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Updated This Past Day

  1. Mesa 26.1 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
    Mesa 26.1 open-source graphics stack is now available for download with new features and improvements across all supported drivers. Here’s what’s new!
  2. Videos: Recent Shows and Clips About GNU/Linux
    Relayed via Invidious
  3. Inkscape 1.4.4 SVG Editor Released with a New Palette, Performance Improvements
    Inkscape 1.4.4 open-source SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) editor is now available for download with a new palette, performance improvements,and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!
  4. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    Freedom focus today
  5. Web Related News and Frameworks (Including RSS Raves)
    WWW centric news
  6. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    GNU/Linux picks
  7. Updates on Development of EasyOS (Operating Systems Like Puppy)
    a couple of BK posts
  8. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  9. Games: RPCS3 on PS5, Omarchy 3.7.0 for Gamers, and Review of Ink Inside
    gaming news
  10. KDE: Ojas Maheshwari on Font Subsetting and KeepSecret 1.1 Development/Release
    a couple of updates
  11. Open Hardware: Collabora, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and More
    Hardware news
  12. Fedora Looking for Volunteers (Free IBM Labour), Red Hat is Still Mostly About Slop, Not GNU/Linux
    Fedora and Red Hat picks
  13. Mozilla: MozPhab Release, "Trustworthy JavaScript for the Open Web", Lobbying, and PerfCompare
    Mozilla views and news
  14. Security Leftovers
    Security-related news picks
  15. Proprietary Software and Windows TCO
    the bad/worse things
  16. Audiocasts/Shows: Late Night Linux, Some Other Shows, and Growing Issue of Slopcasts/Podslop
    Some shows and concerns
  17. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical links
  18. Why Supercomputers Use Linux Instead Of Windows Or macOS
    If an OS can't be scaled or pivoted to a new task easily, then it's functionally an albatross around the neck that could bring down the project
  19. Android Leftovers
    Your Android TV has a one-click speed boost hiding in plain sight
  20. Thank you, on behalf of ODF
    Recently, The Document Foundation published an open letter to European citizens
  21. Latest Issues of Linux Magazine
    With partial paywall
  22. These free Linux apps made leaving Windows easier than I expected
    But after spending some time with Linux
  23. Linux on PS5 benchmarked, with PlayStation games impressing on Steam Machine alternative
    With a new exploit, Sony’s console can become a capable gaming PC. Using the PS5 on Linux hack
  24. This Linux distro that already rivals Windows 11 just got a significant performance boost
    CachyOS, the Arch-based Linux distribution, is enabling Python tail-call interpreter in order to improve performance significantly
  25. I tried 4 lightweight Linux distros on a 4GB laptop, and one surprised me
    While Linux has always been a bit friendlier toward lower-end hardware
  26. I run a full Linux desktop in Docker just because I can
    My goal was to run a full-fledged Linux desktop inside a container
  27. Steven Deobald: Apologies - The Everyone Environment
    I was too focused on the Foundation’s financial situation, and I did not take the time to fully understand what I was hearing from you all
  28. Games: Unity (Mono) Shipping Slop, Cropdeck, and Steam Controller Hype
    latest from GamingOnLinux
  29. Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion
  30. ShivaOS – Fedora KDE-based Linux distribution designed for gaming
    ShivaOS is a Fedora KDE-based Linux distribution designed for gaming
  31. All Linux gamers should take the latest Bazzite release seriously - here's why
    Want the best possible out-of-the-box gaming experience on Linux

    New

  32. Network Maintenance This Coming Weekend [original]
    If it's hard to reach the site, that might be the reason
  33. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

IBM: The B Turns From "Business" to "Bailouts" to "Buybacks" ("IBM is the Next Intel")
Trying to shore up the falling share price/stocks while veteran workers and Vice President (with high salaries) are cut off
 
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 30, 2026
IRC logs for Saturday, May 30, 2026
IBM CEO Can Become a Billionaire by Laying Off Tens of Thousands of Workers (or Buying Companies Using Borrowed Money, Only to Lay off Thousands in Them)
Like he did Confluent recently
Reminder That Linuxiac is a Slopfarm or Hybrid of Bobby and His LLMs
LLM fetishist that claims to cover Linux
BetaNews is Still Publishing Fake Articles, Sometimes Fake News, or LLM Slop Disguised as 'Journalism'
Slop isn't yet a thing of the past, but hopefully we'll get close to that by the end of this year
Gemini Links 30/05/2026: Writer's Block, Evil GAFAM (Google), and Scepticism of Slop
Links for the day
Links 30/05/2026: Fairphone 6, China’s Rise in Drug Development, Slop Wastes Money Without Delivering Value
Links for the day
Links 30/05/2026: Alarm Over Large Companies Cancelling Slop Contracts, Ozzy Osbourne Resurrection as Slop Draws Ire
Links for the day
Red Hat Exodus or RAs (or PIPs) in 2026 Not Limited to China, IBM is Doing Well at Hiding Layoffs
All we need to know is, does IBM hand out lots of PIPs?
SLAPP Censorship - Part 92 Out of 200: A Spouse Cannot be Turned "On" and "Off" Like a Faucet
Today's part will be very short because we keep the parts shorter in weekends and summer is officially around the corner (June on Monday)
The Register MS Has Just Published Fake Article That Mentions "AI" 23 Times. "Sponsored by Arm." It Does This Every Day.
A lot of the time we see this term everywhere in "the news" simply because slop pushers are paying for it
SQLite Under DDoS Attack by Slop Reports or Fake 'Bugs' (Just Like cURL and Many Other Projects)
Even Linus Torvalds is starting to talk about this
Links 30/05/2026: More GAFAM (Amazon) Mass Layoffs, Peter Schiff Warns of Trillion-Dollar Slop Bubble Waiting to Implode
Links for the day
Slop is Plagiarism
Trillions of dollars down the drain, invested in a dud
Gemini Links 30/05/2026: Rehabilitation and Taming Emacs Cache and Temporary Files
Links for the day
Richard Stallman (RMS) Talks and Secure Transmission of Private Communications in Formats Everybody Can Access With Free Software
Maybe the FSF should step up a bit the campaign to use Free software to communicate with one another
General Consultative Committee (GCC) Discusses Working Conditions of Employees of the European Patent Office (EPO)
On the agenda: Salary Erosion Procedure, Breastfeeding Policy, New Amicale Framework, Public Holidays 2027
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 29, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, May 29, 2026
It's Friday Night Again, So Microsoft is Again Shelving (Under Weekend Lull) Nightmare News for XBox Staff
It did the same thing when the chiefs of XBox got canned
Links 29/05/2026: "Spyware Economy" and Cuba's Energy Crisis
Links for the day
Gemini Links 29/05/2026: Rap Rant and LLMs Criticised
Links for the day
Akira Urushibata on Misleading Numbers From Anthropic's Project Glasswing (False Marketing by FUD Tactics)
Posted yesterday and approved a short while ago
Censorship of Information Unflattering to IBM (or GAFAM)
Years ago we gave a platform to a censored Microsoft whistleblower
Silent Layoffs at Microsoft in 2026
Time will tell is there are investigative journalists out there who will quit parroting Microsoft (e.g. false layoff figures) and relying on LLMs controlled by Microsoft to spew out false "facts" for them
SLAPP Censorship - Part 91 Out of 200: Legal Aid in Support of Freedom of the Press and British Women (Attacked by Americans)
bolstered by prominent counsels
Codecs and Software Patents - Part XII - GNU's Web Site Will Soon Have Many Recent Talks by Chief GNUisance Richard Stallman (RMS)
GNU videos being transcoded or converted into AV1
[Video] Richard Stallman's Rapperswil (Switzerland) Talk Online
accessible without proprietary software
Trusting Trust is an Old Issue, Predating Rust and LLM Slop by Over Half a Century
Microsoft Lunduke wants to make a case against Rust and slop (LLMs), but the issues he addresses aren't exactly new or unique
California Should Have Abandoned So-called 'Age‑Verification Laws', Not Make Exemptions (for Now)
This has nothing to do with 1) children 2) safety 3) safety of children
Links 29/05/2026: Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Feels So Broken, American Pope on Defederation
Links for the day
Techrights Does Not Censor Information About IBM, It Platforms and Retains Suppressed Voices From Inside IBM
They don't like it when people criticise the management [...] panic attacks mentioned
Bob (Robert) Cringely Devoted Three Years of His Life Trying to Profit From LLM Slop and Now He Sounds Off, It's Just Not Working and It Can Crash the Economy Soon
"The labs raising money at valuations with too many zeros are happy"
Techrights After About 60,000 Articles in 20 Years
Sites fail if they don't offer anything new or if they wrongly believe that adopting slop to parrot other sites will give them exposure
Organised Plunder or Robbery: GAFAM and Hardware Companies Rely on Media Bribery to Perpetuate False Narratives and to "Drive Sales" (and Drive Prices Upwards)
The price-fixing seems plausible and, if so, we need to demand action
Linux Foundation Destroys the Identity and History of Linux
Groklaw's PJ was thorn on the side of LF sponsors
The Problem of Microsoft Crimes
Opposing crime isn't "hatred"
The Fall of Slop (Even Microsoft Admits There's a Problem)
If Microsoft admits that slop is too expensive and is for "entertainment purposes" because it cannot be relied upon, why would anyone other than the pushers and profiteers still insist that slop bears potential?
Red Hat Will Die Inside a Dying IBM
IBM isn't where Red Hat came to thrive but where it came to die
Very Large Strike at the European Patent Office Today, "Production" Sank a Huge Deal
At this pace, we might be looking at tens of thousands fewer European Patents being granted this year
Gemini Links 29/05/2026: Leadership and Religion, the Board Game (Second Edition)
Links for the day
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 28, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, May 28, 2026