Crowdfunding is one of the best ways to turn an idea into an actual product. A creator pitches something, sets a funding goal, and backers decide whether it is worth building. While most campaigns stay small, a few do break out completely.
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Sipeed has been making tiny RISC-V and ARM boards for the maker crowd for years, and its NanoKVM line is already a familiar name if you have ever wanted BIOS-level remote access without paying enterprise IPMI prices. Sipeed has announced a new
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Brave has rolled out Containers with the Brave Browser 1.92 release, giving its Chromium-based browser something Firefox users have had for years now. And no, it is not some pre-installed extension doing the work; this functionality is built right into the browser
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Collabora Productivity got into the desktop editor market last year when they launched Collabora Office, an office suite built on the same rendering mechanism as Collabora Online, but focused on offline use. They came up with this so people could get the
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Microsoft has spent the last few years stuffing Notepad with AI tools, Markdown support, and cloud-tied credits, chipping away at the simple, local text editor it used to be. Basic editing still works without signing in, but the AI features don’t. You
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I recently had a very interesting conversation with a reader who suggested that I should not ignore AI. Because this is the next new normal and we have to adapt. I agree but in the context of local AI. Local AI is
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There’s no shortage of free backup tools on Linux. The problem is choosing which one to use. The choice of backup tool depends on what you’re actually doing. Someone backing up a home folder on a GNOME desktop has nothing in common
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When Lumo (partner link) launched last year, I took it for a spin to see what Proton’s foray into AI assistants looked like. I found out that the open source AI assistant ran quite well for a new launch. And a few
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The Linux Foundation says that it intends to launch the Agent Name Service (ANS), an open standard that extends DNS to give AI agents a way to prove who they are. In practice, that means being able to look up an agent
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Ever since successfully crowdfunding over $500k for the Librem 15, Purism has become a recognized hardware manufacturer catering to privacy and Linux enthusiasts. The company is registered as a Social Purpose Corporation, dedicating its existence to upholding the privacy, security, and freedom
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