Opinion Software Freedom Conservancy’s (SFC) Executive Director Karen Sandler was last year awarded an honorary doctorate by Belgium’s Katholieke Universiteit Leuven for her work for open source and software freedom. There was only one problem. Her…Read More

Akamai’s team of security experts has discovered a new cryptomining campaign, dubbed NoaBot, leveraging the SSH protocol to spread its malware. Mirai is a self-propagating worm that can turn consumer devices running Linux on ARC processors into…Read More

Many people think we already have artificial general intelligence (AGI), AI programs that can do anything a person can. They’re wrong. But, starting a few months ago, OpenAI enabled developers to create customized versions of ChatGPT that could be…Read More

The Wi-Fi Alliance has given Wi-Fi 7, officially known as 802.11be, its blessing, and our homes and offices will soon see speeds of — believe it or not — almost 5.8 Gigabits per second (Gbps). Actually, just between us, I … Continue reading →

When the Netscape browser suite source code was open-sourced in 1998, it was a desperate move. Although Netscape and the Department of Justice had been successful in the courts at battling Microsoft’s Windows and Internet Explorer (IE) illegal…Read More

Open source security is now vital not only to developers but to governments and top corporations as well. Open source security has always been important. We just pretended otherwise. We don’t have that luxury of laziness anymore. Now, the U.S.…Read … Continue reading →