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Latest Posts
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Firefox May Have Lost Up to 12% Of Its Users So Far In 2021
Firefox is the default web browser installed on most Linux distributions. It is a well-known browser by Mozilla that respects user privacy by design, and currently remains the […]
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Calls to Help Creating an Audacity Fork
Ever since the last controversy about Audacity, people have been calling to fork the program under a new umbrella so that the community can finally end this discussion […]
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Audacity is now a Possible Spyware, Remove it ASAP
The famous open source audio manipulation program was acquired by a company named Muse Group two months ago. The same company owns other projects in its portfolio such […]
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5 Popular Free and Open Source VPN’s
Everybody needs a VPN. People spend most of their time online and send critical information over the internet. Being safe online involves using many methods and tools, and […]
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Should GitHub Be Sued For Training Copilot on GPL Code?
Just yesterday, GitHub announced that it is working on a new feature for its platform called “Copliot“; which is an artificial coding assistant that predicts the next chunks […]
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freenode is IRC; As in “Dumbest Takeover in History”
Just today morning, freenode pulled the trigger on their servers and removed all channels, all users, all settings… Everything. And they say that they have restarted the network […]
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Freenode, The Mainstream IRC Network, Is Collapsing
IRC is a well-known protocol designed to serve communication and messaging purposes between users. It is built using a client-server architecture, where many “networks” exist to provide the […]
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Researchers Secretly Tried To Add Vulnerabilities to Linux Kernel, Ended Up Getting Banned
Researchers from the University of Minnesota secretly tried to add security vulnerabilities to Linux kernel, but they were caught and banned.