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GNOME 50.4 Desktop Environment Released with Various Improvements

Coming a month after GNOME 50.3, the GNOME 50.4 release improves menu animations in GNOME Shell, which also received fixes for a miscaled magnified cursor on HiDPI displays, a sound glitch when pushing redundant volume changes, and a glitch when switching to a minimized window on another workspace.

Mesa 26.2 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of Mesa 26.2 include a new tool called Gamma for inspecting acceleration structures and ray-tracing dispatches, currently supported only on the Radeon Vulkan (RADV) driver, VK_EXT_mesh_shader support in the NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs, and Vulkan 1.4 support for the KosmicKrisp Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon hardware.

GStreamer 1.28.6 Adds H.266 Muxing Support to the Rust MP4 Muxers

Coming about a month after GStreamer 1.28.5, the GStreamer 1.28.6 release is here to add H.266 muxing support to the Rust (f)mp4 muxers, improve handling of input buffers without timestamps in Rust (f)mp4 muxers, and support for the nvv4l2h265enc encoder to the webrtcsink element.

Tails 7.10.1 Is Out as an Emergency Release to Fix Critical Vulnerabilities

Coming two weeks after Tails 7.10, the Tails 7.10.1 release is an emergency point release to fix critical vulnerabilities, including a Linux kernel flaw that could allow Tor Browser in Tails to gain administrator privileges. The kernel has been updated to Linux 6.12.100 LTS, and the Tails devs ensure users that this attack is very unlikely.

Mozilla Firefox 153.0.3 Improves the Smart Window and Fixes More Bugs

Coming only a week after Firefox 153.0.1, the Firefox 153.0.3 update is here with more fixes for annoying bugs, including an issue causing audio and video to fail to play or hang when seeking on websites that load media from a Blob URL, and frequent DevTools Inspector crashes on web pages where an extension content script adds event listeners.

NVIDIA Joins Dell and HP in Supporting the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)

This comes as great news after HP, Dell, and Lenovo announced earlier this year their support for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), which provides a portal for updating device firmware on Linux-based operating systems via the fwupd software.

KDE Plasma 6.7.4 Is Out to Improve Spectacle, Discover, and Emoji Selector

Coming three weeks after KDE Plasma 6.7.3, the KDE Plasma 6.7.4 release is here to improve the Spectacle screenshot utility to detect QR codes in screenshots when you click the “Annotate” button from the notification bubble, and improve the Emoji Selector window to accommodate its sidebar without scrolling.

FFmpeg 9.0 “Lei” Open-Source Multimedia Framework Officially Released

Dubbed “Lei” and coming about four months after FFmpeg 8.1, the FFmpeg 9.0 release is here to extend AMF Color Converter (vf_vpp_amf) HDR capabilities, add LCEVC track muxing support in the MP4 muxer, add a v360_vulkan filter, add an AMF Frame Rate Converter (vf_frc_amf) filter, along with AMF hardware memory mapping support.

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tails 7.10.1

For example, if a malicious website that you visit is able to exploit CVE-2026-64560, they might take full control of your Tails and deanonymize you.

Arti 2.5.1 released

This release consists mostly of internal improvements and bug fixes, as well as our ongoing development towards using Arti as a relay and as a directory authority. For onion service hosts, onion services can now be configured to connect to unix socket addresses. Arti also now has experimental support for congestion control and Counter Galois Onion cryptography on onion service circuits, which we hope to make stable soon.

Internet Society

Adaptability and Resilience: Q&A with New Board Chair Brian Haberman

On Saturday, 25 July, the Internet Society Board of Trustees selected Brian Haberman as its next chair.

Community Snapshot—July

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

LinuxGizmos.com

Banana Pi BPI-AI2N Goes on Sale with Yocto and Armbian Images

Banana Pi has announced public availability of its BPI-AI2N embedded vision platform, following the hardware introduction covered last year. The platform combines a system-on-module based on the Renesas RZ/V2N Vision AI MPU with a separate carrier board designed for smart cameras, industrial vision, robotics, and other edge AI applications.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 08, 2025

Rustic night time party barn with lights

Updated This Past Day

  1. Before Freenode Collapsed Its Staff (the People Who Now Run Libera.Chat) Were Censoring/Silencing Some Free Software Supporters
    We still have this issue in the Free software community
  2. All We Want to See is Any Form of Accountability in Europe's Largest Institutions
    Because people at the top of institutions should never be above the law!

    New

  3. Slopwatch: Brian Fagioli Targets "Linux" With LLMs, Google News Helps Blame "Linux" for Amazon WorkSpaces Flaws
    Tonight's slopfest
  4. Gemini Links 07/11/2025: Switzerland, k3s, and Privacy
    Links for the day
  5. Links 07/11/2025: Software Patents Squashed, Stock Markets Wobble Over Slop Uncertainties
    Links for the day
  6. A 19th Anniversary and High-Impact Exclusives
    The end of 2025 will be very difficult for EPO management
  7. The Register MS, Payroll First
    GNU/Linux is a growing platform
  8. Links 07/11/2025: US Government Shutdown Imperils Critical Functions, Slop in "AI" Clothing Debunked Some More, Bubble's Implosion Ongoing/Imminent According to Experts
    Links for the day
  9. Gemini Links 07/11/2025: No Goodbyes, Homelab, Mouse Keys / Pointer Keys
    Links for the day
  10. 12 Years for Justice is Far Too Slow (and More People, Especially Women, Are Hurt)
    Why do police departments and legal systems fail to protect women?
  11. Freenode and irc.com Are Still Around
    It emulates retro terminals
  12. We Don't Compete, We Analyse and Report
    Principles are so much better than money and they're something money can never acquire
  13. Red Hat is Also Laying Off Staff in India
    Red Hat is a dishonest company
  14. Finding Recent Talks of Richard Stallman
    We already have many pages, documents, and media files. Organising them and helping people find them is the next Big Task.
  15. Richard Stallman First Speaker at Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress the Weekend After This Coming Weekend
    He'll be speaking over the Net
  16. Diversity at Red Hat
    Remember to judge corporations by their actions, not some Web pages with words in them
  17. First the Python Software Foundation (PSF) Attacked Its Most Productive Volunteers. Now It Attacks Its Funding Sources.
    The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) rejected by PSF
  18. News of Substance About the EPO's Substance Abuse (Cocaine)
    EPO Cocaine Chronicles - link to archived BILD article and photos
  19. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  20. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 06, 2025
    IRC logs for Thursday, November 06, 2025
  21. On Midlife Crises
    Focus on the sabotage, not politics
  22. Hallmark of Fake News: "Single-digit" (Percentage) and 1% Isn't the Same Thing
    apparently "rebalancing" is the new layoffs euphemism
  23. Links 07/11/2025: Patent Trolls Target Germany, Celebrities Visit Ukraine
    Links for the day
  24. Misinformation/Disinformation Disguised as Information About GNU General Public Licenses (GNU GPL) Usage
    GPL-type licences (reciprocal obligations) remain dominant
  25. Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, Brian Fagioli, and Google News Boosting WebProNews (All Slopfarms)
    Those slopfarms just saturate the Web with misinformation and mindless chaff
  26. Techrights and Tux Machines at Over 40
    19 years of Techrights and 21+ years of Tux Machines
  27. IBM Mass Layoffs This Week Not Limited to North America, Red Hat Staff Terminated
    Do not relocate for a company that sees you as nothing but a number or a "human resource"
  28. Coming Soon: More Proof of Cocaine Use at Europe's Second-Largest Institution
    Stay tuned
  29. Entering Our 20th Year
    ...and still looking for answers
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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