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AlmaLinux Day will take place on Saturday, July 18th, 2026, from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the E-Central DTLA Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, covering hot topics like cloud rendering economics, GPU pipelines, Linux infrastructure, and the use of open-source within the professional visual effects, animation, and post-production industries.

openSUSE Releases Agama 21 Installer with Better Network Management

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Tails 7.8 Anonymous Linux OS Patches Recent Kernel Flaws, Removes Thunderbird

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Firefox 152 Enters Public Beta Testing with Many Changes and Improvements

Firefox 152 continues to modernize the Firefox settings by adding icons in front of each subcategory, renaming the Home section to “Home and startup”, and moving the Sync section under the General section.

HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 3.26.4 Drivers Add Support for New Printers

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 Released with Optional Command-Line AI Assistant

Highlights of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 include an optional command-line AI assistant called goose that can be installed from the extensions repository for faster and more responsive access to insights and commands, color output support to the RHEL command-line assistant, and customer-controlled security in image mode.

HP Is the Latest to Sponsor the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)

This comes as great news after Dell and Lenovo announced earlier this month their support for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), which provides a portal for device firmware updating on Linux-based operating system via the fwupd software.

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On Global Accessibility Awareness Day, An Internet for Everyone Must Include Everyone

Today, 21 May, marks the 15th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)—a day dedicated to getting everyone talking, thinking, and learning about digital access and inclusion for people with disabilities.

LinuxGizmos.com

MeshToad V3 turns Linux systems into Meshtastic nodes

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 22, 2026

Octopus in the Pacific Ocean

Updated This Past Day

  1. Techrights and Tux Machines Subjected to Cyberattacks for Several Weeks
    In the past I spoke to the cybercrime unit of British Police. Maybe it's time to do so again.
  2. Microsoft Under Investigation for Breaches of Law in the UK
    Just like the Microsofters

    New

  3. Links 21/05/2026: "Declining America" and Why Slop 'Code' is Made to Fail
    Links for the day
  4. The Register MS Has Become a 'Content' Farm Promoting Slop for Hostile Corporations
    Now they call it "PARTNER CONTENT" - not "SPONSORED" - as if semantics make the difference
  5. Latest Example of Widespread Fake Assertions (False News) About "Hey Hi"
    The false narrative of "Hey Hi layoffs"
  6. Links 21/05/2026: Facebook Rewarded With Tax Breaks to Destroy the Environment and Cause Global Warming, Shortages, Pollution; SpaceX (SPCX) Continues Losing Billions of Dollars
    Links for the day
  7. Codecs and Software Patents - Part VIII - GNU Audio/Video Team Has Chosen the AV1 Video Codec and It Explains Why (They've Researched Their Options)
    AV1 video codec will be used to encode and share GNU videos online
  8. Dr. Stallman Helps Establish Free Software Advocacy Outside the Free Software Foundation (FSF) as Well
    The ideals or principles of Free Software needn't be centralised or monopolised; they can be federated
  9. 22 Years of Tux Machines and a Community Stronger Than Ever Before
    We've already received some feedback from the community and improved it accordingly
  10. More Microsoft Layoffs on the Way (June and July 2026)
    with or without PIPs
  11. LWN Sponsored by the Linux Foundation (Monopolies)
    We must be able to casually point this out
  12. The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XXIX - European Patent Office (EPO) Tells Staff "Speaking up" is Good, But Not When the "Brother-in-law" of EPO's President Does Cocaine
    Do we still have a functioning democracy and potent press?
  13. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  14. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 20, 2026
    IRC logs for Wednesday, May 20, 2026
  15. Gemini Links 21/05/2026: Immigration, Slop, and Slop 'Code' Suggestions Infesting Code Repositories
    Links for the dayGemini Links 21/05/2026: Immigration, Slop, and Slop 'Code' Suggestions Infesting Code Repositories
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2026-05-15 to 2026-05-21
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    2465 /n/2026/05/19/Torvalds_Capitulated_on_Rust_and_Slop_Now_He_s_Paying_the_Price.shtml
    2386 /n/2024/09/15/Very_Few_Invidious_Instances_Still_Work_for_Video_Playback.shtml
    1842 /n/2026/05/18/Gemini_Links_18_05_2026_Poetry_Sauna_and_GNU_Taler.shtml
    1486 /index.shtml
    1381 /n/2026/05/17/Gemini_Links_17_05_2026_arXiv_Brings_Down_the_Hammer_UnderPOWER.shtml
    1107 /n/2025/11/17/Plan_for_European_Patent_Office_EPO_Coverage_This_Month_Next_Mo.shtml
    1073 /n/2026/05/12/In_Croatia_Microsoft_Windows_Share_Sank_From_98_to_All_Time_Low.shtml
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    840 /browse/latest.shtml
    839 /n/2026/05/17/Fight_Till_the_End.shtml
    833 /n/2026/05/17/Cyber_Show_UK_is_Already_Available_Over_Gemini_Protocol.shtml
    772 /n/2026/05/18/Cooperation_and_Collaboration_on_a_More_Personal_Level.shtml
    763 /n/2026/05/15/IBM_s_Kyndryl_in_Trouble_Mass_Layoffs_Payroll_Problems_Buybacks.shtml
    757 /n/2026/05/16/AI_Became_a_New_Name_or_Placeholder_for_Debt.shtml
    740 /n/2026/05/18/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    737 /n/2026/05/19/Gemini_Links_19_05_2026_Reliable_Old_Tech_Collection_of_Essays.shtml
    719 /n/2026/05/19/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    697 /n/2026/05/18/Trips_to_London.shtml
    693 /n/2026/05/18/The_Corrupt_Lecture_the_Non_Corrupt_Part_XXVI_Campinos_Has_Put_.shtml
    691 /n/2026/05/18/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_80_Out_of_200_Having_Run_Out_of_Time_to_M.shtml
    688 /n/2026/05/15/Codecs_and_Software_Patents_Part_VII_Entering_Phase_II_the_Batt.shtml
    688 /n/2026/05/17/Finland_Needs_to_Dump_Microsoft_Microslop_for_National_Security.shtml
    686 /n/2026/05/17/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_79_Out_of_200_They_Will_Soon_Reach_the_10.shtml
    685 /n/2026/05/15/ICYMI_GNU_Linux_Did_Not_Start_in_Finland.shtml
    681 /n/2026/05/19/The_Corrupt_Lecture_the_Non_Corrupt_Part_XXVII_European_Patent_.shtml
    676 /n/2026/05/18/Working_in_the_Shell_and_Fish.shtml
    670 /n/2026/05/19/Techrights_at_20_Soon.shtml
    663 /n/2026/05/15/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    663 /n/2026/05/17/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    662 /n/2026/05/19/Head_of_GitHub_Recently_Left_Microsoft_Need_No_Longer_Report_Ma.shtml
    659 /n/2026/05/17/The_Corrupt_Lecture_the_Non_Corrupt_Part_XXV_Not_Bringing_Intel.shtml
    659 /n/2026/05/18/Links_18_05_2026_25_Years_of_OLDaily_and_Dangers_of_Living_With.shtml
    656 /n/2026/05/15/Up_to_10_000_Microsoft_Layoffs_in_a_Couple_of_Months.shtml
    652 /n/2026/05/16/IBM_Shares_Down_30_Mass_Layoffs_IBM_Says_Goodwill_Grew_by_10_to.shtml
    650 /n/2026/05/18/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_May_17_2026.shtml
    649 /n/2026/05/19/The_Slop_Bubble_is_Already_Bursting.shtml
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