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Updated This Past Day

  1. BleachBit 5.0 System Cleaning Utility Released with Major Upgrades
    BleachBit 5.0 open-source system cleaning utility is out now with new cleaners

    New

  2. Mesa 25.1 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, This Is What’s New
    Mesa 25.1 open-source graphics stack for Linux is now available for download with numerous new features and improvements for existing graphics drivers, as well as better support for numerous video games.
  3. today's leftovers
    FOSS in particular
  4. LibreOffice Conference Budapest 2025 and FLISOL Brasilia 2025
    events about LO or with LO
  5. FSF Events and Kenya, UK, and IRC
    some Freedom-centric happenings
  6. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  7. Databases: PostgreSQL's external_file v1.2, 30 years of MySQL
    DB news
  8. OpenBSD and OpenSSH Leftovers
    BSD picks
  9. My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes | Tom's Hardware
    I'm ready to try joining that industrious four percent and installing Linux on my computers to use as my main OS
  10. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, ESP32, and More
    hardware leftovers
  11. Fedora and CentOS Leftovers
    IBM universe
  12. LibreArts Weekly and Upscaler 1.5.0 Released
    Applications in focus
  13. Videos/Shows: Ask Noah, Ubuntu 25.04, Linux on FPGA
    4 new ones
  14. Kernel Space: AUTOSEL and Linux Kernel 6.6.89 in EasyOS
    Linux news (kernel)
  15. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical articles
  16. Security and Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) Leftovers
    plus some LF fluff
  17. This is what I’m doing with my old Windows 10 PC instead of trading it in like Microsoft wants me to
    The solution here is easy; once Windows 10 falls out of support, I will put Linux on the computer and use that instead
  18. Codethink Trustable Reproducible Linux (CTRL OS)
    new announcement
  19. A Linux-backed project shows how to save unsupported backdoored Windows 10 PCs by installing Linux
    a pair of reports
  20. New Planet GNOME and GNOME Foundation’s New Executive Director
    after Executive Director quit
  21. Fwupd 2.0.9 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for Intel Arc ‘Battlemage’ GPUs
    Fwupd 2.0.9 is out today as the ninth maintenance update to the latest fwupd 2.0 release of this open-source Linux firmware update utility with support for more devices, new features, and bug fixes.
  22. Raspberry Pi OS Gets New Printers App, Linux 6.12 LTS, and Wayland Improvements
    The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced today a new version of their Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS Linux distribution for Raspberry Pi computers that introduces some new features, better touchscreen handling, and various Wayland improvements.
  23. Slimbook Launches Kymera Black Linux Desktop Computer for Gamers and Creators
    UE-based Linux hardware vendor Slimbook announced today the launch of Kymera Black as the next generation of their Linux desktop computer designed for creators, gamers, and hardware enthusiasts.
  24. Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) Daily Build ISOs Are Now Available for Download
    As of May 1st, 2025, Canonical has officially opened the development of Ubuntu 25.10 (codename Questing Quokka), and now they published the first daily build ISO images for early adopters, application developers, and general public testing.
  25. today's leftovers
    SUSE, hardware, and FOSS
  26. Latest From Red Hat's Official Site (Some Buzzwords, Too)
    redhat.com picks
  27. Android Leftovers
    Android’s phone taskbar isn't quite ready yet, but it's already getting a multitasking boost
  28. PeerTube Mobile App v1 Is Out
    The PeerTube mobile app has reached version 1
  29. These 10 Linux Commands Showed Me How Much Better Life Is Off Windows
    When I first switched to Linux from Windows, I was intimidated by the terminal
  30. Interrupt: A Linux based Flipper Zero rival that just launched and is already funded
    Interrupt, a new pen-testing gadget, has just launched on Kickstarter
  31. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is free and open source software
  32. Games: Proton 10, Monster Hunter Bundle, SteamVR 2.10, and More
    10 stories from GamingOnLinux
  33. Project management apps are my top productivity hack - and these are my favorites on Linux
    Need to manage a small to medium-sized personal or business project
  34. Empowering Engineers as Ambassadors: A Strategic Business Investment
    When organizations embrace open source
  35. I've used dozens of distros as a Linux power user, but this one feels truly different
    If you're ready for a new approach to Linux
  36. Ready to ditch Windows for good? This is the Linux distro I recommend for beginners
    SDesk is a lightweight Linux distribution designed with a familiar interface
  37. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

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

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Inviting the Founder of GNU/Linux to Events (It Only Costs His Travel Expenses) and Recalling the True Origins
It's reassuring to see belated recognition
The Microsofters Have Just Shared Privileged Trial Data With Microsoft
There are serious ramifications for liability accountability as Microsoft salaries sponsor these SLAPPs
Trolls With LLM Slop Are Disrupting Communications About Mass Layoffs at IBM
LLM slop to drown out the signal
 
Links 17/05/2025: Microsoft Kills "Surface Laptop Studio" (More Canceled Products/Units), Groups Caution About Harms of Social Control Media
Links for the day
Gemini Links 17/05/2025: Sympathy Algorithm and SSH on Alternative Ports
Links for the day
Slopwatch: Microsoft's Anti-Linux Propaganda and Cover-up, Slopfarms Clogging Up Google News
slop-tracking activities that observe googlebombing of "Linux"
AstroTurfing by IBM in thelayoff.com is Highly Risky (and Likely Outsourced)
Microsoft did this in Reddit (and got caught), so why won't IBM too?
Links 17/05/2025: Stabber of Salman Rushdie Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
Links for the day
Gemini Links 17/05/2025: Happier on Gemini and Manipulating Reddit
Links for the day
ComEd and Microsoft: A Mess of Spaghetti Held Together By Circus Clowns
Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 16, 2025
IRC logs for Friday, May 16, 2025
Links 16/05/2025: Microsoft Sacks Pregnant Women, People Fired on Their Birthday; Adobe Censorship Failing
Links for the day
Gemini Links 16/05/2025: "Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism" and Pre-librebooted Computers
Links for the day
[Video] IBM Shakes Hands of Prince Mohammed bin Salman
handshake of loyalty
The SLAPPs From Microsofters Distract From Serious Copyright Infringement by Microsoft and Apparent Business Crimes
Aside from other issues, such as strangling women
Enshittification is Everywhere: You Pay More, the Services Get Worse
"Enshittification" is a term coined by an online friend; I increasingly use this term to describe what's happening even outside the realm of technology (which it was adopted to describe)
Microsoft Reduces Office Space Ahead of More Waves of Mass Layoffs
"The Gerstnerisation of Microsoft"
Anti-Linux FUD Produced by Microsoft LLMs to Blame "Linux" for Microsoft's Own Failures
We call out some of the worst culprits
Gemini Links 16/05/2025: Hoking GPS, Grabovac, and Tanana
Links for the day
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 15, 2025
IRC logs for Thursday, May 15, 2025
Microsoft WARN Notices Proliferate in the United States
From what we've seen, this wave was more than 3% (a lot more) and the next wave/s will be even bigger (possible as imminent as weeks from now), based on insider leaks
Links 15/05/2025: Google Betrays Publishers Again, Openwashing by Sysdig
Links for the day
Richard Stallman Still Respected by Many in the Libre Graphics Community
Richard Stallman and Professor Moglen never harmed anyone
If You Read Techrights, Then You Probably Want to Read Tux Machines as Well
That site is more active than this one
Gemini Links 15/05/2025: Forced Music in Publicly Accessible Space and ~silv is Online
Links for the day
Links 15/05/2025: KOSA Censorship (USA Becomes More Like KSA) and More National Cuts
Links for the day
Bing Might Shut Down - Just Like Skype Did - Some Time in the Coming Months/Years (Parts of It Already Shut Down)
they try to bring the losses under control
Your Real Ally Would Not Defend the Company of SLAPP and Strangling of Women
who's left to tell us what's true?
Breakdown of Microsoft Layoffs Shows It's About Cost, Not Performance or Hype (Like "AI")
MSN (Microsoft) reposted this with some unnecessary spin
The Lawyers Working for the Serial Strangler From Microsoft on SLAPPing Techrights Have Apparently Lost Their Voice
the moment we mentioned that their media lawyer is leaving they went all quiet in social control media
At IBM, Relocation Can be a Trick or a Trap (IBM Gets Rid of Staff Under the Guise of "Relo")
IBM is not being honest with employees
Microsoft Rumours: This Week's Scale of Layoffs "Higher Than Reported" and More Coming Soon ("A Lot More Severe" Than May's)
The "3%" figure is false
Slopwatch: Sloppy Brian, Brittany Slop, and General Observations
Creative people don't need slop; there's just nothing good about it, slop appeals to lazy people careless about quality
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
Beyond Mass Layoffs at Microsoft: Entire Units Shut Down for Good
And it's far from over
Links 15/05/2025: Crikvenica, Analog Computer, and Slop 'Hallucinations'
Links for the day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 14, 2025
IRC logs for Wednesday, May 14, 2025