Winux arrives dressed like Windows 11, but underneath the glossy theme and bundled conveniences there are real, verifiable risks that make it a poor choice for anyone who values privacy, long-term stability, and transparent engineering.
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Winux is a third‑party Linux...
Winux arrives wrapped in sleek Windows 11 styling, a glossy demo video and a promise of a familiar desktop — but beneath the theme and the marketing, this distro resurrects the same trust issues, questionable licensing and security baggage that followed its predecessors LinuxFX and Wubuntu, and...
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FreeBSD’s core team has decided to take a cautious, deliberate path on generative AI: investigate and codify limits rather than open the gates to LLM‑authored commits, and in doing so it has joined a short but growing list of major open‑source projects that are treating AI‑generated code as a...
GitHub’s CEO publicly defended a controversial internal Microsoft memo that urged managers to factor employees’ use of Copilot‑style tools into performance reflections, calling the guidance “totally fair game” and reframing the conversation as learning and mindset rather than blunt surveillance...
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GitHub’s CEO, Thomas Dohmke, announced on August 11, 2025 that he will step down to return to his “startup roots,” a move that coincides with Microsoft folding GitHub’s operations more closely into its CoreAI organization — an arrangement that accelerates the platform’s AI-first strategy while...
GitHub’s CEO change and the company’s shift into Microsoft’s CoreAI orbit mark a decisive moment: a once-independent code-hosting giant is being steered closer into the heart of Microsoft’s AI strategy, and that realignment raises strategic upside for AI-first development — plus challenging...
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