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The Linux Community Is Circumventing Red Hat's Controversial New Strategy
Red Hat’s recent decision to restrict the source code for its enterprise Linux build has led open-source projects big and small to come up with creative strategies to continue to serve their users.
The Red Hat Drama Is Highlighting Open Source Software's Growing Pains
Recent moves by the open-source software company Red Hat point at a growing divide between commercial Linux users and the noncommercial community that supports them.
Worried About Sending Your Data to a Chatbot? 'PrivateGPT' Is Here
Privacy has become a major concern with online AI models that are hooked up to corporate servers.
This Affordable Device Will Let Anyone Connect Their Brain to a Computer
PiEEG aims to let people control robots and computers with their minds, using a Raspberry Pi.
GitHub Users Want to Sue Microsoft For Training an AI Tool With Their Code
“Copilot” was trained using billions of lines of open-source code hosted on sites like Github. The people who wrote the code are not happy.
Private Texts Reveal World’s Rich and Famous Groveling to Elon Musk
Hordes of wealthy and prominent figures acted like Musk's typical reply guys, all clamoring for the chance to get in on his Twitter deal.
How Online Flight Trackers Have Helped People Follow Nancy Pelosi, Taylor Swift, and Russian Oligarchs’ Private Flights
Open-source flight trackers have been repeatedly used to break news over the last few weeks.
Indie Dev Pushes for More Transparency By Open Sourcing Their Own Game Code
Video game development is mysterious, and it's helpful when creators share their work, messy stuff and all, with the world.
Audacity Announced User Data Collection, So Coders Made Their Own Version
The new owners of the free and open-source audio editing software announced the privacy changes, kicking off a furor.
The $149 Smartphone That Could Bring The Linux Mobile Ecosystem to Life
The low-cost PinePhone isn’t a perfect device, but the nuanced ecosystem it’s going to build for Linux-based smartphones is going to be amazing.
Major Internet Projects Are Leaving Freenode After Korean Prince ‘Takeover’
Wikimedia, Ubuntu, Monero, and several other open source organizations have announced that they are moving away from the historical network.
Developers Flee Open Source Project After ‘Takeover’ By Korean Crown Prince
Developers of the popular open source network Freenode are quitting en masse and accusing Andrew Lee, the Crown Prince of Korea, of a “hostile takeover” of the organization.