A blend of proprietary and open source licensing is becoming more popular and is posing a threat to open source software. In a notable shift within the software industry, Delayed Open Source Publication (DOSP) has emerged as a nuanced strategy…Read … Continue reading →

The great computer scientist Niklaus Wirth has died, but his work will endure forever. I come not to mourn Wirth, a computer science titan who passed away on Jan. 1 at 89, but to praise him. While the public won’t … Continue reading →

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 →