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Blender 5.2 LTS Released with New Fill Tool and Thin Wall Mode, Other Changes

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System76 Launches Next-Gen Adder Pro Linux Laptop with 2K OLED Display

The new Adder Pro Linux laptop is a workstation-caliber horsepower featuring a durable and lightweight magnesium-aluminum alloy chassis, a vivid 15.3-inch 2K OLED glossy display with 2560×1600 resolution, 500 nits brightness, 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, 10-bit RGB native colors (1.07 billion colors), 16:10 aspect ratio, and 165Hz refresh rate.

KDE Plasma 6.7.3 Is Out to Disable Keyboard Accent-Color Syncing by Default

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New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.18

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New ITU Report Finds Community Networks Are Key to Reaching the Unconnected

There are many reasons why communities worldwide still lack meaningful Internet access, even decades after the Internet has become a staple of everyday life for others. Technical and policy limitations, geographic barriers, and high costs all play a part. More often than not, multiple factors are at play.

Digital Coercion: How Inaccessible Design Strips Financial Privacy

When we talk about privacy online, we usually picture companies harvesting our data, platforms tracking our movements, governments peering into our accounts. We rarely picture a blind woman in Islamabad who closes her banking app because an unlabeled button has just forced her to either wait until she gets home to finish a task or do it at work and reveal her bank balance to a colleague.

The Need to Reimagine the WSIS Forum

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Be Free to Have Multiple Clocks

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Apr 20, 2025

KClock’s world clock main page

Quoting: Be Free to Have Multiple Clocks – Kai Uwe's Blog —

For Plasma Mobile, however, we needed not only a simple clock display but also an alarm clock that could schedule proper system wake ups. Additionally, for travelers a world clock would be nice, and why not have a simple timer and stopwatch as well. That’s KClock, a sexy little Kirigami-based clock app.

While the app that has been a part of KDE Gear since 2023 worked well on any form factor thanks to Kirigami, our convergent UI framework, there were a few desktop-specific features that I was missing and that I now added.

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