MZLA Technologies Corporation, the Mozilla Foundation subsidiary behind Thunderbird, has announced Thunderbolt, an open source, self-hostable AI client for organizations that want to run AI on their own infrastructure. The project is funded through investment from Mozilla and is a standalone product,
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AI has been a mixed bag for the open source world. Some developers are using it to write faster, catch bugs, and review patches more efficiently. Others are watching the same tools get turned against the codebases they maintain. Cal.com, a popular
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Privacy in 2026 is a bit of a joke. Governments have turned surveillance into standard operating procedure, and Big Tech companies treat your personal data like a free-for-all buffet, helping themselves, then selling the leftovers to data brokers who do the same.
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The U.S. has been quietly building up a set of state-level laws that push operating system providers into the age verification plague. California’s AB 1043, signed in October 2025, requires OS providers to collect age data at account setup and pipe it
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Back in 2005, a bug report was filed by Kjetil Kjernsmo, then running KDE 3.3.2 on Debian Stable. He wanted the ability to have each connected screen show a different virtual desktop independently, rather than having all displays switch as one unit.
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Natalie Vock (pixelcluster), a developer who works on low-level Linux code and as an independent contractor for Valve, has published a fix for a VRAM management problem that has been making life difficult for Linux gamers on AMD GPUs with 8GB of
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The Linux kernel project has spent quite some time navigating the use of AI tools, and the response usually has been somewhere between “figure it out yourself” and “we’ll get back to you.” Late last year, at the 2025 Maintainers Summit, Sasha
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