Recent reports have drawn attention to Raspberry Pi firmware that can prevent users from replacing or upgrading the RAM on Raspberry Pi versions 4 and 5, as well as on Raspberry Pi Compute Modules.

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 ...

automake-1.19: Automake the part of the GNU build system for producing standards-compliant Makefiles. Build requirements are entered in an intuitive format and then Automake works with Autoconf to ...

Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, October 9, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) Oct 09, 2026 12:00 PM - 03:00 PM — #fsf on libera.chat Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, ...

The work done by GNU Boot contributors has similarities to work done by GNU/Linux distributions: they package software like Coreboot or GNU GRUB, contribute to the upstream repositories of these ...

The Engineering and Certification Manager serves as a technical authority for the FSF and is responsible for evaluating, certifying, and guiding hardware submissions under the RYF certification ...

We are excited to announce EncryptFest, a global encryption and privacy-focused event on Sunday, October 25, 2026 from 13:00–15:00 Eastern Daylight Time (17:00–19:00 UTC). Please register! This gratis ...

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