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Mozilla Firefox 131 Brings Tab Hover Previews, URL Fragments + More

Mozilla Firefox 131 is now available to download with a small set of improvements in tow. The first change I noticed when opening Firefox 131 is the new icon for the ‘all tabs’ feature1. Previously a small downward pointing arrow, this new—…

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Raspberry Pi’s New $70 AI Camera Works With All Pi Models

If you’re looking to kick the tyres on some AI image processing/recognition tasks and you own an older Raspberry Pi, the new AI Camera add-on may be of interest. While the $70 Raspberry Pi AI Kit only works with a Raspberry Pi 5, the $70 AI camer…

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Linux Mint Gives First Look at New Cinnamon Theme

As revealed last month, Linux Mint is working on an improved default theme for the Cinnamon desktop – and today we got our first look at what’s coming. The way Cinnamon looks in Linux Mint (the distribution) is not the way it looks if you install…

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Linux Mint 22.1 Slated for Release in December with Revamped Cinnamon Theme

The Linux Mint 22.1 distribution was slated for release in December 2024 with a revamped Cinnamon theme and better package management. Here’s a sneak peek!
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Mission Center (Linux System Monitor) Now Reports Fan Info

A major new release of Mission Center, a modern system monitor app for Linux desktops, has been released. Fans of this Rust-based GTK4/libadwaita system monitoring tool (which to address the recurring elephant in the room does indeed have a user interf…

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Mozilla Firefox 131 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Mozilla Firefox 131 open-source web browser is now available for download with supports for text fragments, improved translations, temporarily site permissions, and more.
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Audacious 4.4.1 Open-Source Audio Player Brings New Features and Improvements

Audacious 4.4.1 open-source media player is now availablewith titlebar dimming for Winamp skins, improved control responsiveness, Qt 6 support for the Qt Multimedia output plugin, and more.
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FFmpeg 7.1 “Péter” Released with Full Native VVC Decoder, Vulkan Hardware Encoding

FFmpeg 7.1 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with a full native VVC decoder, a new MV-HEVC decoder, a new LC-EVC decoder, a new xHE-AAC decoder, Vulkan hardware encoding, and more. Here’s what’s new!
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qBittorrent 5.0 BitTorrent Client Adds Support for Systemd Power Management

qBittorrent 5.0 open-source BitTorrent client is now available for download with numerous new features and improvements. Here’s what’s new!
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Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.12 Release Candidate

Linus Torvalds announced the general availability of the first Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux 6.12 kernel series for public testing. Here’s what to expect!
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VirtualBox 7.1.2 Adds Support for 3D Acceleration in ARM VMs

Oracle has release a new maintenance update for VirtualBox, its open-source virtualisation software. VirtualBox 7.1.2 is the first such point release since the VirtualBox 7.1 series debuted earlier this month. Naturally, it builds on that major release…

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MPV 0.39.0 Added Multi-touch, NVIDIA & Intel VSR Scaling Support

MPV, the popular free open-source Linux media player, released version 0.39.0 last week. Here are the new features and Ubuntu PPA for Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 users. The new MPV 0.39.0 introduced Video Super Resolution scaling support with Intel and NVIDIA RTX GPUs. It’s a technology that can use your GPU to upscale low resolution […]

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CachyOS ISO Release for September 2024 Brings Linux Kernel 6.11 and Optimizations

The CachyOS ISO release for September 2024 is now available for download with various performance improvements and optimizations. Here’s what’s new!
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New Cups Exploit Makes Desktop Linux Users Particularly Vulnerable — Update Now

By taking advantage of four separate vulnerabilities, an attacker can take control of a Linux system without having physical access to the targeted machine.
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VirtualBox 7.1.2 Released with 3D Acceleration Support for VMs Running on ARM

VirtualBox 7.1.2 is now available for download with a new option to change the remote display security method and other improvements. Here’s what’s new!
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LibreOffice 24.8.2 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 85 Bug Fixes

LibreOffice 24.8.2 is now available for download as the second maintenance update in the LibreOffice 24.8 series with 85 bug fixes. All LibreOffice 24.8 office suite users must update to this version as soon as possible.
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Tor and Tails Merge to Fight Global Surveillance and Censorship

Tor Project & privacy-focused Tails Linux distro join forces to boost global internet freedom and enhance online privacy. Here’s more on that!
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Ubuntu Patches ‘Severe’ Security Flaw in CUPS

If you’ve cast a half-glazed eye over Linux social media feeds at some point in the past few days you may have caught wind that a huge Linux security flaw was about to be disclosed. And today it was: a remote code execution flaw affecting the CUP…

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COSMIC DE Alpha 2 Released, This is What’s New

Chocks away —British saying, don’t stare at me weirdly— as the second alpha of System76’s homegrown COSMIC desktop environment has been released. To make it easy for us all to try out the latest improvements a second alpha build of Pop!_OS …

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COSMIC Alpha 2 Released with Bluetooth Settings, Much-Improved File Manager

COSMIC Alpha 2 desktop environment is now available for public testing with new Bluetooth settings, a new Gallery feature in files, new density options, and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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