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Mozilla Firefox gets new anti-fingerprinting defenses Mozilla announced a major privacy upgrade in Firefox 145 that reduces even more the number of users vulnerable to digital fingerprinting.

#firefox #fingerprinting #privacy
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Mozilla Firefox gets new anti-fingerprinting defenses Mozilla announced a major privacy upgrade in Firefox 145 that reduces even more the number of users vulnerable to digital fingerprinting.

🦊 Mozilla Firefox gets new anti-fingerprinting defenses

｢ The new protections will initially be available only in Private Browsing Mode and Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) Strict mode. After testing and optimization, they will be enabled by default in the Firefox web browser ｣

New project brings strong Linux compatibility to more classic Windows games But author warns that Direct3D 7 “is a land of highly cursed API inter-operability.”…

🐧 New project brings strong Linux compatibility to more classic Windows games

#linuxgaming #linux #d3d7 #retrogaming #gamedev
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GNU Coreutils 9.9 Brings Numerous Fixes Following yesterday's release of Rust Coreutils 0.4, GNU Coreutils 9.9 is now available as the latest update to this set of core utilities common to Linux systems and other platforms.

🎉 GNU Coreutils 9.9 Brings Numerous Fixes - Phoronix

#opensource #coreutils #gnucoreutils
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🎈Exclusive: OpenAI lays groundwork for juggernaut IPO at up to $1 trillion valuation / Reuters

#openai #bubble #ipo

Firefox 145 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New Firefox 145 open-source web browser lets users add notes to PDFs, preview tab groups, and use local, private Semantic History Search.

🦊 Firefox 145 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

｢ Firefox 145 officially drops support for 32-bit Linux systems. Mozilla now recommends that all Linux users move to 64-bit builds for continued updates and security fixes ｣

#firefox #opensource

When Tesla's FSD works well, it gets credit. When it doesn't, you get blamed. When FSD is on, a human driver must remain attentive. When things go well, Tesla takes the credit. When things go bad, it blames you.

💥 Schrödinger's FSD: When it works well, Tesla is driving. When it doesn't, you are. / Electrek

#musk #tesla

OpenIndiana is a survivor : The project began in 2010, forked from OpenSolaris after it was discontinued by Oracle , and is descended from UNIX System V Release 4. In this video we will give it a run… OpenIndiana 25.06 | A GhostBSD Users perspective 👀

OpenIndiana 25.06 | A GhostBSD Users perspective 👀 / Robonuggie

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#openindiana #opensolaris #solaris

On AI Slop vs OSS Security I have now spent almost a decade in the bug bounty industry, started out as a bug hunter (who initially used to submit reports with minimal impact, low-h...

｢ It's not just frustration, it's the specific demoralization that comes from having your expertise and goodwill systematically exploited by people who couldn't be bothered to verify their submissions before wasting your time ｣

#ai #aislop #opensource

theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you

Legal Corner: Apple’s “notarisation” – blocking software freedom of developers and users - FSFE The EU’s Digital Markets Act is supposed to shake up the power of tech giants by giving developers and users more choice. Apple’s “notarisation” of mobile ...

📵 Apple’s “notarisation” – blocking software freedom of developers and users /
FSFE

#apple #freesoftware #monopoly #opensource

I want dedicated PG Up/Down and Home/End keys on laptops.

Enough of these blasphemous layouts.

52 year old data tape could contain Unix history : It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C

📰 52 year old data tape could contain Unix history

#unix #opensource #retrocomputing

Budgie 10.9.4 Desktop Environment Released, No UI Changes The Budgie 10.9.4 desktop environment modernizes its plugin system but brings no new features or visual changes for end users.

🎉 Budgie 10.9.4 Desktop Environment Released, No UI Changes / Linuxiac

#budgie #solus #opensource

Ubuntu 25.10 Scraps X11 for Wayland: A Solid Step Forward This lightning-quick update — featuring GNOME 49, Linux Kernel 6.17 and the new sudo-rs — is an impressive yet potentially disruptive step forward.

Anti X11 psychosis claims its first victim

#x11 #wayland #opensource

Ironclad Ironclad is a free software formally verified kernel written in SPARK/Ada

｢ Ironclad is a formally verified, real-time capable, UNIX-like operating system kernel for general-purpose and embedded uses. It is written in SPARK and Ada, and is comprised of 100% free software ｣

#unix #posix #spark #ada #opensource #freesoftware

$1 Trillion in Tech Stocks Sold Off as Market Grows Skeptical of AI What do bubbles do?

🔥 $1 Trillion in Tech Stocks Sold Off as Market Grows Skeptical of AI

｢ Those companies include Oracle, Meta, Palantir, and Nvidia ｣

#ai #bubble #economy

ChatGPT can't give tailored legal, medical advice: OpenAI

｢ In turn, doctors are finding that patients will show up to appointments with their minds made up, often referring to the advice given from AI tools ｣

#chatgpt #mentalhealth #ai

Bottles 52.1 Released With Playtime Tracking Bottles 52.1, a Wine prefix manager for running Windows apps on Linux, adds playtime tracking support, script arguments, and resolves sandbox-related issues.

Bottles 52.1 Released With Playtime Tracking

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Nim version 2.2.6 released The Nim Team is happy to announce version 2.2.6, the third patch release for our stable release, Nim 2.2.

👑 New Nim version released

#nim #nimlang
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Bad time to build a castle in the middle of a slum.

Ghc now runs in your browser This is very cool! I wonder how easy it would be to load some packages; cabal in the browser when? I’m also wondering how usable Agda in the browser would be.

🌐 Ghc now runs in your browser

#haskell #functionalprogramming #plt
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⚡ Developing a web server with C and FastCGI

#c #fastcgi #programming
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uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade - Blog - Dr. Emily L. Hunt Released in 2024, uv is hands-down the best tool for managing Python installations and dependencies. Here's why.

🐍 uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade - Blog - Dr. Emily L. Hunt

#uv #python #programming #rust
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The Green Tea Garbage Collector - The Go Programming Language Go 1.25 includes a new experimental garbage collector, Green Tea.

｢ Go 1.25 includes a new experimental garbage collector called Green Tea, available by setting GOEXPERIMENT=greenteagc at build time. Many workloads spend around 10% less time in the garbage collector, but some workloads see a reduction of up to 40%! ｣

#golang #programming
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GitHub - zserge/grayskull: A tiny, dependency-free computer vision library in C for embedded systems, drones, and robotics. A tiny, dependency-free computer vision library in C for embedded systems, drones, and robotics. - zserge/grayskull

👁️‍🗨️ Grayskull: A tiny, dependency-free computer vision library in C for embedded systems, drones, and robotics.

#computervision #c #iot

AI firm wins high court ruling after photo agency’s copyright claim Ruling in case brought by Getty Images against Stability AI is seen as a blow to copyright owners

｢ Stability AI, whose directors include the Oscar-winning film-maker behind Avatar, James Cameron, successfully resisted a claim from Getty Images that it had infringed the international photo agency’s copyright ｣

#Stabilityai #genai #copyright

FreeBSD Officially Supported in OCI Runtime Specification v1.3 | FreeBSD Foundation FreeBSD has been included as an officially supported platform in version 1.3 of the Open Container Initiative (OCI) runtime specification, released November 4, 2025. This milestone marks a significant...

#FreeBSD Officially Supported in OCI Runtime Specification v1.3

GNOME Mutter Now "Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend" The merge to GNOME Mutter has finally happened that 'completely drops' the X11 back-end to make GNOME strictly focused on Wayland-based environments.

🙊 GNOME Mutter Now "Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend" - Phoronix

#gnome #x11 #waylanf

Singapore to cane scammers as billions lost in financial crimes Scam victims in Singapore have lost around US$2.9 billion since 2020, according to data from the local police.

🙊 Singapore to cane scammers as billions lost in financial crimes

｢ Scam victims in #Singapore have lost around S$3.8 billion (US$2.9 billion) since 2020, with a record S$1.1 billion in losses last year, according to data from the local police ｣