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  5. Games: New Steam Client, Godot 4.4 dev 4 and ‘Korean Lego’
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    3 new episodes
  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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  14. This Week in GNOME #173: Text Annotations
    Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from November 01 to November 08
  15. 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
    and TCO of Windows
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  20. AI Industry is Trying to Subvert the Definition of “Open Source AI”
    It allows for secret training data and mechanisms
  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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    GamingOnLinux's latest 9
  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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  32. Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (EEE) and Openwashing
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  35. Programming Leftovers
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  36. Events and Education, FOSS Edition
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  40. today's howtos
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