schestowitz.com

Dogs Bred to Become Weapons of War (or Cops)

Be prepared

“Manchester City broke the record for the most spent by a single club in one summer, with more than €500 million spent on new signings”

Sounds obscene, it’s about money rather than local talent

Russia Has Already (Silently) Declared War on Germany, Hence NATO and EU

Actions speak louder than press releases

Coffee Shrinkflation

Paying more for less.

Social Control Media is Assured Destruction

he site of RMS (online since the 1990s) has been offline for about 3 days. We don’t know what’s taking so long for it to come back online.

Court of Appeal

Science and technology as codified in caselaw

Lessons and Cheap Wake-Up Calls

Remember to save to disk, and do so very often

People In Love

People In Love, probably not easy to find anymore (rare).

The Water Came Too Late

Too much this past week

How Fast Time Goes By

3 years pass by just like that

9to5Linux

Audacity 4.0 Open-Source Audio Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of Audacity 4 include a new project manager that prompts you to select your project from the local file system or cloud, create a new one, or copy audio clips across projects, as well as support for Nyquist and VST3 plugins across Linux, macOS, and Windows, and LV2 on Linux, and Audio Units on macOS.

Linux Kernel 7.1 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 7.2

Linux kernel 7.1 was released on June 14th, 2026, introducing new features like a new NTFS file system implementation, which has been in the works for the last 4 years, featuring full write support with delayed allocation, iomap, and folio integration to improve write performance, and a new suite of userspace utilities called ntfsprogs-plus.

Mozilla Thunderbird 155 Adds Custom OAuth Support for IMAP and SMTP Servers

Highlights of Mozilla Thunderbird 155 include an updated S/MIME pop-up that now shows signature, digest, encryption algorithms, and key sizes, custom OAuth support for IMAP and SMTP servers, new PKCE and external browser fields for custom OAuth settings, and new Enterprise policies to disable QR export and experimental features.

Steam Client Now Supports HDR Streaming on Steam Deck OLED

The new stable Steam Client update for September 1st, 2026, is here to introduce support for HDR streaming on Steam Deck OLED via Remote Play, improve video color range on all platforms during Remote Play, and add support for changing accounts while a game is running.

LinuxGizmos.com

Bluetooth/UWB board based on nRF52840 offers 10cm accuracy

The board is based on Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF52840 microcontroller, which integrates a 64MHz Arm Cortex-M4 processor with floating-point support, 1MB of flash memory, and 256KB of RAM. Wireless connectivity from the MCU consists of 2.4GHz Bluetooth 5.0, with supported Bluetooth data rates of 2Mbps, 1Mbps, 500kbps, and 125kbps.

Embedded platform implements Amlogic A311Y3 octa-core SoC with PCIe 3.0 support

The Amlogic A311Y3 integrates two Arm Cortex-A78 cores running at up to 2.4GHz alongside six Cortex-A55 cores at up to 2.0GHz. Graphics are handled by an Arm Mali-G625 MC1 GPU, while the integrated neural processing unit provides up to 8 TOPS of AI acceleration with support for INT4, INT8, INT16, FP8, FP16, and BF16 workloads.

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tails 7.12

Follow our installation instructions.

New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 16.0a11

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.