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  1. Driving towards Environmental Parity and Software-Defined Vehicles with EB corbos Linux – built on Ubuntu
    As the automotive industry continues to advance into the world of high-performance computing
  2. Understanding Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) lifecycle
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform
  3. What's new in the web console in RHEL 9.3 and 8.9
    The Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) web console is a simplified web-based management tool that lets you manage many aspects of RHEL more efficiently
  4. Security Leftovers
    Security links for the day
  5. today's howtos
    many howtos for this evening
  6. Android Leftovers
    Google tests real-time app scanning to protect Android users from financial fraud
  7. ClamAV 1.3.0 Introduces Major Enhancements and Bug Fixes
    ClamAV antivirus enhances security with the 1.3.0 release, including critical patches in versions 1.2.2 & 1.0.5
  8. Ubuntu 24.04 Plans Switch to Thunderbird Snap from DEB
    If you’re an Ubuntu user who uses the Thunderbird e-mail client there are some interesting changes on the way you will want to know about
  9. 7 Best Free and Open Source Text-Based Git Clients
    Git is an open source distributed version control system which was originally designed by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, in 2005 for Linux kernel development
  10. today's leftovers
    Free software and BSD
  11. Programming Leftovers
    R, C++, Perl and more
  12. Security Issues: Windows TCO and Honeypots
    4 more stories about security
  13. Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Purism, and More
    grand total of 9 stories for now
  14. Games: Many Layoffs (Microsoft Also), Proton Experimental, Steam, and More
    mostly layoffs and Steam
  15. today's howtos
    a few howtos for this afternoon
  16. System76 CEO blames Ubuntu flip-flopping for shift to Pop!_OS, talks up benefits of in-house OS development
    In a recent interview, the CEO of System76, the company that makes the Pop!_OS Linux distribution
  17. LicheeRV Nano – A low-cost SG2002 RISC-V and Arm camera and display board with optional WiFi 6 and/or Ethernet
    Sipeed says it provides for Buildroot Linux and Debian operating systems
  18. Optimizing Cybersecurity: Exploring the Synergy Between Linux Operating Systems and Emerging Security
    Linux operating systems are popular for several reasons
  19. GNOME Finally Decides to Step Up - Revamp its Documentation For Contributors
    If you want to contribute to GNOME, understanding what it takes just got easier
  20. Security Leftovers
    patches and incidents
  21. EasyOS 5.7 Introduces Exciting Features and Enhancements
    A new release of EasyOS 5.7 is now available, I did a quick review of this version.
  22. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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EFF is "Big Business"
Microsoft XBox is Dying as More Retailers Stop Stocking It and Massive Layoffs Planned Again
Microsoft is circling down the drain
 
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Fake Economics and Clown Computing Circuses
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Nobel Prize in Economics Does Not Exist, It's Propaganda From Sveriges Riksbank
"It is that time of the year when it is important to remind people that there are no Nobel Prizes for professional wrestling, astrology, or economics"
Non-Denying Denial From Microsoft (Again) Regarding the End of XBox Consoles
It's kind of hilarious that even the site chosen by Microsoft to relay its BS, based on past loyalty, isn't quite buying it
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Nothing has changed since then
When the Slop Bubble Pops People Will Say Richard Stallman Was Right (Again)
What was once known as Computer Science turned into "IT"
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IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 05, 2025
IRC logs for Sunday, October 05, 2025
Links 06/10/2025: Science, Hardware, and Andrej Babis Making a Comeback
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Links 05/10/2025: Slow News Day and Wondering About the Canada Post Walkout
Links for the day
Gemini Links 05/10/2025: Telnet Debugging and The Programmer’s Brain
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More Than "Just a Rumour": XBox Seems to Have Just Died
At this point, why would any studio out there target or partner with XBox?
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How to identify nefarious social engineering
The Fortieth Birthday of the FSF Made Us Extremely Happy
It feels like the 'hacker community' is regrouping to discuss things and prepare for the next Big Challenge
Chat Control 2 Them, Not 2 U
Follow the advice of Dr. Patrick Breyer
Mozilla: Throw Away Your "Old" PC and Enable "Digital Rights Management (DRM)"
This is heading in a bad direction
Controlling Our Computing for Another Forty Years
40 years of freedom
Motivational Small Place to Run Large Sites
We deem this scenery motivational and inspiring
Techrights' Text Version (Daily Bulletin) Turns Five This Month
our plain-text bulletins are turning 5 this month
We'll Continue Covering the Moribund OSI and Other Dysfunctional if Not Hostile Institutions
Stefano Maffulli's departure is due to his defection and due to him failing the mission in pursuit of money (his salary)
Links 05/10/2025: Lufthansa Layoffs (4,000) and More Spotify Woes (Aside From Massive Debt)
Links for the day
The Free Software Foundation's Livestream Has Ended, Video/s Might be Online Next
I've asked whether they'll upload video of some of the event; I still wait for an answer
The Register MS Does Not Know the Difference Between Microsoft GitHub and GitLab
At the time of writing (October 5) the article from "Thu 2 Oct 2025" remains uncorrected
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"Bullshit Generators" (What RMS Calls LLMs) and Fake Images Already Target the FSF
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Software Patents as a Bubble
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 04, 2025
IRC logs for Saturday, October 04, 2025
Watch the FSF Party Live (via Livestream)
It's in WebM format, which is widely supported by now
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how did Bing fare after 36 months of LLM slop being hyped up as "replacement" for search?
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The 'Gemini sites' (capsules) are a growing force
The statCounter Site Has Data Integrity Problems
Maybe we'll get back to statCounter when its data becomes more "stable" again
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software patents are loathed also by proprietary software developers
"Just a Little Bit of Meat..."
Free software "absolutism" is not a radical stance, more so if the only "radical" belief the user possesses is that he or she must be in control of his or her software, and by extension his or her computer
Compromised by NVIDIA Proprietary Library
Meanwhile in Boston there are "[r]oundtable talk with FSF volunteers (both in-person and online)"
Red Hat is Ignoring the Free Software Community, It's a "Fortune 1000" Vendor
Red Hat's blog also participates a lot in promoting of Wall Street's latest pump-and-dump "AI" scheme
Free Software Foundation Party Has Begun
We shall be focusing a lot on software patents today
Former Head of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Lina Khan Knows Whatever Microsoft Touches Will Die
Just like Skype (as recently as months ago) [...] When Microsoft grabs things, or when it buys things, it almost never ends well
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very short
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Gemini Links 04/10/2025: Anesthesia and Baudpunk
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