Tootfinder

Some organizations are doing panicky things over Mythos.
NHS Goes To War Against Open Source
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/

NHS Goes To War Against Open Source
The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so important. That's why I'm beyond disappointed at recent moves from NHS England to backtrack on…

OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
Mit OpenReception 1.0 steht eine quelloffene Terminverwaltung bereit – als datenschutzfreundliche Alternative für Praxen und Patienten.

OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
Mit OpenReception 1.0 steht eine quelloffene Terminverwaltung bereit – als datenschutzfreundliche Alternative für Praxen und Patienten.

Inference cloud startup DeepInfra raised a $107M Series B co-led by 500 Global and Georges Harik; it currently supports more than 190 open models (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/04/deepinfra-la…

Deepinfra lands $107M in funding to build out its dedicated inference cloud for open-source models - SiliconANGLE
Deepinfra lands $107M in funding to build out its dedicated inference cloud for open-source models - SiliconANGLE

We rely on open source, 👍
we need open source, 👍
we want open source 🎉
We donate to open source.

für die sammlung von #icons-sammlungen:
"CoreUI Icons"
https://www.designerinaction.de/gestaltung/coreui-icons-open-source-icon-set…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig

OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
Mit OpenReception 1.0 steht eine quelloffene Terminverwaltung bereit – als datenschutzfreundliche Alternative für Praxen und Patienten.

RE: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
It’s OK, Palantir should still have access.

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig

OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
Mit OpenReception 1.0 steht eine quelloffene Terminverwaltung bereit – als datenschutzfreundliche Alternative für Praxen und Patienten.

«KI baut Open-Source-Projekte in Minuten als kommerzielle App nach:
KI stellt die Open-Source-Community vor eine grundlegende Herausforderung - Neue Werkzeuge sind inzwischen in der Lage, komplette Softwareprojekte nahezu automatisch nachzubilden. Das wirft drängende Fragen zu Urheberrecht und Fairness auf.»
Das KI Daten klaut um Faule zu "bereichern" sollte eigentlich allen mittlerweile bewusst sein.
🤖

KI baut Open-Source-Projekte in Minuten als kommerzielle App nach
KI stellt die Open-Source-Community vor eine grundlegende Herausforderung: Neue Werkzeuge sind inzwischen in der Lage, komplette Softwareprojekte nahezu automatisch nachzubilden. Das wirft drängende Fragen zu Urheberrecht und Fairness auf.

Just stumbled on this (don't ask): https://web.archive.org/web/20111130040606/http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/computerworld-25-years-open-source-advocate-says-outlook-is-positive…

A suspected North Korean hacker has hijacked and modified a popular open source software development tool
to deliver malware that could put millions of developers at risk of being compromised.
On Monday, a hacker pushed malicious versions of the widely used JavaScript library called Axios,
which developers rely on to allow their software to connect to the internet.
The affected library was hosted on npm, a software repository that stores code for open source projects…

North Korean hackers blamed for hijacking popular Axios open source project to spread malware | TechCrunch
A hacker inserted malware in Axios, an open source web tool downloaded tens of millions of times weekly, in a widespread hack.

MX Linux Pushes Back Against Age Verification: A Stand for Privacy and Open Source Principles :mxlinux: 👏
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/mx-linux-pushes-back-against-age-verification-stand-privacy-and-open-sou…

"H&M Foundation launches open-source toolkit to cut textiles emissions"
#Clothes #Fashion #Emissions

H&M Foundation launches open-source toolkit to cut textiles emissions
Philanthropic entity the H&M Foundation has launched a new open-access set of resources helping businesses across the textiles and fashion industry to identify and enact opportunities to cut emissions.

Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite frameworks, and says the projects will stay open source (Cloudflare)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/voidzero-joins-cloudflare/

VoidZero is joining Cloudflare
VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone.

Totgesagte leben länger: Lokale Bilder-KI Amuse 3.2.0 erschienen
Die Entwicklung an der Bild- und Video-KI Amuse wurde eingestellt, die Quellen als Open Source veröffentlicht. Nun gibt es erste Updates.
htt…

A lot of open source projects take care to preserve compatibility with the past, so that changes do not break the projects of existing users.
But then there are others. In my list of "damn the past, full speed ahead on incompatible changes!!" are my most recent encounters:
- Python (not only was the Python 2 abandonment unforgivable and cost many of us a lot of useless conversion work, but the versions of Python 3 seem to change from one to the next to the degree that…

I find a form of active de-computing is one of the best ways to cope with the current exceeding world pain exhaustion & LLM brain drain around, i.e. doing more things offline, with your hands/body, being more present in your world, getting into crafts/materials, creating/fixing/mending things and sharing your lessons learned with others (in that sense quite in the spirit of open source culture).
To some this is may be just another form of entitled escapism, though I see it as activ…

Was wie „Internetkultur“ verharmlost wird, ist oft gezielte Gewalt: Drohungen, Swatting, sexualisierte Erniedrigung. Laut ZDF Magazin Royal strukturiert, überwiegend männlich – und politisch anschlussfähig. Tim Schlotfeldt zeigt: AfD-Akteure nutzen genau diese Dynamiken. Wen wundert es?
#AfD #DigitaleGewalt

can’t fucking believe that “omg we’re down all the time b/c we're being ddosed by too much code 🥺”-github is fucking hosting a fucking meet and greet with the fucking dude who’s responsible for some of the worst offenses by enabling an legion of mac minis flooding the world with slop.
guess github is now fully integrated into the org chart

“they stole my apes, Odo” — Still relevant
“I SEEM TO RECALL YOU TAKING GREAT GLEE IN EXPLAINING THAT CENTRALISED PLATFORMS WERE OBSOLETE THANKS TO NFT'S.”
“WELL-”
“BUT NOW YOU WANT THE AUTHORITIES HELP IN POLICING THE SALE OF THESE…THINGS.”
https://mastodon.social/@Wraithe/11159

Quelloffenes HDMI 2.1 kommt endlich für Linux
Ein AMD-Entwickler kündigt vollwertiges HDMI 2.1 für den Linux-Open-Source-Treiber an. Auch für den Nouveau-Treiber gibt es eine erste Implementierung.
https://www.

Nach jahrelanger Blockade: Quelloffenes HDMI 2.1 kommt endlich für Linux
Ein AMD-Entwickler kündigt vollwertiges HDMI 2.1 für den Linux-Open-Source-Treiber an. Auch für den Nouveau-Treiber gibt es eine erste Implementierung.

Ten years contributing to an open source project teaches you things no documentation ever could. Jason Gerlowski, PMC Chair of Apache Solr, is at #bbuzz26 to share what a decade of OSS security experience actually looks like in practice.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/oss-security-lessons-from-10-years-at-apache-solr/
Get your ticket: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/

Hive mind: is there a non-profit that helps Open Source projects get their builds notarized by Apple? The technical part can be tricky, but it is possible to set this up with a bit of elbow grease, but getting a legal entity approved by Apple takes a lot of paperwork. I would hope that there would be a (European) foundation or sth that has done this, and would be willing to lend their credentials to a well-known project that currently cannot publish ready-to-run macOS binaries...

So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.
Totally trustworthy people.
(Any open source project that at the very least requires disclosure of AI-authored contributions should immediately ban Anthropic employees on principle.)
#AI

@… no, that's not what I'm telling you.
I prefer to believe that most people will be thoughtful.
＂… a huge number of bugs. I have so many bugs in the Linux kernel that I can't report because I haven't validated them yet. I'm not going to make some open source developer validate bugs that I haven't checked yet. I'm not going to send …

Open-Source Thermostatic Radiator Valve (OpenTRV) - OpenTRV retrofit open-source reference mechanical/hardware/software design for zoned heating to save carbon and money. #OpenTRV #TRV #heating

Open-Source Thermostatic Radiator Valve (OpenTRV)
OpenTRV retrofit open-source reference mechanical/hardware/software design for zoned heating to save carbon and money. #OpenTRV #TRV #heating #cutCarbon

https://www.computing.co.uk/analysis/2026/open-source-isn-t-free-we-re-just-not-paying-for-it?utm_source=mastodon_org&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=Apr_opensource…

Open source isn’t free. We’re just not paying for it
A lot of things don’t add up in the world of software. The skills gap remains stubbornly wide, with IT and data skills the hardest ...

One aspect of open source development that some organisations have difficulty with, is that it's such a good signal of an organisation's resource priorities. There's no point putting out a statement saying you're still committed to something, when a key project repo hasn't had a commit in months.

Being an Open Source developer is the closest I ever got to being a scientist. But at least my code has taken flight on Mars (didn't get the github badge for it, though, as the relevant project is not github hosted)

Debatte über digitale Souveränität: Protektionismus oder Befreiungsschlag?
Das neue Tech-Souveränitätspaket der EU erntet gemischte Reaktionen: Open-Source-Verfechter jubeln, doch US-Branchenverbände warnen vor schweren Marktstörungen.

Debatte über digitale Souveränität: Protektionismus oder Befreiungsschlag?
Das neue Tech-Souveränitätspaket der EU erntet gemischte Reaktionen: Open-Source-Verfechter jubeln, doch US-Branchenverbände warnen vor schweren Marktstörungen.

And here is a first try on the snippet for open vs. closed source. Honestly, it doesn't look as good, as the first one. Maybe because, the flag colors are missing?
Any other ideas?
https://fingolas.eu/OpenClosed/

My Open Source Tech
Find out how much of your software is open source — and share it.

What is the maximum amount of value destruction that could be wrought on the big centralized commercial AI vendors, and the maximum amount of acceleration of the ecosystem of open source and community-led
alternatives, using the knowledge gained from the leak of the Claude Code source code?

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has linked the recent axios NPM supply chain attack to a suspected North Korean threat actor, UNC1069 (and not TeamPCP).
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/hacker-hijacks-axios-open-source-proj…

North Korean hackers blamed for hijacking popular Axios open source project to spread malware | TechCrunch
A hacker inserted malware in Axios, an open source web tool downloaded tens of millions of times weekly, in a widespread hack.

It feels obvious that llm's have no place in free and open source software. Apparently it isn't, at least not to everyone. I recently became interested in exploring the scope of the problem after finding out that both Vim and Neovim not only don't have policies banning llm contribution, but already contain fairly significant amounts of llm generated code.

Something for the US #TTRPG bubble:
https://open.substack.com/pub/exeuntpress/p/im-teaching-free-game-design-cl…

Google introduces Gemma 4 12B, a unified, encoder-free open multimodal model that can run locally on devices with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/goo…

SCOTUS hears birthright citizenship arguments
https://open.substack.com/pub/anntelnaes/p/scotus-hears-birthright-citizenship?utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=post-expanded-sha…

Chinese firms
— some with links to the People’s Liberation Army
— marrying artificial intelligence with open-source data
to market information they claim can “expose” the movements of U.S. forces.

Beijing has sought to distance itself from any direct involvement in the Iran war, but the firms
— many of which have emerged in the past five years as part of the government’s push to harness private AI for military use
— are capitalizing on the conflict.

U.S. …

Chinese firms market Iran war intelligence ‘exposing’ U.S. forces
Private Chinese technology companies — some with ties to the military — are marketing detailed intelligence on movements of U.S. forces in Iran, even as Beijing seeks to keep its distance.

I knew it was this way but it's really hitting me today how much the Open Source movement and copyright maximalism supplanted the idea of free software, and again how much the Free Software movement turned from a close ideological cousin of the remix and open culture movement into a culture of legalism. At the same time, copyright law itself has been extended to be near-immortal copyrights rather than brief monopolies to spur creation by enabling profit from creating works.

We’re announcing the publication of a Trust, Legal & Safety docs section.
Transparency and security are at the heart of what we do. Now, all our governance documents, legal policies, security practices, and community standards live in one place:
🔗 https://docs.opencommit.eu/trust/
This …

Mit Open Source wäre das nicht passiert …
#microsoft #legacy #brick

Die EU legt ihr „European Technological Sovereignty Package" vor: Chips Act 2.0, Cloud and AI Development Act, Open-Source-Strategie, Energie-Fahrplan. 80 Prozent der europäischen Tech-Infrastruktur kommt aktuell von außerhalb Europas. Das Paket soll das ändern — t3n erklärt die vier Säulen. #DigitaleSouveränität

"Using Open Source Tools to Capture Closed Captions and Timecode": guest post by Morgan Morel of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center at the Library of Congress @ the LoC's blog "The Signal"
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/03/…

Why Hardened Images are Suddenly Everywhere
#docker

Whenever I'm forced to use commercial, proprietary software, I look into open-source alternatives because I know it's only a matter of time before the company in question tries to fuck me with a random change to its terms of service.
By the way, Plex users, welcome to Jellyfin.

Several years ago, a street medic described a system like this and wanted to know if it could be built.
https://hackaday.com/2022/09/08/the-tak-ecosystem-military-coordination-goes-open-source/
Back then there was just no way to make it happen. Hardware was too expensive. We couldn't really ever get it cheap enough, per medic, to deploy. Best I could put together was a bunch of burner phones.
But now it's starting to really make sense. LoRa is cheap, and possibly cheaper in bulk. And it wouldn't be necessary to build everything since ATAK-CIV exists and has several open source implementations. It can even tie in to drones (which are illegal to bring to protests in at least a few states).
This has a lot of potential applications for street medic coordination, protest marshal coordination, and for airsoft teams...

Anthropic, I’ll make you a deal:
Re-train your model without a single line of my open source contributions as input, and I will gladly refrain from ever copying or sharing the code •you• generated by (in part) using •mine•.

Bitte petition unterzeichnen und teilen.
Erhaltet den open #basketball court am Rütlicampus in #Neukölln #Berlin

Petition unterschreiben
Erhaltet den Open Court-Basketballplatz auf dem Campus Rütli

Keep hearing about NAM in the guitar modelling world. This seems like an interesting development. Who doesn't love #FOSS #GuitarModeling taking the top spot?
#guitar

“A turning point for the industry”: Tone3000’s new A2 NAM modeling tech beat some huge hitters in a blind listening test – and it’s completely free to use
Open-source Architecture 2 is promising to deliver “the best sounding amp modeling technology in history”

Open source isn’t free. We’re just not paying for it: Who maintains the maintainers?
A lot of things don’t add up in the world of software. The skills gap remains stubbornly wide, with IT and data skills the hardest to recruit for five consecutive years. Yet, at the same time, entry level roles are declining as employers redeploy existing employees rather than hiring new ones.
🧑‍💻

Open source isn’t free. We’re just not paying for it
A lot of things don’t add up in the world of software. The skills gap remains stubbornly wide, with IT and data skills the hardest ...

Google attributes the supply chain attack on HTTP client Axios to a suspected North Korean threat actor it calls UNC1069 (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/hacker-hijacks-axios-open-source-…

North Korean hackers blamed for hijacking popular Axios open source project to spread malware | TechCrunch
A hacker inserted malware in Axios, an open source web tool downloaded tens of millions of times weekly, in a widespread hack.

So.. yeah. https://www.404media.co/this-ai-tool-rips-off-open-source-software-without-violating-copyright/

This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright
Malus, which is a piece of satire but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell software without crediting the original developers.

RE: https://dice.camp/@realms/116459545804565917
I'd argue that "AI"-based development creates a bigger attack surface on closed source/proprietary software than open source software:
1. It's more likely that internal software development uses LLMs as they're most affordable to companies; leaving them more vulnerable to prompt injection and other types of attacks targeting LLM use.
2. It's more likely that internal commits aren't vetted as much (or even purely vibe-coded) as ones in open source projects.
3. It's more likely that attacks on open source projects are discovered quicker.
Also a reminder that the "Mythos" thing—like all the other doomerist things coming out of "AI" companies—is a marketing stunt to get Anthropic free press coverage.

"Something happened a month ago, and the world switched. Now we have real reports." It's not just Linux, he continued. "All open source projects have real reports that are made with AI, but they're good, and they're real."
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/gre…

AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar
Interview: Greg Kroah-Hartman can't explain the inflection point, but it's not slowing down or going away

Open Source in der Verwaltung rechtlich gestärkt
https://www.linux-magazin.de/news/open-source-in-der-verwaltung-rechtlich-gestaerkt/
"Software-Beschaffung für öffentliche Verwaltungsbehörden sind durch die EVB-IT geregelt. Dank aktu…

Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system
"Anthropic's Claude Code lacks the persistent kernel access of a rootkit. But an analysis of its code shows that the agent can exercise far more control over people's computers than even the most clear-eyed reader of contractual terms might suspect. It retains lots of your data and is even willing to hide its authorship from open-source projects that reject AI."

Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system
: If you loved the data retention of Microsoft Recall, you'll be thrilled with Claude Code

I just published The Open Contributions Descriptor format as an IETF Internet-Draft.
#opensource #opendata #openstandard

Something for the US #TTRPG bubble:
https://open.substack.com/pub/exeuntpress/p/im-teaching-free-game-design-cl…

https://open.substack.com/pub/ndintech/p/the-9-hour-leak-why-your-memory-is?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=87l35j

Y2K38 kommt. Milliarden Systeme sind betroffen.
Open Source wird kritisiert – dabei entstehen die Lösungen oft genau dort.
Das Problem ist nicht der Code.
Das Problem ist, wie wir damit umgehen.
👉 Wer zahlt am Ende die Rechnung?
https://y2k38.ch/y2k38-open-source-suende…

Bayerns Microsoft-Ausgaben stiegen von 30 auf 49 Millionen Euro — und der Milliarden-Rahmenvertrag hätte das nochmal ordentlich multipliziert. Jetzt heißt es „ausgewogener Mix" aus Open Source und Standardsoftware. Ausgewogen. Na dann. Besser spät als nie. Schleswig-Holstein macht das schon länger vor, Frankreich auch. Manchmal braucht man halt Druck @…

Boosted in Reddit: <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tu5ezw/open_source_organisations_weigh_in_on_age/>
– and BSD Cafe Billboard <

Microsoft releases ASSERT, an open-source framework that lets developers generate and run AI behavior tests using natural-language descriptions (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/new-microsoft-tool-lets-de…

New Microsoft tool lets devs spin up AI behavior tests using text descriptions | TechCrunch
Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing, an open source framework for spinning up AI evaluations.

Open-Source Thermostatic Radiator Valve (OpenTRV) - OpenTRV retrofit open-source reference mechanical/hardware/software design for zoned heating to save carbon and money. #OpenTRV #TRV #heating

Open-Source Thermostatic Radiator Valve (OpenTRV)
OpenTRV retrofit open-source reference mechanical/hardware/software design for zoned heating to save carbon and money. #OpenTRV #TRV #heating #cutCarbon

2026 On Track for Warmest Year
https://open.substack.com/pub/jimehansen/p/2026-on-track-for-warmest-year?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
> James Hansen

Several years ago, a street medic described a system like this and wanted to know if it could be built.
https://hackaday.com/2022/09/08/the-tak-ecosystem-military-coordination-goes-open-source/
Back then there was just no way to make it happen. Hardware was too expensive. We couldn't really ever get it cheap enough, per medic, to deploy. Best I could put together was a bunch of burner phones.
But now it's starting to really make sense. LoRa is cheap, and possibly cheaper in bulk. And it wouldn't be necessary to build everything since ATAK-CIV exists and has several open source implementations. It can even tie in to drones (which are illegal to bring to protests in at least a few states).
This has a lot of potential applications for street medic coordination, protest marshal coordination, and for airsoft teams...

RadixArk, led by former xAI employee Ying Sheng, raised a $100M seed at a $400M valuation to make AI inference more efficient via its open-source SGLang engine (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com…

Kafi Streams, built on (Py)DBSP, treats streaming like batch. Strongly consistent from day one. An open source Python library for the 80% of use cases that do not need extreme scale. Ralph Matthias Debusmann will be unveiling it at #bbuzz26.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/kafi-streams-complex-stream-processing-made-simple/

Off the coast of California, dozens of marine protected areas have been established in recent decades.
These patches of the open ocean either prohibit or tightly restrict commercial and recreational fishing.
Off the coast of Santa Barbara, we set sail with members of the environmental group Santa Barbara Channelkeeper to learn about what's being done to protect our marine habitat.

Earth Focus | Preserving Ocean Life on the California Coast
Setting sail to learn about efforts to protect marine ecosystems in the Santa Barbara Channel.

This has been on my mind for *weeks*. I've been saying for a long time that it's possible to have an AI that only uses consensually-gathered content, is open source open weights, runs on your own machine, and is designed to empower creators instead of exploit them. Well, we've finally got one. https://www.

(One) Good AI Is Here
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116662938576982814
Vielen Dank an @… für diese Ini…

This is how open my tech is:
OS PC/Laptop: ⛓️‍💥 🔒
OS Smartphone: 🔒
Browser: ⛓️‍💥
Messaging: ⛓️‍💥 🔒
E-Mail: 🔒
Microblogging: ⛓️‍💥 ⛓️‍💥 ⛓️‍💥
Office Software: ⛓️‍💥
Cloud: ⛓️‍💥
Open Source: 67%
⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥🔒🔒🔒
Created @ fingolas.eu/OpenClosed

Open-Source Thermostatic Radiator Valve (OpenTRV) - OpenTRV retrofit open-source reference mechanical/hardware/software design for zoned heating to save carbon and money. #OpenTRV #TRV #heating

Open-Source Thermostatic Radiator Valve (OpenTRV)
OpenTRV retrofit open-source reference mechanical/hardware/software design for zoned heating to save carbon and money. #OpenTRV #TRV #heating #cutCarbon

Several years ago, a street medic described a system like this and wanted to know if it could be built.
https://hackaday.com/2022/09/08/the-tak-ecosystem-military-coordination-goes-open-source/
Back then there was just no way to make it happen. Hardware was too expensive. We couldn't really ever get it cheap enough, per medic, to deploy. Best I could put together was a bunch of burner phones.
But now it's starting to really make sense. LoRa is cheap, and possibly cheaper in bulk. And it wouldn't be necessary to build everything since ATAK-CIV exists and has several open source implementations. It can even tie in to drones (which are illegal to bring to protests in at least a few states).
This has a lot of potential applications for street medic coordination, protest marshal coordination, and for airsoft teams...

Chinese AI developer MiniMax launches M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Opus 4.7, costing $0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with $5 for Opus 4.7 (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/chin…

China’s MiniMax Launches New Model as Open-Source AI Coding Battle Heats Up
Chinese AI developer MiniMax on Monday launched a new large language model called M3, saying the new model’s coding capability approaches that of Anthropic’s Opus 4.7, which was released in April. The new MiniMax model is particularly suitable for coding and complex multi-step tasks for AI agents, according to the company. It can understand text, images and video in prompts. MiniMax’s M3 costs

RE: https://mastodon.social/@FreeBSDFoundation/116676767603367392
2026 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis Report – Software Governance in the AI Era – Black Duck Software, Inc.

Arcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-parameter MoE AI model under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing full customization and commercial use (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/arcees-new-open-sou…

"A year ago, about 5% of Trail of Bits was on board with our AI initiative. The other 95% ranged from passively skeptical to actively resistant. Today we have 94 plugins, 201 skills, 84 specialized agents, and on the right engagements, AI-augmented auditors finding 200 bugs a week."

How we made Trail of Bits AI-native (so far)
We had 5% buy-in and 95% resistance. A year later, AI-augmented auditors are finding 200 bugs a week on the right engagements. Here's the six-part operating system we built, open sourced, and are giving away.

Zwischen Markt und Regulierung: Streit um Open Access
Open Access ist Konsens im Glasfasermarkt. Aber wie weit reicht die Pflicht zur Netzöffnung? Da gehen die Meinungen auseinander.
https://www.

A whistleblower alleges Delve pitched a modified copy of open-source no-code tool SimStudio as its own, a practice that could violate the software's license (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/the-reputation-of-tr…

The reputation of troubled YC startup Delve has gotten even worse | TechCrunch
Delve faces new allegations that it violated the open source license of its customer, Sim.ai, by taking the customers's tool and passing it off as its own.

Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed "to sell more Cloudflare services" and lacks the cross-platform democratization of WordPress (Matt Mullenweg)
https://ma.tt/2026/04/emdash-feedback/

EmDash Feedback
So, two other Matts at Cloudflare announced EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security. (Is it nominative determinism or a simulation glitch that everyone trying to t…

Microsoft announces the Agent Control Specification, an open-source standard that aims to provide granular, consistent governance over AI agent behavior (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/microsoft-offers-devs-a-better-w…

Microsoft offers devs a better way to control AI agent behavior | TechCrunch
The specification lets developer, compliance and security teams define their own policies for agents to follow in portable policy files.

Keine Alterskontrolle für Linux
Gesetze, die eine Altersverifikation in Betriebssystemen vorsehen, nehmen zumindest in Kalifornien und Colorado wohl Open-Source aus.
https://www.heise.de/news/Keine-Alterskont…

Keine Alterskontrolle für Linux
Gesetze, die eine Altersverifikation in Betriebssystemen vorsehen, nehmen zumindest in Kalifornien und Colorado wohl Open-Source aus.

University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a "worm" powered by open source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors attacks for each computer (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/technol

Scientists Find Way to Supercharge Dangerous Computer ‘Worms’ With A.I.
Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program that could target any known flaw in the world’s computers.

Münchens IT-Wende: Open Source ist für die neue Koalition der Normalfall
Nach Jahren des Richtungsstreits setzt Münchens „Mango-Koalition“ auf digitale Souveränität, stärkt das Open-Source-Programm und gibt das IT-Referat der FDP.

Münchens IT-Wende: Open Source ist für die neue Koalition der Normalfall
Nach Jahren des Richtungsstreits setzt Münchens „Mango-Koalition“ auf digitale Souveränität, stärkt das Open-Source-Programm und gibt das IT-Referat der FDP.

Starlette, an open-source Python framework underpinning FastAPI, has a vulnerability, called BadHost, that can allow hackers to bypass authorization (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/information-te

Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package
BadHost" was found in Starlette, a package with 325 million weekly downloads.

Cohere launches Transcribe, its first voice model; the 2B-parameter, open-source speech recognition model handles tasks like notetaking and speech analysis (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/cohere-launches-a…

Cohere launches an open-source voice model specifically for transcription | TechCrunch
Relatively light at just 2 billion parameters, the model is meant for use with consumer-grade GPUs for those who want to self-host it. It currently supports 14 languages.

Meta: Neue KI-Modelle sollen teils Open-Source werden
Meta plant, neue KI-Modelle zu veröffentlichen. Die sollen in Teilen unter Open-Source-Lizenzen herausgegeben werden.
https://www.heis…

How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how such efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AVs, and more (Bill Gurley/Bill's Substack)
https://p3institute.substack.com/p/from-open-source-software-to-open…

From Open Source Software to Open Source Strategy
How the Smartest Executives Are Using Open Source Techniques to Optimize Corporate Strategy

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Münchens IT-Wende: Open Source ist für die neue Koalition der Normalfall

Münchens IT-Wende: Open Source ist für die neue Koalition der Normalfall
Nach Jahren des Richtungsstreits setzt Münchens „Mango-Koalition“ auf digitale Souveränität, stärkt das Open-Source-Programm und gibt das IT-Referat der FDP.

OpenAI releases Symphony, an open-source spec for agent orchestration that turns a project-management board like Linear into a control plane for coding agents (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/open-source-codex-orchestration-symphony

Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, an open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports nine languages, including Hindi and Arabic, based on Ministral 3B (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/mistral-releases-a-new-open…

Mistral releases a new open-source model for speech generation | TechCrunch
Mistral's new speech model can run on a smartwatch or a smartphone.

Android-Dunkelmodus: Open-Source-App passt Systemdesign an Umgebungslicht an
Die Open-Source-App „Adaptive Theme: Auto Dark Mode“ erweitert Android um einen automatischen Dark-Mode-Wechsel per Lichtsensor.

Android-Dunkelmodus: Open-Source-App passt Systemdesign an Umgebungslicht an
Die Open-Source-App „Adaptive Theme: Auto Dark Mode“ erweitert Android um einen automatischen Dark-Mode-Wechsel per Lichtsensor.

SenseTime releases SenseNova-U1, an open-source image model that it says can "read" images without translating them to text, reducing computing power needs (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/chinese-ai-giant-sensetime-is-…

Sanctioned Chinese AI Firm SenseTime Releases Image Model Built for Speed
With US restrictions limiting its access to advanced tech, SenseTime is doubling down on open source with a new model optimized to run on Chinese-made chips.

OpenAI releases a set of prompts designed to be used with its open-weight safety model gpt-oss-safeguard that lets developers make their apps safer for teens (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/openai-adds…

OpenAI adds open source tools to help developers build for teen safety | TechCrunch
Rather than working from scratch to figure out how to make AI safer for teens, developers can use these policies to fortify what they build.

Vorwerk schaltet Neato-Cloud ab: Tausende Nutzer fordern Open-Source-Lösung
Nach der vorzeitigen Abschaltung der Neato-Cloud-Plattform durch Vorwerk fordern tausende Nutzer in einer Petition den Erhalt ihrer smarten Saugroboter.

Xiaomi open sources MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro under the MIT License, saying both models are among the most efficient available for agentic "claw" tasks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/open-source…

Cal.com, which provides scheduling software, is moving its core open-source codebase to a closed repository, citing the dangers of AI hacking its open code (Steven Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-security-worries-force-company-t…

'Like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault': Why AI led one company to abandon open source
Cal is moving its flagship open-source program to a proprietary model because it can't cope with the dangers of AI hacking its open code.

After EV maker Fisker's collapse, ~4,000 car owners formed a nonprofit to keep their cars working by reverse-engineering software and building open-source tools (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
https://electrek.co/2026/05/16/fisker-ocean-open-source-ev-story-aft…

Fisker went bankrupt and owners built open source car company from the ashes
After Fisker's bankruptcy left 11,000 Ocean EVs orphaned, a 4,000-member community reverse-engineered software, hacked CAN buses, and kept their cars alive.

How a small German state's bid to replace Microsoft with open-source alternatives like Linux and Kamailio faces issues, as the EU pushes "digital sovereignty" (Laura Pitel/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/95bd87c8-a112-49a5-9b80-c280a6bb4283