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Louis Rossmann is putting his money where his mouth is. The right-to-repair advocate has pledged ten thousand dollars in legal fees for an independent OrcaSlicer developer hit with a cease-and-desist from three-D printer company Bambu Lab. It's a familiar pattern — a hardware maker going after the open-source community that helped build its reputation.
From legal battles to kernel housekeeping: Linux is dropping support for AMD's K5 processor, the company's first independently-designed chip, when kernel version seven point two lands. The K5 packed four point three million transistors into its design back in the nineties, but its lack of a Time Stamp Counter has made it an ongoing coding burden. Thirty years is a good run for any silicon.
And in the world of crypto, XRP spiked two and a half percent, briefly breaking above one dollar and forty-five cents with one of the heaviest volume days in weeks. Bitcoin and ether lagged behind, though profit-taking hit quickly near session highs — a reminder that breakouts and pullbacks tend to travel together in this market.
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