Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called chardet, released a new version of the library under a new software license. In doing so, he may ...

Left-handers are more competitive than right-handers, according to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports. The findings may help explain why left-handedness has persisted throughout ...

Apple’s popular news app has been aggressively promoting articles from left-leaning news outlets – even as it has all but shut down posts from more conservative publications, according to an explosive ...

Are there two or three forms of handedness? Most psychological studies investigating handedness have two different categories: left-handedness and right-handedness. A large-scale meta-analysis ...

They bayed, they hollered, they hooted, they cheered. After a miserable 18 months, in which they had ranged from dejected to mutinous to feral, Labour mps finally had something to shout for when ...

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman has said that left-wing figures and commentators on the social media platform Bluesky are crueler than those associated with the Make America Great Again (MAGA) ...

In the age of MAGA, ideological lines that once distinguished left from right have blurred. Republicans who said they were willing to die for the market now support a president who tells the ...

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Generative AI is erasing open source code provenance. FOSS reciprocity collapses when attribution and ownership disappear. The commons that built AI may not survive its success. We live in an ...

Abstract: License compliance is the process of complying with the obligations posed by licenses upon the users of code with that license. Here, we are typically talking about open source license ...

The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging men. Across the U.S., they are leaving in waves — from the unions that once powered the party’s muscle, from classrooms that once echoed with idealism, and from a ...

Just because a license is free does not mean it serves the goals of the free software movement well. With no attribution (NA) licenses, things can get really bad. NA licenses are simple, non-copyleft ...