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Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model family, and says its API transcription offerings are cheaper than models from OpenAI and Google (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/mistral-releases-voxtr…

Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model | TechCrunch
French startup Mistral has jumped into the audio race with Voxtral, its first open model, aiming to challenge the dominance of walled-off corporate systems with open-weight alternatives. 

#cybersecurity

I'm happy that my talk on open source eSIM integration into embedded Linux devices has been accepted at Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2025, for details see https://osseu2025.sched.com/event/25Vlq/open-source-for-esim-integration…

Open Source Summit Europe 2025: Open Source for ESIM Integration - Haral...
View more about this event at Open Source Summit Europe 2025

Souveränität: Öffentlicher Gesundheitsdienst setzt verstärkt auf Open Source
Das Zendis und das Robert-Koch-Institut wollen die MS-365-Alternative OpenDesk in eine Kommunikationsplattform des Öffentlichen Gesundheitsdiensts integrieren.

Kinda cool to see the programme for the UN's open source week... https://www.un.org/digital-emerging-technologies/content/open-source-week-2025 but, of course, it's already almost entirely co-opted by corporate interests. They shit on ev…

A mindbogglingly stupid study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/study-finds-ai-tools-made-open-source-software-developers-19-percent-slower/

Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower
Coders spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generations than they saved on coding.

A Systematic Mapping Study on Open Source Agriculture Technology Research
Kevin Lumbard, Vinod Kumar Ahuja, Matt Cantu Snell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08103

A Systematic Mapping Study on Open Source Agriculture Technology Research
Agriculture contributes trillions of dollars to the US economy each year. Digital technologies are disruptive forces in agriculture. The open source movement is beginning to emerge in agriculture technology and has dramatic implications for the future of farming and agriculture digital technologies. The convergence of open source and agriculture digital technology is observable in scientific research, but the implications of open source ideals related to agriculture technology have yet to be ex…

Have renewables decreased electricity prices?
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatebrink/p/have-renewables-decreased-electricity?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx

Have renewables decreased electricity prices?
Empirical evidence in the US over the past 24 years points to yes

»Wegen KI-Schrott – Curl-Entwickler erwägt Ende der Bug-Bounty-Prämien:
Minderwertige Bug-Reports belasten Open-Source-Entwickler immer stärker. Curl-Maintainer @… zieht nun radikale Maßnahmen in Erwägung.«
Lasst mich raten, IT-Konzerne belasten Developer von Werkzeugen, die sie Täglich selber nutzen. Was ist daran intelligent oder gar künstlerisch?

Wegen KI-Schrott: Curl-Entwickler erwägt Ende der Bug-Bounty-Prämien - Golem.de
Minderwertige Bug-Reports belasten Open-Source-Entwickler immer stärker. Curl-Maintainer Daniel Stenberg zieht nun radikale Maßnahmen in Erwägung.

Beyond Code: #APIs as the Next #OSS Battleground
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/06/09/o…

heise | Mit Open Source Geld verdienen: Entwicklung über Fonds und Spenden finanzieren
Open-Source-Software hält die Welt am Laufen, aber nur wenige Entwickler erhalten Geld für ihre Arbeit. Dabei kann die Bezahlung auch freiem Code helfen.

@… - gibt es eigentlich Pläne für die Einbindung von LibreTranslate auf chaos.social?
https://libretranslate.com/
ist ja self-hostable...

LibreTranslate - Free and Open Source Machine Translation API
Free and Open Source Machine Translation API. Free to download, offline capable and easy to setup. Run your own API server in just a few minutes.

Blender Studio Releases Free New Game 'Dogwalk' to Showcase Its Open Source Godot Game Engine
#FLOSS

Blender Studio Releases Free New Game 'Dogwalk' to Showcase Its Open Source Godot Game Engine - Slashdot
"Steam quietly welcomed another indie game this week, but this one is distinctly different for a lot of reasons," writes Notebookcheck: Dogwalk, which debuted on July 11, is the kind of short, gentle experience that almost forces you to smile. Developed by Blender Studio, the game introduces playe...

NetBox Labs, whose open-source tools help manage networks and are used by CoreWeave, ARM, Cisco, JP Morgan, and Riot Games, raised a $35M Series B (Marcus Schuler/implicator.ai)
https://www.implicator.ai/netbox-labs-secures-35-milli…

NetBox Labs Raises $35M Series B as AI Drives Network Demand
NetBox Labs raised $35M as companies scramble to manage complex networks. The AI boom creates massive infrastructure demand, and legacy tools can't keep up. The open-source platform now serves Fortune 500 firms.

advogato: Advogato trust network (2009)
A network of trust relationships among users on Advogato, an online community of open source software developers. Edge direction indicates that node i trusts node j, and edge weight denotes one of four increasing levels of declared trust from i to j: observer (0.4), apprentice (0.6), journeyer (0.8), and master (1.0).
This network has 6541 nodes and 51127 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

heise | Interview zu GitHub Sponsors: Warum Geld für Open Source wichtig ist
Bei GitHub ist Martin Woodward für die Beziehung zu Entwicklern zuständig. Im Interview erklärt er, warum Open-Source-Maintainer Geld verdienen sollten.

{tesseract} allows you to read text from images https://docs.ropensci.org/tesseract/ it can also be combined with {magick} https://

Open Source OCR Engine
Bindings to Tesseract: a powerful optical character recognition (OCR) engine that supports over 100 languages. The engine is highly configurable in order to tune the detection algorithms and obtain the best possible results.

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 #AI on Experienced Open-Source #DeveloperProductivity
https://

Wir wollen im @… mit annif https://annif.org/ experimentieren und suchen dafür Verstärkung im Team:

Dass Schleswig-Holstein in Richtung Open Source geht und dabei u. a. auf Linux umsteigen will, ist super – allerdings nicht neu.
Bereits 2003 wollte man sich von Windows lösen – allerdings in München - und hat das Projekt mit dem Namen LiMux 10 Jahre lang verfolgt.
2017 wechselte die politische Führung (von Rot-Grün zu GroKo), die für ca. 90 Millionen Euro wieder zu Microsoft zurückkehrte. 1/2
#linux

Sources: Meta's new superintelligence lab led by Alexandr Wang has mulled abandoning its top open-source model, Behemoth, in favor of developing a closed model (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.

Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab Is Discussing Major A.I. Strategy Changes
Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about abandoning Meta’s most powerful open source A.I. model in favor of developing a closed one.

Satellite Event
AIFoundry invites you to the 2nd edition of the AI Plumbers Conference, a meetup for low-level AI builders who value real conversations over keynote slides and for anyone working in modern data infrastructure, machine learning and open-source software projects. Connect, swap ideas and collaborate, free from the pressure of constant talks.
📅 When: June 15, 2025 – 10 am-5 pm
📍 Where: GLS Event Campus Berlin, Kastanienallee 82 | 10435 Berlin
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That event also has talks about #OpenRV and the mysterious #XStudio amongst many other VFX pipeline tools. Even about recommendations for h264 encoding of video clips you want to send somebody for review.
#VFX

A look at various responses to AI firms' scraping, like open source Anubis that uses cryptographic JavaScript challenges, Cloudflare's "link mazes", and more (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/the-open-source-so

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.

Au départ, j'avais pensé que d'un point de vue fonctionnel, https://github.com/OriPekelman/alpair était une sorte d'alternative open source Š https://

For god's sake stop boosting those exaggerated "news" reports claiming at least in their headlines that "Denmark" is replacing Microsoft products with Open Source. They are *experimenting*. In *one* ministry. With about half the workforce, over the summer. Nothing firmly decided yet.
At least look for some a bit more original source for this, as such indeed good, news.

Unreal is all you need: Multimodal ISAC Data Simulation with Only One Engine
Kongwu Huang, Shiyi Mu, Jun Jiang, Yuan Gao, Shugong Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08716

Unreal is all you need: Multimodal ISAC Data Simulation with Only One Engine
Scaling laws have achieved success in LLM and foundation models. To explore their potential in ISAC research, we propose Great-X. This single-engine multimodal data twin platform reconstructs the ray-tracing computation of Sionna within Unreal Engine and is deeply integrated with autonomous driving tools. This enables efficient and synchronized simulation of multimodal data, including CSI, RGB, Radar, and LiDAR. Based on this platform, we construct an open-source, large-scale, low-altitude UAV …

📝 If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions? – Pivot to AI https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/if-ai-is-so-good-at-coding-where-are-the-open-source-contributions/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

Docmost: Open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software
https://docmost.com
Das klingt ernsthaft gut und würde einige Usability-Probleme des Mediawikis lösen. Unter anderem durch Markdown als Standard und Drag & Drop-Seitenhierarchie.
Realtime-Collaborative-Editing, schicke Ko…

Oh, @… ist im Radio 😀
https://www.ndr.de/podcast/open-source-schwarmintelligenz-am-rande-des-burnouts,audi…

Open-Source: Schwarmintelligenz am Rande des Burnouts
Open-Source-Programmierer entwickeln wichtige Programme und teilen ihre Ergebnisse mit allen. Aber sie arbeiten oft unbezahlt bis zum Burnout. 11KM fragt: Warum? Und wie lange noch?

Anybody have a good source for a ripstop nylon zipper pouch, kinda like a pencil case, that's solidly built and fits comfortably in a cargo pants pocket?
Use case is a tiny pocket first aid kit. Nothing fancy, just a couple of bandaids, single-dose ibuprofen, etc. In the past I've tried a plastic clamshell case that eventually broke (and was uncomfortable), a notched vacuum sealed bag (great until you open it, but not resealable), a ziploc (too flimsy).

🆚 How It Stacks Up
• Kimi K2 🚀 — LCB v6: 53.7 🏅 | SWE: 65.8 % | Open Source: ✅ | Cost: 💸 Low
• Claude Opus 4 🎻 — LCB v6: 47.4 | SWE: 72.5 % | Open Source: 🚫 | Cost: 💰💰 High
• GPT-4.1 🤖 — LCB v6: 44.7 | SWE: 54.6 % | Open Source: 🚫 | Cost: 💰 Medium

Towards Sustainable Computing: Exploring Energy Consumption Efficiency of Alternative Configurations and Workloads in an Open Source Messaging System
Maria Voreakou, George Kousiouris, Mara Nikolaidou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10693

Towards Sustainable Computing: Exploring Energy Consumption Efficiency of Alternative Configurations and Workloads in an Open Source Messaging System
Energy consumption in current large scale computing infrastructures is becoming a critical issue, especially with the growing demand for centralized systems such as cloud environments. With the advancement of microservice architectures and the Internet of Things, messaging systems have become an integral and mainstream part of modern computing infrastructures, carrying out significant workload in a majority of applications. In this paper, we describe an experimental process to explore energy-ba…

The solution is not to open source "AI" but to resist it.

If you are like me, then you might have installed the #GoogleAuthenticator app, back in the days when it was the only solution out there for #TOTP #2FA.
But that is long ago. Since …

I updated my website's list of links to add @USERNAME@WEBSITE to every social media account I own.
This way, it’s clearer what my name is and which site it belongs to. It might look like federation, but it’s not on most sites; it just works as a placeholder.
Read more here: https://midtsveen.codeberg.page

LOL, there is a cheaper version of the Flipper Zero called...the Flopper Ziro.
https://github.com/lraton/FlopperZiro

GitHub - lraton/FlopperZiro: A Flipper Zero clone, but cheapest, DIY and simply Open Source, made with Arduino IDE
A Flipper Zero clone, but cheapest, DIY and simply Open Source, made with Arduino IDE - lraton/FlopperZiro

Un séjour outre-Manche
Billet "un peu spécial", comme on dit sur Youtube, pour parler de la fin de mes vacan mon récent déplacement professionnel en Angleterre, qui m'a certes permis dans un premier temps d'aller Š Bristol pour la conférence IASSIST 2025 (billet Š venir), mais aussi de m'arrêter Š Londres sur le chemin du retour pour deux jours d'observation avec l'équipe open science de la London School of Economics.

Trotz gesetzlicher Vorgaben setzt der Bund weiterhin stark auf proprietäre #Software statt auf #OpenSource.
Milliarden fließen an US-Konzerne wie #Microsoft und

Digitalisierung: Open Source hat im Bund keine Lobby - Golem.de
Frust im Amt Die Verwaltung lässt sich nur mit Open-Source-Software souverän digitalisieren. Doch der Bund nutzt sie bislang kaum. Warum?

Governments that want to make the switch to Linux should actively contribute. They shouldn't rush into anything. They should figure out possible technical difficulties beforehand and even fund open source software to help deal with those issues.
They need to plan for pushback from employees. Change is difficult and people will complain about stuff that they will grow to appreciate over time.

Developing and Maintaining an Open-Source Repository of AI Evaluations: Challenges and Insights
Alexandra Abbas, Celia Waggoner, Justin Olive
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06893

Developing and Maintaining an Open-Source Repository of AI Evaluations: Challenges and Insights
AI evaluations have become critical tools for assessing large language model capabilities and safety. This paper presents practical insights from eight months of maintaining $inspect\_evals$, an open-source repository of 70+ community-contributed AI evaluations. We identify key challenges in implementing and maintaining AI evaluations and develop solutions including: (1) a structured cohort management framework for scaling community contributions, (2) statistical methodologies for optimal resam…

Microservices and Real-Time Processing in Retail IT: A Review of Open-Source Toolchains and Deployment Strategies
Aaditaa Vashisht (Department of Information Science,Engineering, RV College of Engineering, India), Rekha B S (Department of Information Science,Engineering, RV College of Engineering, India)
https://arxiv.org/abs/25…

Microservices and Real-Time Processing in Retail IT: A Review of Open-Source Toolchains and Deployment Strategies
With the rapid pace of digital transformation, the retail industry is increasingly depending on real-time, scalable, and resilient systems to manage financial transactions, analyze customer behavior, and streamline order processing. This literature review explores how modern event-driven and microservices-based architectures, particularly those leveraging Apache Kafka, Spring Boot, MongoDB, and Kubernetes are transforming retail and financial systems. By systematically reviewing academic public…

Ooooo….
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-fair-package-manager-project-for-open-source-content-management-system-stability

Linux Foundation Announces the FAIR Package Manager Project for Open Source Content Management System Stability
Linux Foundation announces FAIR Package Manager project, creating simplicity, security and consistency for the WordPress ecosystem

The IRS open sourced much of its incredibly popular Direct File software as the future of the free tax filing program is at risk of being killed by Intuit’s lobbyists and Donald Trump’s megabill.
Meanwhile, several top developers who worked on the software have left the government and joined a project to explore the “future of tax filing” in the private sector

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

Open Source Planning & Control System with Language Agents for Autonomous Scientific Discovery
Licong Xu, Milind Sarkar, Anto I. Lonappan, \'I\~nigo Zubeldia, Pablo Villanueva-Domingo, Santiago Casas, Christian Fidler, Chetana Amancharla, Ujjwal Tiwari, Adrian Bayer, Chadi Ait Ekiou, Miles Cranmer, Adrian Dimitrov, James Fergusson, Kahaan Gandhi, Sven Krippendorf, Andrew Laverick, Julien Lesgourgues, Antony Lewis, Thomas Meier, Blake Sherwin, Kristen Surrao, Francisco Villaescu…

Open Source Planning & Control System with Language Agents for Autonomous Scientific Discovery
We present a multi-agent system for automation of scientific research tasks, cmbagent. The system is formed by about 30 Large Language Model (LLM) agents and implements a Planning & Control strategy to orchestrate the agentic workflow, with no human-in-the-loop at any point. Each agent specializes in a different task (performing retrieval on scientific papers and codebases, writing code, interpreting results, critiquing the output of other agents) and the system is able to execute code locally.…

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Refuel.ai has been acquired by Together.ai. All of us - our team, our technology, and our mission - are joining Together to help build the future of open source and enterprise AI.
https://www.refuel.ai/blog-posts/we-are-joining-to…

We’re Joining Together.ai

AIFoundry invites you to the 2nd edition of the AI Plumbers Conference, a meetup for low-level AI builders who value real conversations over keynote slides and for anyone working in modern data infrastructure, machine learning and open-source software projects. Connect, swap ideas and collaborate, free from the pressure of constant talks.
📅 When: June 15, 2025 – 10 am
📍 Where: GLS Event Campus Berlin, Kastanienallee 82 | 10435 Berlin
Register now:

AI Plumbers conference: 2nd edition · Luma
AIFoundry is bringing you the AI Plumbers Conference: 2nd edition — an open source meetup for low-level AI builders to dive deep into "the plumbing" of modern…

Here you go a fork of @… know as @… is now on @… .

Apple seems to be working on adding CUDA support to open-source ML framework MLX, which may mean that code developed using MLX would work with CUDA (Malcolm Owen/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/0

Apple Silicon machine learning code may become more easily portable to Nvidia hardware
A project is trying to cut the cost of making machine learning applications for Nvidia hardware, by developing on an Apple Silicon Mac and exporting it to CUDA.

Civil Society in the Loop: Feedback-Driven Adaptation of (L)LM-Assisted Classification in an Open-Source Telegram Monitoring Tool
Milena Pustet, Elisabeth Steffen, Helena Mihaljevi\'c, Grischa Stanjek, Yannis Illies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06734

Civil Society in the Loop: Feedback-Driven Adaptation of (L)LM-Assisted Classification in an Open-Source Telegram Monitoring Tool
The role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in monitoring harmful online content is increasingly crucial, especially as platform providers reduce their investment in content moderation. AI tools can assist in detecting and monitoring harmful content at scale. However, few open-source tools offer seamless integration of AI models and social media monitoring infrastructures. Given their thematic expertise and contextual understanding of harmful content, CSOs should be active partners in co-dev…

"When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%."

I’m mostly out of the loop on IAAP stuffs (since overlays are members and fuck that), but Rian seems to have a valid concern here for ongoing credits:
https://mstdn.io/@rianrietveld/114658249992267461

If you're organising an event with an open call, I can't recommend @… enough for managing the process. Free/open source and so much easier than 'easychair' and anything else I've had to use.

My Linux box is ready for galactic conquest! Streaming SWTOR tonight – come see the Old Republic in action on an open-source rig. #SWTORonLinux

How fucking amazing is #OBS ?
If you've ever used it, bung them some money here:
https://obsproject.com/contribute

"We need more open source Ruby code" says @… at @….
#opensource

Wer mit einem #LLM experimentieren will, ohne Daten an #KI-Firmen abzudrücken, kann unterdessen viele "Open-Source"-Modelle herunterladen.
Auf etlichen Rechnern läuft das sogar erstaunlich schnell. So hat @…

So people are still fudding against open source.
(FUD = Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt)
All of this applies to closed source as well (or even worse):
https://www.xda-developers.com/drawbacks-open-source-software/
Let me make that clear:
The sole…

I can't ignore these 8 drawbacks to open-source software
I've found these drawbacks when using certain open-source tools.

Tree-Structured Parzen Estimator Can Solve Black-Box Combinatorial Optimization More Efficiently
Kenshin Abe, Yunzhuo Wang, Shuhei Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08053 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.08053 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.08053
arXiv:2507.08053v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Tree-structured Parzen estimator (TPE) is a versatile hyperparameter optimization (HPO) method supported by popular HPO tools. Since these HPO tools have been developed in line with the trend of deep learning (DL), the problem setups often used in the DL domain have been discussed for TPE such as multi-objective optimization and multi-fidelity optimization. However, the practical applications of HPO are not limited to DL, and black-box combinatorial optimization is actively utilized in some domains, e.g., chemistry and biology. As combinatorial optimization has been an untouched, yet very important, topic in TPE, we propose an efficient combinatorial optimization algorithm for TPE. In this paper, we first generalize the categorical kernel with the numerical kernel in TPE, enabling us to introduce a distance structure to the categorical kernel. Then we discuss modifications for the newly developed kernel to handle a large combinatorial search space. These modifications reduce the time complexity of the kernel calculation with respect to the size of a combinatorial search space. In the experiments using synthetic problems, we verified that our proposed method identifies better solutions with fewer evaluations than the original TPE. Our algorithm is available in Optuna, an open-source framework for HPO.
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The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers https://www.404media.co/the-open-source-software-saving-the-internet-from-ai-bot-scrapers/

Packing3D: An Open-Source Analytical Framework for Computing Packing Density and Mixing Indices Using Partial Spherical Volumes
Freddie Barter, Christopher R. K. Windows-Yule
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08852

Packing3D: An Open-Source Analytical Framework for Computing Packing Density and Mixing Indices Using Partial Spherical Volumes
Accurate quantification of local packing density and mixing in simulations of particulate systems is essential for many industrial applications. Traditional methods which simply count the number of particle centres within a given volume of space (cell) introduce discontinuities at cell boundaries, leading to unreliable measurement of packing density. We introduce Packing3D.jl, an open-source Julia package providing analytic, partial-volume calculations for spheres intersecting Cartesian and cyl…

Google is quite agressive with Gemini CLI , offering 1000 free Gemini 2.5 Pro requests per day for individual users. Essentially trying to push Anthropic and OpenAI away.
https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli-open-source-ai-age…

Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent
Free and open source, Gemini CLI brings Gemini directly into developers’ terminals — with unmatched access for individuals.

Open-Set Source Tracing of Audio Deepfake Systems
Nicholas Klein, Hemlata Tak, Elie Khoury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06470 https://a…

Open-Set Source Tracing of Audio Deepfake Systems
Existing research on source tracing of audio deepfake systems has focused primarily on the closed-set scenario, while studies that evaluate open-set performance are limited to a small number of unseen systems. Due to the large number of emerging audio deepfake systems, robust open-set source tracing is critical. We leverage the protocol of the Interspeech 2025 special session on source tracing to evaluate methods for improving open-set source tracing performance. We introduce a novel adaptation…

New release: FlowIntel 1.6.0 — an open-source case management tool — now with extended support for importing MISP events as cases, a timeline view for attributes, a new templating system for notes, and many other new features!
🔗 https://github.com/flowintel/flowintel/releases/tag/1…

Release Flowintel release version 1.6.0 with new features, modifications on analyzer and dashboard · flowintel/flowintel
This release introduces several new features, including: Templates for notes that can be reused across cases Importing a Flowintel template into a case Creating a case from a MISP event A timeline...

heise | heise Update vom 11. Juli 2025: Lesetipps fürs Wochenende
Der wöchentliche Newsletter von heise dieses Mal mit Glasfasertarifen, Open-Source-Clouds, WSUS-Alternativen, Stalkerware enttarnen und überfülltem Erdorbit

#opensource

I've learned to use two new tools in the last weeks: https://bevy.org (a well-known game programming framework) and https://hax.cryspen.com

Bevy Engine
Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!

🕸️ Browsing If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions? – Pivot to AI (https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/if-ai-is-so-good-at-coding-where-are-the-open-source-contributions/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter).

"Libki was born of the need to avoid interacting with teenagers and now allows librarians to avoid interacting with teenagers around the world!" 😄
Libki is a cross-platform Open Source computer reservation & time management system.
https://libki.org

Could you host a solar farm?
https://open.substack.com/pub/talkingclimatenewsletter/p/could-you-host-a-solar-farm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
> Gree…

Could you host a solar farm?
Greener nickel production, atmospheric CO2 levels reach a new high, and leasing land for renewable energy

LLMs are now part of our daily work, making coding easier. Join Ivan Dolgov at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to learn how they built an in-house LLM for AI code completion in JetBrains products, covering design choices, data preparation, training and model evaluation.
Learn more: https://

Mentra entwickelt ein Open-Source-Betriebssystem für Smart Glasses
Das Start-up Mentra arbeitet an einer Open-Source-Alternative zu Smart-Glasses-Betriebssystemen der großen Techkonzerne.
http…

Hello all - for anyone who's interested, we'll be having our June monthly #libre | Free and Open Source Software (#FOSS) catchup tomorrow (Tues) evening, at 20:00 NZST. We meet at

Introducing FAIR: A federated approach to strengthen the WordPress ecosystem;
A new community-led initiative to extend WordPress distribution beyond a single point of control. @…

Introducing FAIR: A federated approach to strengthen the WordPress ecosystem | We Love Open Source - All Things Open
Last week, at AltCtrl.org, a community gathering focused on the open web, a large group of contributors from the WordPress Ecosystem introduced FAIR, a new federated approach to plugin and... Read More

#European #Cloud Modules
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/european-cloud-modules/…

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Refuel.ai has been acquired by Together.ai. All of us - our team, our technology, and our mission - are joining Together to help build the future of open source and enterprise AI.
https://www.refuel.ai/blog-posts/we-are-joining-to…

Information-Theoretic Detection of Unusual Source Code Changes
Adriano Torres, Sebastian Baltes, Christoph Treude, Markus Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06508

Information-Theoretic Detection of Unusual Source Code Changes
The code base of software projects evolves essentially through inserting and removing information to and from the source code. We can measure this evolution via the elements of information - tokens, words, nodes - of the respective representation of the code. In this work, we approach the measurement of the information content of the source code of open-source projects from an information-theoretic standpoint. Our focus is on the entropy of two fundamental representations of code: tokens and ab…

TIL linking likely does not make a program a derivative of a library in the EU, thus making the GPL, LGPL and MPL effectivelly identical here.
https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/news/copyleft-or-reciprocal

A look at various responses to AI firms' scraping, like open source Anubis that uses cryptographic JavaScript challenges, Cloudflare's "link mazes", and more (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/the-open-source-so

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.

Anubis verifies that any visitor to a site is a human using a browser as opposed to a bot.
🍿One of the ways it does this is by making the browser do a type of cryptographic math with JavaScript or other subtle checks that browsers do by default but bots have to be explicitly programmed to do.
This check is invisible to the user, and most browsers since 2022 are able to complete this test.
In theory, bot scrapers could pretend to be users with browsers as well, but the ad…

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.

I think it's really good if open source projects set up their own Gitlab server, to have full control over their project.
But it's super annoying to register for each,if you want to report a bug. Especially if there is no registration with Github or Gitlab sign-on.
#gitlab #Github

OpenS2S: Advancing Open-Source End-to-End Empathetic Large Speech Language Model
Chen Wang, Tianyu Peng, Wen Yang, Yinan Bai, Guangfu Wang, Jun Lin, Lanpeng Jia, Lingxiang Wu, Jinqiao Wang, Chengqing Zong, Jiajun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05177

OpenS2S: Advancing Open-Source End-to-End Empathetic Large Speech Language Model
Empathetic interaction is a cornerstone of human-machine communication, due to the need for understanding speech enriched with paralinguistic cues and generating emotional and expressive responses. However, the most powerful empathetic LSLMs are increasingly closed off, leaving the crucial details about the architecture, data and development opaque to researchers. Given the critical need for transparent research into the LSLMs and empathetic behavior, we present OpenS2S, a fully open-source, tr…

VLAI: A RoBERTa-Based Model for Automated Vulnerability Severity Classification.
This paper presents VLAI, a transformer-based model that predicts software vulnerability severity levels directly from text descriptions. Built on RoBERTa, VLAI is fine-tuned on over 600,000 real-world vulnerabilities and achieves over 82% accuracy in predicting severity categories, enabling faster and more consistent triage ahead of manual CVSS scoring. The model and dataset are open-source and integrated…

VLAI: A RoBERTa-Based Model for Automated Vulnerability Severity Classification
This paper presents VLAI, a transformer-based model that predicts software vulnerability severity levels directly from text descriptions. Built on RoBERTa, VLAI is fine-tuned on over 600,000 real-world vulnerabilities and achieves over 82% accuracy in predicting severity categories, enabling faster and more consistent triage ahead of manual CVSS scoring. The model and dataset are open-source and integrated into the Vulnerability-Lookup service.

Auf Probefahrt mit dem neuen VanMoof: Stadtcruiser mit Power
VanMoof S6 und S6 Open sind die ersten E-Bikes des Herstellers seit der Pleite. Sie entpuppen sich als verfeinerte Versionen ihrer Vorgänger.

Stephen Fry: 40 Years On
Over zijn eerste Mac en Jobs en Tim en het WWW.
https://open.substack.com/pub/stephenfry/p/40-years-on?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
> What We Were L…

40 Years On
What We Were Like In Our Work And Our Play

Chinese startup Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2, an open-source model that the company says has enhanced coding capabilities and excels at general agent tasks (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

"Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software"
I'm always saying, open source software is good!
Which opensouce license is forbidding military use?
I remember that there was a discussion about that in the #searchwing project.
And of course, military can still ignore it. terrorists will ignore for sure..
Via @…

Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software
Ukraine used ArduPilot to help it wipe out Russian targets. It wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last.

Ein humanoider Open-Source-Roboter für 3000 US-Dollar
Hugging Face stellt einen humanoiden Roboter für 3000 US-Dollar vor, der gehen und mit Objekten interagieren können soll.
https://www.

To conclude the first evening of Berlin Buzzwords, Gregor Bransky invites you to join a tour of c-base. Afterwards, you can unwind at one of its recreational areas, enjoying a refreshing beverage by the waterside of the Spree.
A travel group will form during the Get-Together.
📅 When: June 17, 2025 – 7 pm
📍 Where: c-base, Rungestraße 20 | 10179 Berlin
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Satellite Events
Satellite Events Find out what other open source events and meet-ups are taking place around Berlin Buzzwords.You are hosting a meetup, get-together, workshop or other kind of event at the same time? Get in touch, and we’ll happily add your event to our list! MICES EU 2025 Our partner conference, MICES - Mix-Camp E-Commerce Search, takes [...]

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Statt Jira und Confluence: OpenProject und XWiki planen Open-Source-Alternative

The IRS open sourced most of its Direct File tax software on GitHub last week, fulfilling a legal requirement under the SHARE IT Act, despite Intuit pressure (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/directfile-open-source-…

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

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Statt Jira und Confluence: OpenProject und XWiki planen Open-Source-Alternative

A great open-source community is about more than just code — it's about people, too. A strong company culture fosters engagement and growth. Join Jessie de Groot and Marion Nehring at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to explore how values such as kindness, collaboration and developer experience influence companies and communities. Gain practical insights into fostering inclusion, engagement, and long-term impact.
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From Culture to Open Source: Build Value-driven Communities
A great open-source community isn’t just about code—it’s about people. For us – Weaviators – we believe a strong company culture of kindness and collaboration is essential for building an inclusive and engaged open-source ecosystem. Join us to learn what you can do to ensure your culture extends beyond your organization and how your values translate into external impact. Based on real-life examples and tactics,, we will explore: - The connection between company culture and open-source…

Moonshot's Kimi K2 uses a 1T-parameter MoE architecture with 32B active parameters and outperforms models like GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-V3 on key benchmarks (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/moonshot-ais-kimi-k2-outperfor…

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 outperforms GPT-4 in key benchmarks — and it’s free
Chinese AI startup Moonshot releases open-source Kimi K2 model that outperforms OpenAI and Anthropic on coding tasks with breakthrough agentic capabilities and competitive pricing.

Microsofts Open-Source-Kommandozeileneditor bringt einige Verbesserungen
Microsofts Open-Source-Editor Edit für die Eingabeaufforderung hüpft auf Stand 1.2.0. Die Entwickler haben Verbesserungen eingebaut.

Meta launches V-JEPA 2, an open-source AI "world model" to understand and predict 3D environments and object movements, to help robotics and self-driving cars (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/11/meta-launc

Meta launches AI 'world model' to advance robotics, self-driving cars
Meta on Wednesday announced it's rolling out a new AI "world model" that can better understand the 3D environment and movements of physical objects.

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Open Source: Schleswig-Holstein rollt Videokonferenzlösung "OpenTalk" aus

Videokonferenz-Tool: Nach Thüringen setzt Schleswig-Holstein auf "OpenTalk"
Nach Thüringen will auch Schleswig-Holstein die Open-Source-Videokonferenzlösung OpenTalk in den Landesbehörden ausrollen.