This whole "genAI" thing is a passing fad or hype because many of these tools are neither new nor innovative. They just ...

Edward Snowden is still in a difficult situation (not exactly of his choosing). If he leaves for the US, Trump will arrest and maybe execute him (without him having to even say anything). In Russia, ...

Microsofters rushed to attack the FSF for saying that.

Wayland is not much of a "selling point" for a distro in 2025. Wayland by default is a warning label. Distros that adopt Wayland typically adopt it along with X, as the only way to get Wayland to work ...

Sebastian Hetze, Linus Torvalds, and Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie having a conversation at the USENIX Annual Technical ...

The "Latest Technology News" for this Saturday: The "Latest Technology News" might as well become a punchline. At Beta'News', marketing spam (for payments through clicks) is "news" and they no longer ...

The blog post mentioned "sponsoring the GNU System and Savannah", among other things: ...

Yesterday we showed that in North America adoption of GNU/Linux is growing fast. Windows is down to all-time lows in Canada ...

"Grassroots organization against a corporation as large as Microsoft is never easy. They have the advertising budget to claim that they "love Linux" (sic), not to mention the money and political ...

Being famous or infamous isn't a good yardstick, as we've just mentioned in relation to Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie. If RMS lived a life of principles and will one day die a principled person, that ...

Older: IBM and Canonical Leave Money on the Table Because Microsoft Pays Them Not to Compete and Instead Market Windows, WSL, Microsoft 'Clown Computing', and TPMs | Free Software Community/Volunteers ...

In the UK, Windows is down to an all-time low on laptops/desktops (60%). Add Android to the mix and Microsoft is down to ...