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Why the UN’s Next Decision on Internet Governance Matters for Everyone

This week is a pivotal one for the future of the Internet. National governments will convene at the United Nations headquarters in New York City to negotiate who will shape our digital future and how. It is critical that countries reaffirm their longstanding support for including the global Internet community’s stakeholders at the table.

Moving the Needle on Universal and Meaningful Access

According to the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU’s) Facts and Figures 2025, an estimated 6 billion people—about three-quarters of the world’s population—are now using the Internet.

9to5Linux

Firefox 147 Promises Support for the XDG Base Directory Specification, Beta Out Now

Firefox 147 promises support for the Freedesktop.org XDG Base Directory Specification, zero-copy hardware-decoded video support on AMD GPUs to improve video playback performance, support for the Safe Browsing V5 protocol, and WebGPU support for all Apple Silicon Macs.

KDE Plasma 6.5.4 Desktop Environment Released with Numerous Bug Fixes

Coming three weeks after KDE Plasma 6.5.3, the KDE Plasma 6.5.4 update looks like a bugfix release only addressing a regression in menu sizing that was accidentally backported to Plasma 6.5.3, and a Plasma 6 regression that broke the ability to activate the expanded items pop-up in the system tray with a keyboard shortcut.

Firefox 146 Is Out with Native Support for Fractional Scaled Displays on Wayland

Highlights of Firefox 146 include native support for fractional-scaled displays on Linux/Wayland to make rendering more effective, a dedicated GPU process by default for macOS users, and support for link previews with a new AI feature that will read the beginning of the page and generate key points for you.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 7th, 2025

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Tor Project blog

Fighting for Internet Freedom: Ramon's Story from Cuba

Ramon* is a Tor user living in Cuba who faces challenges accessing information from blocked websites, grapples with slow internet speeds, and encounters sanctions limiting his access to specific platforms and software. These obstacles make it difficult for him to prepare effective curriculums for his students.

New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.3

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

LinuxGizmos.com

Palm-sized Mini PC NAS offers four M.2 bays and dual 2.5GbE ports

The device is powered by the Intel Processor N150, a quad-core CPU within the Alder Lake-N family. The processor reaches a boost frequency of up to 3.6 GHz and is paired with onboard LPDDR5 memory, with 12GB included in the standard configuration and support for up to 16GB.

PSoC Edge E84-Based Handheld Runs RT-Thread for Local Machine Learning

The core of the system is the Infineon PSoC Edge E84, which combines a 400 MHz Arm Cortex-M55 processor with Helium DSP extensions and a 200 MHz Cortex-M33 core. Machine learning workloads are supported by an Arm Ethos-U55 micro NPU alongside Infineon’s ultra-low-power NNLite accelerator.

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Firefox 146 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect

posted by Marius Nestor on Nov 11, 2025

Firefox 146 promises to enable the Firefox Labs feature for all users, regardless of whether or not they choose to participate in studies or submit telemetry, and an updated address bar that shows English-language suggestions for holidays and other important dates for users in France, Germany, and Italy.

Another new feature in the upcoming Firefox 146 release is support for link previews (enabled by default in General > Browser settings) by using a shortcut or right-clicking a link, with the ability to use AI to read the beginning of the page and generate key points, yet the AI-enabled feature is not enabled by default.

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