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Ventuno Q runs Ubuntu on Dragonwing IQ8 with 40-TOPS NPU along with real-time STM32H5

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Debian Project Formalizes Responsible Use of Generative AI

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California’s Age Attestation Bill to Exclude Linux and All Open Source OSes

This follows months of uncertainty across the open source world, but the bill cleared the Senate this week with unanimous support and now heads to Governor Gavin Newsom, who signed the original act into law last October.

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  1. Sonny Piers Finally Spills the Beans on GNOME Cover-up, Points Finger at Robert McQueen, Misusing "Defamation" to Silence Critics of Wrongdoing
    Robert McQueen, who is extremely connected to Garrett (they share digital nests)
  2. Techrights Was Months Ahead of "XBox" News (Mass Layoffs)
    Next: end of XBox as a console
  3. More Commentary on June 2026 IBM Layoffs and Why They Happen
    It sounds a lot like what happened to the EPO
  4. The Cyber Show: Remember That Code is Art
    The article is very long, very profound, and speaks of "the next installation"

    New

  5. SLAPP Censorship - Part 104 Out of 200: Exactly Two Years Ago Brett Wilson LLP Humiliated or Weaponised Our Solicitor's Judaism in an Effort to Censor and Gag Us
    dated 12/06/24
  6. Half a Year Since Slopwatch Died
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  7. Links 12/06/2026: Science, Windows TCO, and More
    Links for the day
  8. "AI" 46 Times in One 'Article' Because The Register MS Got Paid to Push it
    Today is just another opportunity to remind people that the slop bubble and GPU bubble are based on inauthentic fake 'journalism'
  9. Gemini Links 12/06/2026: FTP and Gopher, Cluster Outage Postmortem After Cleaning by Wife
    Links for the day
  10. European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Transcending Partisan Rivalry in the National Interest
    Up until now, Campinos has generally been regarded as a Portuguese "asset" on the international stage
  11. Gratitude to Whistleblowers or Sources of Techrights
    Whistleblowers are what makes journalism work
  12. Links 12/06/2026: "NearlyFreeSpeech" No More, Openwashing by Google (DiffusionGemma)
    Links for the day
  13. Today There's a Massive EPO Strike (Like Every Friday), Workers Explain Further Cuts Despite the EPO Making More Income by Granting Illegal Patents (or Invalid Patents Illegally)
    "Recent exchange with the Administration on the implications of the SAP on the Education and Childcare Allowance"
  14. Communicating With Freedom - Part IV - Quibble Now in quibble.chat, Open for Contributions Via Codeberg
    Today we continue the series about Quibble
  15. European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The Importance of Having "Pals from the Palacete"
    for his reappointment bid to succeed, Campinos will need to be able to rely on the support of both the Portuguese Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, and the President of the European Council, António Costa
  16. Cyber Show on How Updates or Upgrades Break Workflows, Even in Free Software
    "We did a big upgrade on the AV production pipeline"
  17. Discussions About IBM Layoffs in June, Including by RTO and PIPs
    mass layoffs are becoming increasingly difficult to conceal
  18. Gemini Links 12/06/2026: Decks and Work Essay
    Links for the day
  19. "Rolling Strikes" Continue at the European Patent Office, the Administrative Council Needs to Take Action Against Crooked Office Management
    This coming weekend we'll talk about some of the other issues and concerns expressed by the union
  20. Only Days After Mass Layoffs in Microsoft's Azure There Are Headlines About Much-Expected XBox Layoffs
    XBox as a console is basically dead or "fast-dying"
  21. Over at Tux Machines...
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