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  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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  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
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  14. BSD Leftovers
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  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
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  19. Windows TCO and Network Rail on Wi-Fi Cracked
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  20. Programming and Standards
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  21. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More
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  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
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  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
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  30. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
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  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
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  34. Programming Leftovers
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  35. Open Hardware/Modding: RISC-V, Arduino, and More
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  36. Software: Videos Editors, whisper, and libtool
    Some Free software
  37. today's howtos
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  38. Security Leftovers
    Security related picks
  39. Today in Techrights
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  40. VirtualBox : To whom does it matter whether corporate takeover of FOSS is problematic?
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