The FOSS Force News Wire pulls mostly FOSS related news stories from a variety of sources and is updated every 30 minutes. The News Wire is also available as an RSS feed at http://fossforce.com/newswire. Time stamps are in UTC, so “4 hours ago” means it was published this hour EDT.
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Meta signs first AI data center deal in India with Reliance
The 168-megawatt facility will support Meta's global AI computing needs and can be expanded over time.Read more
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How to Install Ubuntu 26.04 LTS on Bare Metal
Every two years, Canonical ships a new LTS version of Ubuntu. If you are like me who does not like short term...Read more -
A beginner’s guide for choosing your first Linux distribution
Choosing your first Linux distribution can feel overwhelming. With hundreds of options available, where do you even start? I’ve been exploring Linux...Read more
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OpenAI submits confidential S-1 to SEC as AI giants race for Wall Street
OpenAI filed preliminary paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, the San Francisco-based company announced, joining Anthropic and Elon...Read more
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Top Lucid Motors executive departs amid new CEO’s leadership shakeup
The exec, Emad Dlala, has left just a few months after being promoted to SVP of engineering and digital, TechCrunch has learned.Read more
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Trump Attempts To EO America Into Mimicking Denmark’s Vaccination Schedules
Back in January of this year, RFK Jr. clearly strong armed the CDC into changing the childhood vaccination schedules in America to...Read more
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Distribution Release: Alpine Linux 3.24.0
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Alpine Linux development team has announced the release of Alpine...Read more
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Linux Sees Patches For "Critical" Vulnerability Affecting Many Arm CPUs
Made public today is CVE-2025-10263 as a "critical" security vulnerability affecting many different Arm CPU cores. CVE-2025-10263 could allow for privilege escalation...Read more
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Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars
Google just made it significantly cheaper to enjoy its budget AI subscription tier.Read more
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Sriram Ramkrishna: Linux App Summit 2026 Social Media Retrospective
Linux App Summit 2026 Social Media Retrospective This is my personal retrospective post – there will likely be some version of this...Read more
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How Justin Ernest invested nearly $500M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund
Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to invest...Read more
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I cracked open a '1,000W' portable charger after it failed me in minutes - and wished I hadn't
Meet the 'too good to be true' portable charger. Here's my general buying advice for these types of products.Read more
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Pulte Appointment Underscores Need To Reform Section 702 Spying
President Trump’s highly politicized appointment of an entirely unqualified acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) underscores why the government’s warrantless mass spying...Read more
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Alpine Linux 3.24 Released with GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, and COSMIC Desktops
Alpine Linux 3.24 distribution is now available for download with GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, COSMIC desktop, and Linux kernel 6.18 LTS....Read more -
Alpine Linux 3.24 Improves Installer Experience, Adds COSMIC Desktop Option
Alpine Linux, the Linux distribution popular especially for containers / micro-services and embedded devices, is out with its newest feature release...Read more
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Tell Congress: Just Say No to NO FAKES
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to consider and vote on the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act (NO FAKES)....Read more -
GM joins race to build batteries for AI data centers and the grid
GM is developing an entirely new sodium-ion battery chemistry for use in everything from data centers to its own factories.Read more
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Locked in heated rivalry with researcher, Microsoft fixes 0-day they disclosed
A separate zero-day also disclosed by Nightmare Eclipse appears to be patched as well.Read more -
Hey Siri, here’s what I actually want from AI
I'm desperate for a personal AI assistant, but do I really want to become the kind of person who can't function without...Read more
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Anthropic’s Fable 5 can make weirdly fun video games with the click of a button
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is going to be a big hit with the web's vibe coders.Read more