“Terraform, arguably the most popular Infrastructure as Code products, has been forked after the parent company HashiCorp changed its license from the Mozilla Public License (MPL) to the Business Source License v1.1 (BSL),” writes long-time Slashdot re…

ZDNet’s Steven Vaughan-Nichols shares what’s new in the release of Linux 6.5: The biggest news for servers — and cloud Linux users — is AMD Ryzen processors’ P-State support. This support should mean better performance and power use across CPU cores….

Free and open software have transformed the tech industry. But we still have a lot to work out to make them healthy, equitable enterprises. From a report: When Xerox donated a new laser printer to MIT in 1980, the company couldn’t have known that the m…

It’s time for the open source Rambos to stop fighting and agree that developers care more about software’s access and ease of use than the purity of its license, reads a piece on InfoWorld. From the report: The open source war is over, however much som…

Bram Moolenaar was Vim’s creator/maintainer/benevolent-dictator for life. Early this morning his family shared sad news on the Vim-announce Google Group. “It is with a heavy heart that we have to inform you that Bram Moolenaar passed away on 3 August 2…

Meta on Wednesday introduced its open-source AI tool called AudioCraft that will help users to create music and audio based on text prompts. Reuters reports: The AI tool is bundled with three models, AudioGen, EnCodec and MusicGen, and works for music,…

Some of the largest tech companies, including Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia, have announced the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) to promote and develop Pixar’s 3D Universal Scene Description technology. From the Linux Foundation: The alliance seeks to…

A coalition of a half-dozen open-source AI stakeholders — Hugging Face, GitHub, EleutherAI, Creative Commons, LAION and Open Future — are calling on EU policymakers to protect open source innovation as they finalize the EU AI Act, which will be the w…

Earlier this week, Meta announced it has teamed up with Microsoft to launch Llama 2, its “open-source” large language model (LLM) that uses artificial intelligence to generate text, images, and code. In an opinion piece for The Register, long-time ZDNe…

Long-time Slashdot reader caseih writes: A thoughtful post on the Adafruit Blog chronicles the problems facing open-source hardware companies, and how more and more companies, including Sparkfun, Arduino and Prusa, are becoming more and more proprietar…