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Updated This Past Day

  1. CVE-2024-47076, CVE-2024-47175, CVE-2024-47176 and CVE-2024-47177
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  2. PostgreSQL 17 Rolls Out: Enhanced Performance and Developer Features
    PostgreSQL 17 open-source RDBMS brings enhanced performance, advanced features, and better scalability for all workloads
  3. Uniting for Internet Freedom: Tor Project & Tails Join Forces
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  4. LibreOffice 24.8.2 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 85 Bug Fixes
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  5. Kernel: EasyOS, Bootlin, and Wayland Work
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  6. Sakura: A Neat Terminal Emulator, Targeting GNU/Linux (C, GTK+, GNU GPL v2) [original]
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  7. EasyOS and MakulaLinux
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  8. Red Hat Puff Pieces and Technical Posts
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  9. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  10. Net/Web: Bookmarklets, Thunderbird, and RSS
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  11. Programming Leftovers
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  12. Melissa Wen and Mike Blumenkrantz on Graphics Code
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  13. Open Hardware: Fairphone, Pimoroni, Raspberry Pi
    harddware projects/products
  14. BSD Leftovers
    EuroBSDcon and more
  15. Security Leftovers
    Security related news
  16. today's howtos
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  17. VirtualBox 7.1.2 Released with 3D Acceleration Support for VMs Running on ARM
    VirtualBox 7.1.2 is now available for download with a new option to change the remote display security method and other improvements.
  18. Time to take back the Internet
    For instance, in GNU Solidario and GNU Health, we fight for Social Medicine and for the rights of human and non-human animals
  19. Windows TCO and Network Rail on Wi-Fi Cracked
    security news
  20. Programming and Standards
    mostly the latter
  21. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More
    some devices in the news
  22. Graphics improvements in WebKitGTK and WPEWebKit 2.46
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  23. today's howtos
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  24. Games: EmuDeck, Crusader Kings, and More
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  25. This Linux App Turns Websites Into Apps Themselves—Here's Why It's Great
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  26. From 'Just for Fun' to a Full-Fledged Distribution: Aditya Shakya's Archcraft Journey
    The Archcraft idea started as a passion project, and now it is a responsibility for the creator
  27. Best Free and Open Source Software
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  28. URVE Board A55 Runs Linux on Rockchip RK3566 SoC
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  29. today's leftovers
    4 more misc. links
  30. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
    IBM camp in GNU/Linux
  31. Canonical/Ubuntu on Charmed OpenSearch and TurtleBot3
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  32. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software News and Events
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  33. GNOME's Christian Hergert on Messaging Needs and Jonathan Blandford on GUADEC 2024
    Some GNOME news
  34. Programming Leftovers
    Programming related picks
  35. Open Hardware/Modding: RISC-V, Arduino, and More
    Some hardware news (long)
  36. Software: Videos Editors, whisper, and libtool
    Some Free software
  37. today's howtos
    only a few more howtos for now
  38. Security Leftovers
    Security related picks
  39. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  40. VirtualBox : To whom does it matter whether corporate takeover of FOSS is problematic?
    To you?  To us? To everyone?
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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