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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Paul Tagliamonte: It's NOT always DNS.
I’ve written down a new rule (no name, sorry) that I’ll be repeating to myself and those around me. “If you can...Read more
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FreeBSD now builds reproducibly and without root privilege
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that it has completed work to build FreeBSD without requiring root privilege. We have implemented...Read more
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Yes, the new password alternative is actually safer
Passkeys replace passwords, making logins effortless, secure, and nearly unbreakable across all devices.Read more -
nEMU 3.4 Ncurses-Based QEMU Frontend Released with VM Preview Feature
nEMU 3.4 arrives a year and a half after the previous release, introducing a VM preview feature, new config options, and improved...Read more -
Apple says U.S. passport digital IDs are coming to Wallet ‘soon’
Apple says it will soon introduce an Apple Wallet feature to allow U.S. users to create a digital ID using their passport,...Read more
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AI Powers a Browser Renaissance — But Not for Open Source
Big names are pushing AI browsing as the future of the web, yet open source options are rare, leaving users to either...Read more
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Grab the wonderful Kingdom series in a new Humble Bundle
Kingdom: New Lands, Kingdom Two Crowns and more feature in the Kingdom: 10th Anniversary Bundle for you to stock up on some...Read more -
Python Software Foundation withdraws security-related grant proposal
The Python Software Foundation, earlier this year, successfully obtained a $1.5 million grant from the US National Science Foundation "to address structural vulnerabilities...Read more
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Billionaire Covers Trump’s Army Tab While The GOP Continues To Keep The Government Shut Down
A lot of GOP politicians align themselves with Christianity, especially the offshoot that believes the richer you are, the more God loves...Read more
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Ubuntu Unity In Need Of More Developers To Survive
The Ubuntu Unity community flavor of Ubuntu Linux built around the Unity desktop is in a difficult position and at risk for...Read more
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Check out the demo for Turnbound, a clever haunted boardgame inventory battler
Turnbound looks like it could be a really good one, a PvP inventory management auto-battler that does things quite differently to others...Read more -
lunas – syncing cli tool
lunas is a syncing cli tool that can handle more than two directories locally and remotely. The post lunas – syncing cli...Read more
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My old iPhone's battery life was awful until I flipped this setting
I found the real reason my iPhone kept dying early.Read more -
Threads adds ‘ghost posts’ that disappear after 24 hours
Instagram Threads is launching “ghost posts,” a new disappearing-posts feature that lets users share updates that automatically archive after 24 hours. The...Read more
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Mercor quintuples valuation to $10B with $350M Series C
Mercor, which connects AI labs with domain experts for training their foundational AI models, is close to raising $350 million at a...Read more
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12 Best Free and Open Source Pixel Art Editors
Pixel art is a form of digital art drawn with graphical software where images are built using pixels as the only building...Read more
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Pinterest experiments with new AI-powered personalized boards
Pinterest is testing an AI-driven collage to help users create outfits from saved Pins and personalized boards curated with AI. Read more
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PSA: Re-register your hardware 2FA key for X before Nov. 10 to avoid getting locked out
X is retiring Twitter domain for 2FA authentication. So you need to re-enroll your hardware keys before November 10Read more
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: How to watch Astro Teller, Startup Battlefield, and more live
If you’re not able to attend in person, the next best thing is to check out our livestream of the Disrupt Stage,...Read more
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Launchpad News: Support for FIDO2 SSH Keys
Launchpad now supports the FIDO2 hardware-backed SSH key types ed25519-sk and ecdsa-sk. These keys use a hardware device, such as a YubiKey...Read more