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ChessBase and Stockfish end their legal dispute
Stockfish is a free, open-source, and cross-platform chess engine, trusted by grandmasters and leading chess platforms worldwide.
Four Years of Sourcehut
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
Movie Maker mode in Godot 4.0
With the addition of non-real-time video recording, Godot opens itself to new use cases such as architecture visualization and cutscene rendering.
Open-source software vs. the proposed Cyber Resilience Act
By Maarten Aertsen NLnet Labs is closely following a legislative proposal by the European Commission affecting almost all hardware and software on the European market. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) intends to ensure cybersecurity of products with digital elements by laying down requirements and obligations for…
Codeberg is moving and what this means to you
Codeberg is moving, and you can imagine, moving a mountain takes time and...
An open source lawyer’s view on the copilot class action lawsuit
Seems like the other shoe finally dropped and a formal complaint has been filed with the Northern District of California regarding Copilot and Codex. The complaint is fascinating because the one th…
Thunderbird Supernova Preview: The New Calendar Design
One of the major improvements to look forward to in Thunderbird "Supernova" is a beautifully redesigned calendar UI. Here's your first look!
MDN converted to Markdown
Open Web Docs supports web platform documentation for the benefit of web developers & designers worldwide. We are a community of web developers, standards makers, and technology companies that rely on this documentation as critical digital infrastructure, and we work cooperatively to ensure its long-term success and…
Why did the OpenSSL punycode vulnerability happen?
We look at how fuzzing should have caught the OpenSSL Punycode vulnerability, and why that code was even necessary in the first place.
OpenSSL 3.0.7 fixes X.509 email address buffer overflows
Today we published an advisory about CVE-2022-3786 (“X.509 Email Address Variable Length Buffer Overflow”) and CVE-2022-3602 (“X.509 Email Address 4-byte Buffer Overflow”).
9front “The Golden Age of Ballooning” Released
Multiple installation media are provided for PC, Raspberry Pi, and MNT Reform. For PC, burn an .iso file to CD, or dd it directly to USB media. For Raspberry Pi or MNT Reform, dd an .img file directly to sdcard.
A Message from Lunny on Gitea Ltd. and the Gitea Project
Thank you everyone for your comments and considerations over the past couple of days regarding our announcement on October 25, 2022. We know the Gitea community is involved and passionate about our shared project and that’s why we’ve been taking the time to listen to your feedbac
Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea
With Gitea reaching 6 years old, it is time to reflect on the past, and to look forward to the future. With over 14k+ commits, 1k+ contributors, 40+ maintainers, and 300M+ Docker Hub pulls, Gitea has come a long way.
RISC-V Celebrates Upstreaming of Android Open Source Project RISC-V Port
RISC-V Community News Success in the mobile and consumer device market depends on a vibrant software ecosystem. Over the past decade the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) has become one...
Pocket Casts goes open source
Automattic acquired Pocket Casts last July, and since we’ve been tapping away trying to make the best podcast client for people who love listening to podcasts. And! The team has been working really…
5 Years of Pop _OS
Five years. Can you believe it? To celebrate, we’re looking back at where Pop!_OS started, how it’s grown, and where it’s going next. Thanks for joining us on this journey!
Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu
Ubuntu 22.10 improves the experience of IT administrators and enterprise developers with a particular focus on the IoT ecosystem. […]
Open core companies are not incentivized to make their projects good
Clear upgrades, incidents, CVEs, and tickets with infra agents grounded in production. They run in your environment, and every change lands as a PR you review.
The Overflow Offline project
For coders without an internet connection, an offline dataset provides an essential encyclopedia
Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app worse
Instead of checking the open source code, Google makes assumptions about our use of contacts in the Voys App, with dire consequences.