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FSF to OnlyOffice: You Can’t Use the GNU (A)GPL to Take Software Freedom Away

Today at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

Nextcloud joined a project to create a sovereign replacement for Microsoft Office called “Euro-Office”. But after that project forked OnlyOffice, OnlyOffice suspended its partnership with Nextcloud. “They removed all references to our brand/attribute as required by our license,” argued OnlyOffice CEO Lev Bannov on March 30th. (“The core issue here isn’t just about what the AGPL license states,...

US Government Now Wants Anthropic’s ‘Mythos’, Preparing for AI Cybersecurity Threats

Today at 16:34 PM, via Slashdot

Friday Anthropic’s CEO met with top U.S. officials and “discussed opportunities for collaboration,” according to a White House spokesperson itedd by Politico, “as well as shared approaches and protocols to address the challenges associated with scaling this technology.” CNN notes the meeting happens at the same time Anthropic “battles the Trump administration in court for blacklisting its...

Shuttered Startups Are Selling Old Slack Chats, Emails To AI Companies

Today at 13:00 PM, via Slashdot

Some failed startups are reportedly selling old Slack messages, emails, and other internal records to AI companies as training data, creating a new way to cash out after shutting down. Fast Company reports: Shanna Johnson, the CEO of now-defunct software company Cielo24, told the publication that she was able to sell every Slack message, internal email, and Jira ticket as training data for...

Earth gets brighter every year but progression is volatile, study finds

Today at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

Covid, light pollution regulations and faltering global economy affect location and intensity of brightness

Earth continues to get brighter every year, researchers have found, but the location and intensity of the progression has become increasingly volatile because of Covid-19, regulations on light pollution, and a faltering global economy.

Nasa-funded researchers at the University of...

The ‘Lonely Runner’ Problem Only Appears Simple

Today at 11:00 AM, via Wired

Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. Answering the question of how many will always end up running alone, no matter their speed, has vexed mathematicians for decades.

NASA Restarts Work To Support Europe’s Uncrewed Trip To Mars After Years of Setbacks

Today at 09:00 AM, via Slashdot

NASA has revived support for the European Space Agency’s long-delayed Rosalind Franklin Mars rover mission. According to the space agency, the current plan is to launch via a SpaceX Falcon Heavy no earlier than 2028. Engadget reports: This is a partnership between NASA and the ESA, with the European agency providing the rover, the spacecraft and the lander. The US will provide braking engines...

Online Personalities and Comedians Overtake TV and Newspapers as Primary News Sources

Today at 01:00 AM, via Slashdot

A new Ipsos poll finds Americans are increasingly getting news from online personalities and comedians instead of traditional TV or newspapers. The survey says nearly 70% get news online in a given week, versus 55% from TV and 25% from newspapers, with figures like Joe Rogan, Greg Gutfeld, Sean Hannity, and late-night hosts ranking prominently depending on political leanings. From the Hollywood...

NIST Limits CVE Enrichment After 263% Surge In Vulnerability Submissions

Today at 00:00 AM, via Slashdot

NIST is narrowing how it handles CVEs in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), saying it will only automatically enrich higher-priority vulnerabilities. “CVEs that do not meet those criteria will still be listed in the NVD but will not automatically be enriched by NIST,” it said. “This change is driven by a surge in CVE submissions, which increased 263% between 2020 and 2025. We don’t...

Gazing Into Sam Altman’s Orb Could Solve Ticket Scalping

Yesterday at 23:17 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Sam Altman’s iris-scanning, humanity-verifying World project announced at an event in San Francisco on Friday that Tinder users around the globe can now put a digital badge on their profiles signaling to potential suitors that they’re a real human, provided they’ve already stared into one of World’s glossy white Orbs and allowed their eyes to be...

Mozilla ‘Thunderbolt’ Is an Open-Source AI Client Focused On Control and Self-Hosting

Yesterday at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

BrianFagioli writes: Mozilla’s email subsidiary MZLA Technologies just introduced Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client aimed at organizations that want to run AI on their own infrastructure instead of relying entirely on cloud services. The idea is to give companies full control over their data, models, and workflows while still offering things like chat, research tools, automation, and...

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