Open source licenses: Everything you need to know
Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.
The benefits of open source software are well understood, promising greater control and trans
The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained
This story has been updated throughout with more details as the story has developed. We will continue to do so as the case and dispute are ongoing.
The community around WordPress, one of the most popular technologies for creating and hosting websites, is going through a very heated controversy. At
Researchers open source Sky-T1, a ‘reasoning’ AI model that can be trained for less than $450
So-called reasoning AI models are becoming easier — and cheaper — to develop.
On Friday, NovaSky, a team of researchers based out of UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab, released Sky-T1-32B-Preview, a reasoning model that’s competitive with an earlier version of OpenAI’s o1 on a
Everything you missed at CES 2025
Welcome back to Week in Review. I missed you! This week, we're diving into all the gadgets and announcements out of this year's CES, Meta's decision to roll back its fact-checking program, TikTok's response to employees affected by the California wildfires, and more! Let's do th
Matt Mullenweg to deactivate WordPress contributor accounts over alleged fork plans
Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg said he would be deactivating the accounts of several WordPress.org community members, two of whom he says planned to spearhead a new fork of the open source WordPress project.
While community criticism of WordPress’s governance isn
Snappy acquires swag-gifting startup Covver as it seeks to roll up players
It's now broadly accepted that customers and employees who receive corporate gifts end up appreciating the brand much more, and for not a lot of outlay. The market for this has thus exploded. One market player, the New York-based Snappy, which has raised over $125 million to date, is now acquir
Microsoft accuses group of developing tool to abuse its AI service in new lawsuit
Microsoft has taken legal action against a group the company claims intentionally developed and used tools to bypass the safety guardrails of its cloud AI products.
According to a complaint filed by the company in December in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, a group of
Mark Zuckerberg defends Meta’s latest pivot in three-hour Joe Rogan interview
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended his decision to scale back Meta’s content moderation policies in a Friday appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast. Zuckerberg faced widespread criticism for the decision, including from employees inside his own company.
“Probably depends on who you ask
These startups are making smarter canes for people with visual impairments
The white cane for the 21st century. While many tech companies have increasingly worked to make technology more accessible for the blind and visually impaired, canes haven't benefited much from these advances.
London-born WeWalk takes a more traditional approach to the white cane. Beyond the b
Bench customers are now being forced to hand over their data or risk losing it, they say
After accounting startup Bench abruptly shut down on December 27 and was bought in a fire-sale by Employer.com, Bench customers are now learning they can't easily just take their financial data and leave.
And some are very unhappy about it, three customers told technewss.
TikTok ban: How both sides made their case to the Supreme Court and what the justices asked
On Friday, the nation’s highest court heard arguments on whether to uphold or block a law that could effectively ban TikTok? in the U.S.
The bill, signed into law by President Biden in April 2024, gives TikTok’s parent company ByteDance until January 19 to divest its U.S. operations
New OpenAI job listings reveal the company’s robotics plans
OpenAI disbanded its robotics department. Then, it brought it back. Now, through a social media post from its hardware director and newly published job descriptions, OpenAI is revealing more about its plans for the revived team.
In a post on X on Friday, Caitlin Kalinowski, who joined OpenAI to le
How OpenAI’s bot crushed this seven-person company’s website 'like a DDoS attack'
On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company's e-commerce site was down. It looked to be some kind of distributed denial-of-service attack.
He soon discovered the culprit was a bot from OpenAI that was relentlessly attempting to scrape his entire, enormous si
VCs say AI companies need proprietary data to stand out from the pack
AI companies across the globe raised more than $100 billion in venture capital dollars in 2024, according to Crunchbase data, an increase of more than 80% compared to 2023. It encompasses nearly a third of the total VC dollars invested in 2024. That’s a lot of money funneling into a lot of AI