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When I look at this website, which seems to be intended as a serious project and not a joke, to me it kind of feels like it would be the end of FOSS... https://malus.sh/ Is it just me?

Or will the majority of contributors still bother if they won't even get the most basic attribution anymore, let alone GPL and other complex licenses being enforcable at all?

There are also these events that make me wonder if this service can even work, given the apparent training data plagiarism problem. This feels kind of independent from whether a gen AI being fed a project can ever be "clean room":

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543507.3583199

https://www.twobirds.com/en/insights/2025/landmark-ruling-of-the-munich-regional-court-(gema-v-openai)-on-copyright-and-ai-training

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/authors-celebrate-historic-settlement-coming-soon-in-anthropic-class-action/

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ai-memorization-research/685552/

I feel like there are more reasons than ever to tell people to cut out gen AI code from FOSS entirely, if they care about respecting attribution and the work of others. Even if just morally. This whole ride seems to be going in a bad direction.

I'm curious about other people's thoughts, however.

PS: Don't trust me on any law-related guesses, IANAL. This isn't legal advice. I'm just a concerned coder.

Update: seems like it is satire https://malus.sh/blog.html but the trend as a whole seems to be real: https://www.mrlatte.net/en/stories/2026/03/05/relicensing-with-ai-assisted-rewrite/ https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_kills_software_licensing/ https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/

Hacker News.

HP's long-running use of firmware updates that block third-party ink and toner cartridges is drawing scrutiny again – this time under a new global sustainability standard that explicitly forbids the practice.

The International Imaging Technology Council (Int'l ITC), a trade group for cartridge remanufacturers, says HP's latest printer firmware rollout conflicts with the requirements of the General Electronics Council's (GEC) updated Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, or EPEAT 2.0.

KB5077181 was released about a month ago as part of the February Patch Tuesday rollout. When the update first arrived, users reported a wide range of problems, including boot loops, login errors, and installation issues.

Microsoft has now acknowledged another problem linked to the same update. Some affected users see the message “C:\ is not accessible – Access denied” when trying to open the system drive.

The race for semiconductor supremacy is fuelling geopolitical tensions between the world’s superpowers. But a Swiss-based open-source technology aims to prevent a few dominant countries and companies from holding all the chips.

Expensive (95k) but has a cool design: https://www.scottenmotors.com/ev-builds
I would love a smaller car that is also repairable EV.

Also the owner of the company is in the hackaday comments.

Hacker News.

I was stupid and joined up early to get my username. It's now gone again. https://digg.com/

Based on the Debrief letter on the Digg.com site, AI took it down mostly. I also think there wasn't a demand for another Closed-source Reddit competitor.

What do you all think?

Archive link: https://archive.ph/i8fLH

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https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?__goaway_challenge=js-refresh&__goaway_id=eb1db26585a17cc88c1fb4f929dfdcff&__goaway_referer=https%3A%2F%2Finv.nadeko.net%2F&v=L1SZCeNML94

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consumer-rights-wiki/

https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/CRW-Extension

• Research;
• Hacker News.

... in a moment when Americans are still debating why the country is involved in global conflicts at all, the people closest to power appear positioned to profit from the weapons and technology used in them.

https://digg.com/

Instagram appears to be stepping back from end-to-end encrypted messaging — a surprising move after years of Meta, its parent company, promoting strong encryption as the future of private communication.

A notice on Instagram’s help pages now says end-to-end encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after May 8, 2026. The page instructs affected users to download any chat messages or shared media they want to keep before that date.

• Hacker News;
• Reddit.