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  5. Games: New Steam Client, Godot 4.4 dev 4 and ‘Korean Lego’
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  7. Security Leftovers
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  8. Standards/Consortia: PDF and XMPP
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  9. Programming Leftovers
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  12. today's howtos
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  16. Fedora / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers
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  17. Mozilla Thunderbird, "Hey Hi" (AI) Hype, Firefox, and Mercurial
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  18. Security Leftovers
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  20. AI Industry is Trying to Subvert the Definition of “Open Source AI”
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  21. Fedora KDE Plasma Spin Gains Equal Footing With Gnome Edition
    Fedora has made a major change to its project, elevating the version running KDE Plasma from an Spin to an official Edition, alongside Fedora Workstation with Gnome
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  28. Today in Techrights
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  29. GNU/Linux Leftovers (and Other Operating Systems)
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  30. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  31. Burn My Windows Adds Dreamy New ’Focus’ Effect
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  33. Security Leftovers
    Security centric picks
  34. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More
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  35. Programming Leftovers
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  36. Events and Education, FOSS Edition
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  37. Canonical/Ubuntu and Hardware With Ubuntu
    Canonical/Ubuntu leftovers
  38. Mozilla and Firefox Leftovers
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  39. Fedora / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers
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  40. today's howtos
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