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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 28, 2025

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1. The LLM Hype and Scrapers Are Destroying the Web (Not Only by Plagiarism) [original]

   So far today it looks like we'll have served about 1.5 million requests at midnight

2. NVIDIA 570 Linux Graphics Driver Released with New Features and Improvements

   Today, NVIDIA published the stable version of the NVIDIA 570 graphics driver series for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems, with new features and performance improvements.

3. LibreOffice 25.2.1 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 77 Bug Fixes

   The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 25.2.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.2 office suite series with various bug fixes.

4. Mozilla’s approach to Manifest V3 and new 'Terms of Use' in Firefox

   Mozilla picks

   New

5. GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

   or daily leftovers

6. Document Freedom Day, Microsoft Lockin, and Free Software

   Software links

7. Programming Leftovers

   Development picks

8. Stable kernels: Linux 6.13.5, Linux 6.12.17, and Linux 6.6.80

   I'm announcing the release of the 6.13.5 kernel

9. Openwashing by Linux Foundation, Microsoft Hijacks the 'Sudo' Brand/Name

   faking things

10. Linux Graphics: CUDA, SGC,a dn Nostalgia

    Graphics related stories

11. Games: GOG Caesar III, Godot 4.4 RC 2, MS-DOS Games, and Android Gaming Handheld

    Games-related picks

12. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers

    Red Hat univverse, the latest

13. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, and More

    Hardware leftovers

14. Security Leftovers

    Security news and patches

15. GNU/Linux, Openwashing, and More

    today's leftovers

16. Programming Leftovers

    Programming and development news

17. IBM: Red Hat Purchasing 'Articles', Fedora DEI Events Policy, and More

    Misc. news

18. today's howtos

    aa second batch of howtos

19. Every project is a software project

    One thing that came up when discussing the Open Source Project Security Baseline with a colleague was the distinction between software projects and other projects (design, documentation, etc)

20. Nextcloud Hub 10 Released, Here’s What’s New

    Nextcloud Hub 10, an open-source suite of collaboration and productivity tools

21. Android Leftovers

    You'll soon type with a physical keyboard on the Pixel 9 Pro, Razr+ and other Android phones

22. Immich 1.127 Introduces Face Tagging & Memory Enhancements

    Immich 1.127, a self-hosted photo and video backup solution

23. EdgeDB Rebrands as Gel, Brings Full SQL Support

    EdgeDB is now Gel, fully supports SQL and integrates seamlessly with Postgres

24. Mozilla: Firefox/Geckodriver 0.36.0 Released, $1 Million from US Taxpayers

    Mozilla picks

25. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Reverse-Engineering, and More

    Hardware picks

26. Games: Godot, Steam, and More

    mostly from GamingOnLinux

27. Security Leftovers

    Security news for this week/today

28. Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

    Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here

29. Kiwi SOM Featuring Wi-Fi 7 Qualcomm IPQ-9570 Dual USXGMII and PCIe Expansion

    The Kiwi SOM runs Linux OpenWRT

30. Wayland vs. Xorg: The Ongoing Display Server Battle

    For decades, Xorg has been the dominant display server for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems

31. FSF/GNU: Free Software Directory Meetings, GNU gettext 0.24 Released

    some GNU news

32. Trisquel 5.5 STS Brigantia release announcement

    One other advantage of using the fallback as default is that we were able to use it to provide the same desktop layout that many Trisquel users have become attached to

33. GNU/Linux and Free Software Leftovers

    today's leftovers

34. Web Browsers: curl, Comet, and More

    Web related picks

35. Canonical on Kubernetes and Valkey

    Ubuntu's latest

36. GNOME in GSoC 2025 and App Grid Wizard Puts GNOME Shell Shortcuts into Folders

    some GNOME news

37. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

38. Enterprise Linux, Flatpak, and Red Hat

    IBM stuff

39. Kernel News and LWN's Latest

    outside the paywall

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