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  1. Solus 4.9 “Serenity” Released with Linux 6.18 LTS, KDE Plasma 6.6, and More
    Solus 4.9 distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.18 LTS, Budgie 10.9.4, KDE Plasma 6.6, GNOME 49.5, and Xfce 4.20.
  2. GNU/Linux and More
    today's leftovers
  3. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO (Windows Breaking Itself)
    security updates
  4. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards
    FOSS and more
  5. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  6. Abandoning Free Software While Blaming Slop and Clarifications on Discourse
    Cal.com and Discourse
  7. BSD Education: AsiaBSDCon and New York City *BSD User Group
    BSD picks
  8. PostgresSQL: PGDay Armenia and Swiss PGDay 2026
    PostgresSQL news
  9. Applications: Office Suites and Nixpilled
    3 misc. software links
  10. OpenSUSE: Tumbleweed Report and Planet News Roundup
    openSUSE picks
  11. Red Hat, Fedora, and Rocky Linux Leftovers
    mostly Red Hat picks
  12. Open Hardware/Modding: Orange Pi, ESP32, and More
    gadgets and more
  13. This Week in GNOME, GNOME Foundation Update, and More GNOME
    mixture of GNOME updates
  14. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical picks
  15. Games: Godot 4.7 Dev 5, Proton Beta, and More
    gaming news, all in one
  16. Shelly 2.1 Package Manager for Arch Linux Revamps AppImage Support
    Shelly 2.1 package manager for Arch Linux is now available for download with better support for AppImage, Flatpak, and AUR packages, as well as many other enhancements.
  17. The Man Who Wrote the Rules of Freedom for Software
    Towards the end of January 2026, I emailed Richard for an interview
  18. Emulation/Games: RPCS3, Gopher64, and Proton 11 Beta
    GamingOnLinux's latest
  19. Android Leftovers
    Google Blocks 8.3B Policy-Violating Ads in 2025, Launches Android 17 Privacy Overhaul
  20. FRED Comes To Hobby Operating Systems (and Linux)
    Of course, it would be silly to omit the fact that Linux received patches first
  21. Kdenlive 26.04 is Out with Animated Transition Preview & Screen Mirroring
    KDE announced the release of KDE Gear 26.04 on Thursday
  22. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is free and open source software
  23. PureOS Crimson Development Report: March 2026
    Toward the best PureOS yet
  24. This Week in Plasma: Per-Screen Virtual Desktops and Wayland Session Restore
    Last week over 20 KDE contributors converged on the Austrian city of Graz for our annual mega-sprint
  25. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2026-04-12 to 2026-04-18
    1713 /n/2026/04/10/Mass_Layoffs_at_Red_Hat_This_Week_Hundreds_of_Engineers_Laid_Of.shtml
    1646 /n/2026/04/12/Linux_Kernel_7_0_Officially_Released_This_Is_What_s_New.shtml

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Microsoft's XBox "Bloodbath" Seems to Have Already Begun (Informally), Studios Allegedly to Face Shutdowns, Layoff Notices Handed Out, 100% Layoffs in Some Cases, 10% in Others or on Average
So is a complete closure/shutdown imminent? (Compulsion Games in this case)
SLAPP Censorship - Part 105 Out of 200: When Bad Legal Advice Results in Your Client, Dale Vince, Ordered to Pay £600k - or 801,930 United States Dollar (USD) - to the Person Frivolously Sued (Lord Bailey of Paddington)
"A judge has ruled that Dale Vince must pay punitive costs to Lord Bailey of Paddington, the Tory peer, over the 'unexplained abandonment' of his" SLAPP
IBM is Importing/Exporting Corporations' Regime of Censorship (Hiding the Wrongdoing) to Free Software Communities
Is IBM protecting criminals in the name of "manners"?
 
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Battistelli's "Baltic Crusader"
Gilles Requena, Battistelli's erstwhile "Baltic Crusader" and the loyal servant of his successor Campinos
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 13, 2026
IRC logs for Saturday, June 13, 2026
Links 13/06/2026: University of Nottingham Confirms Data/System Breach, Courts Fuming at Fraudulent Lawyers Who Fling LLM Slop at Them
Links for the day
Gemini Links 13/06/2026: World Cups and 做人
Links for the day
Discussing Morale at IBM and Conversations Regarding IBM Layoffs (Disguised as Other Things)
Trolling can be a form of censorship
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: All the President's Men
Gilles Requena,Patrice Pellegrino, and Sandro Mendonça
SUEPO Elections Coming Up, Union Leaders at Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) to be Determined Soon
The staff union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) is having an election soon
How Long for Can American Taxpayers Justify Bailing Out Microsoft?
How many times need the American taxpayers give Microsoft money for vapourware that's neither necessary nor delivered?
Links 13/06/2026: Microsoft’s XBox Crisis and "Apple Deepfakes"
Links for the day
Gemini Links 13/06/2026: Why Humans Are Mostly Right Handed and "Getting Things Done"
Links for the day
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 12, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, June 12, 2026
SLAPP Censorship - Part 104 Out of 200: Exactly Two Years Ago Brett Wilson LLP Humiliated or Weaponised Our Solicitor's Judaism in an Effort to Censor and Gag Us
dated 12/06/24
Half a Year Since Slopwatch Died
To Google's credit, it did manage to delist a lot of slopfarms in recent months
Links 12/06/2026: Science, Windows TCO, and More
Links for the day
"AI" 46 Times in One 'Article' Because The Register MS Got Paid to Push it
Today is just another opportunity to remind people that the slop bubble and GPU bubble are based on inauthentic fake 'journalism'
Gemini Links 12/06/2026: FTP and Gopher, Cluster Outage Postmortem After Cleaning by Wife
Links for the day
Sonny Piers Finally Spills the Beans on GNOME Cover-up, Points Finger at Robert McQueen, Misusing "Defamation" to Silence Critics of Wrongdoing
Robert McQueen, who is extremely connected to Garrett (they share digital nests)
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Transcending Partisan Rivalry in the National Interest
Up until now, Campinos has generally been regarded as a Portuguese "asset" on the international stage
Gratitude to Whistleblowers or Sources of Techrights
Whistleblowers are what makes journalism work
Techrights Was Months Ahead of "XBox" News (Mass Layoffs)
Next: end of XBox as a console
More Commentary on June 2026 IBM Layoffs and Why They Happen
It sounds a lot like what happened to the EPO
Links 12/06/2026: "NearlyFreeSpeech" No More, Openwashing by Google (DiffusionGemma)
Links for the day
Today There's a Massive EPO Strike (Like Every Friday), Workers Explain Further Cuts Despite the EPO Making More Income by Granting Illegal Patents (or Invalid Patents Illegally)
"Recent exchange with the Administration on the implications of the SAP on the Education and Childcare Allowance"
The Cyber Show: Remember That Code is Art
The article is very long, very profound, and speaks of "the next installation"
Communicating With Freedom - Part IV - Quibble Now in quibble.chat, Open for Contributions Via Codeberg
Today we continue the series about Quibble
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The Importance of Having "Pals from the Palacete"
for his reappointment bid to succeed, Campinos will need to be able to rely on the support of both the Portuguese Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, and the President of the European Council, António Costa
Cyber Show on How Updates or Upgrades Break Workflows, Even in Free Software
"We did a big upgrade on the AV production pipeline"
Discussions About IBM Layoffs in June, Including by RTO and PIPs
mass layoffs are becoming increasingly difficult to conceal
Gemini Links 12/06/2026: Decks and Work Essay
Links for the day
"Rolling Strikes" Continue at the European Patent Office, the Administrative Council Needs to Take Action Against Crooked Office Management
This coming weekend we'll talk about some of the other issues and concerns expressed by the union
Only Days After Mass Layoffs in Microsoft's Azure There Are Headlines About Much-Expected XBox Layoffs
XBox as a console is basically dead or "fast-dying"
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 11, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, June 11, 2026