Fresh developments in software, AI and security — full articles from open-license publishers, alongside source news excerpts.
Full article · CC BY 4.0The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed internet users and programmers a big win today, by rejecting an attempt to stretch a narrow provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) into…
Full article · CC BY 4.0A California law that prohibits teens from receiving recommended social media content from other social media users violates their First Amendment rights, EFF argued this week. The case, Meta v. Bonta, challenges SB 976, which…
Full article · CC BY 4.0With doomsday AI scenarios dominating the news, lawmakers are rightly concerned about reports concerning security breaches at major US AI labs, such as the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident and the many others reported in its aftermath.…
Full article · CC BY 4.0Secure messaging platforms, like Signal, WhatsApp, and recently, encrypted RCS, operate on a straightforward assumption: the content at each end of a conversation is private to the participants in the conversation. End-to-end encryption helps provide…
A few short how-to’s with screenshots, showing easy ways to boot up off a USB live ISO and return back to previous points in time with BTRFS. Many Linux distributions now default to BTRFS as…
Full article · CC BY 4.0Apple’s new operating system is here, and along with it comes a new version of Siri, dubbed with two very familiar letters: AI. As the name suggests, this Siri power-up resembles an AI chatbot more…
The Anaconda installer in Fedora 45 will introduce a new option for storage configuration: Stratis, a modern solution for local storage management. Stratis isn’t a completely new technology, it uses existing tools and technologies like…
Full article · CC BY 4.0California Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order is an opportunity for a needed, thoughtful conversation about artificial intelligence and its potential harms. Everyday Californians are feeling real anxiety about the risks of artificial intelligence, and as…
Recently, Framework announced their new Laptop 12, which optionally comes with the KDE Edition of Fedora Linux pre-installed. Framework’s modular hardware has long captured the hearts of tinkerers, and many Framework users were already running…
Intro After months of good old fashioned struggle with Google Drive and YouTube Studio, we were finally able to prepare the video sessions from the 2025 and 2026 Flock To Fedora event livestreams. These are…
Full article · CC BY 4.0The EU Commission draft law to restrict young people’s access to the internet that it presented last week will come at a high cost: it will put online services behind age gates, expand the use…
Fedora Linux 45 Beta is here! On Tuesday, 15 September 2026 you can download or upgrade your systems from your usual spots to start enjoying what F45 has to offer early. How to get the…