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Why Google sucks now, US bans TikTok, Ubuntu 24.04 & Fedora 40

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Published 04/27/24

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Published 04/27/24

Flatpak vulnerability, Gentoo refuses AI, Cosmic will theme apps

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Published 04/20/24

Fedora wants AI, Nvidia + Wayland is fixed, US gains privacy

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Published 04/13/24

Proposal for Fedora to use Plasma, XZ backdoor repercussions, German state moves to Linux

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Published 04/06/24

Redis renounces FOSS, the future of Linux is bright, Fedora 40 beta

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Published 03/30/24

USA sues Apple, Plasma themes can wipe your drive, GNOME 46

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Published 03/23/24

Cosmic is delayed, French suffers massive data breach, EU won't regulate FOSS

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Published 03/16/24

Linux at 4%, Fedora drops X11, Apple makes a mess of the EU's DMA

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Published 03/09/24

Nintendo sues emulator, Nvidia thinks coding is dead, Plasma 6 is out

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Published 03/02/24

Snap scam problem, Warp on Linux, an API for RGB

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Published 02/24/24

Mozilla layoffs, Cosmic DE alpha, India bans ProtonMail

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Published 02/17/24

Mozilla blunders and then gets a new CEO, Ubuntu makes some moves

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Published 02/10/24

VSCode & MS Edge troubles, Fedora KDE might keep X11

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Published 02/03/24

Apple really sucks, Mint's EDGE ISO, Wayland protocol drama

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Published 01/27/24

OpenSUSE is going immutable, Snap creates problems, Fuchsia won't be Google's future

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Published 01/20/24

Cosmic Alpha, Linux 6.7, more SteamOS devices & the Wayland saga continues

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Published 01/13/24

Fedora & RHEL optimizing packages, Linux is at 4%, GNOME develops an extension

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Published 01/06/24

X11 is a bad platform, More AI regulation, FOSS licenses aren't enough

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Published 12/30/23

Open Source Nvidia drivers are good, Microsoft installs Linux for AI work, HDR support

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Published 12/23/23

The CEO of Proton (Andy Yen) answers all your questions!

At the end of November, I asked the community on mastodon to send me all their questions about Proton Mail, Drive, VPN, Pass, their features, their privacy, and their security. I compiled all of these, and interviewed Andy Yen, the CEO of Proton. I couldn’t ask ALL of the questions, since there were 130 non-duplicates, but over the course of 1h30, we still managed to cover a lot of ground. So, here is the full interview (also available as a video on the Youtube channel if you prefer...

Published 12/19/23

Torvalds on Linux's future, Linux gaming beats windows, Ubuntu might drop older CPUs

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Published 12/16/23

Zorin OS 17, huge flaw on all Linux system & Linux gets BSOD

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Published 12/09/23

Red Hat drops X11, KDE Plasma 6 Beta, big Linux desktop plans

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Published 12/02/23

Big Plasma 6, GNOME & COSMIC updates, Youtube's anti user moves

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Published 11/26/23