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GNOME 50.4 Desktop Environment Released with Various Improvements

Coming a month after GNOME 50.3, the GNOME 50.4 release improves menu animations in GNOME Shell, which also received fixes for a miscaled magnified cursor on HiDPI displays, a sound glitch when pushing redundant volume changes, and a glitch when switching to a minimized window on another workspace.

Mesa 26.2 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of Mesa 26.2 include a new tool called Gamma for inspecting acceleration structures and ray-tracing dispatches, currently supported only on the Radeon Vulkan (RADV) driver, VK_EXT_mesh_shader support in the NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs, and Vulkan 1.4 support for the KosmicKrisp Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon hardware.

GStreamer 1.28.6 Adds H.266 Muxing Support to the Rust MP4 Muxers

Coming about a month after GStreamer 1.28.5, the GStreamer 1.28.6 release is here to add H.266 muxing support to the Rust (f)mp4 muxers, improve handling of input buffers without timestamps in Rust (f)mp4 muxers, and support for the nvv4l2h265enc encoder to the webrtcsink element.

Tails 7.10.1 Is Out as an Emergency Release to Fix Critical Vulnerabilities

Coming two weeks after Tails 7.10, the Tails 7.10.1 release is an emergency point release to fix critical vulnerabilities, including a Linux kernel flaw that could allow Tor Browser in Tails to gain administrator privileges. The kernel has been updated to Linux 6.12.100 LTS, and the Tails devs ensure users that this attack is very unlikely.

Mozilla Firefox 153.0.3 Improves the Smart Window and Fixes More Bugs

Coming only a week after Firefox 153.0.1, the Firefox 153.0.3 update is here with more fixes for annoying bugs, including an issue causing audio and video to fail to play or hang when seeking on websites that load media from a Blob URL, and frequent DevTools Inspector crashes on web pages where an extension content script adds event listeners.

NVIDIA Joins Dell and HP in Supporting the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)

This comes as great news after HP, Dell, and Lenovo announced earlier this year their support for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), which provides a portal for updating device firmware on Linux-based operating systems via the fwupd software.

KDE Plasma 6.7.4 Is Out to Improve Spectacle, Discover, and Emoji Selector

Coming three weeks after KDE Plasma 6.7.3, the KDE Plasma 6.7.4 release is here to improve the Spectacle screenshot utility to detect QR codes in screenshots when you click the “Annotate” button from the notification bubble, and improve the Emoji Selector window to accommodate its sidebar without scrolling.

FFmpeg 9.0 “Lei” Open-Source Multimedia Framework Officially Released

Dubbed “Lei” and coming about four months after FFmpeg 8.1, the FFmpeg 9.0 release is here to extend AMF Color Converter (vf_vpp_amf) HDR capabilities, add LCEVC track muxing support in the MP4 muxer, add a v360_vulkan filter, add an AMF Frame Rate Converter (vf_frc_amf) filter, along with AMF hardware memory mapping support.

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tails 7.10.1

For example, if a malicious website that you visit is able to exploit CVE-2026-64560, they might take full control of your Tails and deanonymize you.

Arti 2.5.1 released

This release consists mostly of internal improvements and bug fixes, as well as our ongoing development towards using Arti as a relay and as a directory authority. For onion service hosts, onion services can now be configured to connect to unix socket addresses. Arti also now has experimental support for congestion control and Counter Galois Onion cryptography on onion service circuits, which we hope to make stable soon.

Internet Society

Adaptability and Resilience: Q&A with New Board Chair Brian Haberman

On Saturday, 25 July, the Internet Society Board of Trustees selected Brian Haberman as its next chair.

Community Snapshot—July

Around the world, our community works locally, regionally, and globally to keep the Internet a force for good: open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy.

LinuxGizmos.com

Banana Pi BPI-AI2N Goes on Sale with Yocto and Armbian Images

Banana Pi has announced public availability of its BPI-AI2N embedded vision platform, following the hardware introduction covered last year. The platform combines a system-on-module based on the Renesas RZ/V2N Vision AI MPU with a separate carrier board designed for smart cameras, industrial vision, robotics, and other edge AI applications.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 16, 2026

A dog is peacefully relaxing in the sun. This photo was taken on top of a Buddhist school in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Updated This Past Day

  1. Linuxiac May Have Reverted Back to LLM Slop (Updated Same Day)
    Is he back off the wagon?
  2. Links 15/01/2026: Internet Blackouts, Jackboots Society in US
    Links for the day
  3. GAFAM is a National and International Threat to Everybody
    GAFAM is just a tentacle in service of imperialism
  4. Don't Cry for Gaslighting Media in a Country Which Loathes the Press
    my wife and I received threats for merely writing about Americans

    New

  5. Links 15/01/2026: Starlink Weaponised for Regime Change (by Man Who Boasted About Annexing South American Countries for Tesla's Mining), Corruption in Switzerland Uncovered by JuristGate
    Links for the day
  6. GAFAM and IBM Layoffs Outline
    a lot of the layoffs happen in secrecy and involve convincing people to resign, retire, relocate etc.
  7. Coming Soon: Impact With EPO Cocainegate
    Will Campinos survive 2026?
  8. The Creator of Git Probably Doesn't Know How to Install and Deploy Git
    Nobody disputes this: Mr. Torvalds created Git
  9. Slop is a Liability
    Slopfarms too will become extinct because people aren't interested in them
  10. EPO People Power - Part XXXVI - In Conclusion and Taking Things Up Another Notch
    They often say that the law won't deter or stop criminals because it's hard to enforce laws against people who reject the law
  11. Running Techrights is Fun, Rewarding, and Gratifying
    In Geminispace we are already quite dominant
  12. Red Hat is Connected to the Military, Its Chief Comes From Military Family (From Both Sides)
    The founder of Red Hat's parent company literally saluted Hitler himself (yes, a Nazi salute)
  13. Red Hat (IBM) is Driving Away Remaining Fedora Users
    I've not used Fedora since Moonshine
  14. Robert X. Cringely Has Already Explained IBM's Bullying Culture (Towards Its Own Staff)
    IBM is a fairly nasty company
  15. Proton Mail compromise, Hannah Natanson (Washington Post) police raid & Debian
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  16. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  17. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 14, 2026
    IRC logs for Wednesday, January 14, 2026
  18. Gemini Links 15/01/2026: "Ode to elinks", envs.net Pubnix and Downtime at geminiprotocol.net
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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