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  6. Red Hat Announces Nova, a Rust-Based GSP-Only Driver for NVIDIA GPUs
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  8. today's leftovers
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  9. Old Machines and Open Hardware
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  10. Programming Leftovers
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  11. Software: Crisis Tools, Kooha 2.3, Eza, and Tellico 3.5.4
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  17. Contribute at the Fedora Linux Test Week for Kernel 6.8
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  18. today's howtos
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  19. Today in Techrights
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  20. Security Leftovers
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