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New Release: Tails 7.15

The Persistent Storage on the USB stick will be lost if you install instead of upgrading.

LinuxGizmos.com

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

schestowitz.com

When Bowties Became Symbols of Traitors and Microsoft Pushers (the Case of James Bottomley)

When did something innocent turn from benign (e.g. Charlie Chaplin) to malicious or “warning sign”?

PSG is Killing Us

City ’til I die?

Priority #1 is Investigative Journalism

The rest is the cost of exposing things

Maresca on PSG Tonight

Simple message

BBC Talking About Dinners Instead of Tonight’s Match

Seems like a pattern at BBC today

Mancunian Impact in Politics (and BBC Seems Jealous)

Mancunian influence-peddling? Or BBC (London) trying to change focus? No ManCity story today, except the one below.

Going Tropical for Wintertime

he “tropical mode” in the fish tank is now activated. Overnight, there was a lingering concern about the safety of the heater, so we turned it off and decided to wait a while. Just to be on the safe side.

End of Garden Season

No more sunny days in the garden

Dictator Can Make Obama US President Again

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

Xmas in Two Months

Feels a bit festive already

9to5Linux

Mesa 26.2.5 Is Out with Bug Fixes for RADV, NVK, ANV, PanVK, Freedreno, and Zink

On the AMD stack, RADV and RadeonSI got the most attention in Mesa 26.2.5, improving ray-tracing reliability by addressing black patches, texture artifacts, and load-dependent crashes.

KDE Plasma 6.8 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of KDE Plasma 6.8 include a Wayland-only session, triple buffering for NVIDIA GPUs enabled by default, support for recording audio in Spectacle during screen recording, and automatic logic support for Plasma Login Manager on distros with older systemd versions, such as KDE neon.

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 204 Linux Firewall Distro Improves the Knot Resolver

Coming almost three months after IPFire 2.29 Core Update 203, the IPFire 2.29 Core Update 204 release is here to improve the Knot Resolver full caching DNS resolver implementation, which was introduced in the previous update, with a fix for a regression where clients connected via IPsec, WireGuard, or OpenVPN were unable to resolve names because Knot Resolver replied from the wrong source IP address.

Happy 30th Birthday, KDE!

On October 14th, 1996, Matthias Ettrich proposed a consistent, easy-to-use desktop environment for Unix-like systems. He called it the “Kool Desktop Environment” (KDE) — a deliberate jab at CDE, the proprietary Common Desktop Environment dominant at the time. What followed was 30 years of remarkable momentum.

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.”