TechCrunch argues that in 2023, “established technologies relied on by millions hit a chaos curve, making people realize how beholden they are to a proprietary platform they have little control over.”

The OpenAI fiasco in November, where the ChatGPT h…

Mononymous writes: FreeBSD 14 has been officially released. You can get it from FreeBSD.org, or via freebsd-update and source update methods for existing systems. Some highlights:

– OpenSSH version 9.5p1

– OpenSSL version 3.0.12, a major upgrade from…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Facebook parent Meta is teaming up with Hugging Face and European cloud infrastructure company Scaleway to launch a new AI-focused startup program at the Station F startup megacampus in Paris. The un…

The new open-source, copy-on-write file system known as Bcachefs has been successfully merged into the Linux 6.7 kernel. “Given the past struggles to get Bcachefs mainlined, I certainly didn’t expect to see Linus Torvalds act so soon on merging it,” wr…

Slashdot reader Striek remembers Silicon Valley’s long history of open source develoipment — and how HashiCorp “made the controversial decision to change licenses from the Mozilla Public License to MariaDB’s Business Source Licesne. The key diffe…

Long-time Slashdot reader Noryungi writes: OpenBSD 7.4 has been officially released. The 55th release of this BSD operating system, known for being security oriented, brings a lot of new things, including dynamic tracer, pfsync improvements, loads of s…

AlmaLinux is creating a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) without any Red Hat code. Instead, AlmaLinux OS will aim to be Application Binary Interface (ABI) compatible and use the CentOS Stream source code that Red Hat continues to offer. Additional code …

“A recent analysis accounting for nearly 1.2 million open source software projects primarily across four major ecosystems found that only about 11% of projects were actively maintained,” reports InfoWorld:

In its 9th Annual State of the Software Suppl…

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports via The Register: The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) may open source the proprietary encryption algorithms used to secure emergency radio communications after a public backlash over security flaw…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: When HashiCorp announced it was changing its Terraform license in August, it set off a firestorm in the open source community, and actually represented an existential threat to startups that were bui…