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Firefox 145: A Major Release with 32-Bit Linux Support Dropped

Thu, 11/20/2025 - 22:20
bMozilla has rolled out Firefox 145, a significant update that brings a range of usability, security and privacy enhancements, while marking a clear turning point by discontinuing official support for 32-bit Linux systems. For users on older hardware or legacy distros, this change means it’s time to consider moving to a 64-bit environment or opting for a supported version. Here’s a detailed look at what’s new, what’s changed, and what you need to know.
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Slimbook and KDE Celebrate 8th Anniversary with KDE Slimbook VII Linux Laptop

Thu, 11/20/2025 - 22:20
Linux hardware vendor Slimbook announced today the launch of the KDE Slimbook VII laptop to celebrate 8 years of collaboration with the KDE project in creating the best Plasma-powered Linux notebooks.
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Xen 4.21 Hypervisor Arrives With New PDX Compression

Thu, 11/20/2025 - 22:20
Xen 4.21 open-source type-1 hypervisor adds a new PDX compression algorithm, updated toolchain requirements, and improvements across x86, Arm, and RISC-V.
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Fake News Sites Made by LLMs Are Lying With Confidence (IBM and Red Hat Layoffs)

Thu, 11/20/2025 - 22:20
Slop just doesn't work, but it is made to simply appear credible because of the grammar.
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AMD Threadripper 7980X Performance On Linux Two Years After Release

Thu, 11/20/2025 - 22:20
This week marks two years since the debut of the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors. Given the occasion, I decided to revisit the Linux performance of the Threadripper 7980X compared to original benchmarks from November 2023 to see how the latest Linux software stack performs for these Zen 4 HEDT processors.
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Red Hat Project Hummingbird For CVE-Free, Ready-to-Deploy Container Images

Thu, 11/20/2025 - 22:20
Project Hummingbird aims to remove the worry and streamline the deployment of secure container images for cloud-native teams.
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Cloudflare Outage 2025 Explained: What Caused the HTTP 500 Errors?

Thu, 11/20/2025 - 22:20
Cloudflare Outage November 18, 2025: Database Error Causes Widespread Internet 5xx Failures
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Raider File Shredder: For Those Times When Simple Deletion Isn’t Enough

Thu, 11/20/2025 - 22:20
Don’t leave deleted files behind—Raider File Shredder offers an uncomplicated solution for permanently erasing data.
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Xubuntu Discloses October Download Site Compromise

Thu, 11/20/2025 - 22:20
Xubuntu confirms a malicious ZIP was served in October and is switching to the Hugo static site generator to prevent similar attacks.
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Linux Career Opportunities in 2025: Skills in High Demand

Thu, 11/20/2025 - 22:20
The Linux job market has reached unprecedented heights in 2025, with demand for professionals who possess Linux expertise continuing to surge across multiple technology sectors. Organizations worldwide are prioritizing candidates who can leverage Linux systems in cloud-native environments, AI operations, and DevOps workflows.
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How to Add a Directory to the $PATH Variable in Linux

Wed, 11/19/2025 - 22:20
To avoid jumping into the directory to execute your local program or script, you can add their paths to the $PATH variable to access them from anywhere.
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CPython may go Rusty, but older platforms risk getting iced out

Wed, 11/19/2025 - 22:20
Preliminary proposal is already provoking debateThe Python community is chewing over a new idea: allowing the C-based reference implementation, CPython, to incorporate Rust. It's only at the "pre-PEP" stage, but it's already sparked lively debate.…
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KDE Plasma 6.5.3 Improves Visual Smoothness on Multi-Monitor VRR Setups

Wed, 11/19/2025 - 22:20
The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.5.3 as the third maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop environment series with more improvements and bug fixes.
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Vulkan SER Showing Up To ~47% Performance Improvement For Ray-Tracing

Wed, 11/19/2025 - 22:20
Last week's Vulkan 1.4.333 brought a new ray-tracing extension with VK_EXT_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder that was derived from a prior NVIDIA vendor extension (VK_NV_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder). This new extension for Shader Execution Reordering "SER" is showing to deliver some nice performance potential for Vulkan ray-tracing performance...
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Systemd 259 RC1 Previews SysV Script Removal

Wed, 11/19/2025 - 22:20
Systemd 259 RC1 previews the removal of SysV init script support and introduces major compatibility changes ahead of the v260 transition.
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ClamAV to Cut Signature Database Size by 50%

Wed, 11/19/2025 - 22:20
ClamAV will retire outdated signatures on December 16, reducing both databases by about 50% to improve performance and trim update costs.
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How to Make All Application Windows Transparent in KDE Plasma

Wed, 11/19/2025 - 22:20
Make Application and Active Window Application be transparent on KDE Plasma
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Cloudflare broke itself and a big chunk of the Internet with a bad database query

Wed, 11/19/2025 - 22:20
Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fixCloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has admitted that the cause of its massive Tuesday outage was a change to database permissions, and that the company initially thought the symptoms of that adjustment indicated it was the target of a “hyper-scale DDoS attack,” before figuring out the real problem.…
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How to Install Slack on Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros

Wed, 11/19/2025 - 22:20
Discover a step-by-step guide to install the latest version of Slack on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions with practical examples.
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AMD ROCm 7.1 vs. RADV Vulkan For Llama.cpp With The Radeon AI PRO R9700

Wed, 11/19/2025 - 22:20
In the past we have seen Llama.cpp with Vulkan outperforming AMD's ROCm compute stack in some of the large language model (LLM) AI benchmarks. Curious if anything has changed given the recent ROCm 7.1 release, I ran some benchmarks of an up-to-date Llama.cpp using the AMD ROCm back-end compared to the Vulkan back-end with the latest RADV driver. For this round of testing the Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card was used.
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