Canada's Bill C-22 advances amid warnings privacy services could leave
The bill reached second reading in the Senate after gaining an explicit encryption safeguard, but Psiphon and Signal say its technical duties may still clash with their systems.
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IAB Tech Lab promotes Trusted Server after Safari block, but project still lacks a formal release
A WebKit change affected The Trade Desk’s ad-delivery domain and renewed interest in open infrastructure that moves browser operations onto publisher-controlled servers.
India orders Apple to remove Bitchat from App Store
The open-source messenger also became unavailable on Google Play in the country, but a separate order to Google has not been confirmed.
Firefox 157 debuts Nova design and hardware AV1 decoding for WebRTC calls
The update modernizes tabs, menus, and themes, restores compact mode, and moves AV1 decoding for compatible calls to supported hardware.
GrapheneOS confirms support for the Motorola Signature 27
The flagship will be the first Motorola device planned for official support, but factory installation and timing have not been announced.
Mastodon case study: how independent servers formed one social network
The project showed that a shared social experience can exist without placing accounts, rules, and infrastructure inside one company.
Kiwix case study: how an open reader took Wikipedia beyond the internet
The project separated content, archive and reader to turn entire websites into portable, searchable libraries that do not depend on continuous connectivity.
Blender case study: how the community bought freedom for the code
A €100,000 campaign turned software threatened by a company shutdown into open infrastructure for 3D creation.
ScummVM case study: how reimplemented engines keep old games accessible
The project neither distributes classic adventures nor simulates an entire computer: it rebuilds the executable layer while leaving original game data with the player.
Jellyfin case study: how a fork preserved an open media server
The community started from the last open Emby release, kept the server under GPLv2, and rebuilt clients and governance without adding a premium tier.
Blender case study: how open films became a laboratory for 3D software
Open Movies do more than demonstrate Blender: real productions expose bottlenecks, shape tools, and return reusable files to the community.
MAME case study: how an emulator became hardware documentation
The project preserves machines by reconstructing their behavior in code while keeping technical documentation separate from access to protected ROMs.
Blender case study: how open movies turn production into software development
Blender's strategy brings artists and developers into real productions, exposing bottlenecks while returning films, assets and improvements to the community.