On April 4th, 2026 with 7 comments
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Michael Meeks is now general manager of Collabora Productivity. And earlier this month he complained...
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On April 1st, 2026 with 125 comments
ZipNada writes: Two software researchers recently demonstrated how modern AI tools can reproduce entire open-source projects, creating proprietary versions...
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On April 1st, 2026 with 46 comments
darwinmac writes: OnlyOffice has suspended its partnership with Nextcloud after the latter forked its editors into a new project called Euro-Office, according...
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On March 28th, 2026 with 193 comments
It's FOSS interviewed a software engineer whose long-running open source contributions include Python code for the Arch Linux installer and maintaining...
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On March 24th, 2026 with 47 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A new hacking group has been rampaging the Internet in a persistent campaign that spreads a...
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On March 24th, 2026 with 31 comments
BrianFagioli writes: Canonical has joined the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member, signaling a deeper investment in the Rust programming language and its role in...
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On March 18th, 2026 with 78 comments
Longtime Slashdot reader internet-redstar writes: Nearly a trillion dollars has been wiped from software stocks in 2026, with hedge funds making billions...
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On March 16th, 2026 with 11 comments
During today's Nvidia GTC keynote, the company introduced NemoClaw, a security-focused stack designed to make the autonomous AI agent platform OpenClaw safer....
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On March 16th, 2026 with 53 comments
Starting in September, even Android developers not in Google's Play Store will still be required to register with Google to distribute their apps in Brazil,...
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On March 14th, 2026 with 10 comments
"A few developers found a way, for now, to turn a few of these increasingly mediocre Amazon Show devices into friendly, useful, open computers," writes the...
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On March 9th, 2026 with 46 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Heise: Pay securely with an Android smartphone, completely without Google services: This is the plan being developed...
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On March 1st, 2026 with 69 comments
The Norwegian Consumer Council, a government funded organization advocating for consumer's rights, released a report on the trend of "enshittification" in...
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On March 1st, 2026 with 30 comments
Slashdot reader darwinmac writes: The Document Foundation (TDF), the organization behind LibreOffice, has decided to bring back its LibreOffice Online project...
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On February 22nd, 2026 with 24 comments
Google and Microsoft contributed $5 million to launch Alpha-Omega in 2022 — a Linux Foundation project to help secure the open source supply chain. But...
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On February 14th, 2026 with 92 comments
"I've had an extremely weird few days..." writes commercial space entrepreneur/engineer Scott Shambaugh on LinkedIn. (He's the volunteer maintainer for the...
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On February 3rd, 2026 with 106 comments
Four economists across Central European University, Bielefeld University and the Kiel Institute have built a general equilibrium model of the open-source...
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On February 1st, 2026 with 83 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: Just months after his 20th birthday, Bill Gates had already angered the programmer community," remembers this...
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On January 27th, 2026 with 27 comments
jeditobe writes: ReactOS, the open-source operating system aimed at binary compatibility with Windows, recently marked its 30th anniversary. Launched in 1996,...
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On January 26th, 2026 with 13 comments
Brax Technologies just announced "a privacy-focused alternative to locked-down tablets" called open_slate that can double as a consumer tablet and a...
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On January 18th, 2026 with 30 comments
The European Commission "has opened a public call for evidence on European open digital ecosystems," writes Help Net Security, part of preparations for an...
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On January 16th, 2026 with 9 comments
Cloudflare has acquired the core team behind the open source JavaScript framework Astro, bringing its creators in-house while pledging to keep Astro fully open...
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On January 11th, 2026 with 90 comments
Scifi author/tech activist Cory Doctorow has decried the "enshittification" of our technologies to extract more profit. But Saturday he also described what...
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On January 10th, 2026 with 16 comments
The Free Software Foundation's president Ian Kelling is also their senior systems administrator. This week he shared an example of how "the work we put in to...
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On January 7th, 2026 with 22 comments
Bose is end-of-lifing its SoundTouch smart speakers but softened the blow by open-sourcing the SoundTouch API and preserving limited local features, AirPlay,...
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On December 28th, 2025 with 26 comments
Even after its acquisition by Qualcomm, the EFF believes Arduino "isn't imposing any new bans on tinkering with or reverse engineering Arduino boards,"...
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On December 27th, 2025 with 13 comments
The nonprofit Open Source Initiative offers "enriched" license pages with "relevant metadata to provide deeper insights and better support".
So which pages...
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On December 16th, 2025 with 24 comments
Intel has quietly stopped maintaining its open-source user-space driver stack for Gaudi accelerators. Phoronix reports: It turns out earlier this year Intel...
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On December 13th, 2025 with 23 comments
This week System76 launched the first stable release of its Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment. Announced in 2021, it's designed for all GNU/Linux...
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On December 13th, 2025 with 5 comments
This week the Free Software Foundation honored Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, and Govdirectory with this year's annual Free Software Awards (given to community members...
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On December 9th, 2025 with 18 comments
OpenAI, alongside Anthropic and Block, have launched the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, describing it as a neutral home for standards as...
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