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GNOME 50.5 Improves Multi-Monitor Support, HDR Support, and More

Coming one and a half months after GNOME 50.4, the GNOME 50.5 release improves the opening of windows created via the new-window action to appear on the correct workspace, improves keyboard navigation on the unlock dialog, improves switching of workspaces with direct scanout, and adds support for tracking magnifier mouse position without polling.

PeaZip 11.3 Archive Manager Improves ZPAQ Support, Adds New Themes

Coming two months after PeaZip 11.2, the PeaZip 11.3 release improves ZPAQ support with a new “Force typing password interactively” option, and a new option to automatically explore the output path with PeaZip after a task is completed, which also changes the behavior of internal drag-and-drop copy/move actions to explore the destination path.

OBS Studio 33 Promises Support for Latest NVIDIA Broadcast SDKs, Beta Out Now

OBS Studio 33 promises support for the newest NVIDIA Broadcast SDKs for NVIDIA Audio Effects and Video Effects, a check for encoders being missing when loading a profile, hotkeys for controlling audio monitoring of a source, and NVENC (NVIDIA Encoder) support on AArch64 (ARM64).

Shelly 3.1.5 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Adds Atoll-Powered AUR Browser

Coming two weeks after Shelly 3.1.4, the Shelly 3.1.5 release introduces an optional Atoll-powered AUR browser to let you navigate a paginated package list from the Arch User Repository (AUR), sort packages by votes or popularity, view dependency information, and see information about installed or out-of-date dependencies.

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Man City’s Fate

Go ahead and appeal

Reform UK is Like Brett Wilson LLP: Funded by Americans That Seek to Ruin Britain’s Democracy and Press Culture

Helping Americans who strangle American women bully people in the UK who correctly reported that

Sites That Do LLM Slop (and Images) Will Perish and Go Offline

It’ll happen. Wait and watch.

Investigative Journalism Today

The thing we wish to do all the time, not death threats

Blacklisting Sites That Use Slop

So long

European Patent Office (EPO) Corruption, EPO Series: “A Tale of Two Antónios”

Time to resume

You Lose the Ability to Think and Forget Skills

Don’t do that

Unconditionally Against Racism

Let’s go…

Daniel Pocock Petition to Put Reform UK Party Limited in Administration in Social Control Media

Techrights mentioned there as well

More Than a Decade Later She’s Still Appreciated

Susan of Tux Machines

LinuxGizmos.com

Open-source flight controller pairs i.MX RT1176 with Pixhawk PAB compatibility

ARK Electronics recently showcased the ARKV6X-RT, an NDAA-compliant flight controller based on the FMUV6X-RT and Pixhawk Autopilot Bus open standards. The module uses an NXP i.MX RT1176 microcontroller and includes three synchronized IMUs, onboard FRAM, a secure element and PX4 Autopilot support.

Pocket-sized OpenWrt router offers dual-band Wi-Fi 5 and Gigabit Ethernet

GL.iNet has unveiled the Mango 2 (GL-MG1300), a compact travel router with dual-band Wi-Fi 5, Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.0. The device supports WireGuard and OpenVPN, along with Ethernet, Wi-Fi repeater, USB tethering and USB cellular modem connections.

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Applications: Astra and BudsLink

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 23, 2026

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