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  5. Games: New Steam Client, Godot 4.4 dev 4 and ‘Korean Lego’
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    3 new episodes
  7. Security Leftovers
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  8. Standards/Consortia: PDF and XMPP
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  9. Programming Leftovers
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  12. today's howtos
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  14. This Week in GNOME #173: Text Annotations
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  16. Fedora / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers
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  17. Mozilla Thunderbird, "Hey Hi" (AI) Hype, Firefox, and Mercurial
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  18. Security Leftovers
    and TCO of Windows
  19. Automattic and WordPress’s Mullenweg Responding to Backlash
    two stories
  20. AI Industry is Trying to Subvert the Definition of “Open Source AI”
    It allows for secret training data and mechanisms
  21. Fedora KDE Plasma Spin Gains Equal Footing With Gnome Edition
    Fedora has made a major change to its project, elevating the version running KDE Plasma from an Spin to an official Edition, alongside Fedora Workstation with Gnome
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    Wine 9.21 debuts with advanced network support in DirectPlay, D3DX9 format boost, C++ compilation fixes, and I/O improvements
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    It will be interesting to see what questions Automattic’s CEO and WordPress’s co-founder gets asked about the current brouhaha...
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    GamingOnLinux's latest 9
  28. Today in Techrights
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  29. GNU/Linux Leftovers (and Other Operating Systems)
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  30. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  31. Burn My Windows Adds Dreamy New ’Focus’ Effect
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  32. Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (EEE) and Openwashing
    Some bad news of sorts
  33. Security Leftovers
    Security centric picks
  34. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More
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  35. Programming Leftovers
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  36. Events and Education, FOSS Edition
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  37. Canonical/Ubuntu and Hardware With Ubuntu
    Canonical/Ubuntu leftovers
  38. Mozilla and Firefox Leftovers
    Latest from Mozilla and such
  39. Fedora / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers
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  40. today's howtos
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