The FOSS Force Almost Open Tech News Quiz (2/14/25)

We’re revising our weekly news quiz which we pretty much abandoned three or four years ago. This inaugural quiz for the reboot is only seven questions, so it’s a quick in-and-out, win-or-lose for those who want to play.

 

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#1. Last week, Electronic Frontier Foundation asserted before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that minors have what right?

Only the rights their parents give them.

The right bring their phones to school.

First Amendment rights.

The right to bear arms.

#2. Late last week Meta was accused of torrenting at least 81.7 terabytes for what alleged purpose?

Training AI

Posting on Facebook as fake news.

To test a new torrent app under development.

To sell to publishers in countries with no copyright laws.

#3. On Monday we learned that a group led by Elon Musk had contacted OpenAI for what purpose?

To determine why ChatGPT is overcharging the federal government.

To consult with AI about a space navigation issue for SpaceX.

To terminate OpenAI's government contracts.

To place a bid to buy the organization.

#4. Also on Monday, we learned that OpenAI was in the final stages of completing what?

Becoming a completely for-profit entity.

Designing a new AI processor.

Accepting an offer to be bought by Elon Musk and renamed IntelligenX.

Releasing a next-gen AI platform.

#5. On Tuesday, Jiri Eischmann who works for Red Hat from the Czech Republic, posted a blog about what?

A new law that forbids Red Hat employees int the Czech Republic from wearing their Red Hats in public because they illicit painful memories of Soviet rule.

The Gnome Project no longer has any Czech language translators.

That Red Hat has placed a bid to purchase OpenAI and move it to Prague.

That he's leaving Red Hat to take a job working for DOGE.

#6. This week Asahi Linux, a Linux distribution for running on Apple silicon, announced that its founder and lead developer had resigned. Who has been chosen to replace him?

No one. They're closing the project down.

Former Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, who's been looking for a project to run.

It's going to be taken over by Canonical as an officially supported Ubuntu spin.

No one. The existing Devs are going to work as a collective.

#7. Helsing, a German defense tech startup, announced on Thursday that it’s producing 6,000 HX-2 strike drones in addition to the 4,000 HF-1 strike drones financed by Germany, for what purpose.

They're going to Greenland to establish a defense against an expected attack by US forces.

They're being sent to California in case its ballot measure to secede from the US is successful.

They're destined for Ukrane to use in its fight against Russia.

They've been purchased by the Trump administration to deploy along the Canadian and Mexican borders.

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