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4 Billion Devices Run His Code. He Said He Was Drowning. A Spy Was Already Inside.
One spy. 849 days of fake patches. A burned-out maintainer who just wanted help. A backdoor almost opened every Linux server on Earth.
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Trillion-Dollar Companies Pay $0 for the Software They Cannot Live Without
800 billion downloads run on one charity donation. 60% of maintainers work unpaid. Nobody will fix.
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Open Source & Linux Weekly - W11_2026
Your weekly dose of open source and Linux news, gems, and stories.
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VS Code Just Gave AI Full Control of Your Machine. Then Told You Not to Trust It.
VS Code 1.111 shipped a feature so dangerous, Microsoft wrote a warning against it in the same release notes. Then enabled it by default.
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The Maintainer Used AI to Kill His Open Source License. It Took Five Days.
The creator deleted himself from the internet in 2011. AI rewrote his code in five days. He broke his silence to fight back.
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You Cannot Ban AI Code You Cannot Detect
Gentoo tried. NetBSD tried. Debian looked at the 45% false positive rate and walked away.
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Open Source & Linux Weekly - W10_2026
Your weekly dose of open source and Linux news, gems, and stories.
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California's Age Verification Law Has No Idea What Linux Is
A volunteer project banned California rather than comply with an age law meant for Apple, Google, Microsoft. Hundreds of Linux distros with $0 budgets…
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Every Video on Earth Runs Through His Code. He Chose Poverty. Google Sent AI Bugs.
Its creator left in 2003. One developer chose minimum income for 11 years to keep it running. Google sent bugs, not money.
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2 Million People Downloaded Linux. How Many Will Stay?
Zorin OS hit 2 million downloads the day Windows 10 died. 78% from Windows. The installation always works. The first week always works.
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February 2026

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