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Mozilla Thunderbird 157 Email Client Released with New Enterprise Policies

Mozilla Thunderbird 157 introduces two new enterprise policies, namely DisableChat and DisableFileLink, to disable the Thunderbird Chat functionality and the Thunderbird FileLink functionality, respectively, makes the IMAP/POP manual configuration port field optional, and updates the built-in Thundermail add-on to version 2.0.16.

Audacity 4.0.1 Audio Editor Restores Keyboard Shortcuts from Audacity 3

Audacity 4.0.1 adds support for exporting each track or each labelled region to its own file, restores the missing keyboard shortcuts from the Audacity 3 series, adds clickable carousel dots on the Welcome screen, adds a Liquid Glass app icon on macOS, and adds an “Open in file manager” option to the Cloud projects tab.

Archinstall 4.5 Arch Linux Installer Adds AArch64 Support for GRUB and Limine

Coming three months after Archinstall 4.4, the Archinstall 4.5 release introduces AArch64 support for GRUB and Limine EFI installations, AArch64 root partition type GUID support, RT kernel variants from upstream, optdepends support for the linux-firmware package, and Norwegian, Serbian, and Vietnamese translations.

Debian-Based and systemd-Free antiX Linux 26.1 Released with Updated Kernels

Still based on the Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series, antiX Linux 26.1 ships with updated packages from the upstream Debian Stable repositories and updated kernels across all supported architectures, namely the customised Linux 5.10.256 LTS kernel for the core edition and the Linux 6.6.139 LTS kernel for the 64-bit full edition.

OpenSSL 4.0.3 Is Out as Another Security Patch Release, Update Now

Coming a month after OpenSSL 4.0.2, the OpenSSL 4.0.3 release is here to address several important security vulnerabilities, including a use-after-free in X.509 extension cache under concurrent use (CVE-2026-84783), and a potential CPU DoS via O(n^2) fragment reassembly in QUIC (CVE-2026-42772).

You Can Now Upgrade Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Here’s How

To ensure a safe upgrade process for existing Ubuntu LTS users, Canonical delayed the upgrade path by about three weeks, but now it’s officially open, allowing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and enjoy its new features and improvements.

Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 1.03 Adds New Accessibility Features, Debian 13.7 Base

Coming two months after Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 1.02, a small update that only improved Piper integration with flow rate, height, and volume management, the Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 1.03 release is based on the latest Debian 13.7 “Trixie” operating system and features the Xfce 4.20 and LXQt 2.1 desktop environments bundled on the same ISO image.

Mozilla Firefox 158 Enters Public Beta Testing with Better PDF Handling on Linux

Firefox 158 looks like yet another small update that promises better PDF handling with support for SkPDF, a PDF-generation backend for Skia, for PDF generation when saving as PDF and also printing on Linux and macOS systems, allowing PDFs to be more accessible and also addressing various PDF rendering issues.

qBittorrent 5.2.4 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Released with WebUI Improvements

Coming two and a half months after qBittorrent 5.2.3, the qBittorrent 5.2.4 release improves the WebUI with a shared dialog for adding multiple torrents, better support for manually adding peers, the ability to open http(s) URLs only from RSS articles and search results to prevent modifying settings, and support for using safe property for setting the element title.

Git 2.56 Adds New Options for Cleaning Up Branches and Resolving Conflicts

Coming three months after Git 2.55, the Git 2.56 release introduces a new --resolved option to the git add command to stage conflict-resolved paths while leaving unrelated local changes unstaged. It scans the unmerged paths for leftover conflict markers and aborts if any are found.

LinuxGizmos.com

Dual 2.5GbE and DDR5-6400 across four Wildcat Lake NUC platforms

ASRock Industrial has announced four compact platforms based on Intel Core Series 3 “Wildcat Lake-U” processors. The lineup includes the NUC BOX-320 and NUC BOX-304 mini PCs, alongside the NUC-320 and NUC-304 motherboards, with up to 40 TOPS of AI performance, DDR5 memory, dual 2.5GbE networking, and multi-display support for embedded applications.

Forlinx 20-TOPS M.2 AI accelerator supports PCIe cascading for local LLM inference

Forlinx Embedded has listed an M.2 AI accelerator card based on Rockchip’s RK1820 and RK1828 processors, providing 20 TOPS of INT8 computing performance and up to 5GB of integrated DRAM. The module uses an M.2 2280 interface and is designed to handle local AI inference, including large language models, vision-language models, and computer vision workloads on embedded Linux and Android systems.

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tails 7.14

The Persistent Storage on the USB stick will be lost if you install instead of upgrading.

New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.24

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

schestowitz.com

Football and the UK’s High Court

Is this still about sports?

If ManCity is Guilty, the Establishment Needs to Similarly Crack Down on the Sham ‘Hey Hi’ ‘Industry’

OK, good start?

Anderon as IBM Layoffs in Disguise (October 1st, 2026)

It’s coming

When Planes Go Missing or the “Enemy is Within”

Can one trust air crews?

Corruption in Europe

Yes, in Europe

Addiction on the Net

his coming February marks 5 years since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. It (same month) also marks the time I quit all social control media ‘cold turkey’.

Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) the Much Bigger Culprit

OK only for Qatar?

Andy Burnham Complains That Social Control Media is “Running Britain Down.”

He identifies the cause:

Durian and Peanut

Already loved

Technology and Science Lose Ground to Charlatans

Palace of Culture and Science