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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 22, 2025

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Mozilla has published today the final release of the Firefox 141 open-source web browser ahead of its official unveiling on July 22nd, 2025.

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The 249th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on July 20th, 2025.

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Some of the latest articles

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

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Linuxiac is Not a Slopfarm, But at Least Some of Its Articles Are Machine-Generated Fakes: what we said about it was correct
Expect More Microsoft Layoffs: "Are more job cuts coming?"
Microsoft Behaving Like It's Running Out of Money to Pay Salaries: Does that seem like the behaviour expected from a company which claims it is "worth" trillions?
LWN Downtime Due to Linode, Not LLM Bots: "I’ve received an email letting me know that there is a potential for data loss."
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Links 28/07/2025: Science, Health, and Conflicts: Links for the day
Gemini Links 28/07/2025: Healthy Self-Image With Autism and a "New Life": Links for the day
Links 28/07/2025: COVID-19 Sped up Brain Aging, "Circumvention is More Popular Than Compliance": Links for the day
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Gemini Links 28/07/2025: Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray and Running pkgsrc in a FreeBSD Jail: Links for the day
Microsoft Turns News Sites Into Spamfarms: Is the site The Register MS the next IDG?
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Just Trying to Keep Web Sites Honest (Journalistic Integrity): the latest articles in LinuxIac are real
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Gemini Links 27/07/2025: Hot in Japan and Terminal Escape Codes: Links for the day
Links 27/07/2025: More Microsoft Layoffs Coming, Science and Hardware News: Links for the day
Links 27/07/2025: FSF Hackathon and "Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man": Links for the day
Gemini Links 27/07/2025: DAW Mixer Chains and Simple Software: Links for the day
The Register MS is Inventing or Giving Air Time to New Conspiracy Theories so as to Distort the Narrative As High-Profile Agencies Fall Prey to Microsoft Holes: But the problem is holes, i.e. Microsoft making bad products; the problem is Microsoft
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Pushers of systemd Rewrite History (Richard Stallman Said UNIX "Was Portable and Seemed Fairly Clean"): Unlike systemd
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The Register in Trouble: There is not much that can be done at this point
Trajectory of The Register: From News Site/s Into "B2B"... and Into Microsoft Salespeople: Something isn't right at The Register
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