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The Wireless Horipad for Steam is coming in the fall.

We sure hope this won't upset European regulators given how great their relationship is with Apple right now

As social networks and porn sites move towards a verified identity model, the actions of one cybersecurity researcher show that ID verification services themselves could get hacked too.

Official System76 Blog

Fancy (or cringe) name aside, “the fediverse” is a wider network where the people are in control

As the Cinnamon 6.2 release indicated, the upcoming Linux Mint 22 release is getting mighty close. But before a stable release can be made, there has to

Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6.

Over the last months I've started looking into a few of the papercuts that affects graphics tablet users in GNOME. So now that most of th...

A new major version of Leap Micro is now available!  Leap Micro 6.0 images can be found at get.opensuse.org. Leap Micro 6.0 uses a brand-new codebase, comes ...

Big Vivaldi Mail update with prefetching, previews, and quick replies. Vivaldi 6.8 also includes real-time tab memory usage, improved address field, and more.

Plasma 6.1 has been released to good reviews! We’ve spent the week fixing issues reported so far, as always. So far we’re in good shape here, with almost all the big issues fixed alread…

One astrophysics professor's memories of writing X11 code in the 1980s.

Those of you who own a Framework Laptop 13 —consider me jealous, btw— or are considering buying one in the near future, you may be interested to know that

Plasma 6.1 brings improvements and powerful new features to every part of your desktop

Tails 6.4 amnesic incognito live system is now available for download with random seed support to strengthen all cryptography.

'TikTag' security folks find anti-exploit mechanism rather fragile

Mozilla has acquired Anonym, a trailblazer in privacy-preserving digital advertising. This strategic acquisition enables Mozilla to help raise the bar for

If you're looking forward to the upcoming Linux Mint 22 release you'll be pleased to hear that the Cinnamon 6.2 desktop environment was "released" this

postmarketOS 24.06 Linux mobile operating system is now available for download with support for KDE Plasma Mobile 6 and GNOME Mobile 46.

A newly discovered Linux malware dubbed 'DISGOMOJI' uses the novel approach of utilizing emojis to execute commands on infected devices in attacks on government agencies in India.

Plasma 6.1 is due to be released in three days, and lots of attention went into final release readiness activities: QA, bug-fixing, performance profiling, auto-testing, stuff like that. Boring but …

YouTube reportedly now injects ads directly into video streams to make it more difficult for ad blockers to block advertisements.

Chocolate Factory accused of misleading Chrome browser users

EN / CA / CS / DE / ES / JA / PT-BR / SV / ZH-TW NUREMBERG, Germany – The release of Leap 15.6 is official and paves the way for professionals and organizati...

Recently, the Linux Mint Blog published Monthly News – April 2024, which goes into detail about wanting to fork and maintain older GNOME apps in collaboration with other GTK-based desktop environments. Despite the good intentions of the author, Clem, many readers interpreted this as an attack agains...

Mused and Bemused

“It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me and I'm feeling…“ like I should stop singing and crack on with writing this post to say Mozilla

Raspberry Pi 5 support has been much anticipated in the AlmaLinux community, and today we are very excited to share great news. AlmaLinux now has support for Raspberry Pi 5! How it all started When I joined the AlmaLinux Community, I had a keen interest in Raspberry Pi images. Raspberry Pi is widely...

A new version of Mission Center, the super-slick system monitor for Linux, has been released. I've written about this utility a number of times before

Gaming on Fedora Linux, 2024. Updated information about playing commercial video games on Fedora Linux, including tools and updated instructions.

Today I’d like to share a new set of Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for KDE’s software that I’ve written, replacing the old one. This work was done over the past several months …

Sorry for the interruption last week; I was on vacation. While I was vacating, my colleagues were in full-on fix-everything mode in preparation for the upcoming Plasma 6.1 release in a little over …

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) reports about a new campaign dubbed "SickSync," launched by the UAC-0020 (Vermin) hacking group in attacks on the Ukrainian defense forces.