The city of Lyon is getting rid of most of its US software. Its choice of OnlyOffice instead of LibreOffice has me scratching my head.
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On No Kings Day in a small town in North Carolina, our reporter rediscovers that code, community, and politics are intertwined.
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We’re keeping our fingers crossed that Fedora’s upcoming election will take place without all of the controversies that surrounded Open Source Initiative’s recent board election.
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The rapid defunding and refunding of the CVE Project is just another sign of the destabilization our government is currently experiencing.
As OSI attempts to do damage control on social media without admitting that it made a mistake that needs to be rectified, more evidence surfaces indicating that the organization might be trying to change facts after the fact.
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Remember the classic headline from the 1970s: “Ford to city — drop dead?” Well, this is how it looks, transcribed to open source in the 21st century. It’s a different scale, but…
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Inquiring minds want to know if a potential candidate’s opposition to OSI’s Open Source AI Definition is the reason it pulled a previously unknown time zone rule out of a magic hat to deny his nomination.
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It’s not pretty when Trump’s personality starts to rub off onto tech billionaires who don’t really deserve their wealth, but will pay any price to hold onto it.
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The latest moves against NPR and PBS by Trump’s newly minted FCC chairperson Brendan Carr, has many noncommercial radio stations waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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Today is the first day in which companies doing business in the European Union must comply with some provisions of the AI Act.
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The letter, addressed to the President of the European Commission and signed by 42 organizations, urges EU officials to continue to regulate big US tech companies that are aligning themselves with Trump.
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Somebody from Austria has petitioned the European Parliament to start using Linux and open-source apps instead of Microsoft stuff.
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For the next five years, Microsoft will be under the watchful eye of Germany’s Federal Cartel Office, which will be seeking to thwart any monopolistic activity coming from Redmond proactively.
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Bluesky, which runs on open source software and is based on an open protocol for social platforms, has lately seen it’s user base take a 10-fold increase as Brazil shutters TwitterX.
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Maybe it’s just an oversight, but the European Commission’s draft of projects for next year fails to mention the NGI Zero Commons Fund, an important source of funding for FOSS projects.
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Google this week announced changes to the way it collects and stores user location data that might bring an end to geofence warrants.
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New CEO comes to helm as companies like Google, Meta, and TikTok pull out of the Lisbon-based mega-conference in response to accusations from the event’s founder and former CEO that Israel is committing “war crimes.”
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Two new seats on EFF’s board are filled by Erica Astrella and Yoshi Kohno, who bring valuable experience in diversity, equity, inclusion, security research, and data privacy to the table.
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Canadians in wildfire ravaged areas can’t swap important and potentially life saving news stories on Facebook as a result of the country’s recently passed news link law.
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A Mastodon server that focuses on left-leaning political activists, recently had an unencrypted copy of its database confiscated by the FBI.
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