2025-09-23 15:34:00
Huh, how time flies. 6 or 7 years ago, at the OER Foundation, for whom I work as Open Source Technologist, we decided to replace our MailChimp with, eventually, a self-hosted instance of Mautic (https://mautic.org) to communicate with learners taking courses in our online open university courses (
Estonia open to hosting UK's nuclear-capable F-35 jets, minister says after Russian incursion: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/23/estonia-open-to-hosting-uks.html
One of the things promised for the next phase of Open Banking in the UK was an open API for managing subscription payments from banks (something like Direct Debits, or "commercial variable recurring payments (cVRP)" in their terminology). As in: one day you'd have one-click set-up for subscriptions, and manage them all via banking/finance apps.
As an outsider it's hard to determine the current status, but apparently this might be in beta by the end of the year?
…
The Hidden Costs of Rushing #OpenSource Upgrades
https://thenewstack.io/the-hidden-costs-of-rushing-open-source-upgrades/
Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5 and plans to do the same for Grok 3 in about six months, with Grok 2's weights now available on Hugging Face (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1959379349322313920
Eden - an experimental open source emulator for the Nintendo Switch with versions for Windows, Linux, MacOS, and Android: #emulation #emulators
Using a variety of cutting-edge, open-source investigative techniques,
the Texas Observer‘s Special Investigative Correspondent Steven Monacelli
–with help from Tristan Lee of Bellingcat in two of the three stories submitted
–has identified:
Neo-Nazi perpetrators of a hate crime in Central Texas;
The operators of four major neo-Nazi X accounts;
And revealed that an ICE prosecutor was operating a white supremacist X account.
There's this garage mystery... when I get up around 6am I can see my alley neighbor's garage door open. I've wondered why.
I think one of the people who lives there leaves really early but doesn't have a garage door opener, so they just drive away and leave the door open.
Later the other person who lives there drives away and closes the door, because they have the remote.
That's my best guess, two people/cars, but only one remote.
Apple übernimmt Entwickler des Open Policy Agents
Die Erfinder des Open Policy Agents wechseln nach Cupertino: Apple kauft damit Expertise in der Open-Source-Software, die unter Kontrolle der CNCF bleibt.
https://www.
Cowboys open 21-day windows for Cooper Beebe, DeMarvion Overshown, Shavon Revel Jr. https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-open-21-day-windows-for-cooper-beebe-demarvion-overshown-shavon-revel-jr
WPP rolls out WPP Open Pro, a self-serve version of WPP Open, its AI-powered marketing platform that helps marketers build campaigns and develop creative assets (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/agencies/wpp-launch…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
My Morning Jacket:
🎵 Out In The Open
#NowPlaying #MyMorningJacket
https://mmorningjacket.bandcamp.com/track/out-in-the-open
https://open.spotify.com/track/2B4i9XxjtH8drx0CtJBFbS
Open-Universe Assistance Games
Rachel Ma, Jingyi Qu, Andreea Bobu, Dylan Hadfield-Menell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15119 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15119
Trump Administration's Arrival on Bluesky Highlights Growing Pains for Open Networks (Erin Kissane/The Tech Policy Press Podcast)
https://www.techpolicy.press/trump-administrations-arrival-on-bluesky-highlights-growing-pains-for-open-networks/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p166#a251022p166
Not interested in a debate on what ways are better or worse but it seems to me that @TheASF has a fair bit of material on "The Apache Way" which one could approach as a How-To even for projects that are not under the ASF or any other domiciling organization. It's not perfect but I'm not aware of any ASF project having the sort of nasty takeover like the Ruby affair.
OTOH, it may require the "hippie" vibe of ASF focused on consensus and community over code t…
"The public letter says that the truce makes no reference to the West Bank, where settler violence continues, and the underlying conditions of occupation remain unaddressed."
(An important point that for the most part is ignored by news organizations)
https://www.…
"The public letter says that the truce makes no reference to the West Bank, where settler violence continues, and the underlying conditions of occupation remain unaddressed."
(An important point that for the most part is ignored by news organizations)
https://www.…
Google is killing the open web – OSnews
https://www.osnews.com/story/143123/google-is-killing-the-open-web/
Open-system quantum many-body scars: a theory
Lorenzo Gotta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18023 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18023
Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam https://www.zdnet.com/article/europes-plan-to-ditch-us-tech-giants-is-built-on-open-source-and-its-gaining-steam/
"…
Patterns in the Transition From Founder-Leadership to Community Governance of Open Source
Mobina Noori, Mahasweta Chakraborti, Amy X Zhang, Seth Frey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16295
An Efficient Open World Environment for Multi-Agent Social Learning
Eric Ye, Ren Tao, Natasha Jaques
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15679 https://arxiv.org/pdf…
Sparse Multiview Open-Vocabulary 3D Detection
Olivier Moliner, Viktor Larsson, Kalle {\AA}str\"om
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15924 https://arxiv.org/p…
Just a reminder that there's still some time to put one or several talk proposals in for Everything Open 2026.
The lines remain open until 11:59pm AoE (That's 10PM-ish on the Australian East coast)
https://2026.everythingopen.au/programme/proposals/
Q: What&…
Police: Shots fired at Chiefs facility an open case https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46040567/police-shots-fired-chiefs-facility-2024-open-case
Es waren spannende Gespräche bei den diesjährigen Open Talks in Prag. Als Vorstandsmitglied der Verein österreichischer Datenschutzbeauftragter durfte ich an dieser hochkarätigen Veranstaltung teilnehmen. https://privacyofficers.at/2025/10/21/nachlese-open-talks-in-prag-202…
The project “SAPIENCE: Symbols, Preliteracy and Code Evolution” (U Bologna) has 7 post-doc positions open, including one in #DigitalHumanities, #ComputationalLinguistics or #ComputerScience
Largeness and generalized t-henselianity
Will Johnson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15362 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15362
Static Security Vulnerability Scanning of Proprietary and Open-Source Software: An Adaptable Process with Variants and Results
James J. Cusick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16985 h…
New preprint: "The Reverse File System: Towards open cost-effective secure WORM storage devices for logging"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17969
We do need a European Sovereign Tech Fund, yes.
What we don’t need is Microsoft – a trillion-dollar surveillance capitalist from the US that peddles proprietary technology and is helping Israel carry out its genocide of the Palestinian people as we speak – having anything whatsoever to do with it.
#microsoft
Tomorrow, it's Open Energy Day in the Netherlands: Visit renewable energy projects all around the country!
By @nvde.bsky.social and other organizations. Select your project on the interactive map. https://www.daarkrijgjeenergievan.nl/open-energiedag/
Speech-to-See: End-to-End Speech-Driven Open-Set Object Detection
Wenhuan Lu, Xinyue Song, Wenjun Ke, Zhizhi Yu, Wenhao Yang, Jianguo Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16670 https:…
Cowboy Roundup: Roster bubble players open up, Stock report after NFL preseason https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-roster-bubble-players-open-up-stock-report-nfl-preseason
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Yarni:
🎵 Neon Gods
#Yarni
https://open.spotify.com/track/64K9PMj6eyPXeAKK5iNxLg
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Sources: Visa shut down its open-banking business in the US amid regulatory uncertainty; the unit provided tools to help fintechs access customer-account data (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
Bellingcat’s "Auto Archiver" is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down.
Publicly launched in 2022,
it has preserved over 150,000 web pages and social media posts to date.
The Auto Archiver has been used by Bellingcat’s journalists to preserve information on dozens of fast moving events such as the Jan. 6 riots
– when we first used the tool internally
– as well as gather digital evidence for o…
Going to spend the rest of the evening listening to this wonderful album in #Qobuz fantastic high fidity version..
Köln, January 24, 1975, Pt. I by Keith Jarrett on Qobuz https://open.qobuz.com/track/24044959
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115079490359600447
Ruth_Mottram - Goodness me, what a film..! If you're at a loose end this week and are lucky enough to have an independent cinema nearby, cannot recommend KŸln 75 (Cologne 75) highly enough.
If you're in CPH, go check it out at our fantastic volunteer run Valby Kino.
https://youtu.be/O81JxOn_GiM
India opens criminal investigations into The Wire editor Siddharth Varadarajan, the outlet's staff, and parent FIJ over articles on April attacks and Pakistan (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/08/indian-police-open-2-criminal-…
Richard Stallman: "Chatbots sind Bullshit-Generatoren"
Der Gründer der Free Software Foundation macht auf Europatour auch Halt in München. Dort mahnt er zu mehr Einsatz von Open Source – gerade beim Staat.
htt…
Alibaba releases Qwen3-Omni, a family of open-source AI models that can process text, audio, image, and video inputs and generate both text and speech outputs (Carl Franzen/Venturebeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/chinas-alibaba-challenges-u…
Seg4Diff: Unveiling Open-Vocabulary Segmentation in Text-to-Image Diffusion Transformers
Chaehyun Kim, Heeseong Shin, Eunbeen Hong, Heeji Yoon, Anurag Arnab, Paul Hongsuck Seo, Sunghwan Hong, Seungryong Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18096
aiXiv: A Next-Generation Open Access Ecosystem for Scientific Discovery Generated by AI Scientists
Pengsong Zhang, Xiang Hu, Guowei Huang, Yang Qi, Heng Zhang, Xiuxu Li, Jiaxing Song, Jiabin Luo, Yijiang Li, Shuo Yin, Chengxiao Dai, Eric Hanchen Jiang, Xiaoyan Zhou, Zhenfei Yin, Boqin Yuan, Jing Dong, Guinan Su, Guanren Qiao, Haiming Tang, Anghong Du, Lili Pan, Zhenzhong Lan, Xinyu Liu
Sidon: Fast and Robust Open-Source Multilingual Speech Restoration for Large-scale Dataset Cleansing
Wataru Nakata, Yuki Saito, Yota Ueda, Hiroshi Saruwatari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17052
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Park Jiha:
🎵 First Buds
#ParkJiha
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Y16DqPe6CQv0WNbSCnjq8
Coco Gauff has reportedly split with coach Matthew Daly just days before the start of the US Open,
making another shakeup to her support team on the eve of the year’s final major.
The world No 3 and two-time major champion will continue to work with her longtime coach Jean-Christophe Faurel
but has added biomechanics specialist Gavin MacMillan to her corner.
MacMillan previously worked with Aryna Sabalenka, helping the world No 1 overcome her serving yips in 2022 and…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Björk:
🎵 I Remember You
#Björk
https://open.spotify.com/track/13UgnCvGXgcnzRmkSD5VAU
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Moses Boyd:
🎵 BTB
#MosesBoyd
https://open.spotify.com/track/2NUQHGYSKAD3D3mC3tqbBR
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Seth Thorn:
🎵 Metaphysics
#SethThorn
https://open.spotify.com/track/1iTWTvxgCeNsR4Qigbky4C
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Todd Baker:
🎵 Kora Lullaby
#ToddBaker
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ySKouj0avSMv9OU5wC5Gq
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Mammal Hands:
🎵 Kudu
#MammalHands
https://open.spotify.com/track/5lQSbccDOYa1YXI7KagSIP
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Merlyn Driver:
🎵 Cururu
#MerlynDriver
https://open.spotify.com/track/6wFyqaQN3qntsNlVNUixKb
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
BABO MORENO:
🎵 O Palhaço
#BABOMORENO
https://open.spotify.com/track/1W44xJ0w4Nc6rFM03gxxdW
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Waldo's Gift:
🎵 Toxicity
#WaldosGift
https://open.spotify.com/track/30qofhGmNWzFGTAWXK8BHB
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Ego Ella May:
🎵 What We Do
#EgoEllaMay
https://open.spotify.com/track/4oMAEqrhyRwGL1d2iLTVxU
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Amy Winehouse:
🎵 In My Bed
#AmyWinehouse
https://open.spotify.com/track/2TfIuZiaQK2I6Dsn0GxxdN
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Sarah Tandy:
🎵 Nursery Rhyme
#SarahTandy
https://open.spotify.com/track/4vSr1vd8orhImu2ek1XgEz
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Elan Trotman:
🎵 Funkalypso
#ElanTrotman
https://open.spotify.com/track/3UFCjZgXBOwbDVZOONfBBK
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Elan Trotman:
🎵 Funkalypso
#ElanTrotman
https://open.spotify.com/track/3UFCjZgXBOwbDVZOONfBBK
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Joe Harriott:
🎵 Akee Blues
#JoeHarriott
https://open.spotify.com/track/4IdVTPDW9Ik83a9Vt6wi8Q
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Joe Harriott:
🎵 Akee Blues
#JoeHarriott
https://open.spotify.com/track/4IdVTPDW9Ik83a9Vt6wi8Q
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewMusicShow
Ben Lamar Gay:
🎵 I am (bells)
#BenLamarGay
https://open.spotify.com/track/3TrGdrQhYFKz6zWzm1y2p9
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Makaya McCraven:
🎵 Away
#MakayaMcCraven
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Gf3yC4RxMoROkBZ07RId5
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Jazz Jamaica:
🎵 Marcus Junior
#JazzJamaica
https://open.spotify.com/track/2dVXHRwP3UzBt8kxUHhAgL
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThisClassicalLife
RAYE & RAYE:
🎵 The Thrill is Gone
#RAYE
https://open.spotify.com/track/5eVG50IlyjSevPsWnSI76r
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Aya Metwalli:
🎵 El Khala3 Wel Dala3
#AyaMetwalli
https://open.spotify.com/track/7iIrAYCjRy8x5jq8594NYe
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Evelyn Glennie:
🎵 Light in Darkness
#EvelynGlennie
https://open.spotify.com/track/52OB9LYoH1HtjGloPnu4RE
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Lauryn Hill:
🎵 Everything is Everything
#LaurynHill
https://open.spotify.com/track/7t86fVeDAd63ThaR0ZkxXS
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Abbey Lincoln:
🎵 When Malindy Sings
#AbbeyLincoln
https://open.spotify.com/track/6plsTRNNDa9KYTWJhBOzuP
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Nancy Wilson:
🎵 When Sunny Gets Blue
#NancyWilson
https://open.spotify.com/track/3T4bj6wgXWe5K6vKp3JbLl
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Patrice Rushen:
🎵 Before The Dawn
#PatriceRushen
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZP4fTXsJ2DfLqR5xG4aR4
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Tanhai Collective:
🎵 Playfield
#TanhaiCollective
https://open.spotify.com/track/59x8VL4pcLn7DORFVDlBPO
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Isobella Burnham:
🎵 In Power
#IsobellaBurnham
https://open.spotify.com/track/6K2dFLVk9J3RDOUAVJmc7v
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Isobella Burnham:
🎵 In Power
#IsobellaBurnham
https://open.spotify.com/track/6K2dFLVk9J3RDOUAVJmc7v
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Kinetika Bloco:
🎵 Commanders Call
#KinetikaBloco
https://open.spotify.com/track/31F4Vi3eXVpQSlC5smZpLA
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #LateJunction
Juho Toivonen:
🎵 Rakkaus On Kaikkialla
#JuhoToivonen
https://open.spotify.com/track/1TEtnYFlnim9UF21O5e3M7
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Alain Pérez:
🎵 Bemba Colorš
#AlainPérez
https://open.spotify.com/track/2pcTfrBb4SF2O8n6jFBpvQ
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Amon Ra Collective:
🎵 Searching
#AmonRaCollective
https://open.spotify.com/track/5MuK6Jt5WiZqjLx4ioCBuN
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Stuart MacRae:
🎵 A corner of the garden
#StuartMacRae
https://open.spotify.com/track/7iaQvIMyiNxBrWLTzHT7GU
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Nicholas Brancker:
🎵 Nicalypso
#NicholasBrancker
https://open.spotify.com/track/6fgLV87F0gI2qgTDdAHqCp
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Margaret Bonds:
🎵 Troubled Water
#MargaretBonds
https://open.spotify.com/track/51PYzvfPToQI5LXVS5v53G
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Hugh Masekela:
🎵 Stimela (The Coal Train)
#HughMasekela
https://open.spotify.com/track/5B7af2i43MdC8o9FB0svPg
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Charles Aznavour:
🎵 La boheme
#CharlesAznavour
https://open.spotify.com/track/1WvvmEowf7hiz5EnyAwtTj
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
뉴에이:
🎵 Twenty-Four Seven
#뉴에이
https://open.spotify.com/track/1tbIVd50dxxpejFJMhPU8p
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
뉴에이:
🎵 Twenty-Four Seven
#뉴에이
https://open.spotify.com/track/1tbIVd50dxxpejFJMhPU8p
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Paddy Anderson:
🎵 Desde La Cuna (Soleš)
#PaddyAnderson
https://open.spotify.com/track/0aWpSH8DqLQXB3bsChta1H
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #LateJunction
Laurie Anderson:
🎵 Time To Go (For Diego)
#LaurieAnderson
https://open.spotify.com/track/0PNplYuUbI3kB4hCTPlZ4p
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Tineke Postma:
🎵 Unity and Four Reasons of Hope
#TinekePostma
https://open.spotify.com/track/0hy0YEtUfF3pH4Me4gzdwk
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Dom Franks' StrayHorn:
🎵 Simple Song
#DomFranksStrayHorn
https://open.spotify.com/track/43WTCN0gVBnsxQTZC0spZa
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Tyreek McDole:
🎵 The Sun Song (Precious Energy)
#TyreekMcDole
https://open.spotify.com/track/3vmDjZ9fq7iRzJWPvzAN7K
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Chaerin Im:
🎵 We Are Not A Sampler (feat. Otis Sandsjö)
#ChaerinIm
https://open.spotify.com/track/2WzWa24epPnImdMTq4JjwJ
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Theon Cross:
🎵 Radiation (Live At Blue Note New York)
#TheonCross
https://open.spotify.com/track/2wbfnPhJMOJzLrbRSbplXP