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Cal.com blames AI-powered vulnerability hunting for its move from open source to locked-down code — and tosses a crippled ‘community’ edition to keep its cred.
FunOS: Ubuntu LTS with JWM and No Snaps
With Ubuntu LTS under the hood and JWM on top, FunOS keeps things light, snap?free, and ready for you to assemble your own workspace.
Duane O’Brien Takes OSI’s Hot Seat
O’Brien’s first job at OSI won’t be polishing the logo; it’ll be navigating a community still concerned over the group’s Open Source AI Definition and last year’s messy board election.
Encrypt Files on Linux with Hideout and Skip the Terminal
This minimalist GTK app puts GPG?powered file encryption behind a drag?and?drop interface that even a Linux newbie can use on the first try.
Apache Spins Anthropic’s $1.5M Into ‘Responsible AI’ Initiative
A big infrastructure grant from Anthropic, and an investment from the Linux Foundation's Alpha-Omega, quietly become seed money for Apache’s new “responsible AI” push.
Three Months After Georgia Tech, Stallman Heads to UT Austin
Once a fixture on the lecture circuit, GNU’s creator — and the father of Free Software — is slowly re?emerging in the US, updating his message for the 2020s.
EFF Says It’s Quitting TwitterX
It took a minute — actually a long minute — but Electronic Frontier Foundation has finally shut the door on the platform formerly known as Twitter, without even a “goodbye.”
Rofi and Wofi: Keyboard Launchers That Keep Your Hands on the Keys
Prefer to drive Linux from the home row? Rofi and wofi turn a simple key combo into a fast app launcher and window switcher on both X11 and Wayland.
Does Acting Like Good Guys Actually Make Anthropic Good Guys?
Anthropic just dropped $1.5 million on the Apache Software Foundation. Is it paying back the open source world — or buying goodwill?
Proudly Canadian Maple Linux 1.4: Who Knew Tux Could Be So Polite?
More than a novelty from north of the 49th, this Debian?based distro uses Canadian and EU privacy principles to offer a telemetry?free, ready?to?work Cinnamon desktop.
Must Be April Fools’ Day. Gentoo Says It’s Moving to Hurd
Gentoo has a Hurd port you can boot today, plus a straight-faced promise to ditch Linux by year’s end. We’re guessing only one of those things is real.
AI is Open Source’s Big Moment. Is it Ready?
When models can audit firmware and legacy binaries at scale, hiding vulnerabilities stops working. Open, patchable code becomes a core security requirement.
Martin Wimpress Wants Out at Ubuntu Mate
After 12 years leading Ubuntu MATE, its founder says it’s time to hand the reins to new maintainers.
AnduinOS 1.4.2 Offers Redesigned GNOME for Windows Refugees
AnduinOS 1.4.2 pairs Ubuntu’s already easy-to-use foundation with a heavily customized GNOME desktop and Flatpak apps to ease the transition from Windows to Linux.
After 26 Years at EFF, Cindy Cohn Is Handing Reins to Nicole Ozer
Cohn, who helped lead a landmark crypto case and shape EFF’s agenda for decades, will hand leadership of the group to Nicole Ozer this summer.
Master Key for Linux’s Different Take on Password Management
A deterministic password manager that generates, rather than stores, your logins — and makes versioning old passwords surprisingly handy.
OpenSSF Welcomes New Members as SLSA, Gemara, and AI Security Efforts Mature
At Amsterdam’s SecurityCon Europe, the Linux Foundation’s OpenSSF adds new members and showcases progress on SLSA, Gemara, and AI security.
This Week Is Fedora 44 CoreOS Test Week
Want an early look at Fedora 44 CoreOS? Here’s your chance to get a sneak peek and put the next release through its paces.
System76 Redesigns Thelio Mira as a Liquid-Cooled Linux Desktop
System76’s new Thelio Mira keeps the base specs close to Prime but leans on cooling, power headroom, and expandability to court GPU?heavy Linux workloads.
AlmaLinux Kitten Gets Its Claws Into RISC-V
This week, open met open. In this case, it was open source software, in the form of AlmaLinux Kitten, meeting open source hardware, in the form of the RISC-V instruction set architecture.