Christine Hall

As Europe talks up “EuroLinux” and digital sovereignty, Turkey’s Pardus has already spent two decades quietly running in its public sector.

Nearly seven years after Richard Stallman left MIT under pressure and resigned the presidency of the Free Software Foundation he founded, he’s back on a U.S. campus giving a talk that is pure RMS — and fundraising for FSF in the process.

The first month of 2026 is closing and as we look to what the year will bring, founders and investors point to stablecoins, AI and regulations, among other topics, to drive business and investment this year. “2026 could be the inflection where crypto becomes core financial infrastructure rather than a parallel ecosystem.” — Daniel Liu, CEO and founder of Republic Technologies Stablecoins’ Starring Role “Stablecoins will become much more prevalent as applications in remittance and overseas payments for consumers and […]

Emergency Tails 7.4.1 update patches critical OpenSSL flaws that could let malicious Tor relays deanonymize users.

Remember when Napster meant free music and trouble with record labels? Now it means glossy AI therapists, fake experts, and generative “content” on tap.

We fixed Heartbleed. We didn’t fix the open source funding problem that still asks the people securing our infrastructure to volunteer while we overpay commodity app builders.

“Wouldn’t it be great if we could actually do a different way of doing banking, lending or consumer finance in Colombia?” – Santiago Suarez, co-founder and CEO, Addi When Santiago Suarez talks about why he started Addi, a Colombian credit and buy now, pay later platform, he doesn’t begin with technology, funding rounds or market sizing. He starts with losing his family’s home. In 1999, Colombia went through what Suarez describes as the country’s equivalent of the 2008 financial crisis […]

A fork created amid claims of censorship and anti‑DEI posturing is now in the news for the same reason: not how it renders pixels, but how it treats people.

Enterprise customers keep Gemini CLI, but open source users are nudged toward a proprietary “upgrade” called Antigravity CLI

Framework’s next‑gen Linux‑friendly, repair‑it‑yourself laptop hits a speed bump, with shipping pushed from June to July over last‑minute touchpad and display fixes.