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Updated This Past Day

  1. GNU/Linux Desktop/Laptop Market Share Reaches All-Time High in North America [original]
    new data
  2. Nautilus File Manager Is Getting a New Global Search Mode in GNOME 46
    The GNOME 46 desktop environment is still a couple of months away and more new features are being added these days to various of its default apps and components, including the Nautilus (Files) file manager, which received a new global search mode.
  3. Microsoft Faking 'Innovation' Again, Copying Sudo Like It Did in 2006
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  4. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and More
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  5. More Regulatory Problems Ahead for Microsoft [original]
    The latest on this
  6. Android Leftovers
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  7. Go 1.22 is released!Go 1.22 is released!
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  8. today's leftovers
    a few more bits and bobs
  9. Programming Leftovers
    half a dozen more
  10. Software Leftovers
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  11. Security Leftovers
    a few more stories for today
  12. today's howtos
    last batch for today
  13. Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance
    New LF lobby
  14. Android Leftovers
    Android 14 (One UI 6.0) rolling out to Galaxy A05s
  15. SOPHGO SG2000/SG2002 AI SoC features RISC-V, Arm, and 8051 cores, supports Android, Linux, and FreeRTOS
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  16. 9 Best Free and Open Source Tiling Window Managers
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  17. Security Leftovers
    Security links for today
  18. Arduino "Cloud" and the Environment, Tips for Fairphone Users
    a couple of Open Hardware/Modding picks
  19. KDE and Qt: Latest on Wayland Support
    a couple of development reports
  20. Flathub and Red Hat
    Some IBM-centric links
  21. Programming Leftovers, Education, and Standards
    Technical stuff
  22. Mozilla on "AI" Fluff (Buzzwords, Not Substance), Monitor Plus, and Tor Project on Internet Freedom
    Some stuff and fluff from Mozilla
  23. Raspberry Pi Projects and News
    5 stories about the Pi
  24. today's howtos
    half a dozen for now
  25. Games: OpenTTD, GNU/Linux Gaming Predictions For 2023, and More
    9 news picks about gaming
  26. Introducing Mozilla Monitor Plus: Auto-remove Personal Data from Breach
    To keep you safe online in the easiest way, Mozilla Monitor, formerly known as Firefox Monitor, has unveiled its latest paid subscription service – Mozilla Monitor Plus.
  27. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  28. Meta Open Sources DotSlash: Executable Deployment Tool
    Meta open sources the in-house Simplified executable deployment tool “DotSlash”.
  29. What's going on with Activities in Plasma 6?
    There’s broad consensus within the KDE developer community that the Activities feature doesn’t work the way we want it to
  30. Calculating a cybersecurity budget
    new article from Cyber|Show
  31. Security Leftovers
    Security half a dozen
  32. Purism Crowdfunding and Amazon Abandons Android Open Source Project (AOSP) for Another 'Linux'
    Devices running Linux
  33. today's howtos
    last batch for tonight
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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