AppImage package, and improved parallel downloads of packages and the repository database.

schestowitz.com

Stevie Wonder in Manchester

Stevie Wonder coming here again

Quotas Are Not Common Sense

Quality matters

Long Ago (And Far Away)

Simple, but still brilliant, still one of my favourites.

Cheap But Unfit for Purpose and Unsafe

Appliances have gotten worse (less safe, less reliable), even branded goods from NIMA [1, 2] because people like “cheap” and companies are cheapening the production processes, materials, quality control

A Fishy Week

So far, so good

Enzo Has Started Better Than Pep

EnzoFC seems to be getting better over time

Linus Torvalds Again Complains That LLM Slop (That Nobody Audits) Overwhelms the Linux Kernel

could not help but notice the wordings of Torvalds, as uttered in writing this past Sunday. This is not the first time he expresses (apprehensively, his boss is the Linux Foundation, bribed by the slop industry) concerns about Linux slipping out of developers’ control only to become a bloated pig that few people understand.

Art, Not Slop

used to find it disturbing when some football clubs shared slop, especially in social control media, about their squad.

Always Pleased With Manchester Pets & Aquatics at Ardwick

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999

think I won’t remember to check this again in 3 hours, but it’ll soon be 999 days and 9 hours, 9 minutes, 9 seconds since last reboot.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 06, 2025

Lined up and overturned wine glasses, preparation before a party

Updated This Past Day

  1. IBM May Well Be Laying Off Over 13,500 and Up to 27,000 Staff This Week When It Says "Single-Digit Percentage of Our Global Workforce"
    It's not yet possible to know how many people IBM gets rid of
  2. Early Unverified Figures About Scale of Latest IBM Layoffs
    the real scale of the RAs will remain elusive
  3. How Techrights Search Works
    Hopefully bots won't use it
  4. Techrights Became a Lot More Productive as a Result of Attacks on It
    By default, it's safe to assume anything on the Web is garbage, especially in social control media
  5. Unverified Rumours: IBM Cuts Will Continue Another ~10 Days, Managers Will Invite Those Impacted for 1-on-1 Meetings
    Right now IBM likes diversity because with adoption of low-paid demographies it gets to pay workers less for the same work
  6. analytics.usa.gov: Vista 11 Scarcely Used, GNU/Linux Increasingly Dominant (Microsoft Loses "Goodwill", Depletes Cash Equivalents, and Debt Soars)
    "Total current assets" fell by more than 2 billion dollars in the past 3 months

    New

  7. Slopwatch: linuxbsdos.com, Linux Journal, LinuxSecurity, Brian Fagioli, and WebProNews
    Either Google doesn't care about the integrity of Google News or it deems slop to be acceptable
  8. Gemini Links 05/11/2025: Affirmation, GnuPG, and While Loops
    Links for the day
  9. Links 05/11/2025: Economic Trouble in France and US Bombing All Over the World Without Declaration of War or Congress Approving
    Links for the day
  10. Red Hat Staff Also Impacted by Latest IBM Layoffs With Focus on North America and Software, Infrastructure
    After the bluewashing never expect to see news about "Red Hat layoffs", just as "Tivoli layoffs" aren't to be expected
  11. Coming Soon: Part 4 About the EPO's Substance Abuse (Breaking Laws to Fake 'Production' and Profiting From Unlawful Monopolies)
    Notice how quiet the EPO's management has been lately
  12. For the Record: We Never Named Staff of the Law Firm That's Attacking Us, Except the One the Firm is Named After!
    Just to affirm and be sure, I've used our new search facility
  13. Links 05/11/2025: Medicare Privatisation and "Breaker Box Economy"
    Links for the day
  14. Techrights Search Will Come Early
    Maybe tomorrow
  15. It Seems Like GNOME/IBM Don't Like Women and When Budget is Limited Only Women Take the Fall
    Seems like a very patriarchal, GAFAM-controlled Foundation
  16. "Last Day" as in "IBM Sacked Me" (Cruel Euphemisms)
    "The entire design and research technical leadership at IBM was laid off in the past year, including this round"
  17. Shadow Crew and Ads Disguised as Articles
    That The Register MS runs articles that are paid-for fluff isn't unprecedented
  18. Vista 11 "Market Share" Has Fallen This Month, Based on statCounter
    The US government's own data shows the same thing this month
  19. This is How Mainstream Media, Boosted or Parroted by Slopfarms, Spins IBM's Commercial Failure and Mass Layoffs as "AI"
    Some say "software focus", but most just resort to buzzwords and blame-shifting hype
  20. Resisting Misogynists
    Rianne has already added close to 100,000 pages to this site
  21. Starting November on a Strong Note
    All in all, this month started well for us as we have good, accurate publications with considerable impact
  22. Fake Retirements Help IBM Keep the Layoff Figures Down
    Yesterday we read that it was quite cruel how IBM (or Red Hat) compelled staff to pretend to be happily leaving or "retiring" when the reality was, they had been pushed out with some "package"
  23. Cocaine at the European Patent Office Now a Subject in YouTube, Media Will Revisit the Topic
    "The Cocaine Patent Office" is no joking matter
  24. Gemini Links 05/11/2025: "Wuthering Heights" and "Winter is Coming"
    Links for the day
  25. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  26. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 04, 2025
    IRC logs for Tuesday, November 04, 2025
  27. 2 Days Until Site Anniversary Party, Search Likely to Launch Same Day
    We're now just two days away from the nineteenth anniversary of the site
  28. Not Only Mass Layoffs at IBM But Complete Shutdowns "Amid A.I. Boom"
    apparently about 10,000 layoffs, not counting those who got pushed out by PIPs and other means
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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    915 /n/2025/11/01/Facebook_s_Debt_leaps_to_Over_51_Billion_Dollars.shtml
    882 /n/2025/11/04/statCounter_Says_GNU_Linux_Rose_to_4_in_the_Russian_Federation.shtml
    864 /n/2025/11/03/GNU_Linux_as_a_Boarding_Pass.shtml
    796 /n/2025/01/01/Software_Freedom_Conservancy_Inc_SFC_Lost_Revenue_and_Also_Got_.shtml
    786 /n/2025/10/27/The_Cocaine_Patent_Office_Part_I_Antonio_Campinos_Brought_Corru.shtml
    778 /n/2025/10/13/IBM_Layoffs_Due_to_a_Lack_of_Money_and_Company_Debt_Rising_by_A.shtml
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Shelly 3.1.3 graphical package manager for Arch Linux distributions is now available for download with improved AppImage and Flatpak support, improved package builder, and other changes.
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