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This article details Linux creator Linus Torvalds and tech blogger Linus Sebastian assembling an 'ideal Linux PC.' Torvalds elaborates on his hardware preferences, including his insistence on ECC memory, his focus on stability and low noise, and his choices of AMD processors and Intel Arc graphics cards. He also shares why he prefers Fedora as his Linux distro and delves into the pros and cons of Linux distro fragmentation. Furthermore, Torvalds shares his unique insights on topics such as the importance of Git and Linux to him, his views on generative AI (both a bubble and a revolution), his evolving attitude towards NVIDIA, and his criticism of measuring developer value by lines of code. Through an interview format, the article showcases the professional insights and personal philosophy of this tech giant.

With 15 years of software development experience, the author explores the reasons for his continued passion in the field. He points out that true satisfaction often comes from little-known optimizations that significantly improve efficiency. At the same time, the author emphasizes the unique knowledge-sharing culture in software development, as well as the value of human interaction in technical discussions. He also shares the joy of middleware development: the sense of accomplishment in building stable bridges between systems. Faced with technological hotspots (like AI), the author advocates staying calm and using AI tools to improve efficiency. He argues that constraints in 'boring' business systems can foster creativity and efficient solutions. The article concludes that programming is a luxurious and enjoyable profession.

A petition initiated by German developer Boris Hinzer seeks to formally recognize open source software development and maintenance as volunteer activities. This initiative addresses the challenges faced by open source developers: unpaid labor, lack of legal protection, and high pressure. The petition outlines six key reasons, emphasizing open source's significant contribution to the public interest, the predominantly unpaid nature of the work, high social reliance coupled with insufficient recognition, the necessity of a clear legal framework, the demand for volunteer technical expertise in digitalization, and Germany's отставание compared to other nations. The article also references community discussion on Hacker News, where supporters suggest that recognition could lead to tax-exempt subsidies and simplified organizational processes. Critics, however, question recognition criteria and argue for focusing on project managers and other core roles. The petition aims to provide legal certainty and sustainable support to open source contributors, thereby enhancing Germany's digital sovereignty.

The article reports that security researcher Aaron Portnoy discovered a serious security bug in Google's new AI programming tool, Antigravity (based on Gemini), within 24 hours of its launch. This bug allows hackers to implant a malicious backdoor by modifying Antigravity's configuration file. This enables code injection, monitoring, ransomware execution, and data exfiltration. The bug exhibits persistence, remaining even after uninstallation and reinstallation. The article highlights that Antigravity, as an AI Agent, requires high privileges for file access and code execution, making it a prime target for hackers to infiltrate enterprise networks. The article also mentions potential logical gaps in AI large models when identifying malicious behavior and warns of the industry's rapid launch, immediate hacking, and quick-fix cycle, urging greater attention to AI tool security.

The article begins with Jonathan Menkes' experience, an Intellectual Property lawyer, whose son built an interactive website in under 2 minutes on Google AI Studio, generating infringing content. This illustrates how Generative AI lowers the barrier to content creation, making copyright infringement easy and scalable. Menkes notes the IP industry's unpreparedness for AI challenges and stresses copyright monitoring, AI tool testing, safety mechanisms, and rapid response. The article also discusses how AI may worsen copyright enforcement disparities, with large companies investing in IP protection while small creators lack the resources. It urges IP holders to build controllable, commercializable user creation ecosystems alongside preventing infringement.

The article reveals that OpenAI is preparing to introduce an advertising system through the ChatGPT Android Beta Version, marking the possible end of ChatGPT's 'Ad-Free Era'. Leaked information shows that advertisements will appear in the form of a search ad carousel and may be personalized based on deep user behavior. The article points out that ChatGPT, with its deep user insights, has far greater advertising conversion potential than traditional search engines. Given ChatGPT's massive weekly active users (800 million) and monthly visits, it has sufficient traffic volume and interaction depth to become the next-generation AI-Native Advertising Platform, reshaping the ad landscape, challenging giants like Google and Amazon.

This article details MinIO's shift to maintenance mode on December 3rd. The high-performance distributed object storage service, boasting nearly 60k GitHub stars, will cease new feature updates, and existing Issues and Pull Requests will receive only best-effort support. This decision has sparked varied reactions, including understanding, criticism, and debate about MinIO's future. The article examines MinIO's license changes from Apache 2.0 to AGPLv3, alongside moves toward commercialization like removing open-source features and halting community binary distributions. The official stance is that the actively maintained version is the commercial MinIO AIStor subscription service, priced at $96,000 annually. The article explores the inherent conflict between open source ideals and commercial sustainability, presenting community perspectives, legal inquiries, and alternative solutions like RustFS and Garage, raising concerns about trust within the open source community.

The article reports on the Kubernetes community's announcement that Ingress NGINX will officially cease maintenance in March 2026. As a widely used ingress controller, its high flexibility led to technical debt and a long-term lack of volunteer maintainers (only 1-2), compounded by recent fatal security vulnerabilities (leading to potential cluster takeover), resulting in its retirement. This decision has sparked dissatisfaction and panic, particularly regarding the short 4-month migration period. The article highlights the sustainability crisis in open source, where critical infrastructure relies on unpaid maintainers, urging companies and communities to support open-source contributors financially to prevent similar fates for other core components.