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Dogs Bred to Become Weapons of War (or Cops)

Be prepared

“Manchester City broke the record for the most spent by a single club in one summer, with more than €500 million spent on new signings”

Sounds obscene, it’s about money rather than local talent

Russia Has Already (Silently) Declared War on Germany, Hence NATO and EU

Actions speak louder than press releases

Coffee Shrinkflation

Paying more for less.

Social Control Media is Assured Destruction

he site of RMS (online since the 1990s) has been offline for about 3 days. We don’t know what’s taking so long for it to come back online.

Court of Appeal

Science and technology as codified in caselaw

Lessons and Cheap Wake-Up Calls

Remember to save to disk, and do so very often

People In Love

People In Love, probably not easy to find anymore (rare).

The Water Came Too Late

Too much this past week

How Fast Time Goes By

3 years pass by just like that

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tails 7.12

Follow our installation instructions.

New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 16.0a11

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

LinuxGizmos.com

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Embedded platform implements Amlogic A311Y3 octa-core SoC with PCIe 3.0 support

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9to5Linux

Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” Snapshot 3 Is Now Available for Public Testing

Development of Ubuntu 26.10 (codename Stonking Stingray) kicked off on April 30th, 2026, with the usual toolchain upload, based on the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) release, which means that it’s powered by Linux kernel 7.0 and uses the GNOME 50 desktop environment. In time, these will be updated to newer versions.

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Linux Kernel 7.1 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 7.2

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Mozilla Thunderbird 155 Adds Custom OAuth Support for IMAP and SMTP Servers

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Steam Client Now Supports HDR Streaming on Steam Deck OLED

The new stable Steam Client update for September 1st, 2026, is here to introduce support for HDR streaming on Steam Deck OLED via Remote Play, improve video color range on all platforms during Remote Play, and add support for changing accounts while a game is running.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 27, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Gemini Links 26/05/2026: A Year of Composting, Fedora Bricks Itself and Infuriates Users With Slop and Wayland (Not What Users Want, What IBM Wants), Crawlers on Geminispace a Nuisance
    Links for the day
  2. Good Thing When Home Appliances Are Ancient Antiques
    dealing with the alarm has cost only time
  3. The Bloating of the Web Contributes to Global Warming and Causes Burnout (Slowdown, Hardware Erosion, Waste)
    This problem isn't limited to weather sites or subsites
  4. Why It's Ludicrous to Call Us "Microsoft Haters"
    Even if clustered together, news items still cover a broad spectrum (or spectra) of issues
  5. The Old Ways of Computing Were Objectively Better
    Not as fast, but certainly much better

    New

  6. Google: We Are Locking You Out of Your Account (Since 15+ Years Ago) Because You Don't Have a Spyphone We Remotely Control
    Google (GAFAM) is an evil company deep in debt
  7. Red Hat: Bluewashing by IBM, Followed by RAs (Layoffs)
    We could use some hints or evidence related to this
  8. Links 26/05/2026: "Making the Digital Physical"; "The Medical System Abandons Women When They Are Most Vulnerable"
    Links for the day
  9. While US Government Greenlights (or Bluelights) Bailouts for IBM Some Foreign Governments Blacklist It
    "Albany leadership doesn’t know what they are doing but are damn good at pretending they do."
  10. IBM Bailouts and the IBM People Inside the Administration
    It seems possible/plausible that it is bailout money down the drain or that this money will never arrive at all
  11. Links 26/05/2026: Lithium Batteries Causing Fires (Even on Planes), 'Timmy' the Whale Dies
    Links for the day
  12. Pursuing Facts in an Age of Lies and 'Hallucinations' (Falsehoods Without Anyone Accountable, They Try Calling Computer-Generated Lies or Forgeries "Intelligence").
    Our aim is to relay information while bypassing gossip networks like social control media and slop in "search" clothing
  13. Computer-Generated Legal Filings Get You Reported to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)
    We'll write a lot more about this in the future
  14. EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part XII - In the Second-Largest Institution in Europe One Can Take Paid 'Sick Leave' for Doing Cocaine, Then Come Back
    Cocaine addicts in the management were bullying colleagues. They're still in charge.
  15. Sites in Their Twenties
    We currently run concurrently a handful of series and have a lot more in the backlog
  16. SLAPP Censorship - Part 88 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP is Defaming Trans People in America Because Garrett Pays Hired Guns to Silence Them
    Garrett is scoring many own goals this year
  17. Sloppy "Resource Action," (RA) or IBM Layoff, Leads to Another IBM Lawsuit, Alleging IBM Tries to Pass Liability to Algorithms
    IBM is meanwhile resorting to slop to gaslight its remaining shareholders
  18. The Latest IBM Layoff Rumours
    What has happened to the company that invented so much of modern computing?
  19. Holy See Recognises the Threat of GAFAM and Slop
    Will the Holy See move away from GAFAM?
  20. Social Control Media is a Giant Waste of Time (and There Are No Future Remedies for This)
    Social Control Media is considered unhealthy to young people, but it is also collectively unhealthy to nations and nation-building
  21. Codecs and Software Patents - Part X - Florian Müller Still Muddying the Waters for FOSS, Using Software Patents
    Some things never change...
  22. Gemini Links 26/05/2026: Slop Bug Reports and Crawlers Considered Evil
    Links for the day
  23. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  24. IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 25, 2026
    IRC logs for Monday, May 25, 2026

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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