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The EU’s AI Act could have a chilling effect on open source efforts, experts warn

TechCrunch

The nonpartisan think tank Brookings this week published a piece decrying the bloc’s regulation of open source AI, arguing it would create legal liability for general-purpose AI systems while simultaneously undermining their development. “In the end, the [E.U.’s] “In the end, the [E.U.’s]

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Please Join VisionLink In Welcoming Aaron Titus To Our Proud Family!

VisionLink

As the project manager for Crisis Cleanup , an open source collaborative work order management platform, Aaron has helped connect more than 230 organizations and 40,000 volunteers to more than 11,000 families needing assistance after 15 disasters in four countries, producing an astonishing $26 million in value for disaster survivors.

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GitHub reinstated a YouTube video downloader that the RIAA claimed was a piracy tool

The Verge

GitHub has reinstated an open-source tool for downloading YouTube videos, and it’s changed its policies to make similar copyright-related takedowns less likely. We still must work within the boundaries of the law.”. And following the incident with YouTube-dl, GitHub is formalizing a policy to evaluate complaints.

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Keep 10TB of files private for life for under $300 with Internxt Cloud Storage

Mashable Tech

It's an open-source platform with end-to-end encryption so that you can trust your files will remain safe and private. Internxt also has an open-source policy. Are you tired of hitting the storage limits on free cloud storage services like Dropbox? 2,999) with code STORAGE20 through March 30.

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Office clean-up Part 1 :Open-Source and the GPL

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. This is what has permitted such widespread commercial adoption of the open source idea.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. Right now, we have multiple law school clinics that would love to tackle new projects with us, projects we actually have but lack the bandwidth to pursue.

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Don’t leave developers behind in the Section 230 debate

TechCrunch

The architecture of law creates conditions for innovation and can also chill it. Software developers contribute significantly to the United States’ economic competitiveness and innovation and are important stakeholders in platform policy. Their open source activity alone contributes more than $100 billion to the U.S.

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