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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It started with one thing. I don’t know why… but somehow, it turned into a debate no one expected. I could not help taking a walk in Linkin Park 😉 Okay. Back to serious stuff. Weird but serious stuff. So, last month,
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In Los Angeles this March, a jury did something US courts have long refused to do: it treated the feed itself as the harm. It felt like vindication, victory even, to those of us who are critical of big tech’s outsized influence
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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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Okay, not a Linux bug in the kernel, but one that has existed in the Enlightenment window manager E16 since 2006, when Kamila Szewczyk was barely a year old. Kamila, now a 21-year-old graduate student at Saarland University in Germany, daily drives
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Support for Russian Baikal CPUs is being pulled from the Linux kernel. Work has begun in the Linux 7.1 cycle to remove driver code and device tree bindings for Baikal SoC hardware, with more patches already lined up to follow. The first
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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 big new, and it’s good, is coming from France. The government’s digital agency DINUM is moving its workstations from Windows to Linux, with every French ministry required to submit a plan by Autumn 2026 to reduce dependence on non-European software. Another
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Not all distros are created equal. In fact, not all distros are created at all. This quiz is simple. You’ll be presented with a few Linux distros and their details. The twist is that they might not be a real thing. They
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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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