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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Open Source
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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.
You Cannot Ban AI Code You Cannot Detect
Gentoo tried. NetBSD tried. Debian looked at the 45% false positive rate and walked away.
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 face the same choice.
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.
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.
Linux 7.0 Fixes a 25-Year Internet Flaw by Default
Your Zoom call freezes when someone starts a download. That’s a design flaw from 1988. Linux 7.0 fixes it by default in April 2026. No…
One Man Controls 43% of the Web. Court Documents Show What He Did With That Power.
Unsealed court docs: Automattic employees discussed plans to steal every WP site from hosts who refused to pay. 43% of the web. One man…
A Bot Accused a Maintainer of Prejudice. Humans Sided With the Bot.
A bot accused a maintainer of prejudice. Humans sided with it. Another AI agent landed code in 95 repos in 14 days. Open source trust is…
Linux 7.0: Google’s $1M Bug Finally Fixed
Google paid $1M in iouring bounties and disabled it on Chrome OS. A maintainer called Rust “cancer” and quit. Linux 7.0 is the kernel’s…