GNOME accent colors, the end of ad blockers and Plasma 6.1

Linux & Open Source News

Jun 22, 2024•40 min•Season 2Ep. 24

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00:00 Intro

01:16 GNOME 47 gets accent color & VR headset support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Accent-Color-Merged https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Wayland-DRM-Lease

03:56 Google moves forward with manifest v3

https://www.techradar.com/computing/chrome/googles-manifest-v3-will-make-the-fight-against-third-party-adblockers-even-worse

07:25 Plasma 6.1 is out

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.1.0/

11:19 New RISC V and ARM Linux PCs https://betanews.com/2024/06/10/linux-windows-11-copilot-pcs-tuxedo-snapdragon-x-elite-arm-notebook https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/06/the-worlds-first-risc-v-laptop-running-ubuntu

15:38 Framework working on a RISC V motherboard

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/06/framework-laptop-risc-v-motherboard-announced

17:10 Fedora 41 will have better power profiles

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-Goes-Tuned-PPD

19:55 Ubuntu app center will install debs again

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/06/deb-installer-in-ubuntu-app-center-coming-soon

22:49 OnlyOffice has a PDF editor now

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/06/onlyoffice-desktop-editors-8-1-new-features

24:48 Proton becomes a non profit foundation

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/proton-is-taking-its-privacy-first-apps-to-a-nonprofit-foundation-model/

26:57 Mozilla buys an ad analytics business

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-the-bar-for-privacy-preserving-digital-advertising/

29:32 Linux gains more RUst support for the Nova driver

https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Rust-Abstractions-v2

32:24 The EU chat control law might prevent E2E

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/19/24181214/eu-chat-control-law-propose-scanning-encrypted-messages-csam

36:26 Anyone can impersonate MS corporate emails

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/security-bug-allows-anyone-to-spoof-microsoft-employee-emails/?guccounter=1

39:07 Outro

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