Do you waddle the waddle?
Europe is updating its telecommunications rules through the Digital Networks Act (DNA). The European Commission published its proposal in January, and it is now the European Parliament’s turn to develop its position.
Take it easy
Duh.
It looks like they will receive several “F” grades
Vote in the ballots, not in social control media (which does not count and won’t be counted)
aka “green-eyed bird”
We’ll always remember
The scarce joy
his coming weekend (Sunday) Stevie Wonder will be back in Manchester. Mariah Carey comes here a month later. They will perform across the road from us.
“When you point the finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing back to you”
Back doors in machines
The SCINTIX P4 is a compact compute module developed by RELOC around Espressif’s ESP32-P4 microcontroller, using the 55 × 40mm form factor of Raspberry Pi CM4 and CM5 modules. It combines dual-core RISC-V processing with an ESP32-C6 wireless companion, Ethernet, and MIPI display and camera interfaces for embedded control and HMI applications.
Orange Pi has published hardware details for the OrangePi O1, a 90 × 70mm SBC based on the Sophgo BM1688 processor. It pairs eight Arm Cortex-A53 cores with a RISC-V C906 coprocessor and a 16-TOPS INT8 TPU, along with up to 16GB of LPDDR4/LPDDR4X memory.
The MINIX T4000/T5000 is a compact AI workstation based on NVIDIA’s Jetson AGX Thor platform, combining Blackwell GPU architecture with Arm Neoverse-V3AE processors. The system supports up to 128GB of LPDDR5X memory, dual 10GbE networking, PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage, and Ubuntu 24.04 for local AI inference and development.
Agilex 2X is Altera’s latest FPGA and SoC portfolio, consisting of four device families for applications ranging from industrial control to high-performance computing. The first announced family, Agilex 27, incorporates 256Gbps transceivers, PCIe 7.0 support, and a distributed HyperFlow data network. The company has also released QuartusIQ, an AI-assisted development tool integrated into Quartus Prime Pro 26.3.
KDE Plasma 6.7.6 is a pretty modest update that updates the Wi-Fi & Networking page in System Settings to fully fit within the window at its default and minimum size, updates the Brightness & Color widget to no longer show a spurious control for keyboards without backlight or that don’t support backlight control, and updates the Clipboard widget to no longer disappear from the system tray when its panel is over 100px thick.
Based on the recently released Fedora Linux 45 release, Fedora Asahi Remix 45 ships with the Wayland-only KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environment by default and introduces out-of-the-box initial support for Apple M3, Apple M3 Pro, and Apple M3 Max machines.
Coming two months after LibreOffice 26.2.6, the LibreOffice 26.2.7 release is packed with more fixes to address various bugs, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users in an attempt to improve the overall stability and reliability of this popular open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite.
Coming more than a year after openSUSE Leap 16.0, the openSUSE Leap 16.1 release folds Leap Micro, openSUSE’s immutable server distribution, into Leap itself through a new Immutable Mode, which lets you transactionally update a system with a read-only root file system.
Coming six months after Fedora Linux 44, the Fedora Linux 45 release is powered by the Linux 7.2 kernel series and features the latest GNOME 51 desktop environment by default for the flagship Fedora Workstation edition, and the latest KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environment by default for the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop flavor.
Coming almost two months after GIMP 3.2.6, the GIMP 3.2.8 release adds DPI information when copying an image to the clipboard, restores Offset as a non-destructive filter, adds the ability to cancel font loading in the middle when quitting GIMP early, and improves Dot to Dot support to work better even on integer scaling.
Coming three months after aerynOS 2026.08, the aerynOS 2026.11 release is powered by the Linux 7.2 and Linux 6.18 LTS kernels, and features the latest and greatest GNOME 51 desktop environment by default on the live ISO, along with support for KDE Plasma 6.8 and COSMIC 1.11, and, for the first time, Budgie 10.10 desktop.
Coming a month after Audacity 4.0.1, the Audacity 4.0.2 release restores automatic saving during recording, restores trim, clear selection, and zoom shortcuts, adds PgUp and PgDown timeline scrolling, improves playback latency from input meter display, improves the status bar layout in narrow windows, and improves file importing on Linux.
Two weeks have passed since the release of Linux kernel 7.3, which is already arriving in the stable repos of your favorite distros, which means that the merge window for Linux kernel 7.4 is now closed, so it’s time to test-drive the Release Candidate (RC) versions over the next couple of months, every Sunday afternoon.
Coming a month after Budgie 10.10.3, the Budgie 10.10.4 release overhauls panel automatic hiding and dock mode as hidden panels now stay above windows and reappear when you move the mouse to the screen edge, panels set to hide no longer reserve screen space, and a new Super+T shortcut shows the panel in full-screen apps.
Manjaro 26.0.1 has just arrived, along with Cinnamon 6.6.3 with its new design.
The kernel remains at 6.12 pending the next one planned for long-term support.
ISO: 26.0.1-260117-linux612