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Safety Over Bans: Internet Society Challenges App Store Age Verification

Imagine having to provide a government ID before downloading an app to clock in at work, submit homework, check the weather, or access your bank account. Under a new Texas law, that could become a reality for millions of people.

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KDE Frameworks 6.28 Released with Support for New KRunner Conversion Units

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Ubuntu 25.10 Reached End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Ubuntu 25.10 was released on October 9th, 2025, and, since it’s not an Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) release, it only received support for nine months, until July 2026. Ubuntu 25.10 was powered by the Linux 6.17 kernel series and featured the GNOME 49 desktop environment series with a Wayland-only session.

PipeWire 1.6.8 Improves JACK/MIDI Support for Ardour, SOFA Filter, and More

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Wireshark 4.6.7 Released with Updated Protocol Support, Bug and Security Fixes

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GStreamer 1.28.5 Multimedia Framework Adds Support for H.266/VVC Decoding

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 27, 2024

Sunset on the Bay of Danang, Central Vietnam

Updated This Past Day

  1. A Week After a Worldwide Windows Outage Microsoft is 'Bricking' Windows All On Its Own, Cannot Blame Others Anymore
    A look back at a week of lousy press coverage, Microsoft deceit, and lessons to be learned

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  2. Links 26/07/2024: Tesco Cutbacks and Fake Patent Courts
    Links for the day
  3. Links 26/07/2024: Grimy Residue of the 'AI' Bubble and Tensions Around Alaska
    Links for the day
  4. Gemini Links 26/07/2024: More Computers and Tilde Hosting
    Links for the day
  5. Links 26/07/2024: "AI" Hype Debunked and Elon Musk's "X" Already Spreads Political Disinformation
    Links for the day
  6. "Why you boss is insatiably horny for firing you and replacing you with software."
    Ask McDonalds how this "AI" nonsense with IBM worked out for them
  7. No Olympics
    We really need to focus on real news
  8. Nobody Holds the GNOME Foundation Accountable (Not Even IRS), It's Governed by Lawyers, Not Geeks, and Headed by a Shaman Crank
    GNOME is a deeply oppressive institutions that eats its own
  9. [Meme] The 'Modern' Web and 'Linux' Foundation Reinforcing Monopolies and Cementing centralisation
    They don't care about the users and issuing a few bytes with random characters costs them next to nothing. It gives them control over billions of human beings.
  10. 'Boiling the Frog' or How Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) is Being Abandoned at Short Notice by Let's Encrypt
    This isn't a lack of foresight but planned obsolescence
  11. When the LLM Bubble Implodes Completely Microsoft Will be 'Finished'
    Excuses like, "it's not ready yet" or "we'll fix it" won't pass muster
  12. "An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs"
    The lesson of this story is, if you do evil things, bad things will come your way. So don't do evil things.
  13. When Wikileaks Was Still Primarily a Wiki
    less than 14 years ago the international media based its war journalism on what Wikileaks had published
  14. The Free Software Foundation Speaks Out Against Microsoft
    the problem is bigger than Microsoft and in the long run - seeing Microsoft's demise - we'll need to emphasise Software Freedom
  15. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 25, 2024
    IRC logs for Thursday, July 25, 2024
  16. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  17. Links 26/07/2024: E-mail on OpenBSD and Emacs Fun
    Links for the day
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    1993 /n/2024/07/21/High_Adoption_Rates_for_GNU_Linux_in_Albania_According_to_statC.shtml
    1843 /n/2024/07/22/For_the_First_Time_Since_May_Linux_com_Linux_Foundation_Publish.shtml
    1824 /n/2024/07/22/The_Ludicrous_Idea_That_GNU_Linux_is_a_Poor_Man_s_Operating_Sys.shtml
    1563 /n/2024/07/21/For_the_First_Time_Microsoft_s_Market_Share_in_North_Macedonia_.shtml
    1478 /n/2024/07/21/Only_a_Quarter_of_Web_Requests_in_Micronesia_Traced_Back_to_Mic.shtml
    1179 /n/2024/07/22/Why_the_Media_is_Dying_It_Sucks_No_Mentally_Healthy_People_Will.shtml
    1134 /n/2024/07/21/Your_F_U_D_is_Already_Showing_Microsoft.shtml

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