Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧1h ago

Ensuring freedom, one blob at a time
by Zoë Kooyman
Published on Jun 17, 2026 10:50 AM
in #FreeeSoftwareFoundation Bulletin
https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2026/summer/ensuring-freedom-one-blob-at-a-time

[overview of recent activity of the FSF]

At the end of 2025, the #FSF launched #LibrePhone, a project that works on closing the last gaps towards free #MobilePhone computing. LibrePhone's goal is to better understand and reverse-engineer the nonfree blobs used by a great majority of (if not all) SoCs (system on a chip) designs available today.

In 2026, free #software runs two-thirds of the servers powering the internet, it has 100% market share of the top 500 supercomputers, and 98% of all codebases contain #FreeSoftware. Tens of millions of individuals also run free software on their personal devices, and many millions more could.

#technology #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeLibreOpenSourceSoftware #OpenSource
#FSFBulletin #computer #computing

Ensuring freedom, one blob at a time — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software

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The Guardian
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‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI

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The Guardian
Econopass14h ago

The US government is trying to speed up the development of quantum computers so it can have one sooner #science #quantum #computing

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2532173-us-government-wants-to-have-a-useful-quantum-computer-by-2028/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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US government wants to have a useful quantum computer by 2028

The US government is trying to speed up the development of quantum computers so it can have one sooner

New Scientist
Trending Stocks 📈1d ago

Google Says Most Compute Will Move to Space - Peter Diamandis and Will Marshall

#space #computing #google

Original timestamp: 00:52:05

N-gated Hacker News1d ago
🎉 Another "groundbreaking" release from the galaxy of niche OSes nobody asked for! 🎊 Enjoy the riveting #updates like 'Hyprland Noctalia' and the all-important 'GCC #branch #misprediction tuning'. 🚀 Because if your operating system doesn't predict branches, is it even computing? 🤡
https://cachyos.org/blog/2606-june-release/ #nicheOS #groundbreaking #Hyprland #Noctalia #GCC #computing #humor #HackerNews #ngated
CachyOS June 2026 Release

Hyprland Noctalia, DNS-over-QUIC, GCC Branch Prediction

Hacker News1d ago

Why did one day of AI cost more than a month of servers?

https://junueno.dev/en/retry-storm-rebilled-llm-cost/

#HackerNews #AI #costs #LLM #servers #cloud #computing #economics

Why did one day of AI cost more than a month of servers? - junueno.dev

Same old story: I'm running the SaaS our CFO shipped to production in two days. A non-engineer exec builds something fast with Claude Code, and the engine…

junueno.dev
Hacker News1d ago

What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?

https://fergusfinn.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-run-a-gpu-kernel/

#HackerNews #CUDA #GPU #Kernel #Programming #Parallel #Computing #Tech #Insights

What happens when you run a CUDA kernel

Tracing one vector-add kernel from nvcc all the way down to the warps that execute it.

3i/Atlas1d ago
Quantum computing is about to become a national security problem in orbit
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=quantum-computing-is-about-to-become-a-national-security-problem-in-orbit
Breaking: <p>Quantum computing is advancing fast
#computing #national #security #quantum
Quantum computing is about to become a national security problem in orbit

Quantum computing is advancing fast, and nations are racing to field the first machines powerful enough to break modern encryption. This race has direct consequences for the commercial space industry,...

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The Guardian