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The EU KIDS Act Should Make Services Safer, Not Create an Internet Badge

The European Commission’s proposed EU KIDS Act addresses a growing concern shared by parents, educators, policymakers, and young people: some online services are designed to encourage excessive use, exploit users’ attention, or expose minors to harmful interactions. Protecting children online is an important and legitimate policy objective.

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Geniatech Enables Local LLM Inference with RK1828 and Hailo-10 M.2 AI Accelerators

Geniatech has listed two M.2 AI accelerator cards targeting local inference workloads on embedded systems and edge devices. The AIM-M-R28 uses Rockchip’s RK1828 processor with 20 TOPS of computing performance, while the AIM-M-H10 is based on Hailo’s Hailo-10 architecture, delivering up to 40 TOPS for generative AI and computer vision applications.

Coin-Sized Romu Packs Raspberry Pi RP2354A into USB Type-A Form Factor

Bitmerse’s Romu recently debuted on Crowd Supply as an ultra-compact development board based on the Raspberry Pi RP2354A microcontroller. Designed to plug directly into a USB Type-A port, the board features capacitive touch input, an RGB LED and MicroPython support

(Updated) 32-channel logic analyzer supports 1.4GS/s sampling and USB 3.2 Gen2 streaming

Sipeed’s SLogic32U3 is a 32-channel logic analyzer designed for high-speed digital capture over USB 3.2 Gen2. The device supports configurable sample rates based on the number of active channels, direct streaming to a host system, optional analog acquisition modules, and software support across Windows, Linux, and macOS.

ZOTAC CM5-PICO Fanless Industrial PC with Dual HDMI and M.2 Expansion

ZOTAC’s ZBOX PRO CM5-PICO is a compact industrial computer powered by the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5. The fanless system supports dual 4K displays, Gigabit Ethernet, M.2 expansion, and a 40-pin GPIO header, with an aluminum enclosure designed for continuous operation in embedded and edge computing applications.

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New Steam Client Update Adds Many Linux Improvements, Big Picture Screensaver

For Linux gamers, the new Steam Client update from Cotber 13th, 2026, makes the “Select compatibility tool” dropdown always visible to be easier to select aliases like “Proton Stable”, and updates the SteamOS compatibility dialogs to show in the desktop UI when installing games that are not verified for that hardware.

Mozilla Thunderbird 158 Email Client Improves Quick Filter Responsiveness

Mozilla Thunderbird 158 looks like a smaller update due to the faster development cycle, updating the ExtensionSettings policy to install add-ons from update_url when install_url is not set, and improving the responsiveness of the quick filter.

TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen8 Linux Laptop Unveiled with Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus

The 8th-gen TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Linux laptop is powered by the Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus processor with 24 cores (8 performance cores and 16 efficiency cores) and a 5.6 GHz clock speed, up to 96 GB DDR5-6400 or 128 GB DDR5-5600 RAM, and ultra-high-speed NVMe PCIe 5.0 SSD storage.

Linux Mint 27 “Adrien” Slated for Release on Christmas, Based on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

That’s right, the next major Linux Mint release will be Linux Mint 27, not Linux Mint 23 as initially thought, and since Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” was the last to reach the end of the alphabet, the devs are now starting all over but using boys’ names this time, so the codename of Linux Mint 27 is “Adrien.”

Mozilla Firefox 159 Enters Public Beta Testing with Wayland Improvements

Firefox 159 promises easier access to saved passwords from the sidebar by default, the ability to search open tabs with a keyboard shortcut, support for importing bookmarks from Google Chrome profiles that are signed in to a Google account, and improved visuals for menus and panels on Linux and Windows.

Ubuntu’s Myna Speech-to-Text App Is Now Available as a Technology Preview

Myna brings AI-powered speech-to-text dictation to the Ubuntu Desktop using local models. While Myna prioritizes local speech recognition, feature releases will also support online models. However, the app doesn’t require an active Internet connection and processes audio in memory and discards it after use.

Ubuntu 27.04 “Tenacious T-Rex” Is Slated for Release on April 22nd, 2027

Ubuntu 27.04 “Tenacious T-Rex” will be Canonical’s 46th Ubuntu release, and it’s an interim one that will be supported with software and security updates for only nine months, until January 2028, targeting bleeding-edge Ubuntu users who are willing to trade Ubuntu LTS’s stability for the latest technologies.

Mozilla Firefox 158 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of Mozilla Firefox 158 include improved PDF handling on Linux and macOS systems by using the SkPDF PDF-generation backend for Skia, allowing PDFs to be more accessible and also addressing various PDF rendering issues, support for the new JPEG XL image format, and support for storing custom wallpapers in the New Tab page.

schestowitz.com

Dictator Can Make Obama US President Again

“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.” — George Bernard Shaw

In Safe Hands

We’ll be doing fine this coming Christmas and next year

IRC is Not Dying, Quit Repeating This FUD

It hurts it

CR-2026-007405: Holding Reform UK Party Limited Accountable

The more they talk, the worse it gets

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GNU/Linux Potency and the Lingering Avoidance of LLM Slop in Tux Machines (Not Even Linking to Any)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 29, 2026

A couple of days are left in this month and this vacation. On Wednesday we'll be seeing some new and potentially interesting data about GNU/Linux usage. We'll have lots to write about.

The general tone of GNU/Linux coverage has been positive lately. It has earned respect. There are still some slopfarms plagiarising articles on the topic, but they can be counted in the fingers of one or two hands. We refuse to link to any of these. █

Image source: In The Sierra Nevada Mountains

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