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According to Nordic, the nRF54LM20A integrates a 128 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor, a 128 MHz RISC-V coprocessor, and an expanded peripheral set that includes high-speed USB and support for up to 66 GPIOs. It is equipped with 2 MB of non-volatile memory and 512 KB of RAM, offering headroom for complex applications such as Matter-based smart home devices without requiring external memory.

AAEON Intelli i14 Edge Combines Intel Core i9 and NVIDIA RTX in Compact AI Vision System

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Characters - An Intro to Ubuntu Default Emoji/Unicode Application

Characters or GNOME Characters (not to be confused with Gucharmap) is Ubuntu default special character picker application. Speaking about its daily uses, you can use it to insert an emoji to your group chat text, or your national flag to your document just to note a few examples. Speaking about its technical aspects, it is written in C and GTK, developed in public by the GNOME community. And now we will learn more about it and a little bit about how to use it in real life. Let's start reading and enjoy!

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Zorin OS 18 promises a refreshed default theme with a floating panel that has a rounded style to match the system’s look and feel and a new workspace indicator, a powerful new window tiling manager to boost productivity, and a new built-in Web Apps tool to make it even easier to install your favorite apps.

KDE Plasma 6.5 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing

KDE Plasma 6.5 is packed with lots of goodies for everyone, including major UI improvements to the Sticky Note widget, support for displaying ink levels on your printers, rounded bottom corners for Breeze-decorated windows, and support for syncing the clipboard text between the client and server on remote sessions.

GNOME 48.5 Improves Support for WPA(2) Enterprise Networks, Legacy Tray Icons

GNOME 48.5 is here about five weeks after the GNOME 48.4 release and improves support for WPA(2) Enterprise network connections, improves the order in which extensions are enabled or disabled, improves legacy tray icon support, and adds support for updating the viewport after changing the virtual monitor size.

Tails 7.0 Anonymous Linux OS Officially Released, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”

Highlights of Tails 7.0 include a Debian 13 “Trixie” base and a kernel from the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS series from the upstream Debian release, the latest GNOME 48 desktop environment by default featuring GNOME Console as default terminal emulator and GNOME Loupe as default image viewer.

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New Release: Tails 7.0

Tails 7.0 is dedicated to the memory of Lunar (1982–2024). Lunar was a traveling companion for Tails, a Tor volunteer, Free Software hacker, and community organizer.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 05, 2024

Directional Sign At York City

Updated This Past Day

  1. Microsoft Azure Laying Off Thousands, Not Hundreds!
    1,500 layoffs in Azure alone
  2. [Meme] Future of IBM/Red Hat
    Red Hat: our future is partnering with this Microsoft thing where there have been mass layoffs every year since 2020

    New

  3. Links 04/06/2024: Suppression in China Amid Tiananmen Massacre Anniversary, EU Cracking Down on Encryption
    Links for the day
  4. Gemini Links 04/06/2024: New Feed Reader and Upcoming Closure of Chess Over Gemini
    Links for the day
  5. Microsoft Laid Off About 20,000 Workers in 2023, Not 10,000 Like the Media Likes to Say (Also Not Counting Temps and Contractors)
    face-saving spin
  6. Links 04/06/2024: Water Shortages and Attacks on Power Plants
    Links for the day
  7. [Meme] Faking Azure 'Demand'
    The bubble is imploding
  8. Last Month the Media Said Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Would Resume in July, Based on Sources. More People Say the Same This Month.
    When Microsoft said it would lay off about 2,000 people in the gaming division (and shut down whole studios) some corporate media cited sources claiming that the bloodbath would follow two months later - i.e. in July
  9. Microsoft's Windows Down to Single-Digit Market Share (Less Than 10%) in About 18 Countries in Africa
    According to statCounter data
  10. GNU/Linux Has Become a Lot More Mainstream
    it seems clear that the Developing World is adopting software developers
  11. Debian.ie (Ireland) is With Daniel Pocock ('Whack-a-Mole' at WIPO Just Doesn't Work)
    Microsofters pondered aloud about doing the same toTechrights
  12. Voting for Debian Developer Daniel Pocock in Ireland This Week
    Voting day is Friday
  13. Correcting the Term "Former" Debian Developer (or Emeritus Debian Developer)
    As it turns out, there's a complication associated with this term
  14. 'Stochastic Parrots' (a Term Coined by Timnit Gebru) Have Failed Microsoft and Now There Are Mass Layoffs in What Microsoft Repeatedly Dubbed a Strategic Growth Area
    Meanwhile, Microsoft is over 100 billion dollars in debt
  15. Phoronix Classifieds
    one job opening as "newsworthy"?
  16. [Meme] Attack the Messenger (the Author, Publisher)
    Never mind if what's reported is factual
  17. Amid Mass Layoffs at Microsoft in Africa GNU/Linux Surges in Usage
    it's up to 3.9%
  18. Mass Layoffs in Microsoft Azure Again, for the Fourth Year in a Row
    Thousands laid off again
  19. Links 03/06/2024: Spacecraft on the Moon, Tiananmen Square Censorship Ramping Up
    Links for the day
  20. Gemini Links 04/06/2024: Canon Construction, Coming Out, Abandoning Mobile Phones, and Microsoft's Anti-GPL Plagiarism
    Links for the day
  21. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  22. IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 03, 2024
    IRC logs for Monday, June 03, 2024
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-05-29 to 2024-06-04
    1719 /n/2024/05/30/The_Campaign_to_End_Richard_Stallman_Part_III_The_Reddit_Mob_So.shtml
    1491 /n/2024/05/30/The_Campaign_to_End_Richard_Stallman_Part_IV_The_Legitimate_Con.shtml
    1090 /n/2024/06/01/The_War_on_Free_Software_Reporters_Part_III_Doxing_and_LARPing.shtml
    980 /n/2024/06/02/statCounter_Bing_Has_Lost_Market_Share_Since_the_Chatbot_Hype_i.shtml
    976 /n/2024/06/01/Free_Software_is_the_Future_Open_Source_is_Just_Openwashing_Pro.shtml
    903 /n/2024/05/27/What_is_Secure_Boot.shtml

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