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As AB 1856 moves on to the Senate, EFF will continue fighting for amendments that reduce those harms: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: CA’s AB 1856 Exempts Open Source But Expands Age-Gating https://t.co/H2su2LoMYa

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We use neither, although we probably should use BleachBit: ClamAV and BleachBit - A one-two punch for Linux security and system maintenance | We Love Open Source • All Things Open https://t.co/2N0nqwl48z

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An open-source event has just been updated on FOSS Force's Calendar of Open Source Events! Nextcloud Summit 2026 https://t.co/QjXbW3Lw9I

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This release contains important security updates to the tor daemon and fixes some censorship circumvention problems: New Release - Tor Browser 15.0.15 | Tor Project https://t.co/C4enqiakBs

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A Debian-based live CD containing Clonezilla, a partition and disk cloning software. The latest release brings Clonezilla Live up to date with Debian's "Unstable" repository: Distribution Release - Clonezilla Live 3.3.2-31 (https://t.co/nCoydocw3O News) https://t.co/lOvjXcRvm2

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Fixes a bug that caused downloads to stall at 99% and improves downloading of blocklist files from remote URLs: Transmission 4.1.2 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Released with Important Fixes - 9to5Linux https://t.co/w7IEsSdZtP

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This release adds the ability to copy the entire scene to another, force-change a scene, and clear all actions in the current scene or in all scenes: Giada 1.4.2 Open-Source Loop Machine Makes Working with Scenes Smoother - 9to5Linux https://t.co/7eFHaxY3yR

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Windows? Is that still a thing?

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Which was the best Windows task bar design?

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Over on the AboutCode blog, lead maintainer Philippe Ombredanne writes about an agentic LLM system porting the ScanCode Toolkit to Rust: Ombredanne - An AI agent ported our codebase from Python to Rust https://t.co/jGmuKWsrz1

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Wow! My buddy benny Vasquez from AlmaLinux wrote something for We Love Open Source: Surviving the fork: How enterprises should respond when an open source project splits | We Love Open Source • All Things Open https://t.co/YHDNHDQjwq

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Official Red Hat NPM accounts push a malicious worm that spreads from machine to machine and pilfers credentials in hopes of stealing yet more confidential data: Dozens of Red Hat packages backdoored through its official NPM channel https://t.co/pbIuMASH8W

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Gentoo basedrelease provides a new live image with the COSMIC desktop and updates the default Linux kernel to version 6.18.33: Distribution Release - MocaccinoOS 26.06 (https://t.co/nCoydocw3O News) https://t.co/VW1eu3OwDW

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Ubuntu-based distribution which makes getting set up and started easy for beginners: Distribution Release - Linux Lite 8.0 (https://t.co/nCoydocw3O News) https://t.co/ic2RciskAv

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Wasn't Mir supposed to go away a long time ago?: Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code - Phoronix https://t.co/mNtwMoKpMB

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With Summer Game Fest approaching and a few smaller events leading up to it, you can easily miss things so Valve has made it a bit easier to follow: With a lot of events and announcements this week - Valve makes it easier to follow https://t.co/C9IsRtRWQq

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Just published on FOSS Force: Longtime Ally Nicole Ozer Becomes EFF’s Executive Director as Cohn Returns to the Courtroom https://t.co/u80IEEaXjX

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The Fedora Project has published interviews with candidates running for the open seats on the Fedora Council, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, Fedora Mindshare Committee, and EPEL Steering Committee: Fedora F44 election interviews published https://t.co/zDevuwCH2O

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FOSS Force published this article of mine you might find interesting yesterday: Euro‑Office Sets June 9 Launch in Bid for EU Digital Sovereignty - FOSS Force https://t.co/bDTkG7FUYk

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Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission: Bringing more transparency to data center construction and the impact those data centers have on nearby communities: Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy | TechCrunch https://t.co/pYoI43dr6N

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This is an interesting post from Steven Deobald, who spend about four weeks as Gnome's executive director last year: Stay and fight. https://t.co/7eqOEwxidk