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The name Akrites is derived from Akritai -- the Byzantine Empire’s frontier guardians, who stood watch where threats arrived first and defenses were thinnest.
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Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.
The app is easy to replace. The hard part is the years of documents trapped in one company’s format -- especially after that company ceases to exist.
With fresh funding from the Linux Foundation’s Alpha Omega initiative, FreeBSD is turning to AI tools and paid security staff to hunt vulnerabilities across its codebase.
Arch has evidently stopped new AUR registrations for the time being while maintainers scrub malware and users debate how to harden the popular community repository.
Earmarked donations let GNOME fund two fellows to modernize Files (Nautilus), improve tooling, and bolster project-level governance.