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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DXVK 2.7 Improves Support for God of War, Watch Dogs 2, and Final Fantasy XIV
DXVK 2.7, a Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine, is now available for download with new features and other improvements for various games.... Read more
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Kevin Fenzi: whew. Datacenter move (mostly) over
Hey everyone. Welcome to the far side of the 2025 Datacenter Move. Everything is now moved over and (mostly) working from the new location. There are of course some things to fix still. We have been tracking the smaller items in: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/12620 and larger ones in their own tickets. At... Read more -
Drive Capital’s second act – how the Columbus venture firm found success after a split
The venture capital world has always had a hot-and-cold relationship with the Midwest. Investors rush in during boom times, then retreat to the coasts when markets turn sour. For Columbus, Ohio-based Drive Capital, this cycle of attention and disinterest played out against the backdrop of its own internal upheaval several... Read more
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Ask not for whom the Louvre of Bluesky tolls, it tolls for thee
It’s a sad weekend over at Bluesky, where one of the best accounts has disappeared — though we can still hope for its resurrection.... Read more
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This Week In Techdirt History: June 29th – July 5th
Five Years Ago This week in 2020… remember Parler? The uncensored free speech social media platform? Well, it was changing its tune and starting to ban users as it embarked on a speedrun of the content moderation learning curve (and we also noted some striking clauses in its terms of... Read more
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7-Zip v25 File Archiver Released with Performance Gains
The latest 7-Zip release speeds up bzip2 by up to 40%, improves ZIP and FAT archive support, and fixes multiple bugs and security vulnerabilities.... Read more -
Akashdeep Dhar: Arriving At Flock To Fedora 2025
On 03rd June 2025, it was that time of the year again when we departed for the annual Fedora Project community conference, Flock To Fedora 2025. Waking up at 05:00AM Indian Standard Time, I was soon on my way to the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport (CCU) after some... Read more -
Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews
A group known as the Independent Publishers Alliance has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission over Google’s AI Overviews, according to Reuters. The complaint accuses Google of “misusing web content for Google’s AI Overviews in Google Search, which have caused, and continue to cause, significant harm to publishers,... Read more
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“Twibel” Actions Against Comedians (and Why It's a Truly Low Blow)
they try to make up in quantities for a lack of merit or quality... Read more
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Three Things: Hope Within Us
This could be us, rowing together. Hope is your paddle. The post Three Things: Hope Within Us appeared first on emptywheel.... Read more