Open Source Stories

Google Removes RISC-V Support From Android Common Kernel, Denies Abandoning Its Efforts 31
Bruce Perens Emits Draft Post-Open Zero Cost License 73
T2 Linux 24.5 Released 22
America's Commerce Department is Reviewing China's Use of RISC-V Chips 130
The 'Ceph' Community Now Stores 1,000 Petabytes in Its Open Source Storage Solution 25
Open Sourcing DOS 4 82
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 'Noble Numbat' Officially Released 34
Home Assistant Has a New Foundation, Goal To Become a Consumer Brand 33
Is Rivos Building an RISC-V AI Chip? 10
openSUSE Factory Achieves Bit-By-Bit Reproducible Builds 22
The Linux Foundation's 'OpenTofu' Project Denies HashiCorp's Allegations of Code Theft 33
Rust, Python, Apache Foundations and Others Announce Big Collaboration on Cybersecurity Process Specifications 42
OpenBSD 7.5 Released 62
Databricks Claims Its Open Source Foundational LLM Outsmarts GPT-3.5 17
Thorium: The Fastest Open Source Chromium-based Browser? 55
In Development Since 2019, NetBSD 10.0 Finally Released 37
Major Mobile NFT Shooter Game 'MadWorld' Uses Linux Foundation Subsidiary's Game Engine 29
Linux Foundation Launches Valkey As A Redis Fork 12
'Software Vendors Dump Open Source, Go For the Cash Grab' 120
Redis To Adopt 'Source-Available Licensing' Starting With Next Version 44
GNOME 46 Released 49
Grok AI Goes Open Source 38
Free/Libre 'GnuCOBOL' Compiler Reaches Maturity, Can Compete with Proprietary Offerings 49
Linux Distributors' Alliance Continues Long-Term Support for Linux 4.14 19
OpenTTD (Unofficial Remake of 'Transport Tycoon Deluxe' Game) Turns 20 17
Fedora Workstation 41 To No Longer Install GNOME X.Org Session By Default 75
Feds To Offer New Support To Open-Source Developers 12
Why Desktop Linux Is Finally Growing In Popularity 188
Linux Passes 4% Desktop Market Share 199
'Communications of the ACM' Is Now Open Access 25
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Fraud Prevention Solutions, Supported By Gates Foundation 20
French Court Issues Damages Award For Violation of GPL 52
Avoiding Common Pitfalls When First Contributing To Open Source 20
'Paying People To Work on Open Source is Good Actually' 40
Cloudflare Makes Pingora Rust Framework Open-Source 5
KDE Plasma 6 Released 35
'Open Documentation Academy' Offers On-Ramp To OSS 4
Service Mesh Linkerd Moves Its Stable Releases Behind a Paywall 13
Bluesky Now Open To Federation 26
Valve Makes All Steam Audio SDK Source Code Available Under Apache 2.0 License 12
VC Firm Sequoia Capital Begins Funding More Open Source Fellowships 15
Linux Becomes a CVE Numbering Authority (Like Curl and Python). Is This a Turning Point? 20
Will 'Precision Agriculture' Be Harmful to Farmers? 61
AMD's CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm Is Now Open Source 29
Mozilla's Abandoned Web Engine 'Servo' is Rebooting in 2024 56
Meet 'Smaug-72B': The New King of Open-Source AI 37
Bluesky Opens To the Public 62
Hugging Face Launches Open Source AI Assistant Maker To Rival OpenAI's Custom GPTs 11
'Linux Foundation Energy' Partners With US Government on Interoperability of America's EV Charging 21
Mark Zuckerberg Explains Why Meta Open-Sources Its AI 36
Mistral Confirms New Open Source AI Model Nearing GPT-4 Performance 18
Open-Source Intelligence Challenges CIA, NSA, Spy Agencies 10
Hans Reiser Sends a Letter From Prison 181
Python Software Foundation Says EU's 'Cyber Resilience Act' Includes Wins for Open Source 18
The Next Front in the US-China Battle Over Chips 87
What's Next for Mozilla - and for Open Source AI? 33
Jabber Was Announced on Slashdot 25 Years Ago This Week 32
Since the Demise of Atom, 'Pulsar' Offers an Alternative Code Editor 24
2023 and 'the Eternal Struggle Between Proprietary and Open Source Software' 55
What Comes After Open Source? Bruce Perens Is Working On It 89
FSF Shares Holiday Fairy Tale Warning 'Don't Let Your Tools Control You' 25
Iterate.ai Open Sources a New AI System That Can Recognize Weapons 42
Study Shows 38% of Java Apps Still Affected By Log4Shell 25
Mistral Says Mixtral, Its New Open Source LLM, Matches or Outperforms Llama 2 70B and GPT3.5 on Most Benchmarks 20
How AlmaLinux's Community Supported RHEL Binary Compatibility 41
Apple Launches MLX Machine-Learning Framework For Apple Silicon 31
Veteran Editors Notepad++ and Geany Hit Milestone Versions 21
NotePad++ 20th Anniversary Edition Includes New 'Multi-Edit' Feature 56
OpenZFS Fixes Data Corruption Issue 39
Meta Says There's Been No Downside To Sharing AI Technology 30
Roundcube Open-Source Webmail Software Merges With Nextcloud 14
Continuing Commitment to Open Access, CERN Launches New Open Source Program Office 6
How Python's New Security Developer Hopes To Help All Software Supply Chains 23
FreeBSD 14 Released 38
Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form 'High Performance Software Foundation' 5
The FSF Condemns Unauthorized Derivatives of GNU Licenses 53
Meta Taps Hugging Face For Startup Accelerator To Spur Adoption of Open Source AI Models 8
How Red Hat Divided the Open Source Community 191
When Linux Spooked Microsoft: Remembering 1998's Leaked 'Halloween Documents' 59
Bcachefs Merged Into the Linux 6.7 Kernel 39
Unless Open Source Evolves, HashiCorp CEO Predicts OSS-Free Silicon Valley 84
OpenBSD 7.4 Released 8
AlmaLinux Stays Red Hat Enterprise Linux Compatible Without Red Hat Code 34
Report Finds Few Open Source Projects are Actively Maintained 53
Europe Mulls Open Sourcing TETRA Emergency Services' Encryption Algorithms 18
Terraform Fork Gets Renamed OpenTofu, Joins Linux Foundation 30
WordPress Blogs Can Now Be Followed in the Fediverse, Including Mastodon 23
Terraform By Hashicorp Forked To OpenTF 24
Linux 6.5 Kernel Released 26
The Future of Open Source is Still Very Much in Flux 49
'The Open Source Licensing War is Over' 128
Popular Open-Source Project Moq Criticized For Quietly Collecting Data 30
Jon 'maddog' Hall Defends Red Hat's Re-Licensing of RHEL 101
Vim's Creator Bram Moolenaar Dies at Age 62 62
Meta Releases AudioCraft AI Tool To Create Music From Text 25
Pixar, Adobe, Apple and Others Form Alliance For OpenUSD To Drive Open Standards For 3D Content 45
Building a Better Server? Oxide Computer Ships Its First Rack 29
Hugging Face, GitHub and More Unite To Defend Open Source in EU AI Legislation 19
RHEL Response Discussed by SFC Conference's Panel - Including a New Enterprise Linux Standard 66
'Meta's Newly Released Large Language Model Llama-2 Is Not Open Source' 27
When Open Becomes Opaque: the Changing Face of Open-Source Hardware Companies 62
If VanMoof eBikes Locks You Out of Your Own Bike, a Rival Company's App Could Help 64
Red Hat's Decision Prompts Outrage and Sympathy, Called 'Necessary' and 'Embarrassing' 118
Meta To Release Open-Source Commercial AI Model To Compete With OpenAI, Google 16
AlmaLinux No Longer Aims For 1:1 Compatibility With RHEL 39
Oracle Takes On Red Hat In Linux Code Fight 129
AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare 127
Defying Red Hat, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux Vow to Continue RHEL-Compatible Updates 143
Linux Foundation's Yocto Project Expands LTS to 4 Years 4
The ReactOS Project Suddenly Shows Signs of Life 38
Microsoft's GitHub Under Fire For DDoSing Crucial Open Source Project Website 51
Linux Foundation Celebrates Zephyr Project's Small Real-Time Operating System 30
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Sources Will Now Be Available To Paying Customers Only 143
America's FTC Requests Comments on Cloud Computing. FSF Urges Privacy and Freedom 13
Meta Open Sources An AI-Powered Music Generator 39
Debian 12 'Bookworm' Released 62
Linux Foundation Announces Collaboration for 'Open Radio Access Network' Prototypes 20
Can Open Source Speed the Adoption of Clean-Energy Microgrids? 38
Amazon's AWS is 'Retiring' Its Open-Source-and-on-GitHub Documentation 21
Big Tech Isn't Prepared for AI's Next Chapter: Open Source 37
Red Hat is Dropping Its Support for LibreOffice 141
'RISE' Project Building Open Source RISC-V Software Announced by Linux Foundation Europe 11
Peplum: F/OSS Distributed Parallel Computing and Supercomputing At Home With Ruby Infrastructure 20
Bitwarden Moves Into Passwordless Security 16
Bluesky Social Just Took a Big Open-Source Step Forward 17
OpenAI Readies New Open-Source AI Model 42
Somehow Amazon's Open Source Fork of ElasticSearch Has Succeeded 23
Despite Layoffs, Open Source and Linux Skills are Still in Demand 36
'EU's Cyber Resilience Act Contains a Poison Pill for Open Source Developers' 86
UFO Hunters Built an Open-Source AI System To Scan the Skies 72
AMD Will Replace AGESA With Open Source Initialization Library 'openSIL' 9
Linux Foundation Announces DentOS 3.0, an Open Source Network OS for Disaggregated Networks 15
Red Hat's 30th Anniversary: How a Microsoft Competitor Rose from an Apartment-Based Startup 47
Long-time Slashdot Reader Announces Open Source, Java-Based, Full-Stack Web Development Framework 81
Another Open Source Alternative to ChatGPT Released by Hugging Face 12
Linux Kernel 6.3 Released 16
FSF Calls On the IRS To Provide Libre Tax-Filing Software 111
Stability AI Launches StableLM, an Open Source ChatGPT Alternative 17
Python's PyPI Will Sell 'Organization Accounts' to Corporate Projects to Fund Staff 14
KaOS Linux Celebrates 10 Years with New ISO Release Featuring Pre-Release KDE Plasma 6 11
Python Foundation Raises Concerns Over EU's Proposed Cybersecurity Rules 40
Google's Free Assured Open Source Software Service Hits General Availability 24
Libreboot Founder's 'Minifree' Sells Free-Software Laptops with Libreboot Preinstalled 20
Raspberry Pi Launches Online Code Editor to Help Kids Learn 28
ECMAScript 2023 Spec for JavaScript Includes New Methods for Arrays 34
FSF Awards 'Respects Your Freedom' Certification to ThinkPenguin's Gigabit Mini VPN Router 6
Twitter Opens Much of Its Source Code To the Global Community 70
Open Source Espresso Machine Is One Delicious Rabbit Hole Inside Another 35
FSF Honors Emacs Co-Maintainer, 'Replicant' Developer, and Videoconferencing Tool Jami 6
OpenAI Admits ChatGPT Leaked Some Payment Data, Blames Open-Source Bug 22
Russian Developers Blocked From Contributing To FOSS Tools 170
Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Open Source Its Recommendation Code on March 31 69
Godot Arrives In the Epic Games Store 28
TomTom Joins the OpenStreetMap Foundation As Its First Platinum Member 21
DreamWorks' OpenMoonRay Renderer Code Published 9
All-Open Source 7-Inch MNT Reform Pocket Laptop Ships In October 36
Stack Overflow Survey Finds Most-Proven Technologies: Open Source, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning 70
Will AMD's 'openSIL' Library Enable Open-Source Silicon Initialization With Coreboot? 29
Who Writes Linux and Open Source Software? 60
NASA Launches 'Open-Source Science Initiative', Urges Adoption of Open Science 13
At Least One Open Source Vulnerability Found In 84% of Code Bases, Report Finds 33
KDE Plasma 5.27 Released 18
'Mycroft' Open-Source Voice Assistant Out of Funds, Can't Fulfill Remaining Kickstarter Rewards 46
An AI Company Using Stolen Code Is Trying To Silence the Person Who Found Out 80
Red Hat Gives an ARM Up To OpenShift Kubernetes Operations 13
Google Expands Open Source Bounties, Will Soon Support Javascript Fuzzing Too 6
PikaOS Is a Next-Gen Linux Distribution Aimed Specifically Towards Gamers 48
New Distro 'blendOS' Combines Arch Linux, Fedora Linux and Ubuntu 73
The Linux Foundation Reflects on Open Source's Role in Climate Change Challenges 28
Lawsuit Accusing Copilot of Abusing Open-Source Code Challenged by GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI 60
EU's Proposed CE Mark for Software Could Have Dire Impact on Open Source 104
Google Releases Flutter 3.7, Teases Future of App Development Framework 24
Hobbyist's Experiment Creates a Self-Soldering Circuit Board 114
Linux Foundation's New 'Open Metaverse Foundation' Launches 41
Pioneering Apple Lisa Goes 'Open Source' Thanks To Computer History Museum 81
Google To Allow Rust Code In the Chromium Browser 23
Native Americans Ask Apache Foundation To Change Name 339
The Fairphone 2 Will Hit End-of-Life After 7 Years of Updates 20
X11 Server Development Pace Hits a Two Decade Low 108
Will Gaming Become More Open in 2023? 42
Other Software Projects Are Now Trying to Replicate ChatGPT 20
Systemd's Growth Over 2022 236
FSF Warns: Stay Away From iPhones, Amazon, Netflix, and Music Steaming Services 199
Rust-GPU Project Now Supports SPIR-V Ray-tracing 17
Linux Foundation's 'AgStack Project' Plans First Dataset of the World's Agricultural Field Boundaries 19
Google is Making Its Internal Video-Blurring Privacy Tool Open Source 5
OpenAI Releases Point-E, an AI For 3D Modeling 12
Xfce 4.18 Is Released 32
As GitHub Retires 'Atom', Open Source 'Pulsar' Continues Its Legacy 24
Linux Foundation Announces an Open Map Project and 'Open Metaverse Foundation' 32
PineTab 2 Is Another Try At a Linux-Based Tablet, Without the 2020 Supply Crunch 36
Z-Wave Alliance Says Z-Wave Source Code Project Is Complete, Now Open And Widely Available To Members 51
Amazon Joins Open Invention Network 4
Company 'Hijacks' Blender's CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User 74
Free Software Foundation Publishes Its 2022 'Ethical Tech Giving Guide' 16
AI-Assisted Coding Start-Up Kite Is Saying Farewell and Open-Sourcing Its Code 32
AMD Finally Opens Up Its Radeon Raytracing Analyzer 'RRA' Source Code 4
Authors Offer Free Downloads for New Second Edition of 'Designing with LibreOffice' Book 36
The Creator of Homebrew's Plan To Get Open Source Contributors Paid - Using Blockchain 44
Thanks To Open Source, 5G Cracks 50% of the Telecom Market 25
LF Europe's Project Sylva Wants To Create an Open Source Telco Cloud Stack 7
Unpaid Volunteers At CyanogenMod Successor LineageOS Maintain Builds For Old Android Devices 17
Microsoft's GitHub Copilot Sued Over 'Software Piracy on an Unprecedented Scale' 97
New Hampshire Set To Pilot Voting Machines That Use Open-Source Software 111
The Godot Game Engine Now Has Its Own Foundation 19
Bumble Open Sourced Its AI That Detects Unsolicited Nudes 49
Zeek Becoming Part of Microsoft Windows 21
Google Announces GUAC Open-Source Project On Software Supply Chains 2
OpenBSD 7.2 Released 21
Fintech Giant 'The Clearing House' Joins Open-Source Patent Protection Powerhouse OIN 6
Pine64 Announces 'Sub-$10, Linux-Capable' SBC - the Ox64 90
Intel CTO Wants Developers To Build Once, Run On Any GPU 58
VLC-Developer VideoLAN Sends Legal Notice To Indian Ministries Over Ban 12
Linux 6.0 Arrives With Support For Newer Chips, Core Fixes, and Oddities 26
Debian Chooses Reasonable, Common Sense Solution To Dealing With Non-Free Firmware 65
OpenAI Open-Sources Whisper, a Multilingual Speech Recognition System 15
Senators Introduce a Bill To Protect Open-Source Software 35
Document Foundation Starts Charging For 'Free' LibreOffice on Apple App Store 59
Nearly One In Two Industry Pros Scaled Back Open Source Use Over Security Fears 60
Linux Foundation Announces the OpenWallet Foundation To Develop Interoperable Digital Wallets 17
PyTorch Becomes Part of the Linux Foundation 9
NASA Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions 54
The EU's AI Act Could Have a Chilling Effect On Open Source Efforts 45
The EU's AI Act Could Have a Chilling Effect on Open Source Efforts, Experts Warn 68
'What Happened with CentOS Will Not Happen with Rocky Linux' 47
Debian Replaces Google with DuckDuckGo as Chromium's Default Search Engine 43
Debian Considers Changing How It Handles Non-Free Firmware 94
Free, Secure, and Open-Source: How FileZilla is Making an Old School Protocol Cool Again 41
How W4 Plans To Monetize the Godot Game Engine Using Red Hat's Open Source Playbook 8
NetBSD 9.3: A 2022 OS That Can Run On Late-1980s Hardware 41
Microsoft is Open-Sourcing Its Emoji 13
NVIDIA Publishes 73k Lines Worth Of 3D Header Files For Fermi Through Ampere GPUs 6
Development Suddenly Resumes on Linux Distro CutefishOS 7
DreamWorks Animation To Release Renderer As Open-Source Software 30
Will the US Army, Not Meta, Build an 'Open' Metaverse? 35
Coding Mistake Made Intel GPUs 100X Slower in Ray Tracing 59
Can Google's New Programming Language 'Carbon' Replace C++ Better Than Rust? 185
Microsoft Changes Policy Against the Sale of Open Source Software in the Microsoft Store 34
Can a Fork Save Cutefish OS (or Its Desktop)? 109
Dissecting Microsoft's Proposed Policy To Ban Commercial Open-Source Apps 51
DARPA Is Worried About How Well Open-Source Code Can Be Trusted 85
Red Hat Names New CEO 16
Is Amazon's AWS Quietly Getting Better at Contributing to Open Source? 8
Will Microsoft Ban Commercial Open Source from Its App Store? 54
Baserow Challenges Airtable With an Open Source No-Code Database Platform 19
Gtk 5 Might Drop X.11 Support, Says GNOME Dev 145
Pine64 Is Working On a RISC-V Single-Board Computer 43
Software Freedom Conservancy Quits GitHub 45
MNT Shrinks Its Open Source Reform Laptop Into a 7-Inch Pocket PC Throwback 23
Linus Torvalds Is Cautiously Optimistic About Bringing Rust Into Linux Kernel's Next Release 123

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