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Funding internet freedom together: results from our first participatory funding round

The round officially closed on June 19th, and the results give us reason to be encouraged. Today, we can share that the community showed up: more than $200,000 USD has been raised in total, with $174,536 being distributed to  participating grantee projects.

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TUXEDO Computers Introduces New Kernel Concept for Debian-Based TUXEDO OS

As reported last month, TUXEDO Computers is currently working on rebasing its Ubuntu-based TUXEDO OS on Debian Testing, ditching Ubuntu altogether. The Debian-based TUXEDO OS will still use the KDE Plasma desktop environment tweaked by TUXEDO Computers, so users won’t notice any visible change.

Mozilla Firefox 154 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of Firefox 154 include a new “Manage AI” quick action in the address bar that makes it easier to open the AI section of Settings, support for clearing and updating cached favicons when performing a hard reload on a web page, and the ability to highlight selected text in PDFs like in normal web pages.

GNU Linux-Libre 7.2 Kernel Is Now Available for Software Freedom Lovers

Based on the recently released Linux 7.2 kernel series, the GNU Linux-libre 7.2 kernel is here to clean up blob names in the amdgpu, nova core, qcom iris and q6v5, iwlwifi, amdxnda, adreno, r8152, and mt792x drivers, adjust the firmware loading interfaces, and drop the cleanup of the hci bt3c driver as it was removed upstream.

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NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW Native Linux App Now Stable, Offers Flatpak Support

GeForce NOW ships as a stable release built on feedback gathered from the Linux gaming community. The app offers support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later, and NVIDIA has added a Flatpak repository to make installation and future updates simpler for Linux gamers using GeForce NOW.

Linux Kernel 7.2 Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Highlights of Linux 7.2 include cache-aware load-balancing support, initial HDMI 2.1 FRL support to the AMDGPU driver, support for devres-based management of ACPI notify handlers, initial CRI platform support for the Intel Xe driver, and Rust support for the IBM System/390 (S/390) architecture.

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The biggest change in GIMP 3.4 is a new project file format by default, which follows a more common “zipped XML” structure, supports multi-page and animation features, and enables faster saving by only updating parts of the file instead of the whole project every time. The binary XCF format will still be supported.

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That’s right, it’s been 33 years since the late Ian Murdock announced the Debian Project on August 16th, 1993, and the initial release of Debian GNU/Linux a month later on September 15th, in an attempt to develop the so-called “Universal Operating System.”

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 25, 2026

Techrights Turns 18

Updated This Past Day

  1. Car Companies Fail Because They Don't Manufacture What Costumers Actually Want
    They try to impose their dumb vision on purchasers
  2. Links 24/07/2026: Mass Layoffs at Patreon, Netflix Deemed Bad for People's Brains
    Links for the day
  3. Google Spreads Misinformation, Google's Slop Makes Stuff Up and Calls That "Intelligence"
    Google very well understands (and even publicly admits so, albeit only for legal reasons) that the slop does not work
  4. US is Insolvent, GAFAM is Buying Time by Hiding (Not Disclosing) Its True Debt Which Explains Never-ending Layoffs (Unrelated to Slop or "Efficiency Drives")
    Five Tech Giants are Hiding $1.65tn in AI Debt, Using the Trick that Toppled Enron
  5. PIP Apocalypse (PIPocalypse) at IBM, CEO Promotes Vapouware (Lying to Shareholders)
    Companies get to shrink while lying about it to the public, even to shareholders

    New

  6. Gemini Links 24/07/2026: Animal Friendship, Squirrels, and Lagrange
    Links for the day
  7. Links 24/07/2026: IOC Drops Russia Ban, New Internationalist Raises Money
    Links for the day
  8. Poor Piece From Valnet: Microsoft Keeps Sabotaging GNU/Linux, So You Should Quit Using GNU/Linux
    Really awful take
  9. We Need More Encryption, Not Less of It
    Use Free software and use encryption to ensure sources are fully protected
  10. At 3PM on a Friday The Register MS Collects Some 'Pyramid Scheme' Money From Communist China (ZTE)
    This won't age well for The Register MS
  11. What Freedom Does Not Mean
    Tell Warren Buffett to go skiing; he'll soon understand how much freedom he truly has
  12. Linuxiac is Plagiarism
    We won't link to it, we're done [...] If you wish to support journalism about GNU/Linux, do not visit or link to slop
  13. Verizon is Over 200 Billion Dollars in Debt (US Telecoms Collapsing, Wrapping Up the Failure in "Hey Hi" Clothing)
    They will tell us this is "innovation", not a failure, and that only "Luddites" would oppose this
  14. You've Been Conned If You Ever Believed That MElon (MUSK, Elon) Was a Trillionaire
    Connected to corrupt officials
  15. The People Who Tried to 'Cancel' (or Deplatform/Censor) Daniel Pocock Are Annoyed That He's Mentioned in Dozens of Press Articles
    If Pocock's words did not matter, there would not be such a huge effort to silence him
  16. Cybershow Explains Why Only Sociopaths Gravitate Towards Leadership Position in 'Tech'
    The general thesis is a familiar one
  17. Give Me Your "Dumbest" (Devices)
    Why can't people accept that a "modern "smart" "phone" isn't necessary to check the time (overkill) and playing social control media "on the go" is far from necessary?
  18. Speeding Up 'Down Under': Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania...
    As things stand, the best we can do is let people retrieve pages within less than 0.1 seconds since a request is received
  19. Google's Debt Trebled in Only 9 Months and It's Not Even the Full Picture (There's Secret Debt, Too)
    No wonder there are so many layoffs and workers try to unionise
  20. Microsoft Layoffs in India
    it's about cost-cutting
  21. Deregulation is Blowing Up the Economy, Which Has Become a Multi-Level Scheme or Pyramid Scheme
    Why did only Japanese media call out the BS; is that so hard to figure out and properly report on?
  22. Daniel Pocock Proves Wikipedia is for Rich People or People Who Work for Very Rich People (the True Owners of Wikipedia)
    It's for billionaires and their faithful boot lickers
  23. GNOME: Your Personal Opinions Must Overlap GAFAM's (Otherwise Those Opinions Are Impermissible)
    Get well soon, GNOME
  24. Making Excuses for Stressful, Unrewarding, and Immoral Jobs
    excuses for difficult and/or barely-rewarding jobs. [...] People in tech must not be evaluated (or have their "worth" assessed) based on remuneration
  25. Almost 5 Years Without Social Control Media ('Mind Prison')
    Life is too short to be stuck inside a skinnerbox
  26. Linux Must be About People (Humans), Not Bribery From Slop Companies Trillions of Dollars in Debt and in Pursuit of Positive Press
    We've lost Williams
  27. John Dvorak Understood That "MSM" Was a Vehicle of Censorship
    Independent publishing, which obviates the need to censor (influenced by existing advertisers or lookout for prospective advertisers), is the only credibly thing out there
  28. To Understand Why Linus Torvalds Became a Boot-Licking Booster of Slop Look at Another Operative of 'Linux' Foundation, the "Mentor" of Clickfraud SPAMnil (According to SPAMnil Himself)
    it seems like SJVN does not give a full disclosure
  29. Blaming "Computers" Instead of Blaming Microsoft
    Blaming Microsoft is "hate"
  30. "Online We Are All Refugees" and Slop Pushers Are the Oppressors
    They basically resort to nationalism and racism to distract from their commercial failure and fraud (pyramid scheme)
  31. GNU/Linux Soaring in Antigua And Barbuda
    GNU/Linux is internationally approaching 8%
  32. Calling Out the Worst Culprits in "Linux" Slop (Slopfarms That Manipulate Information and Engage in Plagiarism)
    Once they're gone (offline), the slopfarms cannot carry on for much longer
  33. Defying Discrimination
    Rianne's birthday is exactly a month away
  34. Dan Williams Represented Real Diversity in Linux
    Williams probably understood based on personal experience what it was like to be marginalised and discriminated against
  35. The First Point About Software Freedom is, You Must Understand What It Really Means (Not "Open Source")
    Forty Three Years of Commitment to Software Freedom [...] Educating people about what Software Freedom actually means
  36. Gemini Links 24/07/2026: Recovering From Broken Shoulders, Loss of Passion, and "True Hacker Versus Growth Hacker"
    Links for the day
  37. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  38. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 23, 2026
    IRC logs for Thursday, July 23, 2026

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

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    Span from 2026-07-18 to 2026-07-24
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    2389 /n/2025/01/07/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
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    1315 /n/2026/07/18/PIP_Styled_Mass_Layoffs_Allegedly_Coming_to_Microsoft_by_12_Aug.shtml
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    693 /n/2026/07/20/Canonical_Staff_Acting_Like_They_Aim_to_Receive_Job_Offers_From.shtml
    688 /n/2026/07/21/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    656 /n/2026/07/18/After_5_Years_Vista_11_Still_Adopted_Less_Than_Its_Predecessor_.shtml
    654 /n/2026/07/20/Worsening_Staff_Affairs_at_Microsoft.shtml
    653 /n/2026/07/20/Whistleblowers_Keep_Flowing.shtml
    651 /n/2026/07/19/As_Envisioned_a_Rebellion_and_Many_Whistleblowers_at_Microsoft.shtml
    648 /n/2026/07/20/Daniel_Pocock_in_The_Guardian_This_Morning.shtml
    644 /n/2026/07/19/Links_19_07_2026_The_Voice_of_Google_and_Chinese_Surveillance_T.shtml
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    638 /n/2026/07/21/Arianna_Taite_on_Odds_of_Australian_Daniel_Pocock_Winning_Clact.shtml
    634 /n/2026/07/22/After_Involvement_by_the_Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_LibreTech.shtml
    621 /n/2026/05/08/Over_97_of_the_Linux_Foundation_s_Budget_Goes_Not_to_Linux.shtml
    613 /n/2026/07/21/The_Cyber_Show_on_Technology_Having_Become_a_Tool_of_Mass_Psych.shtml
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