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This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

Arti 1.6.0 released: Circuit padding, side-channel attack mitigations, OpenTelemetry, and more.

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System76’s Oryx Pro Is the First Linux Laptop to Ship with the COSMIC Desktop

Featuring a stunning 16-inch 2K matte display with a 16:10 aspect ratio and 240Hz refresh rate, the new Oryx Pro laptop is powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor with 12 cores, 24 threads, and 5.1 GHz clock speed, up to 96GB DDR5 5600 MHz RAM, up to 8TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 storage, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 graphics.

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GIMP 3.0.6 Is Now Available for Download with Improved Photoshop Brush Support

Coming four and a half months after GIMP 3.0.4, the GIMP 3.0.6 release introduces a new toggle in the Brushes and Fonts dialogs to allow brush and font previews to optionally follow the color theme, an alpha channel for certain transforms and on filter merge, and improves Photoshop brush support.

LinuxGizmos.com

Arduino UNO Q Combines Qualcomm Dragonwing QRB2210 and STM32 MCU

Qualcomm Technologies has announced its plan to acquire Arduino, marking a major development in the embedded and maker ecosystems. The acquisition aims to combine Qualcomm’s edge computing and AI expertise with Arduino’s large developer community and open hardware approach.

Internet Society

Community Snapshot—September

Around the world, our 130 chapters and special interest groups work locally, regionally, and globally to keep the Internet a force for good: open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy. Each month, we provide a brief overview of just some of the things they have achieved in the previous month.

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Introducing KRetro: a Libretro game emulator from KDE! (Alpha Release)

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Oct 05, 2025

Quoting: Introducing KRetro: a Libretro game emulator from KDE! (Alpha Release) – Seshan.xyz Blog —

You may have heard of RetroArch, a popular and famously portable retro game emulator frontend with a console-style UI. One of the important innovations from RetroArch is libretro, a standard API that can adapt the many numbers of independent game console emulators to a single program. This is what allows RetroArch to support a vast number of systems without needing to build support for each bespoke emulator into the frontend itself.

A libretro “core” is simply a .so/.dylib/.dll dynamic library file that packages an emulator (or an independent game), and can be loaded into any application that can consume it using the libretro.h C API specification.

Through the libretro API, cores are adapted to the native Qt interface of KRetro (for example, pixels are drawn onto a QImage, audio is rendered out using Qt Multimedia, and reading keyboard events is handled by the QML engine).

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