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Whiskey developer throws in the towel, suggests to just buy CrossOver instead

Isaac Marovitz, the developer of Whiskey, a frontend for Apple's Game Porting Toolkit and Wine, has decided to throw in the towel. The developer is advising users to buy CrossOver instead, which provides the same service. The reasoning behind their decision seems sound, and are act

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‘I feel utter anger’: from Canada to Europe, a movement to boycott US goods is spreading

In Canada, where the American national anthem has been booed during hockey matches with US teams, a slew of apps has emerged with names such as “buy beaver”, “maple scan” and “is this Canadian” to allow shoppers to scan QR barcodes and reject US produce from

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www.osnews.com‘I feel utter anger’: from Canada to Europe, a movement to boycott US goods is spreading – OSnews

The fascist tech bro takeover is here

The future of the United States is no longer decided in Washington. That ship has sailed. It's now dictated in the bunkers, private jets, and compounds of an ideological Silicon Valley, by billionaires and wealth extremists intent on treating democracy as a nuisance that must be swatted away. These men - raised on a rabid press that mythologized their existen

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www.osnews.comThe fascist tech bro takeover is here – OSnews

EU-US rift triggers call for made-in-Europe tech

The utter chaos in the United States and the country's antagonistic, erratic, and often downright hostile approach to what used to be its allies has not gone unnoticed, and it seems it's finally creating some urgency in an area in which people have been fruitlessly advocating for urgency for years: digital independence from US tech giant

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www.osnews.comEU-US rift triggers call for made-in-Europe tech – OSnews

Made O’Meter helps you easily and quickly avoid American products

With the United States having started an incredibly dumb and destructive trade war with Canada, Mexico, and most likely soon the European Union, there's quite a few people who want to avoid American products. With how interconnected the global production chain and corporate ownership structures are, it'

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www.osnews.comMade O’Meter helps you easily and quickly avoid American products – OSnews

The dumb reason why flag emojis aren’t working on your site in Chrome on Windows

After doing more digging than I feel like I should have needed to, I found my answer: it appears that due to concerns about the fact that acknowledging the existence of certain countries can be perceived as a nominally political stance, Microsoft has opted to just avoid the

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OpenAI doesn’t like it when you use “their” generated slop without permission

OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.
↫ Cristina Criddle and Eleanor Olcott fo

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www.osnews.comOpenAI doesn’t like it when you use “their” generated slop without permission – OSnews

Chinese researchers just built an open-source rival to ChatGPT in 2 months, and Silicon Valley is freaked out

Speaking of "AI", the Chinese company DeepSeek has lobbed a grenade dead-centre into the middle of the "AI" bubble, and it's been incredibly entertaining to watch. DeepSeek has released several new "AI" models, which s

osnews.com/story/141619/chines

www.osnews.comChinese researchers just built an open-source rival to ChatGPT in 2 months, and Silicon Valley is freaked out – OSnews

AI bots paralyze Linux news site and others

Apparently, since the beginning of the year, AI bots have been ensuring that websites can only respond to regular inquiries with a delay. The founder of Linux Weekly News (LWN-net), Jonathan Corbet, reports that the news site is therefore often slow to respond.

The AI scraper bots cause a DDoS, a distributed denial-of-service attack. At times,

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www.osnews.comAI bots paralyze Linux news site and others – OSnews