OpenAI’s “compromise” with the Pentagon is what Anthropic feared
On February 28, OpenAI announced it had reached a deal that will allow the US military to use its technologies in classified settings. CEO Sam Altman...
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Hellen Chemtai: The Last Week of My Journey as an Outreachy Intern at Debian OpenQA
Hello world . I’m Hellen Chemtai, an intern at Outreachy working with the Debian OpenQA team on Images Testing. This is the final week of the...
Read moreInvesting in Infrastructure: Meta’s Renewed Commitment to jemalloc
Meta recognizes the long-term benefits of jemalloc, a high-performance memory allocator, in its software infrastructure. We are renewing focus on jemalloc, aiming to reduce maintenance needs...
Read moreBen Hutchings: FOSS activity in February 2026
Debian packages: firmware-free: Bugs: closed #890601: firmware-linux-free uses prebuilt blobs instead of building from source Uploads: uploaded version 20241210-3 to unstable firmware-nonfree: Bugs: closed #481234: firmware-nonfree:...
Read moreNational Book Tour for Cindy Cohn’s Memoir, ‘Privacy’s Defender’
MIT Press Publishes EFF Executive Director’s Book As She Prepares to Depart Organization After 25 Years SAN FRANCISCO – Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn...
Read moreWar in Iran Spiked Oil Prices. Trump Will Decide How High They Go
The conflict in the Middle East is driving oil prices up in a midterm year when Americans are already focused on high energy bills.
Read moreThe best mobile tech announced at MWC 2026 so far
Mobile World Congress 2026 opened its doors today in Barcelona, Spain, but some of the biggest announcements from the mobile-focused show were already made over the...
Read moreIowa county adopts strict zoning rules for data centers, but residents still worry
PALO, Iowa—There are two restaurants in Palo, not counting the chicken wings and pizza sold at the only gas station in town. All three establishments, including...
Read more[$] The exploitation paradox in open source
The free and open-source software (FOSS) movements have always been about giving freedom and power to individuals and organizations; throughout that history, though, there have also...
Read moreLinux 7.0 Shows Off Nice Performance Gains For Databases In Small AMD EPYC Servers
Last week with my ongoing testing of the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel I found nice performance improvements for PostgreSQL and other workloads when testing on a...
Read moreWhat Crystals Older Than the Sun Reveal About the Start of the Solar System
The standard story of the origin of our solar system has gone like this: 4.6 billion years ago, a giant cloud of dust hung frozen in...
Read morePopover API or Dialog API: Which to Choose?
Choosing between Popover API and Dialog API is difficult because they seem to do the same job, but they don’t! After a bit lots of research,...
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