Governance
Firefox is now the last major browser that still runs uBlock Origin — and that should scare everyone
The Bluesky post that ended an era
Somewhere in the middle of this week, Mozilla posted a sentence on Bluesky that would have been completely unremarkable a decade ago and is now, somehow, a political statement:
“Our support for uBlock Origin isn’t going anywhere.”
It landed the …
Nvidia just found a way to fund the AI boom with your retirement — and nobody's happy about it
Two stories broke this week that are secretly one story
The first: Nvidia announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to build financing platforms meant to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure. The money would come largely from …
Should open source ban AI? The r/opensource debate and the copyright question nobody can answer
The moderators had to ask
There’s a pinned post on r/opensource right now that reads like a community bracing for a flood. The moderators are asking the subreddit to define a policy on AI-assisted contributions — specifically the thing everyone now calls “vibe-coding” — and the …
Redis → Valkey: the exodus has begun — and it's bigger than a database migration
The moment the dam broke
On March 20, 2024, Redis Ltd. announced that Redis would no longer be released under the BSD license. Future versions would use a dual license: the Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and the Server Side Public License (SSPLv1). The blog post framed it as a natural …
Rust banned LLM-generated code — and it's the right call
The news
On August 5, 2026, five teams in the Rust project adopted a policy governing how Large Language Models can be used when contributing to rust-lang/rust. The TL;DR: LLMs are fine for asking questions, analyzing, distilling, reviewing. But not to create.
The policy doesn’t ban LLMs …