Linux in the News

Links to news items discussed during the weekly Linux User Net Sessions

• Both Haiku and Linux get new FOSS Nvidia drivers The Register
• Coreboot 25.03 Released With Support For 22 More Motherboards Phoronix
• Debian APT 3.0 Stable Released With New Package Solver & Refined Text UI Phoronix
• Mozilla is rolling out Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rival The Register
• Fight for US funding for Tor, F-Droid and Let's Encrypt Heise Online
• Project: Tracking the international space station with an Arduino Farid Rener
• Web site: Random Nerd Tutorials

• Calibre 8.0 Ebook Manager Released 9to5 Linux
• Vivaldi Adds Built-In Proton VPN to Its Browser Foss Force
• Raspberry Pi PoE+ Injector on sale now at $25 Raspberry Pi
• How To Install And Use Flatpak In Linux OSTechNix
• Pi-Pico RX - Breadboard Version 101 Things GitHub site

• Super affordable Meshtastic, Xiao ESP32 s3 with Wio SX1262 Concrete Dog
• GIMP 3.0 Released: A Major Overhaul After Seven Years in Development Linuxiac
• Six Weeks of CloudFlare Stalling; Still Blocking Niche Browsers Soylent News
• FBI warnings are true—fake file converters do push malware Bleeping Computer
• Stirling PDF: The Best Opensource, Self-hosted PDF Manipulation Tool OSTechNix
• How To Check Debian Version: Simple Methods For Beginners OSTechNix

• Followup on ESP32 "backdoor" YouTube
• CrossOver 25 Brings Even More Windows Software to Linux & Mac How-To Geek
• How to Use PlayOnLinux to Install Windows Apps on Linux How-To Geek
• Android apps laced with North Korean spyware found in Google Play ArsTechnica
• Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28 ArsTechnica
• A look at Firefox forks LWN

• Firefox 136 finally brings the features that fans wanted The Register
• The Firefox I loved is gone - how to protect your privacy on it now ZDNet
• Undocumented commands found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices Bleeping Computer
• Your Android phone will run Debian Linux soon (like some Pixels already can) ZDNet
• DIY Yagi Antenna Sends LoRa Signals Farther Hackaday
• "Tiny Ten" Amateur Radio Transceiver. W7PUA

• Pi-hole 6 Is Here: Now Faster, Smarter, and More Secure Linuxiac
• Armbian 25.2 Released with Support for New Boards, Linux 6.12 LTS, and More 9to5 Linux
• DietPi 9.11 Arrives with Pi-hole 6 Support Linuxiac
• 27-Year-Old EXE becomes Python in minutes (with Claude) – AI-Assisted reverse engineering Adafruit
• A Useful Web site: Bashscript.net
• What Are Virtual Machines, and How Do They Work? How-To Geek

• OpenWrt One AP 24 XY Brings Open Source Networking to a Custom Router LinuxGizmos
• Google plans to stop using insecure SMS verification in Gmail ArsTechnica
• Russia-aligned hackers are targeting Signal users with device-linking QR codes ArsTechnica
• KiCad 9.0 Released For Advancing Open-Source EDA Phoronix
• OpenRazer 3.10 Brings Support for Latest Razer Peripherals Linuxiac
• PySDR Web site

• LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab The Register
• 7 Best Free and Open Source GUI Electronic Circuit Simulators Linux Links
• Raspberry Pi Monitor Pairs Great With The Raspberry Pi 500 As A $100 Display Phoronix Product page at CanaKit
• CrowView Note: Turning Raspberry Pi into a Laptop, Sort of It's FOSS Product site
• Wine vs. Bottles vs. Proton: Which Is Best for Windows Apps on Linux? How-To Geek

• GTK announces X11 deprecation, new Android backend, and much more OSNews
• Remote operation of Amateur station Hackaday
• Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads tim.sh
• PipeWire Is Doing An Excellent Job Handling Audio/Video Streams On The Linux Desktop Phoronix
• Introduction to Pipewire Fedora Magazine

• Try Mozilla’s New AI Detector Add-On for Firefox OMG Ubuntu
• Ubuntu upgrade had our old Nvidia GPU begging for a downgrade The Register
• Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery The Register
• SMOL-GPT PyTorch AI project GitHub

• WINE 10.0 released Beta News
• Ventoy 1.1 Released Linuxiac
• Distrobox 1.8.1: NVIDIA Integration and Zsh Improvements Linuxiac
• Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users The Register
• Meta's # Llama 3.1 Community License is not a free software license Free Software Foundation blog

• Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” released! New features Linux Mint Blog
• MX Linux 23.5 Now Available MX Linux Blog
• Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search TechCrunch (This could break my favorite, Whoogle Search. GitHub)
• Linux Will Power Nvidia Project DIGITS, the AI Supercomputer on Your Desk It's FOSS
• Linuxserver/webtop. Run a Linux desktop in a Docker container.

• Debian 12.9 “Bookworm” Arrives with 72 Bug Fixes and 38 Security Updates 9to5 Linux
• Mullvad Browser: A Super Privacy-Focused Browser Based on Firefox It's FOSS
• Fossify File Manager: Open Source Replacement to Files by Google on Android It's FOSS
• Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck ArsTechnica
• New $120 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 is for the people who use it like an everyday PC ArsTechnica

• Meet Orbit, Mozilla’s AI Assistant Extension for Firefox OMG Ubuntu
• SvarDOS: DR-DOS is reborn as an open source operating system The Register
• Time to check if you ran any of these 33 malicious Chrome extensions ArsTechnica
• ShredOS x86_64 - Disk Eraser GitHub
• Biggest Privacy Erosion in 10 Years? On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting Lukasz Olejnik
• Apple Intelligence now requires almost double the iPhone storage it needed before 9to5 Mac
• New device's radio waves reveal lead contamination in soil phys.org
• Build a Better DIY Seismometer with Raspberry Pi IEEE Spectrum/

• Feds Warn SMS Authentication Is Unsafe Gizmodo
• Valve will join Lenovo at CES 2025 for the future of gaming handhelds GamingOnLinux
• Mozilla's New Partnership Adds Ecosia Search Engine as a Default Option for Everyone It's FOSS
• Home Assistant Voice announced Home Assistant Review by ArsTechnica
• Surprisingly slow speed of human thought calculated by Caltech New Atlas

• Intel Arc B580 Graphics Open-Source Driver Linux Gaming Performance Phoronix
• 15 Euros Olimex RP2040pc Raspberry Pi RP2040 computer board supports Apple and Oric Atmos emulation CNX Software]]
• An easy button to get off Windows’: Amazon’s new AI moves Microsoft apps to Linux GeekWire
• Windows 11 upgrade turmoil Tom's Hardware
• Firefox ditches Do Not Track because nobody was listening anyway The Register
• Use Your RTL, In The Browser Hackaday
• Hackaday article on remote station operation Hackaday

• Raspberry Pi 500 makes an 8GB Pi 5 into a compact, inexpensive desktop PC ArsTechnica
• Armbian 24.11 Update Highlights System Improvements and Hardware Expansion LinuxGizmos
• Low-Cost ESP32-PICO-D4 Board with LoRa, Wi-Fi, and BLE Connectivity LinuxGizmos
• New HT: Vero VR-N76 - APRS, Linux KM4ACK on YouTube
• Software updates: Nvidia 565 Linux Graphics Driver, Wine 10.0-rc1 Released With Updated VKD3D, Initial Bluetooth Driver
• The Raspberry Pi 5 now works as a smaller, faster kind of Steam Link ArsTechnica
• Open Source Software Powers 96% of Modern Applications, New Study Finds IT Pro Today
• US recommends encrypted messaging as Chinese hackers linger in telecom networks ArsTechnica

• Raspberry Pi Adds 2.4GHz 802.11n wireless LAN and Bluetooth 5.2 To Pico 2 Board Linux Gizmos
• Waveshare Development Boards Feature RP2350 with 100 Mbps Ethernet or 1.14-Inch LCD LinuxGizmos
• First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released Software Freedom Conservancy
• Fwupd 2.0.2 Firmware Updater Adds Support for ASUS ROG Ally, Raspberry Pi Pico 9to5 Linux
• Code found online exploits LogoFAIL to install Bootkitty Linux backdoor ArsTechnica
• DreamQuest N100 Mini PC Running Linux: Introduction LinuxLinks
• Harnessing Quantum Potential: Quantum Computing and Qiskit on Ubuntu Linux Journal

• Framework laptops get modular makeover with RISC-V main board The Register
• FreeCAD 1.0 Open-Source 3D Parametric Modeler Released 9to5 Linux
• Docker Desktop 4.36: WSL 2 Gets Faster, More Reliable, and Secure Linuxiac
• Source: Google is turning Chrome OS into Android to compete with the iPad Android Authority
• I Always Keep a Linux Live USB Handy for These 4 Reasons Make Use Of
• How I Turned My Raspberry Pi Into a Private Internet Archive Make Tech Easier
• BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96 The Register

• Linux Kernel 6.12 Has Landed – And It’s a Big One (OMG Ubuntu)
• New Raspberry Pi USB 3 Hub and Touch Display 2 Released with Enhanced Features (LinuxGizmos)
• VMware Workstation and Fusion Go Free (Linuxiac)
• LXQt packs Wayland punch with 2.1 release (The Register)
• Automotive Grade Linux Launches New Expert Group Led by Toyota to Help Automakers Manage Open Source Activities (PRNewswire)
• 7 of the Best Lightweight Operating Systems for Raspberry Pi (Make Tech Easier)

• Debian 12.8 Released With Many Bug Fixes & Security Updates (Phoronix)
• New Steam Client Update Adds Game Recording, Improves Native Linux Gaming (9to5 Linux)
• Manjaro Considers Embedding a Telemetry Tool (Linuxiac)
• Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation (Phoronix)
• Mozilla Foundation crumbles as third of staff cast off (The Register)
• Thanks, Linus. Torvalds patch improves Linux performance by 2.6% (The Register)

• Fedora Linux 41 Released (9to5 Linux)
• RF Hunter v4.0 - DIY RF signal scanner (GitHub)
• Raspberry Pi OS Now Using Wayland By Default On All Models (Phoronix)
• Linux Mint Blog: Framework laptops, Stripe for donations (Linux Mint)
• X.Org security advisory (X.Org)
• APRS position reporting over HF (Hackaday)
• 23andMe Reportedly Faces Bankruptcy — What Will Happen to Everyone’s DNA Samples? (Soylent News)