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This version includes important security updates to Firefox.
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.
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.
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
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’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.
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 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.
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.
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.”
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.
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” 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.
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.
No more sunny days in the garden
“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.” — George Bernard Shaw
Feels a bit festive already
We’ll be doing fine this coming Christmas and next year
It hurts it
No simple fix
Birds are incredible animals
“Give me a country where I can be free”
Finally.
The more they talk, the worse it gets
statCounter, latest month on record:
Clownflare, 11% for past 2 weeks:
11% also for past 1 week:
analytics.usa.gov for past 1 week:
This includes mobile, GNU/Linux would be near 10% if Android, iOS and others are culled/occluded.
Notice how Firefox has fallen to just 1.4%.
Image source: The Macaroni Print Shop