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Teacher’s Cheat Sheet for FOSS Force’s July 18, 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. Why did Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of the open-source curl command line utility, this week announce that he’s considering dropping the projects bug bounty program?

    Correct answer: Because scammers using AI are clogging the system with too many minor bug reports.

    Headline: Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop

  2. This month, the The Host Option Vulnerability and the The Chroot Option Vulnerability have been a concern in Linux circles because they exploit what key Linux component?

    Correct answer: SUDO – Which allows authorized users limited root access

    Headline: Security Alert: Sudo Vulnerabilities Expose Linux Systems to Privilege Escalation

  3. This week, the social platform Reddit began using age verification software in order to comply with new rules in what country?

    Correct answer: The UK

    Headline: Reddit rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with new rules

  4. Starting earlier this month, the nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt broadened support to include IP addresses. This would enable secure HTTPS to what kind of computers? (Choose all that apply)

    Correct answer: IoT and home-lab devices, ephemeral cloud workloads.

    Headline: Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates

  5. On Tuesday we learned that Uber has struck another deal robotaxi deal, with what robotaxi provider?

    Correct answer: Chinese tech giant Baidu

    Headline: Uber’s latest robotaxi partner is China’s Baidu

  6. Earlier this month we learned that beginning with LibreOffice 26.2, the office suite will be able to import and save to what kink of document?

    Correct answer: Markdown

    Headline: LibreOffice Begins Landing Markdown File Import Support

  7. On Tuesday we learned that the server-side scripting language PHP is considering changing its licensing to what?

    Correct answer: BSD-3-Clause

    Headline: PHP Proposes Switch to BSD-3-Clause License

  8. On July 10, we learned that the owner of this supermarket chain is planning to attempt to convince the German government that it should be the lead developer of a major AI data center.

    Correct answer: Lidl

    Headline: https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/data-center-site-selection/supermarket-billionaire-wants-to-build-ai-gigafactory-in-europe

  9. This week, researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and others called for deeper investigation into techniques for monitoring what about AI?

    Correct answer: Chains-of-thought

    Headline: Research leaders urge tech industry to monitor AI’s ‘thoughts’

  10. Last week, YouTube reported in a blog post that it’s getting rid of what features?

    Correct answer: Trending Now list, Trending page

    Headline: YouTube is getting rid of its Trending page and Trending Now list

  11. During July, Twitter co-founder and two time CEO built and released two apps. What are they?

    Correct answer: Sun Day – for tracking UV exposure and vitamin D intake, Bitchat – a Bluetooth-based messaging app

    Headline: Jack Dorsey’s latest app tracks sun exposure