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KDE Plasma 6.4 Tackles An 18 Year Old Feature Request, More Wayland Protocols Added
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Phoronix
KDE Plasma 6.4 Tackles An 18 Year Old Feature Request, More Wayland Protocols Added
The KDE Plasma developer sprint in Graz wrapped up just days ago but there's still been no shortage of new feature work landing into Plasma 6.4 this week
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Linux Kernel to Drop Support for Legacy i486 and Early 586 CPUs
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Linuxiac
Linux Kernel to Drop Support for Legacy i486 and Early 586 CPUs
Linux kernel developers target outdated CPU support, with major code cleanup and a push for streamlined x86 architecture support.
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Mission Center 1.0 Adds New Features
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OMG! Ubuntu
Mission Center 1.0: New Features, Better Performance
Linux system monitoring app Mission Center has put out its first update in 6 months – and it's a big one! Mission Center 1.0 adds new hardware tracking,
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FFmpeg Integrates Video Encoder For Advanced Professional Video (APV)
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Phoronix
FFmpeg Integrates Video Encoder For Advanced Professional Video (APV)
One week ago FFmpeg merged decode support for Samsung's Advanced Professional Video 'APV' codec
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Mozilla Says Google Search Deal Vital to Firefox’s Survival
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OMG! Ubuntu
Google Search Deal Critical to Firefox’s Future
Google's search deal with Mozilla is such a sizeable portion of its overall income that without it, Firefox would struggle to compete - or even survive,
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Darcula PhaaS steals 884,000 credit cards via SMS phishing texts
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BleepingComputer
Darcula PhaaS steals 884,000 credit cards via phishing texts
The Darcula phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform stole 884,000 credit cards from 13 million clicks on malicious links sent via text messages to targets worldwide.
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BleachBit 5.0 System Cleaning Utility Released with Major Upgrades
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Linuxiac
BleachBit 5.0 System Cleaning Utility Released with Major Upgrades
BleachBit 5.0 open-source system cleaning utility is out now with new cleaners, security patches, and better cross-platform performance.
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KDE Plasma 6.3.5 Improves Support for Multi-Screen Setups, NVIDIA GPU Users
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9to5Linux
KDE Plasma 6.3.5 Improves Support for Multi-Screen Setups, NVIDIA GPU Users - 9to5Linux
KDE Plasma 6.3.5 is now available for download as the last point release to the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series.
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AdGuard 1.0 Released for Linux with Advanced Ad-Blocking Capabilities
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It's FOSS
AdGuard 1.0 Released for Linux with Advanced Ad-Blocking Capabilities
It’s about time
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A simple & sleek control panel for linux based on the GTK framework
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GitHub
GitHub - quantumvoid0/better-control: A simple control panel for linux based on the GTK framework
A simple control panel for linux based on the GTK framework - quantumvoid0/better-control
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Raspberry Pi OS Updated With More Wayland Work, Likely The Last Based On Debian 12
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Phoronix
Raspberry Pi OS Updated With More Wayland Work, Likely The Last Based On Debian 12
Raspberry Pi today announced the latest update to their Raspberry Pi OS, which continues to be based on Debian Linux and likely their last major release before migrating from a Debian 12 base to Debian 13 later in the year.
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openSUSE Removes Deepin Desktop Over Security Policy Violations
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Linuxiac
openSUSE Removes Deepin Desktop Over Security Policy Violations
openSUSE removes Deepin Desktop after discovering a policy-violating workaround used to bypass required security reviews of sensitive system components.
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KDE Gear 25.04.1 Fixes Session Restore in the Dolphin File Manager and Other Bugs
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9to5Linux
KDE Gear 25.04.1 Fixes Session Restore in the Dolphin File Manager and Other Bugs - 9to5Linux
KDE Gear 25.04.1 is now available as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 25.04 software suite series with various bug fixes.
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Linux Mint 22.2 Modernises its Default Theme
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OMG! Ubuntu
Linux Mint 22.2 Modernises its Default Theme
More details on the makeup of the upcoming Linux Mint 22.2 release have been revealed, including its new codename (for those who track those). Linux Mint
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GNOME Replaces Totem Video Player with Showtime
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OMG! Ubuntu
GNOME Replace Totem Video Player with Showtime
Roll credits on Totem, roll camera on Showtime — GNOME developers have officially cast a new video player in GNOME 49, out in September. Per an
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Google Chrome to use on-device AI to detect tech support scams
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BleepingComputer
Google Chrome to use on-device AI to detect tech support scams
Google is implementing a new Chrome security feature that uses the built-in 'Gemini Nano' large-language model (LLM) to detect and block tech support scams while browsing the web.
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KDE Frameworks 6.14 Revamps New Files Dialog, Expands KRunner Unit Conversion
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9to5Linux
KDE Frameworks 6.14 Revamps New Files Dialog, Expands KRunner Unit Conversion - 9to5Linux
KDE Frameworks 6.14 open-source software suite is out now with various improvements and bug fixes for KDE apps and the Plasma desktop.
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Flatpak 1.16.1 Linux App Sandboxing Framework Brings More Enhancements
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9to5Linux
Flatpak 1.16.1 Linux App Sandboxing Framework Brings More Enhancements - 9to5Linux
Flatpak 1.16.1 Linux app sandboxing and distribution framework is now available for download with various enahncements and bug fixes.
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Kitty 0.42 Launches With Quick-Access Terminal
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Linuxiac
Kitty 0.42 Launches With Quick-Access Terminal
Kitty 0.42, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator, brings a Quake-style quick-access terminal, Unicode 16-compliant grapheme segmentation, and more.
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KDE Plasma 6.3.5 Update Available to Kubuntu Users
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OMG! Ubuntu
KDE Plasma 6.3.5 Update Available to Kubuntu Users
If you're running Kubuntu 25.04 and want the latest fixes the KDE Plasma 6.3.5 release, you can use the Kubuntu backports PPA to get 'em. KDE Plasma 6.3.5
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Kagi’s Orion Browser Linux Port Uses GTK4/libadwaita
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OMG! Ubuntu
Kagi’s Orion Browser Linux Port Uses GTK4/libadwaita
A few months back I reported that Kagi, the company behind the paid, private and privacy-focused search engine of the same time, is porting its Orion web
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