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1. Aaron Swartz's Legacy Lives On, but Who Profits From It?

   A moment is taken to remember a pioneer of free software and information sharing.

2. Your Car Is a Smartphone With Wheels, and the App Store Is Rigged

   A new report highlights the threats that come from not controlling access to your automobile's data.

3. Welcome to ORDER BY Jungle

   A collection of thought-provoking examples that push the understanding of ORDER BY behavior.

4. How Working With Multiple Vendors Is Hurting Your Organization: The Impact of Vendor Sprawl

   Relying on proprietary solutions from multiple vendors can be just as bad (or worse) than relying on proprietary solutions from one.

5. A Post-American, Enshittification-Resistant Internet

   A long-time journalist, author, and activist describes a path towards a freer, less shitty Internet.

6. The Boring Internet

   A reminder that the fundamental technologies underlying the Internet are still going strong and can be utilized for creating something better.

7. Python, Is It Being Killed by Incremental Improvements?

   A researcher that specializes in programming language implementation techniques, compilation, complex concurrent systems, and tooling evaluates the recent changes to Python, and what it may mean for the language and community going forward.

8. The Taboo and Secret History of Emulation (2024)

   An edifying documentary on the history of video game emulation.

9. The First Black Software Engineer in America: Technology and Race

   A historical examination of technology and race in America.

10. End of 10: A Windows 10 to Linux Upcycling Campaign

    The community manager of the KDE Eco project outlines the harms associated with software-driven hardware obsolescence, and shows how GNU/Linux is the solution.