The FOSS Force News Wire pulls mostly FOSS related news stories from a variety of sources and is updated every 30 minutes. The News Wire is also available as an RSS feed at http://fossforce.com/newswire. Time stamps are in UTC, so “4 hours ago” means it was published this hour EDT.
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Creality Print – 3D slicer for Creality printers
Creality Print is forked from Orca Slice. In turn, Orca Slicer is forked from Bambu Studio, a fork of PrusaSlicer, a fork...Read more
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Adobe Photoshop 2025 Installer Now Working On Linux With Patched Wine
An open-source developer has worked through the last of the issues preventing the Adobe Creative Cloud installers for Windows from running on...Read more
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TikTok quietly launches a micro drama app called ‘PineDrama’
Think TikTok, but every single video you come across is a short episode of a fictional story.Read more
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I stopped paying for Grammarly once I found out there's a free open-source alternative
I thought Grammarly was essential. It wasn’t.Read more -
EPA rules that xAI’s natural gas generators were illegally used
Elon Musk's AI company had installed and operated 35 natural gas turbines without permits, something the EPA now says was illegal.Read more
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Let’s Encrypt Launches IP Address Certificates With 6-Day Lifetimes
Let’s Encrypt has made IP-based TLS certificates generally available, allowing secure HTTPS connections directly to IP addresses.Read more -
Baton Rouge Acquires a Straight-Up Military Surveillance Drone
The Baton Rouge Police Department announced this week that it will begin using a drone designed by military equipment manufacturer Lockheed Martin...Read more -
Origami Linux’s COSMIC Desktop on Fedora Atomic Almost Wins Me Over
Origami Linux pairs the Cosmic desktop with a Fedora Atomic base and a deliberately sparse default install, leaving most of the customization...Read more
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From OpenAI’s offices to a deal with Eli Lilly — how Chai Discovery became one of the flashiest names in AI drug development
The startup has partnered with Eli Lilly and enjoys the backing of some of Silicon Valley's most influential VCs.Read more
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Trump’s ‘Free Speech’ Presidency Racked Up 200 Censorship Attempts In Its First Year
We’ve said it before, and we’ll keep saying it because apparently it needs repeating: Donald Trump is not a free speech president....Read more
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Supreme Court hacker posted stolen government data on Instagram
Nicholas Moore pleaded guilty to stealing victims’ information from the Supreme Court and other federal government agencies, and then posting it on...Read more
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I've tried out every Linux package manager out there, and this is the best one
I use Arch btw.Read more -
ChatGPT users are about to get hit with targeted ads
OpenAI says that users impacted by the ads will have some control over what they see.Read more
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Linux ThinkPad Driver Ready For Reporting Damage Device - Starting With Bad USB-C Ports
Queued yesterday into the platform-drivers-x86.git's "for-next" branch are the patches for the Lenovo ThinkPad ACPI driver to begin reporting damaged device detection....Read more
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Trump administration wants tech companies to buy $15B of power plants they may not use
In an attempt to alleviate rising electricity prices, the White House wants grid operator PJM to hold an auction for new generating...Read more
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Google's latest change will finally free me from my terrible email address
You can now change your Gmail address without losing your accountRead more -
I turned my notes app into a personal knowledge hub, and it’s one of the smartest moves I've made
Google Keep captures ideas, Docs organizes them, and Gemini connects it all into a queryable brain.Read more -
The AI healthcare gold rush is here
AI companies are clustering around healthcare and fast. In just the past week, OpenAI bought health startup Torch, Anthropic launched Claude for healthcare, and...Read more
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Welcome To The Resistance… Grand Juries?
The DOJ can’t indict a ham sandwich these days. That old saying doesn’t ring as true as it used to now that...Read more
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I replaced my Meta Ray-Bans with smart glasses that truly lasted all day - but there's a catch
The Solos AirGo A5 smart glasses sacrifice camera support and rich audio for more battery life compared to their competitors. Was it...Read more