An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation(lwn.net)

463 points by Velocifyer 2 months ago | 203 comments

LWN article on an SFC presentation at FOSSY 2026 about Bambu Lab's ongoing AGPLv3 violation in its 3D-printer software and efforts to provide alternatives.

A modest update to Qubes OS(lwn.net)

130 points by voxadam 2 years ago | 20 comments

LWN's Guide to 2024(lwn.net)

30 points by guiambros 2 years ago | 1 comments

A SpamAssassin Surprise(lwn.net)

61 points by rwmj 2 years ago | 47 comments

The phaseout of the mmap() file operation in Linux(lwn.net)

95 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 22 comments

Flags for fchmodat()(lwn.net)

28 points by jwilk 3 years ago | 5 comments

Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries(arstechnica.com)

329 points by LinuxBender 1 year ago | 232 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that open source developers face overwhelming AI crawler traffic, leading some to block entire countries to keep FOSS sites online.

Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25(slcyber.io)

381 points by infosecau 3 months ago | 209 comments

Searchlight Cyber research post by Adam Kues describing finding a WordPress remote code execution vulnerability using GPT5.6 for about $25.

We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers(blog.metabrainz.org)

372 points by LorenDB 9 months ago | 197 comments

MetaBrainz Foundation blog post explaining how AI scrapers are forcing it to restrict or change services it offers to the community.

We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI(derekthompson.org)

11 points by abe94 24 days ago | 8 comments

A paid Substack essay by Derek Thompson arguing the AI buildout has raised costs rather than delivering cheap abundance, fueling American hostility to AI.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies(thelibre.news)

803 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 487 comments

LibreNews article by Niccolò Venerandi on how LLM scrapers from AI companies are overloading and taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure.