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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The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak
The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message...Read more
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Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Beta Now Properly Handles Notches & Rounded Corners
The community of developers continuing to maintain Ubuntu Touch for smartphones has released the Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 beta ahead of the planned...Read more
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GNOME Taps Two Longtime Contributors as First Foundation Fellows
Earmarked donations let GNOME fund two fellows to modernize Files (Nautilus), improve tooling, and bolster project-level governance. The post GNOME Taps Two...Read more
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Intel Performance Skills: New Open-Source Project Leveraging AI For Linux Performance Optimizations
The newest open-source project out of Intel is the Intel Performance Skills project that is providing AI agent skills to help with...Read more
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The under-16 social media ban marks the end of the open UK internet
We've got the Online Safety Act in the UK, and now we're about to have new rules "to protect children online" -...Read more -
Trump DOJ Friday News Dumps Its Approval Of The Job-Killing Paramount, Warner Bros Merger
The Trump “Department of Justice’s” “antitrust division” dumped its unsurprising approval of the terrible Paramount Warner Brothers merger late on Friday in...Read more
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Jussi Pakkanen: Beware of Star Trek managers, especially when bearing MBAs
Almost exactly three years ago the Oceangate submarine implosion happened. The disaster came about when a billionaire called Stockton Rush created his...Read more -
FreeBSD Receives Funding To Launch AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery
The FreeBSD Project announced today the launch of an AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project with grant funding provided by the Linux Foundation backed...Read more
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FreeBSD AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project launch
About the project The FreeBSD Foundation has launched its AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project with the key goal of reducing the number of...Read more -
GCC Steering Committee Supports Inclusion Of WebAssembly Backend
Last month a new GCC back-end was proposed for WebAssembly to allow C/C++ code to be compiled to WASM with this GNU...Read more
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How to watch the FIFA World Cup 2026 today: 10 ways to stream (including free options)
One of the biggest sporting events of all time is here - and you don't need an expensive cable package to watch.Read more
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Meta’s new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms
Meta announced Monday that it's rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company's effort...Read more
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SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO
TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package...Read more
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The VCs Who Screamed That Biden Would Kill Powerful AI Models Seem Quite Chill About Trump Actually Doing It
Late Friday, Anthropic shut down access to its just-released Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after the Trump administration slapped export controls...Read more
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How to download the iOS 27 developer beta (and which iPhone models support it)
Apple's WWDC 2026 was full of updates for the overall iPhone user experience - here's how you can try iOS 27 early...Read more
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6 Android Auto apps I wish I discovered sooner, because they make driving much easier
If you're only using Android Auto for basic navigation and music, you're missing out on some useful add-ons.Read more
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Daily Deal: The Lifetime Learner Bundle
The Lifetime Learner Bundle feature access to uTalk and Stack Skills. Through uTalk, you’ll be able to speak keywords and phrases in...Read more
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Your TV's RS-232 port is a seriously useful automation tool - how to unlock its full potential
The RS-232 serial port on your smart TV isn't just for professional diagnostics. Here's how to unlock it for more advanced programming.Read more
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Users cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs
AMD's stripping of TSME from consumer CPUs appears to be a deliberate, covert move.Read more -
These are the countries moving to ban social media for children
Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users...Read more