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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)

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Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US (computerworld.com)

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The great programming transformation: How AI and Rust are quietly dethroning C (zdnet.com)

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Linux will be unstoppable in 2026 – but one open-source legend may not survive (zdnet.com)

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Bad Wi-Fi at home? Try my 10 go-to ways to fix your internet this weekend (zdnet.com)

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Did maintainers abandon your critical open-source tool? There's a lifeline (zdnet.com)

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Internet 2025: Bigger, more fragile than ever and fundamentally rewired by AI (zdnet.com)

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Open Source: Inside 2025's 4 Biggest Trends (thenewstack.io)

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Papermoon: A Space-Grade Linux for the NewSpace Era (thenewstack.io)

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How the Team Behind Valkey Knew It Was Time to Fork (thenewstack.io)

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AI is part of Linux's plumbing – whether developers like it or not (zdnet.com)

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Linux 6.18: All About the New Long-Term Support Linux Kernel (thenewstack.io)

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Rust Goes Mainstream in the Linux Kernel (thenewstack.io)

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The fix for messy AI agent ecosystems might be here and it's open source (zdnet.com)

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AI Is Killing Entry-Level Programming Jobs. But Could It Also Help Save Them? (thenewstack.io)

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Linus Torvalds is 'a believer' in using AI to maintain code (zdnet.com)

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Canonical Extends Kubernetes Long-Term Support to 15 Years (thenewstack.io)

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Linux Foundation Leader: We're Not in an AI Bubble (thenewstack.io)

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New Linux platform will let you update your next car at home (zdnet.com)

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Bots, bias, and bunk: How can you tell what's real on the net? (theregister.com)

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Another open source project dies of neglect, leaving thousands scrambling (theregister.com)

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A Decade of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (spiceworks.com)

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Nextcloud Office vs. OnlyOffice: The best Microsoft 365 alternative (zdnet.com)

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Singin' the Agentic Windows Blues (computerworld.com)

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3-Hour Cloudflare Outage Knocks Out AI Chatbots, Shopify (thenewstack.io)

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Hummingbird: Red Hat's Answer to Alpine, Ubuntu Chiseled, Wolfi (thenewstack.io)

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RHEL 10.1 Soft Reboot Slashes Downtime for Updates (thenewstack.io)

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Linus Torvalds is optimistic about vibe coding except for this one use (zdnet.com)

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Struggling to track AI agents? This tool gives you a single source of truth (zdnet.com)

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Cloud-native computing is poised to explode, thanks to AI inference work (zdnet.com)

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Kroah-Hartman: Linux Kernel Maintainer on CRA Open Source Impact (thenewstack.io)

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Canonical Extends Ubuntu Linux Support for Up to 15 Years (thenewstack.io)

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Red Hat OpenShift 4.20 Boosts AI, Security, Hybrid Cloud (thenewstack.io)

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Kubernetes, cloud-native computing's engine, is getting turbocharged for AI (zdnet.com)

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Trillionaire fantasies, investor dreams, reality nightmares (theregister.com)

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Knative Has Graduated from the CNCF (thenewstack.io)

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Debian Mandates Rust for Apt, Reshaping Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros (thenewstack.io)

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FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs (thenewstack.io)

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Why even a US tech giant is launching 'sovereign support' for Europe now (zdnet.com)

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AI web browsers are cool, helpful, and utterly untrustworthy (computerworld.com)