In early August 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction Amazon had won against Perplexity AI over its agentic web browser. The dispute turned on whether an AI assistant that browses the web on your behalf qualifies as “accessing” a protected computer under the Computer Fraud and Abuse […]

Notable FOSS Releases This Week Our RSS monitoring picked up a fresh batch of releases and milestones across the open-source ecosystem this week. Two critical security fixes lead the pack — one for the Forgejo code hosting platform and a patch release sweeping GitLab’s supported branches — alongside the stable debut of the ChiPass password […]

Notable FOSS Releases This Week Our RSS monitoring picked up a fresh batch of releases and milestones across the open-source ecosystem this week. From a long-awaited point release of a fast Lisp-family language to a brand-new GUI for the Haskell toolchain manager, here’s what caught our attention. 1. Janet 1.42.0 — Bug Fixes, Documentation Revamp, […]

On 24 August 2026, X Corp sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Nitter project — the open-source community behind the XCancel privacy front-end — demanding it stop operating the service. Nitter, an open-source alternative frontend that let people read public X posts without JavaScript, tracking, or an account, responded by taking XCancel offline and suspending […]

Why Gaming Ownership Matters A recent discussion on Hacker News made one thing clear: the debate about physical vs. digital games misses the real issue. As the article’s author put it, it’s not about the format — it’s about who actually owns the games you buy. When you purchase a game on Steam, the Epic […]