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Libreboot 26.11 Open-Source BIOS/UEFI Firmware Brings Various Improvements

Coming a month after Libreboot 26.10, the Libreboot 26.11 release enables TPM 2.0 by default on Topton X2e N150, Supermicro X11SSH-F, ThinkPad X280, ThinkPad X270, ThinkPad T480/T480s, and ThinkPad T580 devices, enables EDK2 by default in Coreboot mkhelper, and adds a new naming scheme for ROMs.

LibreOffice 26.8.3 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 40 Bug Fixes

Coming two weeks after LibreOffice 26.8.2, the LibreOffice 26.8.3 update is packed with bug fixes for various issues, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users, focusing on stability, macOS integration, digital signatures, and compatibility with MS Office file formats.

New Steam Client Update Introduces Linux 64-Bit Support, Steam Achievement Sets

The November 11th Steam Client update is the first stable release to run the Steam Client itself as a 64-bit application on Linux, rather than a 32-bit one. However, Steam installations will still download 32-bit libraries as part of the Steam Runtime, since Steam needs to be able to run the many 32-bit games in its catalog.

Ardour 9.10 Open-Source DAW Is Out with Live Gain Envelope Waveform Updates

Coming two months after Ardour 9.8, the Ardour 9.10 release introduces optional support for audio waveforms that reflect the region’s gain envelope, so the waveform of an audio region updates as you drag the gain envelope nodes around.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.3 Released with Sealed Images for Image Mode

Highlights of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.3 include sealed images for image mode, now generally available, a production-ready Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for RHEL that moves from Developer Preview to general availability, and a self-managed command-line assistant for regulated and disconnected environments, available as a Developer Preview.

Linux’s exFAT Progs 1.4.4 Adds Optional I/O Statistics Collection for Profiling

Exfatprogs 1.4.4 is the fourth minor update in the Exfatprogs 1.4 series, coming three months after Exfatprogs 1.4.3. This release introduces a new feature to the exfatprogs command, namely optional I/O statistics collection for profiling read, write, discard, zero-out, and sync operations.

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Miniature industrial IoT gateway with dual Gigabit Ethernet and optional Wi-Fi 6, LTE

Compulab has detailed its IOT-GATE-IMX8PV2, a fanless industrial IoT gateway powered by NXP’s i.MX8M Plus processor. The small-form-factor system combines dual Gigabit Ethernet, optional Wi-Fi 6 and LTE connectivity, and isolated industrial I/O in a 105 × 80 × 30mm aluminum enclosure.

OSM dev board supports NXP i.MX and Qualcomm IQ615 SoCs

Tria Technologies has unveiled its OSM-SB-EP5, a 146 × 102mm development platform supporting Open Standard Module (OSM) Size-S, Size-M, and Size-L modules. The carrier board combines dual Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0, MIPI camera and display interfaces ti intended for industrial IoT, edge AI, robotics, and embedded vision development.

Flipper One Linux handheld rocks RK3576 with SDR and cellular options via M.2

Flipper Devices is preparing a Kickstarter campaign for its “Flipper One,” a portable Linux computer powered by an octa-core Rockchip RK3576 processor and a Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller. The handheld combines 8GB LPDDR5, Wi-Fi 6E, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and M.2 expansion for cellular modems, SDR modules, and other peripherals.

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Under Zero

Getting chilly

Why I Never Called the Serial Strangler From Microsoft a “Criminal”

bout 5+ years ago I began writing about the Serial Strangler From Microsoft. The strangulation is a documented fact (told by victims), as are the arrest and charges. He was brought to Court. He was not acquitted. He was never acquitted.

Manchester City Council Report Card – Part 13 – WISE Intimidates “Customers” (Citizens) and Tries to Prevent Complaints

The poor service at Manchester City Council is nowadays a common observation.

Manchester City Council Report Card – Part 12 – Empty Buildings, Not Much Getting Done

Lots of room, but hardly any people

Dead Animals

From today’s Techrights Daily Links:

My Ph.D. Supervisor is Still Working in His 80s

He loves what he does

Techrights S/N Ratio

Signal-to-noise

Explaining What Microsoft Did

bout 3 days ago I received a PDF of a submission made by a proponent of Microsoft-controlled Restricted Boot. I was unconvinced by what was said there, as it seemed like an appeal to emotion, not facts. If you spend decades promoting an American monopoly and undermining security, do you expect protection from critics? Do you even believe that critics are allowed to exist?

Manchester City Council Report Card – Part 11 – Almost an Hour Waiting in Line (on the Phone) and Big Phone Bills Just to Speak to a Person

Does the Mayor recognise this issue?

Slow Down, Squirrel Ahead

They coexist with birds

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tails 7.17

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

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This Week in Kwi: Flight

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Nov 13, 2026

Quoting: This Week in Kwi: Flight - KDE Blogs —

Kwi has continued to mature at a fast clip over the past week, with many a bug slain and a significant amount of UI refinement.

Exciting news also from our important upstream, the Ghostty project: Earlier than we had anticipated, libghostty-vt was released in version v1.0 on the weekend. This provides Kwi with a stable API/ABI from our headless terminal emulation backend, which will greatly aid distros and packaging efforts in particular.

For the Ghostty project this is the culmination of a solid half-decade of work - congratulations to mitchellh and many other contributors over there!

Read On!

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