Big tech companies have a habit of offering something for free, watching the user base grow, and then quietly walking it back once people are too invested to leave easily. A bait-and-switch , so to speak. Redis did exactly this back in March 2024, dropping its long-standing BSD license forContinue Reading
The GNU Affero General Public License version 3, or AGPLv3, is one of the strongest copyleft licenses in the open source world. Published by the Free Software Foundation in 2007, it requires that any software built on an AGPLv3-licensed project must make its complete source code available under the sameContinue Reading
Chinese tech giant Huawei said Monday that it had achieved a breakthrough that would allow it to make cutting-edge chips within five years, touting the news as a significant milestone in Beijing’s effort to circumvent U.S. technology restrictions., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
Baloch separatists ‘take advantage’ of Pakistan’s entanglements, ‘Baloch separatists seek to take advantage as Pakistan pulled in many directions’ NewsFeed The Balochistan Liberation Army claimed responsibility for a train bombing that killed at least 30 people in Pakistan. Kamran Bokhari of the Middle East Policy Council argues that the separatistContinue Reading
As the US and Iran move closer to a peace deal, Israel vows to keep striking what it calls regional and nuclear threats., Could Israel sabotage US-Iran deal? NewsFeed As the US and Iran move closer to a peace deal, Israel says it reserves the right to keep attacking regionalContinue Reading
Canonical will decommission its long-running text-hosting service Ubuntu Pastebin on May 31. The company is pulling the plug as part of a broader “infrastructure modernization and migration project”, according to Canonical Community Engineer Aaron Prisk. Ubuntu Pastebin works similarly to GitHub’s Gist, albeit without the revision history. It’s been availableContinue Reading
Scientists have peered inside the skull of a 380-million-year-old Antarctic fish that was closely related to the first animals to walk on land, revealing surprising clues about how life began its move out of the water. Using advanced neutron imaging, researchers discovered that Koharalepis jarviki had features suited for livingContinue Reading
When the historian Stephanie Coontz published The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap in 1992, it landed like a gasoline-soaked rag in the middle of that era’s burning culture wars. That was the year Vice President Dan Quayle chided the fictional news anchor Murphy Brown forContinue Reading
Without a deal between Washington and Tehran, the fallout from Strait of Hormuz closure could deepen global crises., As negotiations between the United States and Iran appear to move towards a possible breakthrough, the stakes extend far beyond diplomacy between two longstanding adversaries. At issue is not simply a ceasefireContinue Reading
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif says China and Pakistan are ‘iron brother’ countries., Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif says China and Pakistan are ‘iron brother’ countries. China’s President Xi Jinping has hailed Beijing’s “unbreakable” friendship with Pakistan as he met visiting Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, seeking to deepen their “all-weather” partnership. Pakistan isContinue Reading
A special broadcast: Highlights from Democracy Now!’s 30th anniversary celebration at the historic Riverside Church, featuring Angela Davis, Patti Smith, Mosab Abu Toha, Michael Stipe, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Amy Goodman, Juan González, Nermeen Shaikh and a surprise appearance by Bruce Springsteen., This is a rush transcript. Copy mayContinue Reading
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The president alleged that they’ve “caused tremendous damage through weaponization.”, Read MoreContinue Reading