Articles by CrankyBear
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Meta abandons open-source Llama for proprietary Muse Spark (thenewstack.io)

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Warp's gambles its AI tool going open source will help it take on closed rivals (thenewstack.io)

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When AI Goes Wrong: How PocketOS Lost All Its Data (devops.com)

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Microsoft open sources DOS 1.0 – and it's more than the code (zdnet.com)

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Canonical's approach to AI is refreshingly thoughtful-Microsoft should take note (zdnet.com)

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GitHub Copilot shifts to usage-based pricing June 1 – why that's no surprise (zdnet.com)

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AI's not going to kill open source code security (theregister.com)

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98% of IT leaders want digital sovereignty: SUSE is making it happen (zdnet.com)

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Built for a Hostile Internet: Canonical VP of Engineering on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (zdnet.com)

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Red Hat Digital Sovereignty Take: Red Hat Confirmed Sovereign Support (techstrong.it)

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Microsoft trims cloud desktop pricing, even as it boosts AI costs (computerworld.com)

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SUSE and Nvidia reveal a turnkey AI factory for sovereign enterprise workloads (thenewstack.io)

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'Handing out the blueprint to a bank vault' Why AI led Cal to drop open source (zdnet.com)

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You can try Linux 7.0 now on these distros – here's what's new (zdnet.com)

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The new rules for AI-assisted code in the Linux kernel: What devs need to know (zdnet.com)

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France is replacing 2.5M Windows desktops with Linux, here its new stack (zdnet.com)

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PyTorch Foundation Adds to Its Portfolio (techstrong.ai)

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Flipboard's new Surf app lets you escape the algorithm (zdnet.com)

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Blaming insecurity on consumer Wi-Fi routers on foreign OEMs is a red herring (networkworld.com)

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AI has suddenly become more useful to open-source developers (zdnet.com)

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Apple: A garage rebel became a multitrillion-dollar empire (zdnet.com)

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Solo.io launches agentevals to solve agentic AI's "biggest unsolved problem" (thenewstack.io)

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Edera spent years calling KVM less secure. Here's why it changed its mind (thenewstack.io)

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IBM, Red Hat, and Google just donated a Kubernetes blueprint for LLM inference (thenewstack.io)

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Chainguard is racing to fix trust in AI-built software (zdnet.com)

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Chainguard Is Now Protecting You from AI Agent Skills Gone Rogue (techstrong.ai)

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Chainguard thinks most DevOps teams are solving container security the hard way (thenewstack.io)

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GitHub Copilot's effect on collaboration has stunned researchers (thenewstack.io)

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Amazon finds out AI programming isn't all it's cracked up to be (computerworld.com)

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NanoClaw and Docker team up to isolate AI agents inside MicroVM sandboxes (thenewstack.io)

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Why Moltbook and OpenClaw are the fool's gold in our AI boom (zdnet.com)

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Galileo releases Agent Control, a centralized guardrails platform for AI agents (thenewstack.io)

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AI is getting scary good at finding hidden software bugs (zdnet.com)

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Why AI is both a curse and a blessing to open-source developers (zdnet.com)

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Microsoft wants you to 'hire' its AI agents (computerworld.com)

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Is AI killing open-source software? (thenewstack.io)

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Long-term support for Linux releases gets a new lease on life (thenewstack.io)

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Altman said no to military AI abuses – then signed Pentagon deal anyway (theregister.com)

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Sick of Microsoft and Google? The Office EU suite is an open-source alternative (zdnet.com)

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Motorola's GrapheneOS phones: They're a privacy and open source win (zdnet.com)

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Open-source community gets a Claude-sized gift (thedeepview.com)

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RLC Pro is an enterprise Linux for the AI era (thenewstack.io)

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Red Hat introduces its first out and out AI platform (thenewstack.io)

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Anthropic to Department of Defense: Drop Dead (computerworld.com)

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Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every download (theregister.com)

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Linux Flies into Space (windriver.com)

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Linux explores new way of authenticating developers and their code (zdnet.com)

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Linux Foundation's report reveals contributing to open source offers a 2x-5x ROI (thenewstack.io)

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Workaholic open source developers need to take breaks (theregister.com)

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Cloudflare's Markdown for Agents automatically make websites agent-ready (thenewstack.io)

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Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build (thenewstack.io)

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How digitally sovereign is your organization? This Red Hat tool can tell you (zdnet.com)

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Why are AI leaders fleeing? (computerworld.com)

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Linus Torvalds and friends tell how Linux solo act became a global jam session (theregister.com)

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CURL's Daniel Stenberg: AI slop is DDoSing open source (thenewstack.io)

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Why my favorite Linux distro is slowing down – and I'm thrilled about it (zdnet.com)

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AI inference costs dropped up to 10x on Nvidia's Blackwell (venturebeat.com)

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The hunt for zero-CVE container images (thenewstack.io)

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The latest Linux kernel release closes out the 6.x era (zdnet.com)

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Linux servers that let you ditch the public cloud and reclaim your privacy (zdnet.com)

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Operant AI targets 'shadow' AI agents with real-time security platform (thenewstack.io)

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AI coding gap: Why senior devs are getting faster and juniors spin their wheels (zdnet.com)

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It took a researcher fewer than 2 hours to hijack OpenClaw (thenewstack.io)

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Why Kubernetes is retiring Ingress Nginx (thenewstack.io)

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Think agentic AI is hard to secure today? Just wait a few months (csoonline.com)

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By whatever name – Moltbot, Clawd, OpenClaw – it's a security nightmare (computerworld.com)

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Moltbook: Hype or the Singularity? (thenewstack.io)

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Chainguard admitted Factory 1.0 was "brittle." (thenewstack.io)

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Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native (theregister.com)

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The reason Amazon cut 30k people and what the balance sheet shows (natesnewsletter.substack.com)

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Why France just dumped Teams and Zoom for homegrown videoconferencing (zdnet.com)

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Google Aims Knockout Blow at Chinese Company Linked to Cyber Weapon (wsj.com)

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I watched the Challenger shuttle disaster from Mission Control – 40 years ago (zdnet.com)

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Linux after Linus? Kernel community drafts a plan for replacing Torvalds (zdnet.com)

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Why the internet kept breaking and taking down your favorite sites in 2025 (zdnet.com)

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The Open Invention Network looks to the future of open-source patent protection (opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com)

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Codenotary's Free SBoM Service Tackles the AI Software Supply Chain (devops.com)

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Chainguard EmeritOSS backs MinIO, other orphaned projects (thenewstack.io)

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CNCF: Kubernetes is 'foundational' infrastructure for AI (thenewstack.io)

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When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype (theregister.com)

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The Windows PC is dying, thanks to cloud-based services and AI (computerworld.com)

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AI is poisoning itself and pushing LLMs toward collapse,but there's a cure (zdnet.com)

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Drowning in AI slop, cURL ends bug bounties (thenewstack.io)

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OS powers all AI – and most future IT jobs, too (zdnet.com)

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Work-from-office mandate? Expect top talent turnover, culture rot (cio.com)

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The Microsoft-OpenAI Files: Internal documents reveal AI's defining alliance (geekwire.com)

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Desmos Graph Calculator animation [video] (youtube.com)

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Just because Linus Torvalds vibe codes doesn't mean it's a good idea (theregister.com)

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IBM warns AI spend fails without AI literacy (thedeepview.com)

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At 25, Wikipedia embodies what the internet could be but can it survive AI? (zdnet.com)

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Shopify, Walmart Endorse Google's New Open Commerce Protocol (thenewstack.io)

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Even Linus Torvalds is vibe coding now (zdnet.com)

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The Microsoft 365 Copilot app rebrand was bad, but there are worse offenders (theregister.com)

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Rust moves from experiment to a core Linux kernel language (spiceworks.com)

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I tried the new Linux Mint 22.3 – it's a masterclass in polish (zdnet.com)

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What is Wi-Fi 8? And why speed isn't your primary concern here (zdnet.com)

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In the US, the Death of Expertise (computerworld.com)

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Linux at CES 2026: Tux is alive and well in IoT, cars, and AI (zdnet.com)

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The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere (theregister.com)

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I use Samsung's Wi-Fi menu to seriously improve my connectivity (zdnet.com)