This $85 PCB is Giving Old Google Home Mini Devices a Second Life
I like projects built around sustainability and open source. The MiciMike board fits into the original Home Mini enclosure and handles all voice processing locally.
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LibreOffice Questions Whether Euro-Office is Truly Sovereign
Makes us wonder how things will turn out in the end.
Should You Be Worried About The Copy Fail Linux Exploit?
It's been patched, but cloud and container users should update sooner than later.
Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replacement
The self-hosted, FOSS-only platform is still in the pilot phase, but government agencies are already signing up.
Typical Microsoft! Turns Out VS Code Was Adding Copilot as a Git Co-Author Without Telling Anyone
Microsoft reversed the change after developers found the AI attribution line appearing even with Copilot disabled.
A Free Open Source Mobile Dev Hackathon is Coming to the Netherlands on May 16
OS-SCi's Lomiri Tech Meeting includes keynotes, free books, and a new bounty program reveal.
Microsoft Marks 45 Years of DOS by Open-Sourcing Its Oldest-Known Source Code
Tim Paterson's 1981 assembler printouts are now transcribed, compilable, and MIT-licensed.
Someone Turned a PS5 Into a Linux Gaming PC, and It Actually Works
It runs Linux, plays Steam games, and only time will tell how long before Sony DMCAs it.
Sovereign Tech Agency Opens Paid Standards Program for Open Source Maintainers
The chosen maintainers could get up to €5,200 a month for IETF, W3C, and ISO standards work.
Good News! AI-first Warp Terminal is Now Open Source
Years after the idea was first floated, Warp's dual MIT and AGPL-licensed code is finally on GitHub.
LVFS Has Turned Up the Heat on Vendors Who Won't Contribute
Announced last year, the first wave of LVFS restrictions went live at the start of this month.
Hackers Hijacked a GitHub Actions Workflow to Push Malicious Code to PyPI
Elementary Data's open source CLI was the victim, and v0.23.3 is not a version you want installed.
After 2 Weeks of Delay, Fedora 44 is Finally Here!
It's good to fix bugs rather than rushing for the release.
Linux is Getting a New Default Folder in Your Home Directory
It may look like a small addition, but standardizing something many Linux users already do can improve workflows, application behavior, and even documentation over time.
Ubuntu is Going Big on AI (But Not The Copilot Kind You Dread)
Canonical's plan favors local inference and open models over cloud-dependent AI services.
Microsoft Might Be Rebasing Azure on Fedora Linux
Chatter from a Fedora developer meeting points to Microsoft wanting to shift Azure Linux closer to Fedora.
MinIO Is Done With Open Source, What Are Your Options?
Archived, unarchived, and archived again, the repo's status may keep changing, but MinIO's direction hasn't.
Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
Mozilla shipped it in Firefox 149 without a mention in the release notes.
Will You Pay $119 For This Open Source KVM Built on Rust and Buildroot?
The LeafKVM packs a 2.4-inch touchscreen, Wi-Fi 5, and PoE into a CNC aluminum box.
Lubuntu 26.04 LTS Ships LXQt 2.3, and Keeps Wayland on the Backburner
The lightweight Ubuntu flavor hits the 30 release mark with a refreshed app stack and Wayland support still in the works.
Kubuntu 26.04 LTS Drops X11 Support and Goes All in On Wayland
You also get Plasma 6.6, Linux 7.0, and three years of standard LTS support.
The Awesome New Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is Here
App replacements aside, there are quite a few interface upgrades worth knowing about too!
Microsoft Has WSL, But This Developer Built One for Windows 95
WSL9x lets you run a modern Linux kernel 6.19 inside Windows 9x without needing virtualization.
A Linux Hardware Maker is Convincing Colorado to Leave Open Source Alone
After months of advocacy, Colorado's age verification bill is set for an amendment to exclude open source.
