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Stallman.org Back Online After Long Downtime

He is alive and his site is alive too

Maybe the Last Chance to Sunbathe

Something positive

When Your Own Government Tells You to Stockpile

4 hours ago by Sarah Rainsford:

Moulting Sucks, It Makes Animals Look Unhealthy

Humans don’t have this

Slop and Scrapers Broke Stats

A hard task

Erotica Is Not Music

reat music seems to come not from the present but from the past. This means that great musicians are “greying” and Richard Fenn seems to have virtually retired (in Australia) and the “new face of music” seems to be something like that:

“Art for art’s sake”

Collecting “money” like it’s a form of competition where they track “score”

More Food/Farms, Less Datacentres

No animal can eat datacentres

UK Government Says Start Stocking Up, But It Speaks of Weather, Not the War

It makes sense.

EnzoFC’s Next Home Test

Tomorrow

9to5Linux

LibreOffice 26.2.6 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 30 Bug Fixes

LibreOffice 26.2.5 is here one and a half months after LibreOffice 26.2.5 and brings more bug fixes to address various issues, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users, as well as stability improvements contributed by LibreOffice’s global community of developers, QA engineers, and ecosystem companies.

Grml 2026.09 Linux Distro Is Out with Linux Kernel 7.1, Based on Debian 14 Forky

Coming four months after Grml 2026.04, the Grml 2026.09 release is powered by the Linux 7.1 kernel series and incorporates all the package updates and security patches from the upstream Debian Testing software repositories as of September 2026, which will become Debian 14 “Forky” sometime in 2027.

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.

Audacity 4.0 Open-Source Audio Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of Audacity 4 include a new project manager that prompts you to select your project from the local file system or cloud, create a new one, or copy audio clips across projects, as well as support for Nyquist and VST3 plugins across Linux, macOS, and Windows, and LV2 on Linux, and Audio Units on macOS.

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tails 7.12

Follow our installation instructions.

Internet Society

Empowering Parents in Rwanda Through Digital Literacy Training

On a typical busy morning in Rwanda’s Karongi District, Patrice Nshimiyimana, a 44-year-old father of three, sat down with his phone, about to do something he’d never done before: renew his family’s health insurance online.

LinuxGizmos.com

Tiny OSM-MF module runs Linux on Sitara AM67 and 4-TOPS AI

Ezurio has announced the Carbon AM67 OSM-MF, a compact solder-down module based on Texas Instruments’ Sitara AM67x processor family. The module offers heterogeneous Arm processing, up to 8GB LPDDR4, eMMC storage, 4-TOPS AI acceleration, multi-display and camera support, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and optional Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 6E connectivity.

Rockchip RK3576 module powers edge AI dev kit with 20-TOPS RK1820 accelerator

The reComputer RK3576 compute module is based on Rockchip’s RK3576 SoC, which integrates four Cortex-A72 cores clocked at up to 2.2GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores reaching 2.0GHz. Graphics are handled by an Arm Mali-G52 MC3 GPU, while the integrated NPU provides up to 6 TOPS of INT8 AI acceleration.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 05, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Richard Stallman's Web Site Back Online, But It Seems Like a 2-Months-Old Snapshot
    Latest political notes are dated July 2 (2026)

    New

  2. The Legal Services Board (LSB) Takes on Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for Utter Failures, We'll Resume Our SRA Series to Illuminate How Bad the SRA Really Is
    a quick overview of the latest news
  3. Links 04/09/2026: Notorious Patent Trolls' Judge Enters the Private Sector (Corruption, Revolving Doors), Gloria Steinem's Life in Pictures
    Links for the day
  4. Gemini Links 04/09/2026: Worries, Upgrades, and CS Students
    Links for the day
  5. SPAM Disguised as Benchmark or Comparison: The Register MS "PARTNER CONTENT" is Getting Weirder by the Month
    Sites that promote fake 'coins' or pyramid schemes to their audience(s) aren't worth tolerating
  6. PIPs at IBMs are Layoffs Because They're Impossible to Satisfy (or They Terminate Workers Despite Satisfying Them)
    What insiders say
  7. In the United Kingdom You Can No Longer Make the Assumption People Use Windows (or 'Smart' 'Phone')
    As autumn arrives Microsoft faces a crisis
  8. SLAPP Censorship - Part 171 Out of 200: Talking About Corruption and Violence Against Women
    Today the Labour Party (UK) speaks about corruption
  9. Warming Up for Investigative Journalism About the European Patent Office (EPO), Europe's Second-Largest and Probably Most Corrupt Institution in Europe
    It continues to exploit diplomatic immunity for impunity
  10. Microsoft Handing Out PIPs by the Thousands, Anxiety in GAFAM Building Up
    Years ago I heard from people who pretended to be ill to avoid getting fired
  11. BRICS in the Windows: Brazil's GNU/Linux Share (as Measured by CDN) Has Hit Highest Point in a Month
    The largest Web CDN, Clownflare, sees GNU/Linux at 8.1% right now in Brazil
  12. Corporate Media Will Always Glorify Its Owners (Corporations That Value Nothing But Capital)
    Collecting "money" like it's a form of competition where they track "score"
  13. We'll Never Do Slop!
    Being against slop is not being "left behind"
  14. Thieves Complain About the People They Steal From
    "When you point the finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing back to you"
  15. Links 04/09/2026: "The Rise of the Billionaire Lobby", the "Imperialist Delusions", and Digital Restrictions (DRM) From Nvidia
    Links for the day
  16. Buying From China
    Nations must begin to speak about their digital sovereignty, which Free software is best equipped to grant and best positioned to assure in the face of outside resistance
  17. GNU/Linux Continues to Grow in China
    GNU/Linux reached its highest point in a month
  18. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  19. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 03, 2026
    IRC logs for Thursday, September 03, 2026
  20. Gemini Links 04/09/2026: Forgotten Realms Avatar Series and Slop Plagiarism's Footprint in Gopher/Geminispace
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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