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Ubuntu 27.04 “Tenacious T-Rex” Is Slated for Release on April 22nd, 2027

Ubuntu 27.04 “Tenacious T-Rex” will be Canonical’s 46th Ubuntu release, and it’s an interim one that will be supported with software and security updates for only nine months, until January 2028, targeting bleeding-edge Ubuntu users who are willing to trade Ubuntu LTS’s stability for the latest technologies.

Mozilla Firefox 158 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 03, 2026

History of the Earth and Animated Nature (1825)

Updated This Past Day

  1. Machine-Generated Legal Documents, Over 2,000 Pages Sent to Us Today Alone
    We now know that the papers we receive are produced using bots (algorithms)
  2. 2026 Microsoft Mass Layoffs in So-called 'AI' Datacentres, Why Doesn't the Mainstream Media Cover The News?
    What does this tell us about the state of the media?

    New

  3. Tomorrow should be sunny (at long last!) and a generally productive dayProductive Week Ahead
    Tomorrow should be sunny (at long last!) and a generally productive day
  4. Only One Slopfarm Seems to Have Targeted "Linux" Today
    It certainly does feel like the slop hype is reaching the "late life crisis" and companies that benefited from this bubble are overdue for a day of reckoning
  5. Microsoft Mass Layoffs: Being Sacked at 1AM in the Morning
    Watch what happens to Microsoft employees who get pregnant
  6. Links 02/03/2026: More Social Control Media Bans, Climate Change Woes, and "Journalist With Germany's Deutsche Welle Arrested in Turkey"
    Links for the day
  7. Gemini Links 02/03/2026: Small Phones, "I 3D Printed My Brain", and "Managing 5 Servers at Once with tmux"
    Links for the day
  8. IBM is Trying to Hide Mass Layoffs, Not Only With NDAs and 'Scripted' LinkedIn Posts
    From what we can gather (screenshot above), today many people leave IBM and Red Hat
  9. Richard Stallman is Giving a Public Talk This Week (Friday in Lucerne School of Computer Science and Information Technology)
    His birthday is just around the corner.
  10. Windows Falls to New Low in World's Largest Population (India)
    Windows is now down to 7%
  11. Never Miss a Good Opportunity to Shut Up and Drink Coffee
    Threats come at a cost; each time you issue a threat you stigmatise yourself as a bully
  12. Last Month Matthew Garrett Said Ridiculous Things After His Spouse Had Called Him a "Rapist", Now He's Trying to Take the Site Offline and Put My Family in Prison
    The real issue of concern to him (and his alleged reputation) is the spouse and the matter is to be dealt with in America, not the UK
  13. Reporting to Our Politicians/MPs the Failure of the SRA to Stop Hired Guns Who Help Americans (Men Who Attack Women and Nowadays Also Attack British Reporters)
    About a month ago my wife wrote to politicians to get the ball rolling
  14. The Topic Many People Don't Want to Talk or Write About
    "DEI" is inherently about making racial and gender patterns better reflect society's
  15. XBox is Virtually Dead Already, What Next Will Die at Microsoft?
    Now that there are mass layoffs at Microsoft datacentres it is not premature to speculate about what dies after XBox
  16. For the First Time, statCounter Measures Internet Explorer at 0.01% "Market Share"
    What Microsoft replaced it with is just a Chrome clone with extra spyware
  17. Was a Lot of "Windows" and "Unknown" in Iran Just GNU/Linux in Disguise?
    more than 1 in 10 desktop/laptop requests is estimated to be GNU/Linux
  18. "Here in the UK, GNU/Linux rose to all-time high at Windows' expense"
    Will this entail Software Freedom as well? This depends on all of us
  19. Links 02/03/2026: Claude Code Causes a Mexican Government Cyberattack, "London Repair Week" Noted
    Links for the day
  20. Don't Fall for "Top X Law Firms" in "Discipline Y", They Pay $Z to Get False Endorsement/s
    It's a scheme, a scam, an elaborate fraud
  21. More Publishers Have Turned From Slop Boosters Into Slop Sceptics and Critics
    There's a "hidden cost" when one participates (for profit) in "pump and dump" schemes
  22. TeX Live Has New Release, But Planet Debian Won't Tell You That
    It 'unpersoned' the developer
  23. LLM Slop Does Not Know People (It Knows Nothing) and Cannot Distinguish Between People. It's a Recipe for Disaster.
    no way of knowing who's who
  24. "Over 1,100 Law Firms Gone in Five Years" in the United Kingdom (UK) Alone
    There are basically way too many lawyers (looking for "business", e.g. threats and lawfare) and not enough positions to fill
  25. Microsoft FUD From Microsoft Site Helps Distract From Actual Microsoft Back Doors
    Published on a Sunday
  26. Free Software Foundation Needs to Become More Active in Europe to Avoid Impersonation by Microsoft-Sponsored Groups
    So far we've hardly seen the FSF saying anything at all about the US president
  27. Links 02/03/2026: "Not Envious of Billionaires" and Palantir SLAPPs "Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn't Want Palantir"
    Links for the day
  28. There Has Never Been a Better Time to Quit Social Control Media
    Those networks are selling something. And that something is not peace because peace does not sell "attention".
  29. Microsoft Users Drowning in Slop, If They Complain Microsoft Censors Them
    Like an authoritarian regime
  30. IBM is Killing Red Hat's Portfolio - Including Linux - to Prop Up Ponzi Scheme ("AI")
    IBM is killing Red Hat
  31. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  32. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 01, 2026
    IRC logs for Sunday, March 01, 2026
  33. Speed of Sites Matters
    Being easily accessible all the time matters to us
  34. Gemini Links 02/03/2026: Weird Phone Calls, Small Phones, and Exploring Racket
    Links for the day
  35. Dr. Andy Farnell on "Good Tech"
    in the age of "rent everything" and "own nothing"
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KDE Frameworks 6.31 open-source software suite is out now with various improvements to System Settings and other KDE apps and core components.
This Week in Plasma: Finishing Touches on 6.8
This week, Plasma contributors put the finishing touches on Plasma 6.8, which is due to be released early next week, on October 14th
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Raspberry Pi puts digital handcuffs on RAM upgrades
Because of the DRM installed in these Raspberry Pi computers, machines that should be able to boot or read that there is sufficient memory are blocked from doing so
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