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Debian 13 “Trixie” Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

More than two years in the making, Debian 13 “Trixie” is finally here, powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series, which brings new and updated drivers to support modern hardware. Linux kernel 6.12 LTS will be officially supported with bug and security updates until December 2026.

HandBrake 1.10 Open-Source Video Transcoder Brings New “Social 10MB” Presets

Highlights of HandBrake 1.10 include new “Social 10MB” presets, a new option to choose the encoder color range, a new command-line option to disable Dolby Vision and HDR10+ passthru, a new option to disable audio track names passthru and autonaming, updated NVEnc CQ range, and a new option to disable subtitle track names passthru.

PeaZip 10.6 Introduces Dynamic Virtual Mode, Improves Archive Pre-Parsing

PeaZip 10.6 is here almost two months after PeaZip 10.5 introducing a dynamic virtual mode to the file/archive browser for the ListView component, promising to improve the performance of the application when displaying a large number of items at once.

KDE Frameworks 6.17 Is Out to Improve Performance of All QtQuick-Based KDE Apps

The monthly KDE Frameworks releases continue with KDE Frameworks 6.17, a release that slightly improves performance and efficiency for all QtQuick-based KDE apps, including Plasma apps like System Settings, Plasma Discover, and Spectacle.

Tails 7.0 Now Available for Testing, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie” and GNOME 48

Based on the soon-to-be-released Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” operating system series and powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series, Tails 7.0 will be shipping with the latest GNOME 48 desktop environment by default, featuring the GNOME Console and GNOME Loupe apps.

GStreamer 1.26.5 Adds JPEG XS Support Videorate and Imagefreeze

GStreamer 1.26.5 is here to introduce JPEG XS support to the videorate and imagefreeze elements, support for discarding select services on each input to cea708mux, and support for brevity in awstranslate, along with an option to partition speakers in the transcription output of awstranscriber2.

Calibre 8.8 Open-Source E-Book Manager Improves Support for Kobo Devices

Calibre 8.8 comes with an updated Kobo driver that supports the latest Tolino firmware, improved display of lookup results from Google in the E-book viewer, and the ability to handle -epub-text-emphasis properties used in some Japanese language EPUB books during conversion.

Internet Society

The Internet of Wonder: How a Scientific Livestream Became a Cultural Phenomenon

The ocean is full of wonders, mysterious and mostly uncharted. We don’t know what we’ll find when we start diving deeper and deeper. It’s fascinating and also a little scary. On occasion, the Internet can be a little scary, too; many times, we don’t know what or who we are going to find in its depths. But sometimes, you find something really special. 

LinuxGizmos.com

VisionFive 2 Lite with 2GB RAM Starts at $19.9

After three years since the launch of the original VisionFive 2, StarFive has introduced another device, the VisionFive 2 Lite. The company has launched a campaign on Kickstarter for this cost-effective RISC-V single board computer, aimed at applications in education, AIoT, smart home, and IIoT.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 20, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. In Norway, Android/Linux Has Just Hit All-Time High (First Time Since 2020), GNU/Linux Already Very Prevalent
    Despite its small population size, Norway gave us Qt and many other things
  2. Microsoft's Mass Layoffs Very Wide-Ranging, Media Focused on Gaming Though Microsoft Mass-Firing Lawyers and "AI" Staff (Contradicting Its Supposed "Investment" in "AI")
    Microsoft plans to fire almost half a thousand people in legal roles
  3. 2012 Article About the Free Software Foundation Blasting Canonical/Ubuntu Over Adoption of "Secure" Boot (Microsoft's Remote Control Over GNU/Linux Since PCs' Power-on)
    By Katherine Noyes (article has since then became 404, not found)
  4. Debian Can Dump Blind Users Because I am Not Blind
    the sort of mentality we're up against
  5. The European Patent Office Cannot Attract Proficient Patent Examiners Who Master Their Domain
    They are enablers and facilitators of corruption

    New

  6. Gemini Links 19/07/2025: Git For Authors and Filtered Antenna
    Links for the day
  7. UEFI 'Secure' Boot Abuses by Microsoft to be Brought Up in the UK High Court in 3 Months
    we'll seek compensation
  8. Russia Set to Ban Facebook?
    If WhatsApp is made to "leave", that means Facebook or "Meta".
  9. Next Year It'll Be Half a Decade Since the Fall of Freenode (and IRC is Still Doing OK)
    Our IRC network is still accessible using the exact same software that ran in Windows 3.x
  10. Lupa Will Soon Know of 3,100+ Active Gemini Capsules
    And some people in the "Small Web" try to tell us that Gemini is dying?
  11. The Slopfarms Are Taking Real News Articles and Replacing Them With Lies Generated by Machines
    Bluntly speaking, Fagioli is nothing short of an online scammer
  12. Links 19/07/2025: Techtarget to Cull 10% of Staff, New Threats to Free Press in the US (Home of Dangerous and Violent Stranglers From Microsoft)
    Links for the day
  13. Gemini Links 19/07/2025: "Climate Justice” and Forking Programs
    Links for the day
  14. What Wayland and Microsoft/IBM systemd Have in Common
    focus on what IBM (Red Hat) is pushing while running over critics.
  15. Linux Already Has About 60% of the "Market"
    "When mentioning the client side," opines an associate, "it is essential to recite the list of other markets where Microsoft is negligible or a no-show. It is repetitive to do so, but it needs saying

    New

    often."
  16. Finland (and NATO) Must Move to GNU/Linux and Dump Microsoft Even Faster
    "Microsoft is not a technology problem, it is a staffing problem."
  17. The Microsofters We Sued Helped Microsoft Make GNU/Linux 'Expire' This Year
    "Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration"
  18. linuxconfig.org Joins linuxtechlab.com and Others, Becomes a Slopfarm With Fake Linux 'Articles' (LLM Slop)
    They contain "linux" in their domain names, but they are just slopfarms
  19. Links 19/07/2025: Microsoft Cuts in China and Wall Street Journal Sued for Reporting on Jeffrey Epstein
    Links for the day
  20. Fascistic Policies Got 'Normalised' in 'Public Office'. Let's Not Let the Same Happen in 'Tech'.
    Political discourse typically guides what's "normal" and what "good citizens" should believe/feel
  21. Yes, Your Mastodon Instance Will Also Shut Down
    Few people run a one-person instance in the Fediverse
  22. The Demise of GAFAM Necessitates Greater and Broader Awareness
    Morale at Microsoft is really bad
  23. Free Software Foundation Reaches 75% of Funding Goal
    Not bad for this "Fosschild"
  24. Slopwatch: 7 New Examples of Fake 'Linux' Slop Pieces (Plagiarism With Misinformation)
    Serial Sloppers need to be shunned
  25. Links 19/07/2025: Kapo-berg Settles, Software Patents Challenged
    Links for the day
  26. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  27. IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 18, 2025
    IRC logs for Friday, July 18, 2025

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

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

    Span from 2025-07-13 to 2025-07-19
    3540 /about.shtml
    2206 /n/2025/07/14/Slashdot_Media_Turned_Linux_Journal_Into_a_Slopfarm_and_Now_Sla.shtml
    1759 /n/2025/07/16/Why_I_am_Suing_the_Serial_Strangler_From_Microsoft_Alex_Balabha.shtml
    1072 /index.shtml
    1047 /browse/latest.shtml
    1034 /irc.shtml
    848 /n/2025/05/24/Free_Software_as_a_Culture_of_Resistance.shtml

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PeaZip 10.6 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform file and archive manager, a release that introduces new features and various enhancements.
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Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Is Now Available for Download Powered by Linux Kernel 6.14
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Kovid Goyal released Calibre 8.8 today as the latest stable update to this open-source, free, and cross-platform e-book management software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.
MariaDB 12.0 Lands with InnoDB Fixes and Expanded Platform Support
MariaDB 12.0 open-source RDBMS is out, fixing InnoDB and replication issues
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