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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!)

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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.

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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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My favorite Linux desktop environment is finally getting a feature requested 20 years ago

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Nov 10, 2025

Quoting: My favorite Linux desktop environment is finally getting a feature requested 20 years ago —

If I had to point to a specific part of Linux that convinced me to use it over Windows after so many years, it'd be a toss-up between the Fedora distro and KDE Plasma. The former is nice and stable, while the latter offers an enjoyable, customizable Linux experience, so the fact that you can just download a Fedora KDE Plasma spin was a perfect match for me.

So, imagine my surprise when I learned that KDE Plasma is about to get a feature that was first requested all the way back in 2005, long before I had even touched Linux. And while I do believe in "better late than never," this is definitely putting a ton of weight on the word "late."

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