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  1. Android Leftovers
    Google shows Project Astra controlling your Android phone
  2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
    Today, Red Hat announced the general availability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 operating system series, a major update introducing new features and enhancements.
  3. Recent GNU/Linux Articles From Valnet Inc.
    howtogeek and more

    New

  4. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux and more
  5. Audiocasts/Shows: Linux User Space and Late Night Linux
    2 new episodes
  6. Open Hardware/Modding: Purism, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and More
    gadgets, devices etc.
  7. Security Leftovers
    patches and more
  8. Programming Leftovers
    Development news
  9. Kernel Space: OpenBSD, Linux, and Graphics
    low-level work
  10. GNOME "False Flag Attacks" and Cassidy James Blaede on Next GNOME Foundation Board of Directors
    GNOME picks
  11. Latest From Official Site of Red Hat (Summit Started
    Red Hat's promotions
  12. Web Browsers That Are Proprietary: Vivaldi and Chrome
    the lesser choices
  13. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical picks
  14. Steam’s May Client Update Improves Linux Game Recording
    Steam's May client update boosts stability, fixes memory usage issues
  15. Zotac reveals next-gen gaming handheld with AMD Strix Point and Manjaro Linux
    As promised, Zotac is using the Computex show in Taiwan this week to provide an early look at its next-gen handheld gaming PC
  16. Context Menu Compare Extension “nautilus-compare” is back in Ubuntu
    For those who need to compare files, folders, and version controlled projects regularly
  17. Kontainer is a GUI tool to manage Distrobox containers
    This is free and open source software
  18. StarFive VisionFive v2 and FreeBSD
    This week I powered up the StarFive VisionFive v2 board that I have
  19. Damn Small Linux revived my aging Eee PC. Here’s how to use it to resurrect any old computer
    Even an 18-year-old netbook can browse the modern web
  20. Ubuntu 25.10 will Have a Brand New Terminal (and Image Viewer)
    Ubuntu 25.10 replaces its default terminal and image viewer with modern apps
  21. Radxa NIO 5A credit card-sized Mediatek Genio 520 SBC showcased at Computex 2025
    Mediatek mentions support for Android, Yocto Linux, and Ubuntu OS for the Genio 520/720, and NVIDIA TAO Toolkit for the 10 TOPS NPU
  22. LibreOffice 25.8 Alpha1 is available for testing
    LibreOffice 25.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2025
  23. MangoJuice is a GUI tool to configure MangoHud
    This is free and open source software
  24. OpenIndiana is a community supported illumos-based operating system
    OpenIndiana is a free and open-source illumos distribution compatible with SPARC and x86-64 based computers
  25. The Operating System. The real hardware (and environment) killer
    Murena is proud to partner with Fairphone to provide a deGoogled, privacy-first phone that keeps your device useful for the long haul
  26. today's howtos
    a dozen more howtos
  27. Games: GOG, GE-Proton, Utopia Must Fall, and More
    9 new stories from GamingOnLinux
  28. Android Leftovers
    Google Wallet testing stronger security measures for Android and Wear OS
  29. An Open-Source Wii U Gamepad
    This Wii U gamepad emulator seeks to bridge that gap
  30. Linux Mint 22 vs LMDE 6 Revisited: Which Should You Choose in 2025?
    In our Linux Distro Reviews series, Linux Mint and LMDE 6 scored our highest ratings and remain our most recommended distros for newcomers and experienced users alike
  31. LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop
    LastOS is a tricked-out version of Linux Mint 22.1 with the Cinnamon desktop and some additional tools to make life easier for Windows folks
  32. All Linux Is Not Free: 5 Distros That Ask for Your Money
    Did you know that some Linux distros actually ask you for your money
  33. Huawei Matebook Pro is the first laptop sold with HarmonyOS operating system
    As software support would eventually run out, they had to work on an alternative named HarmonyOS
  34. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  35. GhostBSD is a simple and elegant desktop BSD operating system
    GhostBSD offers a user-friendly, desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD
  36. Kirigami Addons 1.8.0
    Kirigami Addons is a collection of supplementary components for Kirigami
  37. A Look at the Latest Linux KMS Color API Developments on AMD and Intel
    This week, I reviewed the last available version of the Linux KMS Color API
  38. today's howtos
    a bit older, a handful of them
  39. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

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

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2025-05-14 to 2025-05-20
    934 /n/2025/05/15/Microsoft_Broke_Linux_PCs_Now_Microsoft_Sites_Credit_It_With_Fi.shtml
    839 /n/2025/05/17/Wine_10_8.shtml
    809 /n/2025/05/15/KDE_Plasma_6_4_Beta_Release.shtml

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EPO Workers Point Out that the EPO is Destroying the Planet Under the Guise of "Hey Hi" (It Also Grants Many Invalid Patents Illegally
On 12 March and 16 June 2025, staff representation met with the administration in the Local Occupational Health, Safety and Ergonomics Committee (LOHSEC) in Munich
How the European Union (EU) Fell Out of Love With Free/Libre Software
Lots of bribery
Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Has Almost Gone Down to Zero, Nearly Totally Extinct in Geminispace, the Few Capsules Still Using It Are Spam/Dead/Stagnant
This represents another decrease for Let's Encrypt; the last decrease was last week
Trying to Silence Techrights Was a Huge Mistake
Peter Thiel attacked a publisher for asserting, correctly, that he was gay. Now everyone knows it.
 
Gemini Links 08/09/2025: Socialist Computer Museum and GAFAM/ByteDance/TikTok-Dominated Net
Links for the day
Links 08/09/2025: Tim Crook Disappoints Apple Faithfuls and Zuckerberg Lies (Financial Fraud) for Cheeto King
Links for the day
Turn Off Microsoft's Restricted Boot ("Secure Boot")
We're still running a series on this issue
Social Control Media Sites Have Become Bot Farms (Not Limited to LLMs and Automation)
linkedin.com was nothing but trouble and losses for Microsoft
Deep in Debt With the Magnitude of Losses Quickly Growing, Microsoft "Open" "Hey Hi" Now Uses Broadcom for Vapourware, Pretending It'll Do OK Next Year
At some stage it'll collapse
You Can Tell Microsoft is in Trouble When Its Own Fans and Staff Blast it
"Microsoft sinks billions into chasing artificial intelligence fads to hype up its share price."
Multiple Undersea Cable Cuts and We're Still OK
Microsoft customers experience problems
Lawyers Who Think They Are Online Assassins Don't Deserve a Licence to Operate
they've become a laughing stock in their "sector"
Microsoft Windows Fell to 3.9% "Market Share" in Bahamas
Based on statCounter
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 07, 2025
IRC logs for Sunday, September 07, 2025
Gemini Links 07/09/2025: Scanner, Slop, and Chadobear
Links for the day
The UEFI 9/11 is 3 Days Away
Nobody denies that bad things will happen
Google Versus Journalism
Google played a big role in the demise of news sites
Gemini Links 07/09/2025: Advertising, Decentralized Archival, and Outsourcing to Bezos
Links for the day
Not Much Left in News Cycles
To be very clear, this does not describe "Linux" anything; it's true in just about every facet of news, except the paid-for fake "journalism" about "hey hi" (sites getting paid explicitly to maintain or rekindle hype)
Throwing Away "Old" Computers (Mozilla and Other Climate Deniers)
Mozilla is not leftist
The UEFI 9/11 - Part VIII - Denial of Service and Selling Us WSL (Windows) Instead of "Risky" (Prone by Breakage by Microsoft) GNU/Linux
Restricted Boot (so-called 'SecureBoot') does not improve security. It is nothing but trouble. It's meant to trouble non-Windows users. In dual-boot setups, SecureBoot is a recipe for disaster because Microsoft keeps erasing or tampering with the boot sector, to paraphrase an associate
Slop is Extremely Rare in Geminispace, Slop Images Are Unheard Of (Despite Images Being Supported)
As long as Geminispace grows in terms of domains it's safe to predict the protocol will still be used in 2029 and hence Geminispace will turn 10
Links 07/09/2025: Robodebt Class Action, Fines, and Copyright Settlement
Links for the day
Links 07/09/2025: Yle Impersonated in Social Control Media, Boat-Attacking Orcas, Midjourney Sued Again
Links for the day
Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, Linux Journal, and the Serial Slopper
Google won't tackle the issue because Google participates not only in relaying slop but also in generating lots of it
Links 07/09/2025: Google Fines in EU and "Your Internet Access Is at Risk"
Links for the day
Gemini Links 07/09/2025: Little Brother and Corporate Theatre
Links for the day
Links 07/09/2025: More Harms of Slop and Anthropic's Nightmare Scenario (Huge Legal Liabilities for Slop)
Links for the day
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 06, 2025
IRC logs for Saturday, September 06, 2025
Microsoft Sites Now Talking About September's Mass Layoffs at Microsoft
It's noteworthy that even Microsoft's MSN now covers the latest revelations about mass layoffs
Gemini Links 06/09/2025: SpellBinding Moving and "The Cloud" Ridiculed
Links for the day
Slopwatch: On "the Apology Industry", Chatbots (Punchbag for Customers), and Fake Articles About "Linux"
"news reporting priorities changed"
Links 06/09/2025: "Covid Incidence on the Rise" and Many Attacks on the Press Worldwide
Links for the day
The Register Bill
The Register MS - putting the "MS" in your centre of the universe
Analogies for "Memory Safety" in Rust
Don't worry, it's Rust! It can do anything!
Nobody Denies That SecureBoot Will Cause Problems After September 11
Not even Microsoft
Gemini Links 06/09/2025: Infinite Scrolling and Posting from Emacs
Links for the day
Links 06/09/2025: GitHub Meltdown Over Slop, "U.S. Jury Says Google Should Pay $425 Million in Privacy Lawsuit"
Links for the day
Despite Its Severe Financial Problems Gnome Foundation Inc Paid Rosanna Yuen Over 100,000 Dollars Last Year
maybe relocation should be considered
The "Left" and the Right"
It poisons everything
Mozilla and Rust Are Not Leftists
they're part of the mass consumerism machine
Disposable to Microsoft
There is an extensive set of people who got used by Microsoft, only to be thrown away a month later or a year later or a decade later
The UEFI 9/11 - Part VII - This Coming Week Many PCs Will Refuse to Boot "Linux" (Because of Microsoft's Expired Certificate)
The real solution is, disable "secure boot" or "SecureBoot" while it's still possible. [...] Just like submarine patents, a lot of this problem was "hibernating" for a while
The Thing Nobody in Red Hat Wants to Talk About Openly
There is a real sentiment or worry among Red Hatters, Europeans and Americans in particulars (because of higher salary expectations)
Slopwatch: Small Parade of Fake News About "Linux" and Scams Borrowing the Name (or Word) "Linux"
In practice, LLMs are a risk
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 05, 2025
IRC logs for Friday, September 05, 2025