While it's understandable to be pleased by this news from California, Newsom's executive order also invites questions about the "kill switch" itself that could matter a great deal for freedom.

We were at the HOPE 2026 Conference in New York recently, and want to take a moment to thank all the free software supporters ...

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For announcements of most new GNU releases, subscribe to the info-gnu mailing list: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu. This month, we welcome Ricardson ...

The more we share the free software philosophy, the closer we get to a free world. The Bluesky developers have taken steps to improve upon microblogging services like X (Twitter), but there continue ...

Google uses "smart" devices to watch and control you. The closer computers get to our bodies and homes, the less control we seem to have over them. "Wearable" devices are sold as personal technology, ...

I have written about the FSF facing DDoS attacks several times, including on doing our part to clean up the internet and on Uptime Kuma, as well as "Defending Savannah from DDoS attacks". But I ...

Today, we want to highlight ten of the many organizers who made forty-seven LibreLocal 2026 meetups happen: Ahmad (Australia), Ariel (Mexico), Brady (Cameroon), Brenda (United States), ...

The FSF invited free software supporters to organize in-person community meetups in their area during May 2026, or LibreLocal month, to bring people together to swap ideas, learn from each other, and ...

For over 20 years, the FSF Licensing & Compliance Team has been the preeminent resource of free licensing for free software developers. Software freedom means that other people cannot use software to ...

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is the steward of the GNU family of General Public Licenses (GPL), which were carefully drafted to ensure that copyright holders have a tool to release programs as ...

The Free Software Foundation (FSF), like many others, received a notice regarding settlement in the copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic. It is a class action lawsuit claiming that ...