Akamai announced a multi-year partnership with the Linux Kernel Organization to provide critical infrastructure support for the development & distribution of the Linux kernel, ensuring uninterrupted access for its global developer network.
Open Source Watch
Akamai becomes the official distributor of the Linux kernel
Someone needs to host the Linux kernel code, and going forward, it will be the content delivery network Akamai.
Author, journalist, and long-time Internet freedom advocate Doc Searls wants us to stop asking for privacy from websites, services, and AI and start telling these things what we will and will not accept.
Ars Technica
“MyTerms” wants to become the new way we dictate our privacy on the web
It's not a "do not track" request, it's a set of terms you demand from sites.
Unlike chatbots, AI agents operate outside of a chat window, navigating multiple applications to execute complex tasks in response to simple user commands. How much control are we willing to surrender? At what cost?
MIT Technology Review
Why handing over total control to AI agents would be a huge mistake
When AI systems can control multiple sources simultaneously, the potential for harm explodes. We need to keep humans in the loop.
Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers by letting them in and using generative AI to create junk content for them to devour in what Cloudflare has termed an “AI Labyrinth.”
Cloudflare builds an AI to make life hell for other AIs
: Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet
Duck[.]ai is DuckDuckGo’s latest AI feature, letting users chat with multiple AI models while keeping their interactions private. Duck[.]ai does not track, log, or store conversations.
TechRadar
What is Duck.ai? Everything we know about DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused AI chatbot
Anyone who worries about ChatGPT
The Linux Foundation's executive director has proposed developing a decentralized trust system to help users assess the trustworthiness of open-source projects based on factors like contributor verification and project history.
ZDNET
trust scorecard
How do you tell the difference between trustworthy open-source developers and hackers? Here's one idea.