First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – November, and a variety of other items

In security and privacy: Cloudfare goes down and Charles finds out that Shai-Hulud returns from Arrakis

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Mint Monthly News – November 2025

Mozilla Unveils Plans for New ‘AI Window’ Browsing Mode in Firefox, Opens Signups

KDE Plasma 6.8 Desktop Environment to Drop the X11 Session and Go Wayland-Only

Windows 11 Growth Slows As Millions Stick With Windows 10

FreeBSD 15 trims legacy fat and revamps how OS is built

Ownership of Digital Content Is an Illusion Unless You Self‑Host

The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library

Jellyfin does hardware transcoding for free, and Plex wants $250 to match it

Mad Men’s 4K debut botched by HBO Max streaming episode with visible crewmembers

Netflix Buys Warner Bros. including HBO & HBO Max for $83 Billion

Cloudflare blames Friday outage on borked React2shell fix

Emulating PC games on Android is easier than ever, and you can thank Valve

Shai-Hulud worm returns, belches secrets to 25K GitHub repos

Twins who hacked State Dept hired to work for gov again, now charged with deleting databases (And then they asked an AI to help cover their tracks)

Clone like a boss – Veronica Explains