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It’s getting increasingly hard to know what and who you can trust online. Scams are becoming more sophisticated. Disinformation more viral. Add in surveillance and data breaches, and the stakes of being online have never been higher, even as the Internet has become a necessity of daily life.

30 Years of Section 230: Why We Still Need It for a Safer Internet

This month marks the 30th anniversary of a section of United States law that has been called “the 26 words that created the Internet.”

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Cangaroo open-source CAN bus analyzer supports SocketCAN and CAN-FD on Linux

The tool works with a wide range of interfaces supported by the kernel, including SocketCAN devices, CANable and Candlelight adapters, and network-based tools such as CANblaster over UDP. This allows users to test with virtual CAN interfaces or connect directly to physical hardware without proprietary drivers.

DeepComputing Unveils RVA23-Compliant Mainboard III for Linux on Framework 13

The board features the SpacemiT K3 SoC, which is the first RISC-V processor to implement the RVA23 profile. This succeeds the SpacemiT K1 used in the previous DC-ROMA Laptop II.

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Linux Gaming Is Finally Legit: Why Steam Players Are Switching From Windows

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 03, 2026

For years, gaming on Linux sounded like something you tried once, failed at, and never admitted again. This same sentence can be said for the OS and its multiple distros when an experienced Windows user tries to change to a Linux-based distribution. However, in recent years, the number of users trying to use it as a valid alternative for gaming grew in a constant pace. Linux had a reputation for being complicated, unstable for gaming, and full of infinite workarounds that turned playing into a complicated venture. That image stuck around for a long time, even when things quietly started improving, and now Linux Gaming is quite possible.

Thanks to Valve’s Proton compatibility layer, a huge part of the Windows game library on Steam runs on Linux with barely any extra effort. You install the game, press Play, and in many cases, it simply launches. You don't need to apply weird tweaks or install different stuff through the terminal. The new level of simplicity is what changes everything. When people stop needing guides just to get to the main menu, the platform stops feeling “experimental” and starts feeling normal. And the performance is also great, depending on your GPU.

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