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.
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Multipass Makes Spinning Up Ubuntu Images as Simple as It Gets
Multipass offers a quick way to create Ubuntu virtual machines with no extra hardware or complex setup needed. The post Multipass Makes...Read more
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Kleiner Perkins-backed voice AI startup Keplar aims to replace traditional market research
The two-year-old startup raised a $3.2 million seed round led by Kleiner Perkins.Read more
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Meet Macroscope: an AI tool for understanding your code base, fixing bugs
On Wednesday, former Twitter head of product Kayvon Beykpour announced the launch of Macroscope, an AI system aimed at developers and product...Read more
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China tells its tech companies they can’t buy AI chips from Nivida
After strongly discouraging tech companies from buying Nivdia's AI chips in August, the country is now banning the practice outright.Read more
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OpenJDK 25 & GraalVM 25 Released With 32-bit x86 Support Removed
Released yesterday was the OpenJDK Java 25 release along with Oracle's GraalVM 25 alternative JVM...Read more
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World’s Sorest Winner: Trump Demands $15 Billion From NY Times For Not Fluffing His Ego Enough
Even by Donald Trump’s standards for frivolous defamation lawsuits, this one is impressively stupid. On Monday, the president filed yet another lawsuit...Read more
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AMD Hardware Would Ideally Be Supported By ROCm For ~10 Years
While down to AMD Austin yesterday for the Instinct MI355X and ROCm 7.0 launch, I had the chance to chat again with...Read more
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The iPhone Air’s real breakthrough is its battery
Apple's slimmest iPhone uses a "revolutionary" battery design that allows the cell to fill more space within the device, boosting overall energy...Read more
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Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.3 Is Out with GNOME 49, Improved Webcam Support
PorteuX 2.3 Linux distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.16, GNOME 49, KDE Plasma 6.4.5, and NVIDIA 580.82.09. Here’s...Read more -
TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill
Donald Trump has successfully used xenophobia and fake concerns about propaganda and national security to get what he’s long wanted: TikTok (and...Read more
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Appeals Court: Abandoned Phones Don’t Equal Abandoned Privacy Rights
This posted was drafted by EFF legal intern Alexandra Halbeck The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers California and...Read more -
Daily Deal: Advanced Cybersecurity Master Class
Step into the world of cyber defense with the Advanced Cybersecurity Master Class Bundle from Eduonix. With over 16 hours of hands-on...Read more
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Best October Prime Day deals under $100: My favorite early sales
Grab some savings with useful tech gadgets under $100 on sale ahead of Amazon's October Prime Day sales event.Read more
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Apple once said no to touchscreen Macs - but rumor has it that's about to change
Your next MacBook Pro could be more like an iPad, but with more ports and a desktop OS.Read more
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ICE 🤝 Cyber Mercenaries | EFFector 37.12
It's easy to keep up with the fight for digital privacy and free expression. Our EFFector newsletter delivers bite-sized updates, stories, and...Read more -
Meta Connect 2025 live updates: Ray-Bans 3, Hypernova smart glasses, Oakley, more
Meta is expected to unveil its first display-enabled smart glasses, refresh its Ray-Ban lineup, and launch several other products at today's event.Read more
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Gemini just aced the world's most elite coding competition - what it means for AGI
The Google model beat humans at a tough problem in under 30 minutes.Read more
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This exclusive discount makes the best smart lock I've ever tested that much better
The Lockly Visage Zeno Series is one of the smartest devices you can add to your smart home, especially when paired with...Read more
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How To Install Samba on Manjaro
File sharing across different operating systems has become essential in modern computing environments. Samba stands as the premier solution for enabling seamless...Read more
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Zoom launches a cross application AI notetaker, AI avatars and more in its latest update
Zoom is launching new tools for its meeting and productivity platform including new AI avatars that would resemble users.Read more