Two “groundbreaking research reports” on open source security were announced this week by the Linux Foundation in partnership with the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and Linux Foundation Europe. The reports specifically address the EU’s Cybe…

This week the Free Software Foundation published memorabilia items for an online silent auction — part of their big 40th anniversary celebration. “Starting March 17, the FSF will unlock items each day for bidding on the LibrePlanet wiki at 12:00…

“The number of discrete GPU developers from the U.S. and Western Europe shrank to three companies in 2025,” notes Tom’s Hardware, “from around 10 in 2000.” (Nvidia, AMD, and Intel…)
No company in the recent years — at least outside of China &md…

The Open Source Initiative’s Board of Directors election “has become embroiled in controversy…” writes Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at The New Stack.

“The real issue is the community’s opposition to the open source AI definition (OSAID), which the org…

AmiMoJo writes: China plans to issue guidance to encourage the use of open-source RISC-V chips nationwide for the first time, Reuters reports, citing two sources briefed on the matter, as Beijing accelerates efforts to curb the country’s dependence on …

EA has released the source code for several classic Command & Conquer games, including Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, Renegade, and Generals & Zero Hour. “They’re being released under the GPL license, meaning folks can mix, match, and redistribute t…

When it comes to application packaging, earlier this month the site Its FOSS complained that Fedora Flatpaks “are often unmaintained or broken, leading to a poor experience for users who aren’t usually aware they’re using them.” And this apparently cre…

Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix: With Valve’s release today of the Steam Audio SDK 4.5.2 they have made the software development kit fully open-source under an Apache 2.0 license. Steam Audio 4.5.2 may not sound exciting in the context of a versio…

By 2022 the VC firm Sequoia Capital had about $85 billion in assets under management, according to Wikipedia. Its successful investments include Google, Apple, PayPal, Zoom, and Nvidia.

And now the VC firm “plans to fund up to three open source softw…

From a blog post by Greg Kroah-Hartman:

As was recently announced, the Linux kernel project has been accepted as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) for vulnerabilities found in Linux.

This is a trend, of more open source projects taking over the haphaz…