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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 Alumni 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.

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.

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.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 24, 2025

Big waves pound in Oxnard, California. Seagull can be seen sitting on the harbor rocks in the background

Updated This Past Day

  1. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Un-cancelled the Best People, Just in Time for the Big 4-0
    Mr. Oliva should have been there all along (since 2019)
  2. Most "Modern" Technology Makes You Slower and Dumber
    Because proprietary software makes you worse off
  3. "What Comes After Free Software?" Wrongly Insinuates We've Reached the Goal (Prison is Not the Goal)
    The oil tycoons use similar tactics against environmentalists, giving them fake "wins"
  4. Making More Work Space
    I learned the hard way that less is more in circumstances where more means distraction
  5. MAHA is a Lie, Public Officials Never Valued Citizens' Health (They Still Value Private Businesses, Their Sponsors)
    Reject demagogues

    New

  6. Gemini Links 24/09/2025: Gemlogs and Politics
    Links for the day
  7. Links 23/09/2025: Japan Limits Uses of Skinnerboxes ('Smartphones') With Toxic "Apps", Fentanylware (TikTok) Tapped by "MAGAts"
    Links for the day
  8. Brett Wilson LLP Has Just Been Sued (by Their Own Clients!)
    Vladimir and Alla Yanpolsky sued Brett Wilson LLP in BL-2025-001167 at the end of last week
  9. The Complaint About Brett Wilson LLP - Part II - UK SLAPPs for Americans, SLAPPs for Profit
    Brett Wilson LLP has a track record of this kind
  10. Mayday: Optus emergency calling crisis
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  11. Links 23/09/2025: Massive Data Breach, Slop Versus Productivity, and Vista 11 Update Breaks Things Again
    Links for the day
  12. Code of Censorship
    Extortion is peace
  13. Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has a New Press Kit for the Weekend After Next Weekend (40th Anniversary)
    miles better than social [sic] media [sic] quips, moderated by narcissists and oil tycoons.
  14. Microsoft Had Two Waves of Mass Layoffs This Month (That We Know of) and It'll Get Worse for Microsoft Soon
    Will the axe fall again by month's end?
  15. Gemini Links 23/09/2025: Happy Equinox, Photronic Arts, and Perception Cognition
    Links for the day
  16. Lessons We've Learned After 17 Years of American Hosting
    GAFAM is "all-in" with the "Trump agenda"
  17. Back to Normal Now, We Plan to Do More In-Depth Series (or Multi-part Stories)
    Articles (or series thereof) that contain philosophy are important to us
  18. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  19. IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 22, 2025
    IRC logs for Monday, September 22, 2025
  20. Microsoft Media is Panicking Amid Mass Layoffs Every Month, H-1B Fees, and "Seattle’s Tech Scene in Trouble"
    In "late stage Microsoft", copyleft becomes proprietary
  21. The Next Wave of IBM/Red Hat Layoffs Being Discussed Already
    Red Hat is sort of disappearing the way Tivoli did
  22. New Techrights Turns 2
    Today starts the third year of the SSG-based Techrights
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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the biggest rc6 we've had in years
Games: Lighthouse, Theropods, and More
half a dozen picks from GamingOnLinux
Programming Leftovers
Development picks
Enzo Maresca's First With With Manchester City [original]
We eagerly look forward to Maresca's potentially first brass (Community Shield)
Zimbabwe: GNU/Linux Surging to 7% [original]
If one adds ChromeOS, then that's 8%
Town Trotting [original]
We don't plan to travel abroad this year
Android Leftovers
Google Assistant shutting down on Android and Wear OS in September
I failed to install the "most difficult" Linux distro but here's why I'm sticking with it
I love using Linux and experimenting with different Linux distributions
Ubuntu is still the distro everyone recommends first, and it all boils down to 4 reasons
To this day, I still give the same advice: start with Ubuntu
This free Linux tool makes it easy to check your PC battery and disk usage - here's how
The Mission Center system monitor for Linux adds some new features that will appeal to a broader user base
Windows 11 vs Linux RAM usage in web browsing and gaming reveals big difference
Linus Tech Tips ran a simple side-by-side comparison of RAM usage on Windows 11 and Linux
The only 5 Linux distros I recommend for laptops—after 10 years of using Linux
There are hundreds of Linux distros out there, and most of them are genuinely good
NVIDIA 610.57.04 Linux Graphics Driver Improves Support for Many Games
NVIDIA 610.57.04 graphics driver is now available for download with many bug fixes that improve support for multiple video games, as well as the overall performance and stability.
FFmpeg 9.0 “Lei” Open-Source Multimedia Framework Officially Released
FFmpeg 9.0 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with LCEVC track muxing support in the MP4 muxer, a v360_vulkan filter, and more.
Free and Open Source Software
This is free and open source software
Enchantment OS – consumer-friendly Linux distribution
Enchantment OS is a consumer-friendly Linux distribution designed for home and office use
Developing with Fedora, first flock, and not the last!
Flock 2026 was my first Fedora conference, and it won’t be my last
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