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Let’s explore the best alternatives to Discord
Social community platform Discord is preparing to require users to verify their age by the second half of…
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A VC and some big-name programmers are trying to solve open source’s funding problem, permanently
A group of notable open source programmers are joining with a VC investor to launch a nonprofit called…
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Notepad++ says Chinese government hackers hijacked its software updates for months
The developer of the popular open-source text editor Notepad++ has confirmed that hackers hijacked the software to deliver…
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OpenClaw’s AI assistants are now building their own social network
The viral personal AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot has a new name — again. After a legal…
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Nvidia bulks up open source offerings with an acquisition and new open AI models
Nvidia continues to expand its footprint in open source AI on two fronts: an acquisition and a new…
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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block join new Linux Foundation effort to standardize the AI agent era
As AI moves beyond chatbots and toward systems that can take actions, the Linux Foundation is launching a…
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Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures
Mastodon’s creator, Eugen Rochko, is stepping down as CEO of the open source, decentralized social network and X…
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Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine’s video archive
As generative AI content starts to fill our social apps, a project to bring back Vine’s six-second looping…