Articles by CrankyBear
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Open Robotics Is Maturing (digitalcxo.com)

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For Most of the World, Open-Source AI Is the Only Way Forward (techstrong.ai)

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Why AI tokens will send your enterprise cloud bill sky-high again (zdnet.com)

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Trump vs. Anthropic: The AI wars are heating up (computerworld.com)

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Linux users face a Microsoft Secure Boot headache – here's the painkiller (zdnet.com)

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Chainguard Agent Skills Matures (thenewstack.io)

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System76 boss reckons he can liberate the PC stack (theregister.com)

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Linux 7.1 is here to end the Intel 486 era – and do some serious legacy clean up (zdnet.com)

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WSL 3 gives developers a compelling reason to stick with Microsoft (zdnet.com)

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Stack Overflow Is Being Reborn as a Back-End Service for AI Agents (devops.com)

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Databricks Hands Delta Sharing to the Linux Foundation and Levels It Up (techstrong.ai)

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Trump's new AI order – hallucinations aren't just for LLMs (computerworld.com)

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CentOS History: How a Linux hobby project became the enterprise operating system (theregister.com)

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Microsoft continues its big Linux push at Build 2026 (zdnet.com)

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Red Hat hit by NPM supply‑chain attack: Here's how to be safe (zdnet.com)

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Overwhelmed by AI Cost Management? The Tokenomics Foundation Can Help (techstrong.ai)

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Can Chainguard Save Open-Source Software from Mythos? Can Anyone? (devops.com)

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Ubuntu 26.04 is the OS for the AI agentic era, says Canonical's Shuttleworth (zdnet.com)

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Open-source security mess: IBM and Red Hat bet $5B and 20k engineers can fix it (zdnet.com)

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Perplexity launches Bumblebee: Its new read-only developer laptop code scanner (zdnet.com)

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Euro-Office, EU open-source alternative to MSFT Office and Google Docs launches (zdnet.com)

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The AI tech job slaughter gets real (computerworld.com)

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Rust Will Save Linux from AI, Says Greg Kroah-Hartman (zdnet.com)

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AI eyes scanning for bugs create a worrisome Linux security trend (theregister.com)

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Linus Torvalds admits he has a 'love-hate relationship with AI' (zdnet.com)

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OpenSSF's CRob: 'The Runway Is Rapidly Running Out' on EU CRA Readiness (devops.com)

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Ubuntu Core 26 offers an immutable Linux you can trust through 2041 (zdnet.com)

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Valkey 9.1 trims memory 10% and pulls search into the core (thenewstack.io)

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Together, Edera and Minimus Claim They Can Protect Your Software from AI Hackers (cloudnativenow.com)

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Linux Foundation finds AI security readiness is now the top obstacle to adoption (thenewstack.io)

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Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0 (zdnet.com)

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Red Hat Delivers On-Premises Cost Telemetry to Meet Data Sovereignty Demands (cloudnativenow.com)

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The 4th Linux kernel flaw this month can lead to stolen SSH host keys (zdnet.com)

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The third major Linux kernel flaw in two weeks has been found – thanks to AI (zdnet.com)

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Red Hat Desktop vs. Fedora Hummingbird: Which AI Linux Desktop Is Right for You? (zdnet.com)

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Red Hat bets AgentOps can close the gap between AI experiments and production (thenewstack.io)

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Dirty Frag is a new Linux bug putting your PC at risk and there's no easy fix (zdnet.com)

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Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy (theregister.com)

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Why data center company IREN bought cloud-native power Mirantis (opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com)

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New Airbyte Agents: Cleaning Up Messy Data for AI Agents (opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com)

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10T downloads are crushing open-source repositories: Here's the fix (zdnet.com)

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Fix "Copy Fail" before your Linux system gets sick (opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com)

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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)