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Licenses, foundations, maintainers and the economics of shared code, reported by The Silicon Ledger.
Prompted by American sanctions that cut off the International Criminal Court's access to Microsoft services, the Dutch government has launched DAWO, a NixOS-based digital work environment designed to reduce dependence on U.S. technology vendors.
The open-source Linux distribution is positioning itself as the first OS built to treat clusters of AI hardware as a single unified machine, moving beyond traditional single-node operating systems.
A new Fedora Remix built through reverse engineering targets Apple Silicon hardware with KDE Plasma, but its developers plan to sunset the project once their driver work lands upstream in the Linux kernel.
Alibaba Cloud has unveiled Qwen Image 2.1, a compact image generation model with 7 billion parameters that runs on consumer graphics cards and claims to outperform Google's Nano Banana 2.0 on internal benchmarks.
A new report shows that OpenSearch, which began as AWS's open-source alternative to Elasticsearch, is increasingly being adopted for AI workloads rather than just search operations, with awareness and production deployments both climbing sharply.
Humble Bundle is offering a curated collection of 18 programming and computer science titles from No Starch Press across three price tiers, with a portion of each purchase directed to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Portainer's Community Edition will remain frozen on version 2.45 LTS as the company launches a Kubernetes-centric 3.0 rebuild, marking the end of a decade-long open-source run for the container management platform.
The venerable compression utility receives its most substantial maintenance update in years, addressing dozens of defects that have persisted through three decades of releases.
