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• AI harms Open Source projects, Android goes private

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• EU push for open source, GIMP3 is out, Firefox gets webapps back

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• New Webkit browser for Linux, NVK becomes default, KDE splits X11 code

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• AMD wins at open source, GNOME makes drastic Wayland progress

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• Torvalds says Yes to Rust, Fedora doesn't get Flathub

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