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AlmaLinux Takes a Wait-and-See Stance on California Age Verification Law

Thu, 04/23/2026 - 22:20
AlmaLinux will take a wait-and-see approach to California’s age verification law while legal and upstream questions remain unresolved.
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FreeBSD Working On Intel FRED Support, Laptop Improvements Continue

Thu, 04/23/2026 - 22:20
FreeBSD is out today with their Q1-2026 status report to outline the many different development initiatives their open-source developers have participated in over the past quarter. There is a lot of hardware enablement efforts ongoing as well as continuing to make a more compelling desktop experience and also improving GUI and management options for FreeBSD systems...
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GitHub opts all CLI users into telemetry collection whether they want it or not

Thu, 04/23/2026 - 22:20
Opt-out instructions included if you're not keen on GitHub watching you in the name of product improvementUsers of GitHub's command-line interface (CLI) who value privacy, beware. The Microsoft-owned code-hosting platform has quietly begun collecting pseudonymous client-side telemetry from CLI users and enabled it by default.…
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Cursor for LibreOffice, Week 4-6

Thu, 04/23/2026 - 22:20
After the previous week I was feeling good about the ACP integration, the research sub-agent, talk to your document, and surviving Quarzadous’s refactor. In common scenarios, the whole thing usually just…worked.
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Intel Ends Open Ecosystem Community/Evangelism, Archives Other Open-Source Projects

Thu, 04/23/2026 - 22:20
Over the past number of months there has been a steady flow of Intel open-source projects archived on GitHub amid the corporate restructuring at the company and realigning of their open-source focus. This week another batch of Intel open-source projects were formally archived...
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OpenVPN 2.7.2 Fixes Two Security Flaws and Improves Password Handling

Thu, 04/23/2026 - 22:20
OpenVPN 2.7.2 fixes two security flaws, adds long password support in the management interface, and includes several bugfixes for Windows users.
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Firefox 151 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing with Improved Settings

Thu, 04/23/2026 - 22:20
With the release of Firefox 150 rolling out today to all supported platforms, Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 151, to the beta channel for public testing, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.
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Many Great Networking Improvements Arrive In Linux 7.1

Thu, 04/23/2026 - 22:20
Merged recently to Linux Git were the big set of networking changes for the Linux 7.1 kernel...
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