foss-weekly-#2643:-kernel-7.3,-non-linux-os,-de-googled-phone,-duxos,-podcasts,-de-bloating-tvs,-kde-dock-and-more

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Steam’s Linux client is going 64-bit and containerized. Running the client inside Steam Runtime containers, like its games already do, should make it behave more consistently across different distros. Ubuntu 26.10 is out now. This interim release completes the rustification of core utilities, adds Sequoia PGP to the main archive,Continue Reading

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Gay pop star Troye Sivan reflects on his “complicated relationship with men” and masculinity in a new intimate video. The 31-year-old “She’s the Best” hitmaker opened up about his schooling experience and that one person seeing a “real version” of him was a formative moment.  Sivan shared these details appearingContinue Reading

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Claim: The Office of the President announced the official removal of Grades 11 and 12 from the country’s education system. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: A Facebook user posted a supposed statement from the Office of the President, purportedly signed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. It read: “Inanunsyo naContinue Reading

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AI stocks tumble as investors question how much spending, borrowing and optimism the sector can still sustain. Investors rush back into government bonds as expectations for a December Fed rate hike fade. And oil climbs above $114 a barrel as reports suggest the US and Israel could be preparing newContinue Reading

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Sergei Kiriyenko, first deputy chief of staff of the Russian Presidential Administration, set the goals for the Ukraine strand of the operation, launched in early 2023 under the codename “Uganda.” Alexander Kharichev, now head of the Kremlin’s Directorate for Monitoring and Analysis of Social Processes, oversaw it, according to hackedContinue Reading

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These truly-through-the-looking-glass days, it seems the drunk uncle you really didn’t wanna ask to dinner is getting worse. Scarily and no longer mirthfully, the befuddled “head” of a GOP blitzed on projection daily spirals deeper into phantasmagoria – slurring words, crafting fictions, renaming oceans, rekindling grievances, losing it over triflesContinue Reading