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Updated This Past Day

  1. Firefox Redesigned
    3 picks regarding changes in Firefox

    New

  2. BSD, GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems in OS Museum
    today's leftovers
  3. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS leftovers
  4. Blogging Workflow, WordPress.com, and WordPress Losing Its Way as a Content Management System (CMS) Due to Slop
    CMS picks
  5. *AGPL Licensing Disputes
    ONLYOFFICE and Bambu Lab
  6. Standards and Sovereignty: ODF, Interoperability, and Open Access to Standards Documents
    lots about open standards
  7. Programming Leftovers
    Development related news
  8. PostgreSQL Releases and Events
    PostgreSQL news
  9. Web Browsers/Web Servers: Vivaldi 8.0, Web History, and Announcing Web Serial Support in Firefox
    WWW related news
  10. OpenSUSE: Managing System Extensions with sysextmgrcli and New Agama
    some SUSE updates
  11. EasyOS: ROX-Filer patch-set overhaul and pBurn optical burner version 4.4
    some updates on the light OS
  12. Red Hat Leftovers (Lots of Slop Promotions)
    many from redhat.com
  13. Ubuntu: FunOS in View, Canonical Promoting Microsoft and Slop, Security Flaws
    Canonical and more
  14. Embedded Week, Banana Pi R4, and More Hardware News
    with Linux focus
  15. Linux Kernel and More
    mostly kernel picks
  16. Games: Godot 4.7 Beta 3 and PS5 GNU/Linux
    a pair of gaming picks
  17. Applications: 11 Open-Source WYSIWYG Editors Worth Using in 2026 and Audio Improvement in GNU/Linux
    2 pair of news articles
  18. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  19. Audiocasts/Shows: Reacting to Linus Tech Tips, BSD Now, and Raspberry Pi Podcast
    3 new shows
  20. Security Leftovers
    Security breaches, Linux focus and more
  21. Ongoing Microsoft Sabotage of GNU/Linux
    2 new picks
  22. Deutsche Bahn: No information under Linux
    Deutsche Bahn locks out Linux users from its website, an error message warns of suspected bot activity. Changing the User-Agent helps.
  23. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    Development and more
  24. Games: Godot 4.6.3, Rootkits (So-called 'Anticheat'), and Proton Experimental
    lots from GoL
  25. Linux Devices, Open Hardware, and Gadgets
    hardware leftovers
  26. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical leftovers
  27. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  28. You can't install Deepin Desktop from the official Fedora repo anymore - here's why
    Once called the most beautiful Linux
  29. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2026-05-16 to 2026-05-22
    1464 /n/2026/05/18/Linus_Torvalds_says_AI_powered_bug_hunters_have_made_Linux_secu.shtml
    1318 /n/2026/03/28/This_non_Chromium_Linux_browser_can_run_Chrome_Firefox_and_Safa.shtml
    1268 /n/2023/08/20/The_6_Best_Spelling_and_Grammar_Checkers_for_Linux.shtml
    1202 /n/2026/05/18/Stable_kernels_Linux_7_0_9_Linux_6_18_32_Linux_6_12_90_and_Linu.shtml
    1196 /n/2026/05/16/Anbernic_RG_DS_gets_a_brand_new_Linux_OS_and_you_don_t_need_to_.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Legal Letters Are Not Postcards
It seems like intimidation, nothing more
European Patent Office (EPO) Strikes Persist, EPO Management Tries to Give False Impression of "Happy Staff"
EPO is trying to broadcast to the world a totally phony image of itself
 
The "Next Big" Bonus for IBM's CEO Apparently Comes From American Taxpayers While Veteran IBMers Are PIP'd and RA'd (Laid Off)
the next big thing will be the CEO's bonus
Links 23/05/2026: Starbucks Scraps Disastrous Slopfest, Colbert’s Final ‘Late Show’
Links for the day
Gemini Links 23/05/2026: Poetry, Hobbies, ROOPHLOCH, and More
Links for the day
Government Bailouts Won't be Enough to Save IBM
Bailouts from taxpayers in the US
Links 23/05/2026: Social Media Bans and Demise of Userbase of LLM Chatbots
Links for the day
SLAPP Censorship - Part 85 Out of 200: The United Kingdom's Rating for Press Freedom Has Improved, But We Can Do Even Better
we see the US at #64
Sites Realise That Becoming More Active by Using Bots (LLM Slop) is Self-Destructive
We'll soon (maybe next year) also show that some of the 85+ KG of legal papers sent our way are computer-generated garbage, which might run afoul of some rules
Gemini Links 23/05/2026: Patience, LLM Chatbts Being Bad, and Unexpected Computer Surgery
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 22, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, May 22, 2026
Links 22/05/2026: Ebola Crisis and Samsung Averts a Walkout With Big Bonuses
Links for the day
The End of FOSSPost (fosspost.org), It Has become an LLM Slopfarm Like FOSSLinux
These sites will never get lucky with slop. These experiments always end badly.
Links 22/05/2026: Inflation Fears and Thailand Tightens Visa Rules for Tourists From Dozens of Nations
Links for the day
EPO Staff Representation Speaks of This Week's Discussion With the EPO's Budget and Finance Committee (BFC) Amid Mass Strikes
The Central Staff Committee's outline (prepared in a rush) or the "flash report"
SLAPP Censorship - Part 84 Out of 200: New Legislation Against SLAPPs on the Way (After We Reached Out to Ministers)
They dealt with the matter individually too, but we won't share this in public, at least not at this time
The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XXX - Where Was "The Ethics and Compliance Team" When the Family of EPO President Campinos Was Caught Doing Cocaine?
It remains to be seen if national delegates will tolerate this in future meetings
Gemini Links 22/05/2026: Esperanto Music History, Suspicious Adoption of Signal, and Unauthorised LLM Slop in Code
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 21, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, May 21, 2026
Links 21/05/2026: "Declining America" and Why Slop 'Code' is Made to Fail
Links for the day
Techrights and Tux Machines Subjected to Cyberattacks for Several Weeks
In the past I spoke to the cybercrime unit of British Police. Maybe it's time to do so again.
The Register MS Has Become a 'Content' Farm Promoting Slop for Hostile Corporations
Now they call it "PARTNER CONTENT" - not "SPONSORED" - as if semantics make the difference
Latest Example of Widespread Fake Assertions (False News) About "Hey Hi"
The false narrative of "Hey Hi layoffs"
Links 21/05/2026: Facebook Rewarded With Tax Breaks to Destroy the Environment and Cause Global Warming, Shortages, Pollution; SpaceX (SPCX) Continues Losing Billions of Dollars
Links for the day
Codecs and Software Patents - Part VIII - GNU Audio/Video Team Has Chosen the AV1 Video Codec and It Explains Why (They've Researched Their Options)
AV1 video codec will be used to encode and share GNU videos online
Dr. Stallman Helps Establish Free Software Advocacy Outside the Free Software Foundation (FSF) as Well
The ideals or principles of Free Software needn't be centralised or monopolised; they can be federated
22 Years of Tux Machines and a Community Stronger Than Ever Before
We've already received some feedback from the community and improved it accordingly
Microsoft Under Investigation for Breaches of Law in the UK
Just like the Microsofters
More Microsoft Layoffs on the Way (June and July 2026)
with or without PIPs
LWN Sponsored by the Linux Foundation (Monopolies)
We must be able to casually point this out
The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XXIX - European Patent Office (EPO) Tells Staff "Speaking up" is Good, But Not When the "Brother-in-law" of EPO's President Does Cocaine
Do we still have a functioning democracy and potent press?
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 20, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Gemini Links 21/05/2026: Immigration, Slop, and Slop 'Code' Suggestions Infesting Code Repositories
Links for the dayGemini Links 21/05/2026: Immigration, Slop, and Slop 'Code' Suggestions Infesting Code Repositories