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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
This version includes important security updates to Firefox.
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.
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.
Quoting: This Week in Plasma: OCR in Spectacle and many UI improvements - KDE Blogs —
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
This week Spectacle gained OCR (optical character recognition) functionality, allowing you to turn words in images into selectable text!