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Google Forcing AI on Students Is BS

Rory Mir

Google is rightfully facing blowback for forcing K-12 schools to enable AI if they wanted to keep using Google search.

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Presenting 'Desire Lines: Encoding Queer Digital Futures'

Paige Collings

What does the digital future look like? Who gets to imagine it, shape it, and make it real?

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EFF Submission to OHCHR Consultation on Child Rights and Safety in the Digital Environment

Paige Collings, David Greene

“ The safety of young people in the digital environment cannot be assessed without also considering the safety of young people in offline environments.

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Unveiled at ROSCon: the easiest way to bring Arduino I/O into ROS 2

Arduino Team

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Doubling down on solar power density with the Arduino® GIGA R1™ WiFi board

Arduino Team

As global adoption of solar energy continues to accelerate, researchers and engineers face a fundamental spatial challenge: how do you generate more electricity without consuming more land?

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The past, present and future of office suites

Italo Vignoli

Summary The office suite market is large, profitable and growing, and this attracts new entrants: low-cost clones, open-core products and, more recently, suites built largely with artificial intelligence.

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When the Watchdogs Are Silenced: India's Crackdown on Those Documenting Online Censorship

Jillian C. York

On November 3, our colleagues at the Software Freedom Law Center, India (SFLC.in) received notifications from X that the Delhi Police had issued takedown requests targeting 42 URLs.

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Reflecting on Digital Rights Wins and Losses in Sacramento

Rindala Alajaji

California’s 2026 legislative session has officially adjourned and it’s time to reflect on the wins and losses that have shaped Californians’ digital rights landscape this year.

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Join EFF to Celebrate the Life of Aaron Swartz

Hayley Tsukayama

Join us to celebrate the legacy of Aaron Swartz on Nov.

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What will you build next? Arduino Black Friday deals are here

Arduino Team

You have an idea.

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New LibreOffice “Get involved” flyers for handing out (and translations!)

Mike Saunders

LibreOffice’s marketing team helps spread the word about the software (and the community that makes it). It produces flyers that can be translated, printed and handed out at events – and now we have an updated design of the “Get involved” flyer. This flyer ideal for distributing at events where

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LibreOffice project and community recap: October 2026

Mike Saunders

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What’s New for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora Linux 45

Timothée Ravier

Fedora 45 is now available!

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What’s New in Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 45

Troy Dawson

KDE Plasma 6.8 was released on KDE’s 30 year anniversary and we are proud to have it be the star of Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition 45.

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What’s New in Fedora Workstation 45

Aoife Moloney

Fedora Workstation features the latest six months of meticulous polish, under-the-hood responsiveness, and security hardening for F45, based on GNOME 51.

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Migrating away from unmaintained NetworkManager VPN plugins (vpnc and fortisslvpn)

Aoife Moloney, Beniamino Galvani

Two legacy NetworkManager VPN plugins—NetworkManager-vpnc and NetworkManager-fortisslvpn—are retiring and will be obsolete, starting in Fedora Linux 45.

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How to Rebase to Fedora Linux 45 on Silverblue

Michal Konečný

Fedora Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux.

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Announcing Fedora Linux 45

Aoife Moloney, Jef Spaleta

The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora Linux 45!

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LibreOffice 26.2.7 is available for download

Italo Vignoli

Berlin, 3 November 2026 – The Document Foundation today announced the release of LibreOffice 26.2.7, the seventh maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 branch.

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Migrating small businesses to LibreOffice and Linux

Mike Saunders

We often talk on this blog about large-scale migrations to LibreOffice, such as in the Austrian Military.

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How Techno Sky and Arduino Opta brought an industrial visual emergency signaling solution to air traffic management

Arduino Team

When you’re developing systems that support air navigation services, the margin for compromise is essentially zero.

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How about a Hallowuino half-dozen?

David Groom

It’s almost that time of year again!

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Inside the winning Arduino® UNO™ Q projects from Hackster’s Invent the Future competition

Arduino Team

Arduino, Qualcomm Technologies, and Edge Impulse recently teamed up with Hackster to host the Invent the Future competition.

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LibreOffice 26.8.2 improves stability, multimedia and compatibility

Italo Vignoli

Berlin, 29 October 2026 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 26.8.2, the second minor release in the LibreOffice 26.8 family, available for Windows, macOS and Linux.

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