Carl Richell, the founder of System76, has shared that Colorado’s Age Attestation Bill (SB26-051) is set to be amended to exclude open source software from its requirements. The proposed amendment would exclude open source operating systems and apps, code repositories like GitHub
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Before we get into the console, we must know some background information. EmuDeck is an installation script that simplifies setting up emulators on the Steam Deck and other SteamOS devices. It handles emulator configuration, hotkeys, and most of the tedious setup work
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If you’ve spent any time poking around the self-hosting world, you’ve likely come across containers. They let you run software in isolated environments that carry their own dependencies, keeping things clean and predictable without the extra weight of a full virtual machine.
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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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