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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

Automakers want to standardize on a Linux-based OS that would make vehicle infotainment systems act more like smartphones. Automakers are working to standardize on a Linux-based operating system for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems that would make it easier for cars to act more like smartphones.

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Richard Stallman returns to the Free Software Foundation after resigning in 2019

The Verge

Open-source software advocate Richard Stallman is rejoining the board of the Free Software Foundation. But for some critics the problems went beyond that exchange , covering other statements and actions he’d made over his years in the open-source software community, where critics said he’d created a hostile environment for women.

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Apple and Google roll out their new exposure notification tool. Interest seems limited.

Vox

Apple and Google, the companies behind the tool as well as the operating systems used by the vast majority of smartphones in the world, teamed up in the early weeks of the pandemic to create the infrastructure on which a Bluetooth-based contact tracing system could be built. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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The exciting new AI transforming search — and maybe everything — explained

Vox

TikTok has a generative AI text-to-image system. And the open-source model Stable Diffusion can generate detailed and specific images in all kinds of styles from text prompts. This is a demonstration of its abilities as well as a source of even more data for OpenAI’s models to learn from.