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Teacher’s Cheat Sheet for FOSS Force’s August 15, 2025 News Quiz

Thanks for taking this week’s FOSS Force Mostly Open Tech News Quiz!

Below is a list of all the correct answers to this week’s quiz, along with links to the actual news stories behind the quiz’s questions.

  1. Users of Google’s Gemini AI platform now have this new option.

    Correct answer: They can limit the amount of time that Gemini “remembers” chat discussions.

    Linked Headline: New Temporary Chats in Gemini stops Google remembering everything

  2. Late last month, Proton Mail announced it’s released a new standalone app for what?

    Correct answer: Accurately compressing files with 100:1 compression

    Linked Headline: Inside Proton’s New Two-Factor Authenticator App

  3. On Wednesday we learned that Apple has rejected a claim that Elon Musk has made against it. What was that claim?

    Correct answer: That Apple’s App Store favors OpenAI over other AI apps.

    Linked Headline: Apple dismisses Elon Musk’s claims that App Store favors OpenAI over other AI apps

  4. Last week we learned that a jury ruled that Meta was guilty of what?

    Correct answer: Collecting private menstrual health data without users’ consent and using it for ad-tracking purposes.

    Linked Headline: Jury rules Meta violated California privacy laws by quietly collecting Flo users’ menstrual health data

  5. On Wednesday TechCrunh reported that it discovered the TeaOnHer website was leaking user data. What is TeaOnHer?

    Correct answer: A site for men to share photos and information about women they claim to have dated.

    Linked Headline: How we found TeaOnHer spilling users’ driver’s licenses in less than 10 minutes

  6. On Monday, Revel revealed that it was shutting down its ride-hail business to concentrate on what?

    Correct answer: Its EV charging business.

    Linked Headline: Revel shuts down its ride-hail business to focus on EV charging

  7. This week Amazon announced that it’s rolled out a new service in 1,000 cities. What is it?

    Correct answer: Delivering perishable food items through its Same-Day Delivery service.

    Linked Headline: Amazon rolls out same-day delivery of perishable groceries in 1,000 US cities

  8. On Monday it was announced that Nvidia and AMD would be allowed to sell AI chips to China if they did what?

    Correct answer: Pay 15% of their revenues the US government.

    Linked Headline: Nvidia, AMD to Pay 15% of China AI Chip Sales to US Government

  9. On Monday, Canonical’s Brett Grandbois announced that it’s likely that Ubuntu 25.10 will likely ship with what?

    Correct answer: An unstable, near-final version of the Linux 6.17 kernel.

    Linked Headline: Ubuntu 25.10 Will Ship With Linux 6.17 Even If It Means An Unstable “-rc” Kernel

  10. The Linux Foundation’s Alliance for OpenUSD and the Academy Software Foundation recently teamed up to release what?

    Correct answer: An Inclusive Language Guide.

    Linked Headline: Linux Foundation’s AOUSD and ASWF Released Inclusive Language Guide in Tech