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Advancing the Safer Internet Initiative for Everyone

When we launched the Safer Internet Initiative earlier this year, our message was clear: connectivity is essential, but it is not enough. Everyone needs to feel safe, protected, and empowered when they go online.

Youth in Action: Contributing to a More Connected and Inclusive Digital Future

Across the world, young people are shaping the future of the Internet in ways that reflect the realities of their communities.

LinuxGizmos.com

ESP32-C6 Home Automation Kit with ESPHome and Modular Sensors

Apollo Automation has launched the ESPHome Starter Kit, a modular smart-home development platform built around an ESP32-C6 board and designed to let users create ESPHome devices without soldering, breadboards, or writing code. The kit operates locally and can be used independently or integrated with Home Assistant.

2.16-inch AMOLED SF32LB52X-based dev board offers LoRa, GNSS, and Bluetooth 5.3

LILYGO’s T-Display SF32 is a compact development platform built around the SiFli SF32LB52X ultra-low-power AIoT microcontroller. The device combines a 2.16-inch 480 × 480 AMOLED touchscreen with dual Arm Cortex-M33 cores, an ePicasso 2.5D graphics engine, LoRa connectivity, Bluetooth 5.3, and onboard battery power.

1.35-liter mini PC runs Core Ultra 200 with triple displays and 96GB DDR5

Shuttle’s XPC slim DH810S is a 1.35-liter barebone PC supporting Intel Core Ultra 200 “Arrow Lake-S” processors with up to 24 cores and a 13 TOPS NPU. The system is intended for digital signage, POS/POI, healthcare, industrial, and edge AI applications.

9to5Linux

KDE Announces “Bulletproof” KDE Suite with Three Years of Support

Since the KDE Project dropped LTS support for the KDE Plasma desktop environment despite some demand from people, they teamed up with Linux hardware vendor Kubuntu Focus and Techpaladin Software to provide three years of bug and security fixes for the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment series through Kubuntu 26.04 LTS.

Wireshark 4.6.8 Improves Protocol and Capture File Support, Fixes More Bugs

Coming a month after Wireshark 4.6.7, the Wireshark 4.6.8 release updates support for the ANSI_TCAP, ASN.1 BER, ASTERIX, BT ATT, BT AVRCP, BT BR/EDR RF, BT HFP, C12.22, CIGI, CMS, COSEM, EBHSCR, ESS, FP, GSM SIM, GTPv2, H.245, Kerberos, KNX/IP, LBMSRS, NAS-5GS, RELOAD, Rlogin, RRC, SSH, X.509AF, and X.509IF protocols.

Shelly 3.0.4 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Adds New Search Experience

Shelly 3.0.4 is here to introduce a new search experience, add an initial TUI (text-mode UI) to accompany the GUI and CLI interfaces, improve the AppImage integration, improve Flatpak support with end-of-life detection and rebase support, as well as a new remove dialog, and add an AUR link to the AUR detail view.

QEMU 11.1 Released with Universal Flash Storage (UFS) Emulation Support

Coming three and a half months after QEMU 11, the QEMU 11.1 release introduces Universal Flash Storage (UFS) emulation support for Write Booster (device-level caching) and Host-Initiated Defragmentation (HID) support based on the UFS 4.1 specification.

GNOME Devs Share GNOME Shell Design Ideas for Future GNOME Releases

As a GNOME user, I have to admit that some of these concepts are very exciting, especially the transparent panel. Not that I like using two panels/launchers (top and bottom), but this is the main reason most people think GNOME is “ugly” and are using an extension like Dash to Panel or Dash to Dock.

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Linux Turns 35 Next Year, Its Creator Turns 56 Tomorrow

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 27, 2025,
updated Dec 27, 2025

Happy birthday (better early than belatedly, right?), Linus Benedict Torvalds. Born in December 1969 (after the moon landing made by American astronauts), he was named after an American scientist, who also won a Nobel prize or two.

We must remember that this student from the University of Helsinki relied a great deal on GNU, the GPL, and GCC. Those were made primarily in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, i.e. the US.

Torvalds is now an American citizen, as is the FSF, which mustn't be conflated with this thing called 'FSFE'.

The FSF is now about 85k (USD) shy of or away from its funding goal and its founder gives a talk 4 weeks from now in the US.

Say what you will about Americans (or American politics), a lot of modern advancements in Free software were made by Americans. A lot of early computing innovation happened in Britain. The first GNU/Linux distro was built by an ex-colleague of mine. Oh, did I mention he is originally from the US? █

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