Red Hat has quietly bought Chatterbox Labs, a boutique firm that stress‑tests AI models for trouble. Is this a signal that AI safety is moving from marketing slop to production requirement?
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After looking at the new Calibre 8.16 which puts AI on the playing field, our writer wonders if that's a good idea.
As Europe flirts with “reliable proprietary technologies” and India rolls out open source healthcare AI, Amanda Brock is drawing a sharp line between genuine openness, marketing spin, and outright control.
At Paris’s Open Source Experience conference, six Acteurs du Libre awards mapped out a snapshot of Europe’s free software ecosystem in 2025, from enterprise strategy to privacy‑first Android and public‑sector platforms.
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As US legal reach over cloud data keeps spooking EU regulators and customers, SUSE is betting that pairing its software with up‑and‑coming European providers like Evroc will give it an edge over US‑based rivals.
Instead of one long row of tiny tabs, Workspaces in Vivaldi let you keep related tabs together as projects, and sync those setups across your devices when you need them.