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New Release: Tails 7.12

Follow our installation instructions.

New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 16.0a11

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.21

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

Arti 2.6.0 released

This release continues our ongoing development towards using Arti as a relay and as a directory authority, with much of the work focusing on document parsing, directory mirror support, and DNS stream handling. Additionally, on the RPC front, we are making steady progress towards RPC-based configuration management. Finally, congestion control and Counter Galois Onion cryptography are both now always enabled in arti.

LinuxGizmos.com

Bluetooth/UWB board based on nRF52840 offers 10cm accuracy

The board is based on Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF52840 microcontroller, which integrates a 64MHz Arm Cortex-M4 processor with floating-point support, 1MB of flash memory, and 256KB of RAM. Wireless connectivity from the MCU consists of 2.4GHz Bluetooth 5.0, with supported Bluetooth data rates of 2Mbps, 1Mbps, 500kbps, and 125kbps.

Embedded platform implements Amlogic A311Y3 octa-core SoC with PCIe 3.0 support

The Amlogic A311Y3 integrates two Arm Cortex-A78 cores running at up to 2.4GHz alongside six Cortex-A55 cores at up to 2.0GHz. Graphics are handled by an Arm Mali-G625 MC1 GPU, while the integrated neural processing unit provides up to 8 TOPS of AI acceleration with support for INT4, INT8, INT16, FP8, FP16, and BF16 workloads.

Aquila IQ8 takes Dragonwing IQ-8275 designs from prototype to production

Following the recent launch of the Arduino Ventuno Q, Toradex has introduced the Aquila IQ8, its first Qualcomm Dragonwing-based System on Module. Built around the same IQ-8275 processor, the module targets industrial edge AI, robotics, computer vision, and other compute-intensive embedded applications.

Ventuno Q runs Ubuntu on Dragonwing IQ8 with 40-TOPS NPU along with real-time STM32H5

The Ventuno Q was first shown in March this year and is based on the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 IQ-8275, which integrates an eight-core Qualcomm Kryo CPU, an Adreno 623 GPU, a Spectra 692 image signal processor, and a Hexagon NPU rated for up to 40 dense TOPS of AI acceleration.

schestowitz.com

“Manchester City broke the record for the most spent by a single club in one summer, with more than €500 million spent on new signings”

Sounds obscene, it’s about money rather than local talent

Russia Has Already (Silently) Declared War on Germany, Hence NATO and EU

Actions speak louder than press releases

Coffee Shrinkflation

Paying more for less.

Social Control Media is Assured Destruction

he site of RMS (online since the 1990s) has been offline for about 3 days. We don’t know what’s taking so long for it to come back online.

Court of Appeal

Science and technology as codified in caselaw

Lessons and Cheap Wake-Up Calls

Remember to save to disk, and do so very often

People In Love

People In Love, probably not easy to find anymore (rare).

The Water Came Too Late

Too much this past week

How Fast Time Goes By

3 years pass by just like that

statCounter Confused?

This makes no sense.

9to5Linux

Audacity 4.0 Open-Source Audio Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of Audacity 4 include a new project manager that prompts you to select your project from the local file system or cloud, create a new one, or copy audio clips across projects, as well as support for Nyquist and VST3 plugins across Linux, macOS, and Windows, and LV2 on Linux, and Audio Units on macOS.

Linux Kernel 7.1 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 7.2

Linux kernel 7.1 was released on June 14th, 2026, introducing new features like a new NTFS file system implementation, which has been in the works for the last 4 years, featuring full write support with delayed allocation, iomap, and folio integration to improve write performance, and a new suite of userspace utilities called ntfsprogs-plus.

Mozilla Thunderbird 155 Adds Custom OAuth Support for IMAP and SMTP Servers

Highlights of Mozilla Thunderbird 155 include an updated S/MIME pop-up that now shows signature, digest, encryption algorithms, and key sizes, custom OAuth support for IMAP and SMTP servers, new PKCE and external browser fields for custom OAuth settings, and new Enterprise policies to disable QR export and experimental features.

Steam Client Now Supports HDR Streaming on Steam Deck OLED

The new stable Steam Client update for September 1st, 2026, is here to introduce support for HDR streaming on Steam Deck OLED via Remote Play, improve video color range on all platforms during Remote Play, and add support for changing accounts while a game is running.

First Arch Linux ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 7.2 Is Now Available for Download

Arch Linux 2026.09.01 is the first Arch Linux ISO release to ship with Linux kernel 7.2 by default, which should give users a boost when detecting hardware, especially on newer devices, but especially on older ones where previous Arch Linux ISOs failed to detect some of the components.

Audacity 3.7.9 Open-Source Audio Editor Released with FFmpeg 9 Support

Coming about two and a half months after Audacity 3.7.8, the Audacity 3.7.9 release is here to add support for the latest and greatest FFmpeg 9 open-source multimedia framework and enable ASIO support for Windows to remember playback and recording device selection per host.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 05, 2026

Brown healthy eggs ready for purchase

Updated This Past Day

  1. Journalists Should be Ashamed for Parroting False Claims From IBM Management About "Quantum Computing", Say IBM Insiders Who Work on "Quantum Computing"
    IBM is a buzzwords vendor. International Buzzwords Machines.
  2. Exposing Corruption Using a Highly Resilient Platform
    Growing levels of trust, based on our track record, help us attract whistleblowers
  3. FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) Has Weakened If Not Ruined What's Left of Big Media
    Many things that have existed for decades are now being rebranded as "AI"
  4. SLAPP Censorship - Part 97 Out of 200: Garrett in Hiding (From the Simple Observable Fact He's Closely Connected to the Microsofter Who Strangles Women, Tells Women to Kill Themselves, and Worse)
    They use one another; they are coordinating this via the SLAPP industry in another continent
  5. Rust Outsources its Financing (or Financial Control) to Microsoft
    How long before the third "E"?
  6. IBM's Shares Fell Nearly 13% in One Day (Including After Hours)
    its main product is false promises
  7. European Patent Office (EPO) Series: "Operation Influencer"
    Costa's political career was far from finished

    New

  8. Links 04/06/2026: Self-hosting Remotely and GemText Emphasis
    Links for the day
  9. Links 04/06/2026: Ukraine’s Daily Moment of Silence and Uber Lays off 23% of HR
    Links for the day
  10. SLAPP Censorship - Part 98 Out of 200: Microsoft Threatening Real Security Researcher With Criminal Investigation for Talking About Microsoft's Bug Doors/Back Doors
    The crime should be the back doors (deliberate attack on every user's data protection), not talking about those back doors
  11. Microsoft Would Get Away Even With Pedophilia
    "Microsoft should never be above the law"
  12. Free Software is Nourishment to Software Users, Unlike Proprietary Software
    Quit treating "mere users" of software "like animals"
  13. The "Peanut Gallery" of GAFAM Has Infiltrated Free Software Projects or Disrupts Free Software Communities
    They contribute nearly nothing and do substantial damage; they're freeloaders who attack the most productive members of projects
  14. Coding is Not a Quantity Game (It Never Was!)
    "less is more"
  15. Mass Layoffs Expected at Microsoft in July 2026
    They're preparing more "lists" of people
  16. Reflection on EPO Leadership That Harbours Cocaine, IBM Leadership That Pumps-and-Dumps the Shares, and More
    ManCity replaced Manuel Pellegrini with a more famous manager it didn't envision winning 20 titles in 10 years (it could only hope) [...] Team-building is something that "Pep" seemed to be good at, as was Jürgen Klopp
  17. Pump and Dump by IBM Insider Traders: Nickle LaMoreaux, Gary Cohn, James Kavanaugh, Arvind Krishna, Robert Thomas, and Others
    the shares are already collapsing
  18. Links 04/06/2026: Microsoft Threatening Security Researcher for Naming Back Doors in BitLocker, "Demand is Booming for" Old Tech
    Links for the day
  19. Gemini Links 04/06/2026: "Word Vomit", Slop", and Moving to Gopher/Gemini
    Links for the day
  20. "Format Sovereignty" Can Only be Accomplished With LaTeX or OpenDocument Format (ODF) or Vendor-Neutral Standards for Editable Documents
    Microsoft is, in effect, above the law
  21. The Cyber Show on the Importance of Software Freedom and Why GNU/Linux Could Not be Stopped
    an excellent article
  22. Drew DeVault Can Still Redeem His Reputation. Revisiting His Attacks (and Attack Site) on Richard Stallman Might be a Good Start.
    DeVault has openly apologised (this past spring)
  23. The Register MS is Publishing Paid SPAM; Some of It is Designed to Prop Up the "AI" Pyramid Scheme
    The Register MS participates in scams
  24. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  25. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, June 03, 2026
    IRC logs for Wednesday, June 03, 2026

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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