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9.9 out of 10 severity flaw on Linux, ARM64 & Android support in proton, Valve devs want faster Wayland progress
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Torvalds dismisses Rust haters, Mozilla kills their Mastodon instance, GNOME 47 is out
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KDE's 3 main goals, Plasma 6.2 beta, Square Enix invests in a Linux OS
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Linux grows again, KDE overspends (but it's fine), Ubuntu has upgrade problems
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New Linux Console, Rust and BcacheFS drama, KDE donations
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Microsoft broke Linux dual boots, Google coerces reviewers, GNOME 47 beta
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Could the US break up Google? Deepin 23, SteamOS for other devices
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Cosmic Alpha is out, elementary OS 8 in September, Nvidia scraped videos for its AI
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A few nice Cosmic reveals, Linux market share gains, macOS more vulnerable than Windows
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Firefox's Opt-out ad setting, AI tool pirated movies, SecureBoot broken
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3rd party Bug killed Windows PCs across the world, openSUSE needs to change its name
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Fedora 41 drops X11, Copilot lawsuit dismissed, GNOME 47 looks great
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Fedora Telemetry, Deepin AI, ChromeOS Flex is dead?
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Mozilla sued for discrimination, GNOME without X11, Performance boosts everywhere
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GNOME accent colors, the end of ad blockers and Plasma 6.1
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