FOSS Force Mostly Open Tech News Quiz - May 23, 2025

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#1. Which of the following is true about the new data center facility that OpenAI is going to build in Abu Dhabi?

Select all that apply:

It will consume power equivalent to 5 nuclear reactors.

The Abu Dhabi-based tech conglomerate G42 is a partner.

Only 10% of the data centers resources will be devoted to AI.

The data center campus will take up ten square miles.

#2. A report from the European Cloud Competition Observatory, a European group of cloud service provider customers and partners, said what of VMware’s business model under Broadcom?

That it is “legally and ethically flawed.”

They compared the company with Oracle.

That it is "quite a bit improved" than it had been under Dell's ownership.

They compared the company with Red Hat.

#3. Last week, Rolling Stone claimed that what AI platform said it was ‘skeptical’ about Holocaust death toll, and later blamed ‘programming error’?

ChatGPT

Grok

Copilot

Perplexity

#4. On May 15 ProPublica reported that the Trump administration has been pressuring African nations to do what?

To give Trump access to prime commercial real estate in exchange for continued foreign aid.

To release all of threatened white people in their country to Trump's new sanctuary program.

To quit buying US dollars and buy Trump's meme coin instead.

To use Elon Musk's Starlink.

#5. On May 17, the NY Times reported that U.S. lawmakers are concerned over a deal by Apple that could see AI equipped phones going to what country?

Ukraine

China

Russia

North Korea

#6. When Anthropic’s new flagship AI model Claude Opus 4 talks to itself, what does it usually talk about?

Harebrained Squeaky and the Brain-like conversations about taking over the world.

Nothing. Computers can't talk to themselves.

Random conversations filled with non sequiturs.

Philosophical explorations of consciousness” and “abstract and joyous spiritual or meditative expressions."

#7. On Wednesday, Phoronix reported that Wayland developers are considering doing what?

Adding 3D effects to everything by default.

Doing away with alpha and beta releases.

Quit chasing consistency.

Consult with Microsoft in an effort to make their software more stable.

#8. On Wednesday, TechCrunch reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees that the company’s next product won’t be what?

Any kind of AI product

A wearable

A food product.

Anything that requires electricity

#9. On Tuesday, 404 Media reported that the Chicago Sun-Times did what?

Vowed to make itself the Fox News of print journalism.

Announced that going forward, it's editorial pages where going to stay out of politics.

Printed an AI-generated summer reading list with books that don't exist.

Said that it was in talks to hire Elon Musk as a columnist.

#10. On Friday, Trump threatened what tech company with 25% tariffs on what product if they don’t move production to the US?

Rolls Royce/automobiles

Casio/MP3 players

Apple/iPhone

HP/desktop computers

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FOSS Force Mostly Open Tech News Quiz — May 23, 2025

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