9to5Linux

Calibre 9.13 E-Book Manager Improves PDF Output, Content Server, and More

Coming a week after Calibre 9.12, the Calibre 9.13 release only fixes bugs, including a regression in the PDF output from the Calibre 9 series that caused links in PDF files to scroll to a target location minus the top margin, which ended up being a few lines above the target.

GNOME 50.4 Desktop Environment Released with Various Improvements

Coming a month after GNOME 50.3, the GNOME 50.4 release improves menu animations in GNOME Shell, which also received fixes for a miscaled magnified cursor on HiDPI displays, a sound glitch when pushing redundant volume changes, and a glitch when switching to a minimized window on another workspace.

Mesa 26.2 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of Mesa 26.2 include a new tool called Gamma for inspecting acceleration structures and ray-tracing dispatches, currently supported only on the Radeon Vulkan (RADV) driver, VK_EXT_mesh_shader support in the NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs, and Vulkan 1.4 support for the KosmicKrisp Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon hardware.

GStreamer 1.28.6 Adds H.266 Muxing Support to the Rust MP4 Muxers

Coming about a month after GStreamer 1.28.5, the GStreamer 1.28.6 release is here to add H.266 muxing support to the Rust (f)mp4 muxers, improve handling of input buffers without timestamps in Rust (f)mp4 muxers, and support for the nvv4l2h265enc encoder to the webrtcsink element.

Tails 7.10.1 Is Out as an Emergency Release to Fix Critical Vulnerabilities

Coming two weeks after Tails 7.10, the Tails 7.10.1 release is an emergency point release to fix critical vulnerabilities, including a Linux kernel flaw that could allow Tor Browser in Tails to gain administrator privileges. The kernel has been updated to Linux 6.12.100 LTS, and the Tails devs ensure users that this attack is very unlikely.

Internet Society

How One Alum Helped Build a Community of Internet Leaders

When Amged B. Shwehdy attended his first global Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in 2019, he expected to learn from the discussions shaping the future of the Internet. Instead, the experience revealed how little Libya was represented in those conversations.

The Tribal Broadband Bootcamps Celebrate Their Five-Year Anniversary

Arriving in the California desert to attend my first Tribal Broadband Bootcamp for the organization’s five-year anniversary celebration, I had the pleasure of sitting down next to a young woman who shared that she felt a bit out of place.

Adaptability and Resilience: Q&A with New Board Chair Brian Haberman

On Saturday, 25 July, the Internet Society Board of Trustees selected Brian Haberman as its next chair.

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tails 7.10.1

For example, if a malicious website that you visit is able to exploit CVE-2026-64560, they might take full control of your Tails and deanonymize you.

LinuxGizmos.com

Comu Fits a 144MHz CH32V203 RISC-V Board Inside a USB-A Port

Tindie recently listed Comu, a compact development board built around the WCH CH32V203 RISC-V microcontroller. Measuring 13 × 9.4mm, the board fits inside a USB-A port and combines programmable touch controls, LEDs, USB device support, and access to several GPIO signals.

NXP FRDM i.MX 95 Pro Pairs Six Cortex-A55 Cores with 8 eTOPS AI Acceleration

NXP has released the FRDM i.MX 95 Pro, a development board designed for evaluating the company’s i.MX 95 applications processor in edge AI, industrial networking, robotics, vision processing, and advanced HMI applications.

Raspberry Pi 4 3GB Variant Reaches More Distributors Following April Introduction

Raspberry Pi introduced a new 3GB version of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B in April, positioning it between the existing 2GB and 4GB configurations. Four months after the announcement, the model is appearing through additional distributors, including TME, PiShop.us, and Waveshare.