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MX Linux 25.2 Enters Public Beta Testing with New Text Mode Installer

The MX Linux 25.2 release is the second update in the MX Linux 25 “Infinity” series and promises to ship with a much-improved installer that now features a new text mode, allowing you to install MX Linux in a terminal emulator by running sudo minstall --tui or a text console by running minstall-launcher.

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Audacious 4.6 Media Player Promises File Browser Plugin, Beta Out Now

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Shelly 2.2.4 Arch Linux GUI Package Manager Brings Smarter Fuzzy Search

Shelly 2.2.4 is the fourth maintenance update in the Shelly 2.2 series, but an important one that introduces smarter fuzzy search across every package list, a refactor of the built-in search feature with package group search and sortable search columns, support for build dates in package details, and fingerprint authentication support.

Parrot 7.2 Is Now Officially Available for Download with “Copy Fail” Patch

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Firefox 150.0.2 Improves Webcam Support, Split View, PDF Viewer, and More

Coming two weeks after Firefox 150, the Firefox 150.0.2 release is here to improve how the web browser displays websites with advanced 3D effects, fixing cases where parts of the page could disappear or appear incorrectly, as well as to improve the appearance of search suggestions in the address bar by preventing icons from appearing stretched or distorted.

Giada 1.4.1 Open-Source Loop Machine Adds MIDI Control for Switching Scenes

Giada 1.4.1 is the first maintenance update to the Giada 1.4 “Korrigan” series, which introduces support for scenes as a new way to add greater variety and richness to your live performances, and it enhances this feature by adding support for switching scenes via keyboard or MIDI using custom bindings.

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Sipeed launches K3 Pico-ITX and CoM260 boards with SpacemiT RISC-V SoC

Sipeed has opened pre-orders for the SpacemiT K3 CoM260 Developer Kit and K3 Pico-ITX, two RISC-V AI computing platforms based on the SpacemiT Key Stone K3 processor. The systems combine eight X100 RISC-V CPU cores with eight A100 AI-oriented compute cores delivering up to 60 TOPS of AI performance for edge AI and embedded workloads.

SpacemiT K3 integrates 8-core RISC-V CPU cluster and 60 TOPS AI engine

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 01, 2025

Fish Market

Updated This Past Day

  1. Asking Spanish-Speaking Techrights Readers to Contact Spanish Journalists Regarding the "Alicante Mafia" (and EPO Cocainegate)
    Many people are suffering. We hear from them. Requesting intervention by our readers.
  2. The Control of Twitter (Now X.com) and of Its Userbase Used to Fake 'Demand' for the Failed, Stagnant Chatbot of MElon
    Trashing Twitter(.com)

    New

  3. Disconnected From 'Cyber Monday' and Other Fake Holidays
    No Christmas shopping in November!
  4. Gemini Links 30/11/2025: Manufacturing, OpenTTD, and Decentralising the IP Address
    Links for the day
  5. Gossip or Rumours Say Another Large Wave of IBM Layoffs Starts in the New Year
    IBM really needs an immediate leadership change. This is urgent.
  6. Longtime Reader of Techrights Explains How Malicious and Dangerous UEFI 'Secure Boot', TPM, and Vista 11 Are
    From PCLinuxOS Magazine
  7. Famous Due to Wealth Versus Famous Owing to Accomplishment/s
    Aspirations of fame are misguided
  8. Social Control Media, Now 'Infused' With Chatbots (Fake Activity Because Real Users or Actual Humans Leave)
    It's irrelevant to so many people
  9. Links 30/11/2025: China’s Pooh-tin to "Crack Down on Online Misconduct", Tragedy in Hong Kong Leaves Hundreds Dead and Many Critics Censored
    Links for the day
  10. Links 30/11/2025: Many Data Breaches, Unnecessary Escalations in Venezuela as Jeffrey Epstein Files Nearing Partial Disclosure, "Optical Illusion of Prosperity"
    Links for the day
  11. Vista 11: OS Not Found
    Vista 7 and Vista 10 are there, but not Vista 8 and Vista 11 (which both failed miserably)
  12. IBM's Stock is Tied to Vapourware ("Quantum Bets") and Circular Financing Scam ("AI")
    Remember the time IBM professed to be a leader in "blockchain"?
  13. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  14. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 29, 2025
    IRC logs for Saturday, November 29, 2025
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text.

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