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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 07, 2024

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1. How to build a $240 gaming PC

   The distro was Bazzite OS, which comes ready-to-play.

   New

2. Firefox 130 Promises to Enable Overscroll Animations on Linux, Firefox Labs

   With Firefox 129 rolling out today to users worldwide on all supported platforms, Mozilla has promoted the upcoming release, Firefox 130, to the beta channel for public testing, so it’s time to look at the new features and improvements.\

3. today's leftovers

   3 misc. links

4. Open Data, Web, and Standards

   some leftovers of relevance

5. Programming Leftovers

   Programming picks

6. Fedora / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers

   Inc. GNOME work

7. SLUBStick in Linux

   new hole, can elevate privileges

8. Security Leftovers

   Security picks, mostly patches and breaches

9. Audiocasts/Shows: Late Night Linux, This Week in Linux, LINUX Unplugge, and Linux Out Loud

   4 new episodes

10. PostgreSQL News Including pgspot 0.8.0 Release

    Some psql picks

11. Software: crcpy 2.6, pbcopy, and More

    Some Free software news

12. today's howtos

    many howtos for today

13. Open Hardware/Modding: Chumby, Jailbreaking, Arduino, RISC-V, and More

    Hardware projects and news

14. KDE Plasma 6.1.4 Desktop Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes

    The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.1.4 as the fourth stable update in the latest KDE Plasma 6.1 series of this modern and beloved desktop environment for GNU/Linux systems.

15. Android Leftovers

    Google Patches New Android Kernel Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

16. Aura 4.0 Arch’s Package Manager Released, Transitions from Haskell to Rust

    Aura 4.0 is here! Now Rust-based, the Arch Linux package manager offers a 4x smaller binary and doesn't require sudo

17. Open Hardware Misc.

    Linux and more

18. Open Source is Not Inclusive

    The Open Source world is bigoted & exclusionary. And they don't want you talking about it

19. Windows TCO: Ransomware, CrowdStrike, Cyberattacks

    Microsoft TCO stories

20. Keep Track on Your Internet Speed with MySpeed, Here’s How

    Enter MySpeed, versatile, free & open-source speed test analysis software with features for effectively monitoring and analyzing your internet speed

21. GNOME Now Has an Official Extension for Legacy Tray Icons

    As part of every GNOME release (spanning GNOME Shell, Mutter, core apps, etc) is an official set of GNOME Shell extensions

22. Free and Open Source Software

    This is free and open source software

23. Microsoft Azure outage takes down services across North America

    Microsoft has mitigated an Azure outage that lasted more than two hours and took down multiple services for customers across North and Latin America

24. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

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