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FOSS is an umbrella initialism for Free and Open Source Software. It attempts to bring together two rival yet closely related factions in the world of software development: the Free Software movement, and the Open Source community.

Clear your calendar, Drupal user: You have a critically urgent patch to install

The org’s staying mum on the details, but Wednesday’s fixes reach back to unsupported 8.9 branches

TanStack weighs invitation-only pull requests after supply chain attack

Shai-Hulud worm exploited GitHub Actions misconfiguration to poison shared cache, now project weighing nuclear option on unsolicited contributions

A robotic hand interacts with a code display, illustrating AI-assisted software development.

Google tells database devs to lean hard on AI for PostgreSQL work

Cloud giant says humans remain accountable, even when code gets an assist from the machines

LocalSend puts your sneakernet out of business

Like AirDrop, minus the Apple lock-in

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EU flag in binary code illustrating digital sovereignty.

KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund backs the desktop project while public sector interest in homegrown alternatives grows

A gloved hand places a pink rose on a stone memorial.

dBase debased: Database titan fades to black after 47 years

Blog post mourning decline appears to have helped knock what was left of the veteran app's online presence offline

Malware crew TeamPCP open-sources its Shai-Hulud worm on GitHub

Where it’s been well and truly forked, seemingly without Microsoft’s code locker noticing

Rodent-obsessed developer creates Ratty to bring 3D graphics to the command line

Inspired by TempleOS, this terminal emulator is just about as bonkers

Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages

Dull but important … so, a bit like Debian itself, really

Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon

Furores are fermenting in the forums

macOS 27 threatens to bury Time Capsule, FOSS brings a shovel

Apple's old backup boxes only speak AFP and SMB1, but NetBSD under the hood gives them one last shot

A blue-toned metal vault door with a circular locking mechanism set in a riveted steel wall

NHS code clampdown draws open source backlash

Plus a petition for the UK Civil Service to go FOSS by default

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NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns

Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change

Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port

It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho

The Librem 5 has 3GB of memory and 32GB of storage. Pic: Purism website

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives

Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it

New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too

Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative

Talkie's training data stops at the end of 1930, and its creators hope it'll help us better understand how AI thinks

Ongoing supply-chain attack 'explicitly targeting' security, dev tools

Vendor confirms repo data exposure after Lapsus$ claims source code, secrets dump

AI's not going to kill open source code security

Cal.com considers AGPL a license to drill, but not everyone feels that way

It's a myth that you need Mythos to find bugs: Open source models can do it just as well

OpenAI's first security hire, Ari Herbert-Voss, thinks more automated bug finding will improve security without costing jobs

Another npm supply chain worm is tearing through dev environments

Plus, the payload references 'TeamPCP/LiteLLM method'

Microsoft Windows and 'Tux' Linux logos next to each

You can now run WSL on Windows 95, in case you're crazy, too

'I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time,' says dev behind unholy abomination

Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad

Observability biz bets on business analytics wedge as Loki put on long-overdue diet

Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver

Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon Software

Anthropic won't own MCP 'design flaw' putting 200K servers at risk, researchers say

Bug or feature?

Mozilla throws Thunderbolt at enterprise AI providers

Client connects to deepset's Haystack platform

Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager

Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finished

Fake Linux leader using Slack to con devs into giving up their secrets

Google Sites lure leads to bogus root certificate

Two different attackers poisoned popular open source tools - and showed us the future of supply chain compromise

Time to start dropping SBOMs

Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Just what FOSS developers need – a flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilities

AI agents found vulns in this popular Linux and Unix print server

CUPS server shown spilling out remote code execution and root access

AI slop got better, so now maintainers have more work

Once AI bug reports become plausible, someone still has to verify them

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Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash

Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice Online amid claims TDF ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners'

SystemRescue 13 has a bunch of handy tools – and a full manual built right in

SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support

And other handy tools that could save your data in a crisis

Leaked memo suggests Red Hat's chugging the AI Kool-Aid

Sounds like an excellent time to start honing your Debian skills

Android keyboard ditches keys entirely, predicts what you mean

Aimed at blind tablet users, although it's winning sighted fans too

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Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access

A handful thrive, most scrape by as companies make billions off their code

1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack

Crims 'creating a snowball effect' across open source projects

Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field

Flatpak may be next, and the lobbying behind it is raising eyebrows

Payment biz pulls plug on open source charity after KYC spat

Free Software Foundation Europe says it was asked for supporters' passwords; Nexi insists it only wanted test credentials to check cancellation flows

rusty gears - conceptual illustration for Rust

Cryptographers engage in war of words over RustSec bug reports and subsequent ban

Rust security maintainers contend Nadim Kobeissi's vulnerability claims are too much

GNOME 50 debuts with X11 axed, Wayland front and center

Most Ubuntu desktop users will be looking at this until at least 2028

Systemd 260 kills SysV, tells AI not to misbehave

Good luck with that

Linux Foundation kicks off effort to shield FOSS maintainers from AI slop bug reports

Big Tech donates $12.5 million to get things rolling