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GIMP 3.2 Open-Source Image Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

The GIMP project released GIMP 3.2 today as a major update of this open-source, free, and cross-platform image editing software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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FOSS news for today
Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG): WordPress Gimmicks and Eleventy

Web management news
GNU projects: computing in freedom with GNU Emacs and Unifont 17.0.04 released

2 couple of GNU updates
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SUSE/OpenSUSE: Planet News Roundup and Tumbleweed Review of the Week

Reports of work/updates
Open Hardware, Tinkering, and Mandating Kill Switches

some hardware news picks
Debian Development Updates and News

Debian corner
GNOME: Malika's Outreachy Internship and Libadwaita 1.9

Some GNOME news
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Software leftovers
IBM's Red Hat Pivots to Slop, CIQ Follows (Slop, Not Freedom)

RHEL waning, buzzwords instead
CentOS and Fedora: Stagnation, "Community" Update (IBM), and Fedora-based Qubes

not much of substance happening
The web in 1000 lines of C and Mozilla Firefox news/analysis

latest on the Web
Programming Leftovers

Development picks
Security and Integrity Leftovers

patches and breaches, threats
Nanny state vs. Linux: show us your ID, kid

A new wave of age verification laws requires kids and teenagers to register before they can use a computer
Qualys on CrackArmor

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today's howtos

many howtos for today
"Be a Better Person" [original]

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Debian 13.4 “Trixie” Released with 111 Bug Fixes and 67 Security Updates

The Debian Project announced today the general availability of Debian 13.4 as the fourth update to the latest Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” operating system series.
Games: Proton Experimental, Transport Tycoon Deluxe, GamingOnLinux's Statement Against Slop, and More

8 new articles from GamingOnLinux
Android Leftovers

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Linux is an accepted OS in the tech world
3 things Linux users always get wrong

If you watch new Linux users and their struggles with the system
I tested Omega Linux to see if it can revitalize an old PC, and it made Ubuntu distributions look bad

If you're looking for a distribution for an aging machine
Dolphin Emulator 2603 Released with Triforce Games Support

Dolphin, the free open-source GameCube and Wii game emulator
Free and Open Source Software

This is free and open source software
Plasma Keyboard: FLOSS/Fund, diacritics, and more

Plasma Keyboard has interesting news to share
This Week in Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Characters

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma
KDE Frameworks 6.24.0

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.24.0
Stable kernels: Linux 6.19.8, Linux 6.18.18, and Linux 6.12.77

I'm announcing the release of the 6.19.8 kernel
Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles

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

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Links 29/04/2026: "Snowden Affair 13 Years Later" and "Landmark Data Center Pause": Links for the day
In Past 6 Months IBM Lost About 100 Billion Dollars in 'Value' While Debt Ballooned to 70 Billion Dollars: Welcome to a universe of fake finances and phony accounting based on fictional assets with made-up 'worth'
Dr. Andy Farnell on Weaponising Morality Against Technofascism and Slop: It's longer than a "tweet", so social control media addicts are likely mentally unfit to read it
Six Months: Techrights will be around (and active) for a very long time to come
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SLAPP Censorship - Part 61 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Must Understand That Reporting Women's Issues in the United States of America (“the US”) is Not Impermissible: when you cover Microsoft corruption and have real effect
Weeks After Mass Layoffs of Red Hat Engineers We Learn of European "Buyouts" and Layoffs at IBM: At Microsoft, they tell us there are merely "buyouts", but they don't tell us what happens if you say "no!"
OS Upgrade Tentatively Scheduled for Tomorrow: We have some contingencies in case the upgrade goes wrong
Links 29/04/2026: LLM Chatbot Usage Goes Down Sharply (as Do Stocks Associated With Them), Microsoft's Circular Financing Accounting Fraud at Risk: Links for the day
Gemini Links 29/04/2026: Returning to an Exodus and Farewell APU: Links for the day
Slop Has a Long Way to Go Before It Gets Basic Facts Right: Please do not rely on slop for anything
The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part IX - European Patents That Are Illegal (But Serve Non-European Monopolists in Exchange for 'Quick Cash'): People who shamelessly violate the European Patent Convention (EPC) have the audacity to lecture workers on "ethics"
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Seems Like Only Techrights Covered IBM Laying Off About 33% of Confluent Staff: How can such a large round of layoffs evade today's media?
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IBM is Already Doing 'Voluntary' Layoffs This Year in Europe ('Buyouts' Ahead of Mass Layoffs): IBM's efforts to hide or belittle layoffs is noteworthy
Tracing Back the Misuse of the Word "Buyout" to Describe Merciless Mass Layoffs: So we can assume very large Microsoft layoffs are on the way, this time not spun as "buyouts"
Growing the List of Sites That Are Rogue: It's very important to raise and spread awareness of which ones are fake
Links 28/04/2026: Uganda Criminalising ‘Foreign Agents’ and China’s Economy "Starts to Show Cracks": Links for the day
Anthropic and Claude Are National Security Risks Not Because of Politics But False Marketing and Vandalism, Plagiarism Sold as Innovation: The slop hype is causing severe damage
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Gemini Links 28/04/2026: Misfin, ELPiS, and Developing Another Gemini Client: Links for the day
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Aaron Hillel Swartz Would Have Turned 40 This Year: Aaron Swartz killed himself in 2013
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SLAPP Censorship - Part 60 Out of 200: Talking About Corruption at Microsoft and Arrest for Strangulation is "Malice": At the moment Brett Wilson LLP has no new clients
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Slop is an Addiction, Its Users Find It Addictive: please do not tolerate people who slop
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