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New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 16.0a1

This is the first Tor Browser Alpha release based on Firefox Rapid Release: read more about this important change in The Future of Tor Browser Alpha.

Transparency, Openness, and Our 2023-2024 Financials

(These documents have been available on our website for a while, but we are just now able to publish this blog post because of limited capacity. We hope you understand!)

Internet Society

Learning to Build and Use the Internet in Rhino Refugee Camp

Sixty-seven percent of the world’s 42.6 million refugees live in neighboring countries. That’s the case for most of the 192,000 people living in the Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement in northwestern Uganda. The vast majority—85 percent—are women and children. They come from across the region: from the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Sudan, Rwanda, and Burundi.

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Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 Is Now Available Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”

Coming two and a half years after Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 5, the Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 release is based on the Debian 13.2 “Trixie” operating system and it is powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series to better support more hardware.

OpenShot 3.4 Open-Source Video Editor Released with New Effects and Features

Coming a year after the previous version, OpenShot 3.3, the OpenShot 3.4 release looks to be the largest update ever done, with new features like an experimental timeline, interactive cropping in the video preview, as well as new effects including Sharpen, Color Map (LUT), Spherical Projection, Lens Flare, and Outline.

Scribus 1.6.5 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released with Various Changes

Coming almost eight months after Scribus 1.6.4, the Scribus 1.6.5 release is here to improve the color eyedropper, update the PDF export functionality by fixing issues related to font rendering and exporting via Python, improve light/dark mode capabilities, and update the scripter functions.

LinuxGizmos.com

Toradex Luna SL1680 SBC Features Synaptics SL1680 SoC with 8 TOPS NPU, Starts at $105

The Luna SL1680 is built around the Synaptics SL1680 system-on-chip, which integrates a quad-core Arm Cortex-A73 CPU running at up to 2.1 GHz. For machine learning workloads, the SoC includes a dedicated neural processing unit delivering up to 8 TOPS of dense INT8 inference performance. Memory configurations support up to 4 GB of LPDDR4 RAM and up to 256 GB of onboard eMMC storage, enabling systems to operate without removable media.

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Bazzite Fall Update: Fedora 43, Xbox Allies, Legion Go 2, Nvidia GTX

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 09, 2025

As part of our new kernel magic that enabled Nvidia closed to stay, we added a bunch of steering wheel drivers. Specifically, hid-tmff2 for Thrustmaster, new-lg4ff for Logitech, hid-fanatecff for FANATEC, and t150_driver for Thrustmaster T150.

Combined with Oversteer - a fantastic control panel for customizing your wheel’s settings and profiles you can pick in Bazaar, we hope this creates an amazing racing experience on Bazzite.

We also welcome your feedback about what you want to see on Bazzite racing-wise.

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