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It’s getting increasingly hard to know what and who you can trust online. Scams are becoming more sophisticated. Disinformation more viral. Add in surveillance and data breaches, and the stakes of being online have never been higher, even as the Internet has become a necessity of daily life.

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Cangaroo open-source CAN bus analyzer supports SocketCAN and CAN-FD on Linux

The tool works with a wide range of interfaces supported by the kernel, including SocketCAN devices, CANable and Candlelight adapters, and network-based tools such as CANblaster over UDP. This allows users to test with virtual CAN interfaces or connect directly to physical hardware without proprietary drivers.

DeepComputing Unveils RVA23-Compliant Mainboard III for Linux on Framework 13

The board features the SpacemiT K3 SoC, which is the first RISC-V processor to implement the RVA23 profile. This succeeds the SpacemiT K1 used in the previous DC-ROMA Laptop II.

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Tails 7.4.2 Anonymous Linux OS Released to Fix Critical Security Vulnerabilities

Tails 7.4.2 comes almost two weeks after Tails 7.4.1, an emergency release that fixes critical security vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL library, and it’s yet another emergency release that fixes critical security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel.

Mesa 26.0 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of Mesa 26.0 include KosmicKrisp, a new Vulkan to Metal layered driver for macOS, significant raytracing performance improvements to the RADV Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs, and support for ACO by default for the RadeonSI driver for better GPU performance and better compile times.

OpenVPN 2.7 Released with Support for DCO Linux Kernel Module, mbedTLS 4

Highlights of OpenVPN 2.7 include support for the new upstream DCO Linux kernel module, which will be available in future upstream kernel releases, multi-socket support to handle multiple addresses/ports/protocols within one server, mbedTLS 4 support, and TLS 1.3 support with bleeding-edge mbedTLS versions.

IPFire DBL Launches as a Community-Powered Domain Blocking for Everyone

IPFire DBL is designed to organize millions of domains into specific threat categories, based on your security and content policies, including malware, phishing, advertising, pornography, gambling, games, social networks, violence, piracy, dating, Smart TV, and DNS-over-HTTPS.

Parrot 7.1 Ethical Hacking Distro Released with Enlightenment Spin, Updated Tools

Coming one and a half months after Parrot 7.0, the Parrot 7.1 release introduces a new spin that uses the lightweight Enlightenment graphical environment, in addition to the MATE and LXQt desktops, and improves the management of the software repositories with Mirror Director.

MythTV 36.0 Open-Source Media Center Is Out Now with Support for FFmpeg 8

After being in development for more than a year, the MythTV 36.0 release introduces support for the latest and greatest FFmpeg 8 open-source multimedia framework, which introduces major advancements in hardware acceleration and codec support for next-generation video management.

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Firefox 147 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

posted by Marius Nestor on Jan 12, 2026,
updated Jan 13, 2026

Highlights of Firefox 147 include support for Freedesktop.org’s XDG Base Directory Specification, zero-copy hardware-decoded video support on AMD GPUs to improve video playback performance, support for the Safe Browsing V5 protocol, and WebGPU support for all Apple Silicon Macs.

For Linux users, Firefox 147 updates the window and rendering surface sizes for GNOME‘s Mutter window and composite manager to match the actual pixel grid, which translates to sharper rendering of content on fractionally scaled displays, regardless of the actual window size.

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OMG Ubuntu:

Firefox 147 Released with 20-Year Old Linux Bug Fix

Firefox 147.0 brings modest improvements, including a couple of notable buffs for Linux systems, but the majority of changes focus on the foundational upkeep rather than any flashy frontend changes. As such there isn’t much new to see – or screenshot ;).

Still, for a closer look at what’s landing in this update, read on.

Linuxiac:

Firefox 147 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

A month after releasing version 146, Mozilla has launched Firefox 147, the latest update to its popular open-source web browser, now available for download.

One of the most visible changes is the expansion of WebGPU support, which is now enabled by default on all macOS versions running on Apple Silicon. On Linux and Windows systems with supported AMD GPUs, Firefox now enables zero-copy playback for hardware-decoded video, reducing memory overhead and improving video playback efficiency.

Firefox 147 also improves desktop integration on Linux by adding support for the Freedesktop.org XDG Base Directory Specification, aligning Firefox’s configuration and data storage with established Linux desktop conventions.

UbuntuHandbook:

Firefox 147.0 is Out with Custom Shortcuts & XDG Directories Support | UbuntuHandbook

Firefox 147.0, the new monthly release of Mozilla’s web browser, is available to download.

The new version is postponed by almost one week, but introduced many exciting new features.

First, Firefox now support XDG based directories for Linux. Instead of ~/.mozilla, it now puts personal data (e.g., profiles) and caches in ~/.config/mozilla and ~/.cache directories, just like other Linux apps do.

The change keeps user’s home directory less cluttered and makes backup simpler. However, it does not affect existing installations, but only for fresh installs or those who manually deleted ~/.mozilla (backup first).

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