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Mark Himelstein Steps Down as RISC-V CTO to Resume Consulting Practice

Himelstein will not be replaced by another CTO. RISC-V International is currently looking for a VP of technology, which will be their highest ranking technology officer going forward.
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Sheng Liang’s Acorn Labs Drops Its Runtime for GPTScript

Acorn Labs CEO announces that the company is suddenly dropping its flagship product to focus on GPTScript, an AI scripting language.
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Is Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker Getting Out While the Getting’s Good?

Last week Mozilla’s $7 million dollar CEO Mitchell Baker announced that she was stepping away from the C-suite, although she’ll remain onboard as chairperson of both Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation.
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Red Hat’s Ex, Jim Whitehurst, Is Now Temporary CEO at Unity Software

Three-and-a-half years after handing over the reins at Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst has the job he likes best again, although only temporarily. It’s been no…
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Richard Stallman Talks Red Hat, AI, and Ethical Software Licenses at GNU Birthday Event

We should stop calling ChatGPT and other generative AI software “artificial intelligence,” according to Stallman, because “there’s nothing intelligent about them.”
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RMS’s Cancer, Linux’s Shrinking Support, Goog’s ‘Privacy Sandbox’, Naming OpenSUSE, and More

Also included in this week’s FOSS Week in Review: Gnome’s new due date, reader’s say Red Hat’s changed for the worse under IBM, and a new poll asks how you like your distros released.
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FOSS Week In Review: ZFS’s Ubuntu Return, the Nigerian Prince Goes AI, Stolen Passwords, Torvalds Does Hutton, and More

In this week’s roundup we look at ZFS’s return to Ubuntu as an install option (and why it was removed in the first place), how the Nigerian Prince is adopting AI for phishing, Linux Torvalds fabulous impersonation of E.F. Hutton, and more.
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Six Years In, Maintainer Darrick Wong Says ‘Goodbye’ to XFS

Wong tells a story of burnout caused by understaffing, which is similar to what we’ve heard from other important but under-the-radar projects.
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Will New CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen Bring ‘Open Source Way’ Magic to SUSE?

As Red Hat slowly loses its open culture under IBM’s ownership, SUSE might be set to finally become an important global open-source player, but only if its board allows the former Red Hatter who will take the helm on May 2 to bring “the open source way…

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3-Years After Red Hat, Is Jim Whitehurst Still the ‘Open-Source Way’ Guy?

At an online media event held in early February, Red Hat’s former CEO talked about investing, open source, open governance, and of course, Red Hat.
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