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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AMD ROCm 7.0 Officially Released With Many Significant Improvements
Overnight the AMD ROCm 7.0 release tags began appearing within the public Git repositories. Now AMD ROCm 7.0 is officially released as...Read more
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Figure reaches $39B valuation in latest funding round
Figure raised more than $1 billion in a Series C round led by Parkway Venture Capital in addition to numerous other investors.Read more
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How To Install MySQL on Debian 13
MySQL remains one of the most popular open-source relational database management systems in the world, powering millions of web applications and enterprise...Read more
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Waymo approved to start testing autonomous vehicles at San Francisco International Airport
Waymo has spent years locked in back-and-forth negotiations with SFO, the biggest airport serving its home base of Silicon Valley.Read more
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OpenAI will apply new restrictions to ChatGPT users under 18
Under the new policy, ChatGPT will be trained to no longer engage in "flirtatious talk" with underage users, and additional guardrails will...Read more
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Pam Bondi Threatens To Prosecute Hate Speech, Which Charlie Kirk Himself (Rightly) Said Was Protected Speech
Attorney General Pam Bondi just provided a masterclass in how to completely misunderstand the First Amendment while threatening to abuse government power...Read more
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CBS/Paramount And The Ellisons Look To Buy Time Warner In Latest Destructive Major Media Megadeal
Fresh off of kissing Trump’s ass to gain regulatory approval for Skydance’s merger with CBS and Paramount, the billionaire Ellison family is...Read more
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Samsung patches zero-day security flaw used to hack into its customers’ phones
The Galaxy phone maker said it was notified in August that hackers are actively exploiting the security flaw to target Samsung customers.Read more
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[$] Comparing Rust to Carbon
Safe, ergonomic interoperability between Rust and C/C++ was a popular topic at RustConf 2025 in Seattle, Washington. Chandler Carruth gave a presentation...Read more
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Fourth Power’s sci-fi thermal batteries could be cheaper than pricey natural gas power plants
Fourth Power has raised $20 million to build a demonstration version of its thermal batteries, which ultimately could store electricity at $25...Read more
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Y Combinator-backed Rulebase wants to be the AI coworker for fintech
Y Combinator-alum Rulebase is betting that the next wave of automation in financial services will be the unglamorous tasks.Read more
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Kayak co-founder takes on Calendly with new Supercal scheduling platform
The entrepreneur has launched Supercal, a free scheduling platform that’s designed to make booking meetings more efficient and simple.Read more
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Tinkering with Dongles | Why Framework Needs the DongleHider+ Expansion Card
I am a Framework Computers enthusiast. My Laptop 13 is my daily driver has become a road-hardened, traveling partner, reliably working from...Read more
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Firefox 143.0 released
Version 143.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include the ability to pin tabs by dragging them to the edge,...Read more
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Fedora 43 Beta ISOs Released For Testing This Leading-Edge Linux OS
It's beta day for Fedora 43 and the release media is ready for testing!..Read more
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Alternatives to popular games that don't work on Linux, Steam Deck and SteamOS
With the amount of games that block Linux platforms including SteamOS and Steam Deck, here's your guide to some great alternatives..Read the...Read more -
3.5” SBC with MediaTek Genio 700/510 for Low-Power AIoT Edge Applications
IBASE Technology has introduced the IBR500, a 3.5-inch single board computer built around MediaTek Genio processors. The compact design is aimed at...Read more
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D-ID acquires Berlin-based video startup Simpleshow
Video creation platform D-ID snaps up Berlin-based video generation startup Simpleshow to expand its digital avatar solution.Read more
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Development Release: Fedora 43 Beta
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Fedora project has announced a new development release for Fedora...Read more
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Younger generations embrace the mainframe
Large enterprises have always relied on mainframe computing but with the rise of technologies like the cloud and AI many have predicted...Read more