Give Up GitHub - Software Freedom Conservancy
The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
Dublin City Council suspends use of X as State agencies leave amid Grok controversy
Country’s largest local authority undertakes review of social media platform use as others sign out for good
The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about
Did you think you could escape?
39C3: Power Cycles - media.ccc.de
Video Streaming Portal des Chaos Computer Clubs
Open Slopware
Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives. Fork of the repo by @gen-ai-transparency after its deletion.
How to Maximize Your Privacy on iPhone - Privacy Guides
We've covered the basics, like adjusting settings on your device, intermediate changes such as switching to private alternatives, and now it's time to cover advanced tips to protect your Privacy &a...
PodOsef — MP3-first podcast publishing (no DB, static, minimal)
Over a decade ago I wrote a PHP-based podcast publishing/archive system. The idea behind it was MP3-first: no DB, no complications – just drop an MP3 file into a folder and distribute. The software could generate HTML a…
‘The Wire’ actor Isiah Whitlock Jr has died at 71
Best known for his role on âThe Wire,â Isiah Whitlock Jr. also appeared in a number of Spike Lee films and on âVeep.â
Why GrapheneOS is Almost Impossible to Crack (Forensic Teams Have Tried)
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The Dangers of California’s Legislation to Censor 3D Printing
California’s bill, AB 2047, will not only mandate censorware on all 3D printers; it will also criminalize the use of open-source alternatives. Repeating the mistakes of DRM won’t make anyone safer, but it will hurt inno…
The "In God We Trust" Paradox: Why U.S. Copyright Law is technically illegal.
End the 'In God We Trust' Paradox: Copyright is Illegal Piracy
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000…
Moral of the story? Look on the bright side.
The Gilded Age of Open Source is over - Joe Brockmeier
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Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App
Apple has set a new deadline of November 1, 2026 for all Patreon creators to switch from Patreon's legacy billing system to the App Store's in-app purchase system in the Patreon app on the iPhone and iPad, as reported b…
America Used to Own the Internet. Now It’s Running Scared.
The U.S. restricted data transfers abroad. Cast as an assertion of sovereignty, the new posture signals weakness in great-power competition.
Portal 2: Community Edition goes open beta on April 17
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Germany Misses Out On DDR5 RAM Price Relief As Other Regions See Temporary Declines
DDR5 RAM prices in Germany rose by 1.1% over 2.5 weeks, contrasting with a 30% drop in China and 20% in the US, with prices still 313% higher since July 2025.
Study shows how rocket launches pollute the atmosphere
Is the global atmospheric commons destined to be an industrial waste dumping ground?
How Health Care Works in Star Wars
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New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater
A surprising breakthrough could help sodium-ion batteries rival lithium—and even turn seawater into drinking water. Scientists discovered that keeping water inside a key battery material, instead of removing it as tradi…
Automated catalyst testing uses two coordinated robots, cutting 32 days of work to 17 hours
A technology has been developed that uses robots rather than humans to evaluate the performance of newly developed catalysts. By operating 45 times faster than manual work while also improving precision, it is expected …
Babylon 5 free to watch on youtube
In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just as it departs from…
China’s new flexible fibre chip can survive being run over by a 15.6-ton truck
Chinese scientists have built a working computer chip inside a flexible fiber thinner than a human hair.
UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs
The vote marks a stunning turn, pulling VPNs and private platforms into an age-check regime once unthinkable in a democracy.
Pixlpal
A customizable RGB LED display for information, entertainment, and more
LibreOffice Online, a self-hostable libre office environment, is coming back!
LibreOffice is a desktop application, but we get many requests for a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure. Several years ago, project members started to develop LibreOffice On…
A manifesto for open source, from Mercedes-Benz
by Dr. Wolfgang Gehring, August 02, 2021
Microsoft Mysteriously Freezes Accounts for VeraCrypt, WireGuard, Windscribe
'I cannot sign drivers, which means I cannot ship updates for WireGuard for Windows,' the creator of the VPN protocol says. On X, a Microsoft rep says he's working to get accounts unblocked.
Microsoft Japan raided over suspected violation of anti-monopoly law: Reuters
Japan's Fair Trade Commission raided Microsoft Japan's offices on Wednesday, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
Did games really get more costly to make?
By how much, since when, and for whom? We have the receipts.
Chat control: Tech giants want to continue scanning despite expired EU rules
Legal basis for indiscriminate scanning of child abuse material expired. Google, Meta, Microsoft & Co. continue controversial practice.
Artemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work
In space, no one can hear you scream at Microsoft’s legacy software.
San Francisco has become a laboratory for police surveillance after early resistance; SFPD recorded 700 drone flights last month, up from 9…
San Francisco has 98 police drones, 400 AI license plate readers, and a billionaire-funded real-time crime center. Crime is down 44%. Nobody seems to mind — yet. But experts say the city is running an experiment with no…
Kate Mulgrew as Captain Janeway | An Acting Masterclass
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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby - 404media
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of r…
the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds
53MB of source code leaked from a government endpoint. 269 verification checks. biometric face databases. SAR filings to FinCEN. and the same company that verifies your ChatGPT account.
The Baldur's Gate TV series is heading to HBO Max
The Last of Us' Craig Mazin is bringing Baldur's Gate to the small screen. Here's everything we know about the adaptation of the game franchise
Global Smartphone Shipments Fall 6% YoY in Q1 2026 Amid Memory Crunch; Apple Leads Q1 for First Time
Global smartphone shipments declined 6% YoY in Q1 2026, as DRAM and NAND shortages disrupted supplies and increased costs across OEMs, while consumer sentiment remained weak amid Middle East tensions.Apple led Q1 for th…
The Berlin Apartment review; [narrative-focused adventure unlocks inviting character dramas in key historical contexts]
The Berlin Apartment feels less like a traditional game and more like an interactive story, but it’s the everyday personal moments that make experiencing its shared place and the lives shaped by history more powerful.
About open source and “whale fall”, or when community restarts projects from forks.
What happens when a large open source project dies.
"Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s*…
Digital game distribution and preservation platform GOG is asking players for support going into the future as it expands its efforts.
One billion identity records exposed in unsecured ID verification database | Biometric Update
The exposed fields reportedly included full names, dates of birth, physical addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and national identification numbers.
Sunday Kino Lagniappe: Cube (1997) 6:30 pm EST/11:30 pm UTC/12:30 pm CET/6:30 am BJT
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Forza Horizon 6's Japan map is the series' best yet
But the new instalment otherwise plays it comically safe.
RED ALERT: The US house of reps is making a lot of progress toward their goal of mass surveillance with complete KYC
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
Walter Koenig's Private Little War
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Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
: Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk
Turns out Generative AI was a scam
Or at least very very far from what it has been cracked up to be
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear wea…
Today’s leading AI models engage in sophisticated behaviour when placed in strategic competition. They spontaneously attempt deception, signaling intentions they do not intend to follow; they demonstrate rich theory of …
AI bots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it
In recent weeks, openDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots. We’re not the only ones