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FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop
Phoronix reports on a presentation about trying FreeBSD on modern Framework laptop from last week’s Open Source Summit hosted by the Linux Foundation:

With FreeBSD having worked on improving its laptop support over the past two years with some big changes and ongoing efforts for making a nice KDE desktop experience on FreeBS … ⌘ Read more

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Friedensmissionen weltweit unter Finanzdruck
Die Finanzierungskrise der internationalen Friedens- und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit sowie geopolitische Spannungen setzen Friedensmissionen weltweit unter Druck. Ein am Freitag veröffentlichter Bericht des Stockholmer Friedensforschungsinstituts (SIPRI) zeigt einen teils drastischen Rückgang von Missionen und Einsatzkräften. Besonders besorgniserregend ist der Rückgang von Missionen der Vereinten Nationen. ⌘ Read more

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QuiznessDesk, Monday, May 25
What is the only country that Denmark borders?
What type of animal is a sidewinder?
Chemically pure gold contains how many carats?
Which Charles Dickens novel featured the character of Tiny Tim?
What is the longest river in France?
Which Lion King character did Jeremy Irons provide the voice for?
Who had a hit in 1982 with Maneater?
In mythology, which of the following did Pegasus have that a normal horse wouldn`t? Wings, a crown, or three eyes?
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Canonical Is Shutting Down Ubuntu Pastebin
“Canonical says Ubuntu Pastebin will be decommissioned at the end of May 2026,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, “as part of an infrastructure modernization effort.”

The announcement only appeared this week, giving the Linux community barely any warning before a service that has been tied to Ubuntu support culture for years suddenly disappears.

Ubuntu Pastebin has long been used for … ⌘ Read more

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Big Barrel to acquire six Glengarry stores
Big Barrel Group is acquiring six Glengarry Wine retail locations across Wellington and Auckland.

The two liquor retailers have agreed to a transition arrangement under which Big Barrel will acquire six Glengarry retail locations – Thorndon and Kelburn in Wellington, and Bassett Road, Parnell, Khyber Pass and Victoria Park in Auckland. ⌘ Read more

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Mozilla Brings Web Serial Workflows to Firefox, Collaborates With Adafruit
The Web Serial API lets websites write to (and read from) serial devices using JavaScript, including USB and Bluetooth devices with virtual serial ports. And this week’s Firefox 151 release introduced support for the Web Serial API on desktop.

“Most folks won’t use this API,” acknowledges Mozilla’s blog, “but for our community … ⌘ Read more

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Disney’s ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu’ Opens to ‘Mixed’ Box Office Results
It’s “the first time in seven years that a new Star Wars film has launched on the big screen,” writes CNBC. And Variety notes it’s expected to earn $102 million through Monday:

[B]ox office analysts are mixed on the results. On one hand, it’s significant for any film to debut above $100 million in post- … ⌘ Read more

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Entsetzen nach Einsatz von Oreschnik-Rakete
Einer der schwersten Angriffe Russlands auf die ukrainische Hauptstadt Kiew seit Beginn des russischen Angriffskrieges hat am Sonntag für viel Entsetzen gesorgt. Zahlreiche Staats- und Regierungsspitzen verurteilten vor allem den Einsatz der russischen Mittelstreckenrakete vom Typ Oreschnik. Bei den schweren Angriffen wurden mindestens vier Menschen getötet und über 100 weitere verletzt. Auch zahlreiche Gebäude in allen Teilen Kiews wurden zerstört. ⌘ Read more

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Apple Preparing New ‘Gen AI’ Website Ahead of WWDC — and New AI Features?
Apple just registered a new subdomain record: genai.apple.com.

The domain was spotted by a MacRumors contributing researcher, and though it doesn’t yet lead to a live web page, they believe it’s tied to Apple’s annual developers conference WWDC which starts June 8, “where the company has promised to announce ‘AI advancements’ … ⌘ Read more

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Face au fiasco de la guerre états-unienne, la victoire d’étape de l’Iran
Téhéran et Washington seraient sur le point de signer un accord intérimaire. Une reprise des négociations pendant 60 jours est attendue. Tout ce qui est épineux et conflictuel, comme le dossier nucléaire, a été reporté à la seconde phase. ⌘ Read more

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They’re first-home buyers, but not as we’ve known them
Christchurch couple Charlotte and Hamish would have struggled to get into their first house without financial assistance and moral support from their parents.

Charlotte, a 26-year-old librarian, and Hamish, a physio, settled on their five-bedroom Avonside home in February, but not before a building report revealed substandard DIY earthquake repairs on the property. ⌘ Read more

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Public service squeeze: Fat to trim or muscle to cut
Can we really shave 8,000 from the core government sector, taking it from in excess of 63,000 to around 55,000?

The sentiment is fine, but one suspects this will be a bit like the commitment for New Zealand to invest US$20 billion (NZ$34b) in India over the coming 15 years; an aspirational target. ⌘ Read more

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Will Budget 2026 solve the case of the missing courthouse PPP?
Could the case of the missing courthouse public-private partnership be solved on Budget day?

The building of Waitākere and Rotorua courthouses through public-private partnership (PPP) was one of the headline projects on offer for infrastructure builders at a splashy Investment Summit held by the Government in March 2025. ⌘ Read more

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Zespri nears year-round kiwifruit supply goal within two to three years
Zespri is two or three years away from “bridging the gap” in supply between its New Zealand and Northern Hemisphere fruit.

In the north it is grown largely in Europe as well as Japan and South Korea, and the kiwifruit marketer sold 32.3 million trays of Northern Hemisphere fr … ⌘ Read more

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GitHub Copilot & Claude Code Helped With Graphics, WiFi Linux Driver Issues This Week
For those curious about the growing use of AI and coding agents within the Linux kernel, this week there was another large batch of new patches fixed that were generated or co-authored by agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot… ⌘ Read more

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Wind and Solar Generated More Power Than Gas Globally in April
Last month saw a world first, reports Electrek. Wind and solar generated more power globally than gas:

According to new analysis from independent energy think tank Ember, wind and solar produced 22% of the world’s electricity in April 2026, compared to 20% from gas. Together, the two renewable sources generated a record 531 terawatt-hours (TWh) … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » I just realized that this book, which I’m still using as a reference every now and then, is from 2005.

@tftp@tilde.town Ah, I see. I have a feeling that a lot of stuff is going on under the hood all the time and it’s mostly the userland-visible things that stay the same? 🤔 But yeah, some stuff is really, really old, like the TCP code I’ve recently (tried to) read.

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