Bluesky, which runs on open source software and is based on an open protocol for social platforms, has lately seen it's user base take a 10-fold increase as Brazil shutters TwitterX.
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As you might expect from the folks at the eFoundation, the new Parental Controls do a better job of protecting child users than the controls that Google ships with Android.
Rather than handing more censorship powers to moderators, Bluesky devs are looking to make design changes to encourage its users to be civil.
Although Elastic plans to make Elasticsearch and Kibana open source again in the "upcoming weeks," nothing is said about X-Pack, which will evidently continue to be only available under "fauxpen" licensing.
An article in which our reporter tries to get Leo, Brave's chatbot, to spill the beans on what's really happening at Brave Software.
Among other things, this newest version of LibreOffice will let you choose whether to allow or disallow a hyphen at the end of the last line on a page.
Natron Energy's sodium-ion batteries are non-flammable and have more energy density than lithium-ion batteries. Right now, they're primarily being used as emergency backup in data centers, but expect to see them powering EVs soon.
While Open Source Initiative continues its work developing an open-source AI definition, LF has taken AI-based Open Model Initiative under its wings. The Linux Foundation…
The lift and shift app, ELevate, for easily migrating away from no longer supported distros, adds Scientific Linux support as well as new features. The…
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund unveils a new program to fund maintainers of open source projects that's expected to be up and running by year's end.
One surprise in this year's Cost of a Data Breach Report is that generative AI is being successfully used not only to prevent data breaches, but to substantially lower the cost of a breach when one happens.