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  1. The LLM Hype and Scrapers Are Destroying the Web (Not Only by Plagiarism) [original]
    So far today it looks like we'll have served about 1.5 million requests at midnight
  2. NVIDIA 570 Linux Graphics Driver Released with New Features and Improvements
    Today, NVIDIA published the stable version of the NVIDIA 570 graphics driver series for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems, with new features and performance improvements.
  3. LibreOffice 25.2.1 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 77 Bug Fixes
    The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 25.2.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.2 office suite series with various bug fixes.
  4. Mozilla’s approach to Manifest V3 and new 'Terms of Use' in Firefox
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  5. GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
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  6. Document Freedom Day, Microsoft Lockin, and Free Software
    Software links
  7. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  8. Stable kernels: Linux 6.13.5, Linux 6.12.17, and Linux 6.6.80
    I'm announcing the release of the 6.13.5 kernel
  9. Openwashing by Linux Foundation, Microsoft Hijacks the 'Sudo' Brand/Name
    faking things
  10. Linux Graphics: CUDA, SGC,a dn Nostalgia
    Graphics related stories
  11. Games: GOG Caesar III, Godot 4.4 RC 2, MS-DOS Games, and Android Gaming Handheld
    Games-related picks
  12. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
    Red Hat univverse, the latest
  13. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, and More
    Hardware leftovers
  14. Security Leftovers
    Security news and patches
  15. GNU/Linux, Openwashing, and More
    today's leftovers
  16. Programming Leftovers
    Programming and development news
  17. IBM: Red Hat Purchasing 'Articles', Fedora DEI Events Policy, and More
    Misc. news
  18. today's howtos
    aa second batch of howtos
  19. Every project is a software project
    One thing that came up when discussing the Open Source Project Security Baseline with a colleague was the distinction between software projects and other projects (design, documentation, etc)
  20. Nextcloud Hub 10 Released, Here’s What’s New
    Nextcloud Hub 10, an open-source suite of collaboration and productivity tools
  21. Android Leftovers
    You'll soon type with a physical keyboard on the Pixel 9 Pro, Razr+ and other Android phones
  22. Immich 1.127 Introduces Face Tagging & Memory Enhancements
    Immich 1.127, a self-hosted photo and video backup solution
  23. EdgeDB Rebrands as Gel, Brings Full SQL Support
    EdgeDB is now Gel, fully supports SQL and integrates seamlessly with Postgres
  24. Mozilla: Firefox/Geckodriver 0.36.0 Released, $1 Million from US Taxpayers
    Mozilla picks
  25. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Reverse-Engineering, and More
    Hardware picks
  26. Games: Godot, Steam, and More
    mostly from GamingOnLinux
  27. Security Leftovers
    Security news for this week/today
  28. Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here
  29. Kiwi SOM Featuring Wi-Fi 7 Qualcomm IPQ-9570 Dual USXGMII and PCIe Expansion
    The Kiwi SOM runs Linux OpenWRT
  30. Wayland vs. Xorg: The Ongoing Display Server Battle
    For decades, Xorg has been the dominant display server for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems
  31. FSF/GNU: Free Software Directory Meetings, GNU gettext 0.24 Released
    some GNU news
  32. Trisquel 5.5 STS Brigantia release announcement
    One other advantage of using the fallback as default is that we were able to use it to provide the same desktop layout that many Trisquel users have become attached to
  33. GNU/Linux and Free Software Leftovers
    today's leftovers
  34. Web Browsers: curl, Comet, and More
    Web related picks
  35. Canonical on Kubernetes and Valkey
    Ubuntu's latest
  36. GNOME in GSoC 2025 and App Grid Wizard Puts GNOME Shell Shortcuts into Folders
    some GNOME news
  37. Today in Techrights
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  38. Enterprise Linux, Flatpak, and Red Hat
    IBM stuff
  39. Kernel News and LWN's Latest
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