Somebody from Austria has petitioned the European Parliament to start using Linux and open-source apps instead of Microsoft stuff.
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For the next five years, Microsoft will be under the watchful eye of Germany’s Federal Cartel Office, which will be seeking to thwart any monopolistic activity coming from Redmond proactively.
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.
If allowed to go into effect, the FTC's rule banning non-compete "agreements" are expected to increase worker earnings by $488 billion over the next decade.
Maybe it's just an oversight, but the European Commission's draft of projects for next year fails to mention the NGI Zero Commons Fund, an important source of funding for FOSS projects.
Google this week announced changes to the way it collects and stores user location data that might bring an end to geofence warrants.
New CEO comes to helm as companies like Google, Meta, and TikTok pull out of the Lisbon-based mega-conference in response to accusations from the event's founder and former CEO that Israel is committing "war crimes."
Two new seats on EFF's board are filled by Erica Astrella and Yoshi Kohno, who bring valuable experience in diversity, equity, inclusion, security research, and data privacy to the table.
Canadians in wildfire ravaged areas can't swap important and potentially life saving news stories on Facebook as a result of the country's recently passed news link law.
A Mastodon server that focuses on left-leaning political activists, recently had an unencrypted copy of its database confiscated by the FBI.
A large number of open-source organizations are saying that if this act is enacted into law, it will do damage to open-source, both in Europe and globally.