@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Nvidia is pitching NemoClaw, an upcoming open-source AI agent platform for enterprises, and plans to offer security and privacy tools for it (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-planning-ai-agent-platform-launch-open-source/
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialMicrosoft has locked the lead developers of two prominent open source security projects out of their accounts.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/microsoft-locks-open-so…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deMeta: 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…
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialFediSuite: Open-Source Social-Media-Management fürs Fediverse — Alle deine Fediverse-Accounts an einem Ort.
FediSuite ist eine kostenlose Open-Source-Plattform zum Planen von Beiträgen, automatischen Aufteilen langer Posts in Threads, Verwalten von Benachrichtigungen und dem Handling mehrerer Accounts auf 14 Fediverse-Plattformen — @…,
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSource: Pack to cut OL Jenkins, open up $19.5M https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48156082/source-packers-cut-ol-elgton-jenkins-open-195m
@macandi@social.heise.deHomeKit für mehr Geräte: Homebridge 2.0 bekommt Matter
Das Open-Source-Projekt zur Anbindung von Apple nicht unterstützter Geräte wird erwachsen. Version 2.0 bringt verschiedene Verbesserungen.
https://www.
@jdrm@social.linux.pizzaNo puede haber una IA de código abierto si todas sus partes no son de código abierto, y eso significa que también deben de ser accesibles los datos utilizados para entrenarla https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition
@niklaskorz@rheinneckar.social
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeSome 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/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizzaStormy Peters will speak on 'Is AI Killing Open Source Software? Data, Myths, and What Leaders Must Do Now' as part of our Open Source AI track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
@Tuxramus@social.linux.pizzaThe third episode in Linda Teppler 's Farmers Pride series is out. #writingcommunity #writing
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIf you’re a open source person yelling at people to “do it yourself” when they have valid criticism of open source projects (yours or others) you 1) need to touch some grass (it can be free and open source grass) and 2) stop doing that
@gevoel@mastodon.greenMenselijke activiteiten, CO2, temperatuur, klimaat en vertraagd effect.
https://open.substack.com/pub/justdean/p/human-caused-climate-change-is-unmistakably?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWhen Anthropic’s AI isn’t being used to mass murder schoolgirls in Iran, it’s helping Mozilla improve Firefox.
So it’s not all bad, surely.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/hardening-firefox-anthropic-red-team/
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzIt's that time again - tomorrow, Tues 10 March, 20:00 NZDT is when the next Aotearoa NZ #FOSS #OpenSource #Libre meetup starts. You can find us at
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic commits up to $100M in usage credits for Project Glasswing, along with $4M in direct donations to open-source security organizations (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/project-glasswing-anthropic-ai-open-source-software-vulnera…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deadvogato: 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
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialOpen source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security: Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money.
Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of an open source security foundation warned after inspecting their books. And it's not just the bandwidth costs that are killing them.
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@hikingdude@mastodon.socialWe rely on open source, 👍
we need open source, 👍
we want open source 🎉
We donate to open source.
@aardrian@toot.cafeI appreciate this “Accessibility Best Practices for Your Project” guide from GitHub:
https://opensource.guide/accessibility-best-practices-for-your-project/
I would share it more readily if the links were underlined.
So I filed a PR to fix that:
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social"The biggest absurdity here is that Trump is now focusing his war’s endgame on Iran’s willingness to open the strait. But the strait was open before Trump attacked Iran on February 28. Iran blocked it in retaliation for that attack."
https://r…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
@adulau@infosec.exchangeI’m still completely lost with logic of JA4 patent licensing and actual incompatibility with the copyleft-license. So it seems to be a patent-based license and really risky to implement if you want to keep your actual software open source.
Did someone explore alternatives to avoid this? and especially other format which are open source friendly?
#ja4
@cdarwin@c.imShortly after the war in Gaza began in 2023,
Bellingcat introduced a free tool authored by University College London lecturer and Bellingcat contributor, Ollie Ballinger,
that was able to estimate the number of damaged buildings in a given area.
This helped monitor and map the scale of destruction across the territory as Israel’s military operation progressed.
Bellingcat is now introducing an updated version of the open source tool
— called the Iran Conflict D…
@keen456@infosec.exchange@… Have you seen this story? https://www.phoronix.com/news/ATI-R300-Occlusion-Query-Fix Developer in Czechia working on fixing up R300…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI tried #LightweightMusicServer at the recommendation of the #Tempus author (https://lemmy.world/post/43688357/2241
@e8johan@social.linux.pizzaI'll be speaking about #opensource in #varberg next week. Come and join me!
https:/…
@UP8@mastodon.social✍️ Seltani: an online, shared, text-based, open-source fan project based on the Myst series of games
#games
@GroupNebula563@mastodon.socialokay, can people help me find things please? /nm
i SWEAR there was some sort of open-source, collaborative DNS service (possibly endorsed by @…?) but i CANNOT find any trace of it for the LIFE of me and i would really like to try it out :P
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@chrysn@chaos.socialPretty Open Source blinky hardware has arrived -- and the hybrid supercap even had enough charge after days of shipping to blink happily.
More on @…' page at https://chip…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialI don’t really have a problem with LLM code review, in fact I think that may be one of the places where it is both good at the task and can be ethically justified, IF:
1. Training is ONLY on unencumbered open source software
2. Qualified humans act on the review.
I think (1) is important because the LLM is doing what a sufficiently high-capacity skilled human could do ethically. Reading code to learn from it. A code review doesn’t replicate training data, so copyright isn’…
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaTutti i motivi per abbandonare #GitHub e quali sono le possibili alternative. Il post di @…
Sappiamo che non è un compito facile; GitHub è onnipresente. Grazie al suo marketing efficace, GitHub ha convinto gli sviluppatori di software li…
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.socialThe Edge Computing Cloud is opening to early adopters at #SXSW. Turn idle home internet and hardware - Mac Minis, old PCs, even NAS boxes - into a decentralized edge cloud. Install our open-source agent, leave it running, and earn cash for helping deliver content and run AI inference 2x faster than centralized clouds. We handle security, routing, and node trust. Join before March 31st for 2x payou…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Keycloak 26.6.0 — Fünf Preview-Features werden produktionsreif:
Das Open-Source-IAM-System Keycloak 26.6 befördert fünf Features in den produktiven Status - darunter Federated Client Authentication und Zero-Downtime-Updates.»
Das muss ich mir mal in aller Ruhe ansehen und dann mal sehen was ich daran noch lerne (sicherlich einiges).
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Meta is preparing to release the first AI models developed under Alexandr Wang, with plans to offer versions of those models via an open source license (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/06/meta-open-source-ai-models
@isf@muenchen.social
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.socialJust downloaded the latest version of @… and planning on putting together a tutorial on how to get a radio show online with just a computer and free (libra, open source) software. #radio #radioshow
@veit@mastodon.social
@johl@mastodon.xyzDo Wikipedia or Open Source projects need an AGENTS.md file that explains to “agentic AI” how to donate money from all the bank accounts and wallet apps the agent was granted access to?
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialSome non-news, but good to raise awareness.
TL;DR "structural waste amplified by CI/CD pipelines, security scanners, and AI-driven code generation"
... just cache your stuff or pay for hosting, thanks.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/28/open_source_opinio…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"H&M Foundation launches open-source toolkit to cut textiles emissions"
#Clothes #Fashion #Emissions
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deAls diese Open-Source-Sache damals anfing, war das mehr oder minder ein:
• ich will mit dieser Computer-Kiste coole Sachen machen, und mit anderen teilen, was ich cooles gemacht hab!
• ich will mir doch von irgendeiner Firma nicht vorschreiben lassen, was für coole Sachen ich mit dieser Computer-Kiste anstelle!
Dann war das irgendwie erfolgreich,¹ und nachdem einige Kids plötzlich mit Kommerzsoftware Erfolg hatten, versuchten andere, den kapitalismus davon zu überzeugen, daß…
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de
@rberger@hachyderm.ioThe “age verification” push is a much bigger deal and dangerous to freedom than any “AI” stuff The TechBros driven AI is going to lead to the biggest economic crash in history and probably be taken over by open source models but we’ll at least add new tools https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116186114328815729
@vosje62@mastodon.nlOveral is een motie voor ...
Dankzij @… kunnen we even bijna 25 jaar terug in de tijd naar de motie Vendrig die in 2002 voorstelde dat we 20 jaar geleden (2006) aan open source standaarden zouden voldoen...
'...
verzoekt voorts de regering ervoor te zorgen dat in 2006 alle door de publieke sector gebruikte software aan open standaarden voldoet;
...'
Motie Vendrig
#nlpol #DigitaleSoevereiniteit
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
@brichapman@mastodon.socialCalifornia batteries just supplied 44% of evening peak demand—proof that storage can replace gas plants.
D.C.'s gas hookup ban cleared the courts, opening the path to net-zero buildings.
Finland nears carbon-neutral power with wind and nuclear working together.
Sign up for the For People And Planet climate solutions digest:
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.socialfür die sammlung von #icons-sammlungen:
"CoreUI Icons"
https://www.designerinaction.de/gestaltung/coreui-icons-open-source-icon-set…
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialSuggestions please!
I need an app to manage around 8 accounts spread over Masto, Bsky and X.
Is there an open source good one? I don't need scheduling, just the ability to have each account in its own column (or some similar solution) and be able to switch between them without having 6-7 browsers open on the desktop.
@HeidiSeibold@fosstodon.orgKeynote about #digitalsovereignty by @… this morning at #deRSE26.
The knowledge is in the source code.
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDify, which offers an open-source platform to build and run AI applications and agentic workflows, raised a $30M pre-Series A led by HSG at a $180M valuation (FinSMEs)
https://www.finsmes.com/2026/03/dify-raises-30m-in-series-pre-a-funding.html
@cdarwin@c.imA 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…
@adulau@infosec.exchangeOpen Contributions Descriptor — or how to map your contribution in open source, open data, and open standards
🔗 Blog post #opensource
@aral@mastodon.ar.alSo 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
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeGoogle 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…
@jdrm@social.linux.pizzaMX 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…
@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizzaMeet Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), leading up to her keynote on Saturday at Southern California Linux Expo.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kimmcmahon-marketing_privac…
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialA big reason why I'm AntiAI is explained here:
(Disclaimer: I can't tell you how much of this article is accurate.)
«Software — 43 comment bubble on white
Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens:
Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk.
In doing so, he may have killed "copyleft."»
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta says Muse Spark powers Meta AI's "shopping mode" feature and that it plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open-source license (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/08/meta-muse-alexandr-wang
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @johnleonard@mastodon.social @niklaskorz@rheinneckar.social @EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy @heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaOpenAI Codex ha analizzato la sicurezza di 1,2 milioni di commit e ha trovato 10.561 problemi di elevata gravitŠ
Venerdì OpenAI ha iniziato a distribuire Codex Security , un agente di sicurezza basato sull'intelligenza artificiale (IA) progettato per individuare, convalidare e proporre soluzioni per le vulnerabilitŠ.
La funzionalitŠ è disponibile in anteprima per i clienti ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, Business ed Edu tramite il sito web Codex, con utilizzo gratuito per il mese su…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInference 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…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"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/…
@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizzaCHAOSS, Sustainability, and the Shifting Power Dynamics of Open Source - A conversation with Dawn Foster
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chaoss-sustainability-shifting-power-dynamics-open-source-kim-mcmahon-ylwnc/
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«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.
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@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
It’s OK, Palantir should still have access.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeTeam Cymru warns that a newly identified open-source AI security testing platform called CyberStrikeAI was used by the same threat actor behind a recent campaign that breached hundreds of Fortinet FortiGate firewalls.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Schadcode-Sicherheitslücken in Werbeblocker Pi-hole geschlossen
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy @heiseonline@social.heise.deTotgesagte 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle 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-…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«AI Slop verstopft Open Source — GitHub kündigt Maßnahmen an:
Immer mehr Open-Source-Projekte leiden unter der Flut oft wertloser KI-Beiträge über GitHub. Der Betreiber hat nun erste Maßnahmen dagegen angekündigt.»
Das KI Bots Open-Source belästigen in der Hoffnung sie automatisiert abzuzocken (Gewinne zu erhalten) ist ein heutzutage übliche Betrügerei.
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@heiseonline@social.heise.deQuelloffenes 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.
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialOpen source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security: Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money.
Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of an open source security foundation warned after inspecting their books. And it's not just the bandwidth costs that are killing them.
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialZ.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B-parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, available under an MIT license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/ai-joins-the-8-hou…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Partnering with @… to improve Firefox’s security
AI models can now independently identify high-severity vulnerabilities in complex software. As we recently documented, Claude found more than 500 zero-day vulnerabilities (security flaws that are unknown to the software’s maintainers) in well-tested open-source software.»
I am not an AI fan but with suc…
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialWill AI Kill Open Source?
Will AI kill Open Source? Is it already happening? Or is this just another clickbait title? Well, let’s see. First of all, I am writing this by hand without the help of any artificial intelligence. There is only human intelligence involved here. […]
⚛ https://www.agilejava.eu/…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @kubikpixel@chaos.socialOpen 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.
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialMistral 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…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deZwischen 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.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCohere 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…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Datenschutz-Alarm — Wie Alltags-Apps Standortdaten an Behörden liefern:
Spiele-, Wetter- und Dating-Apps sammeln Standortdaten, die Behörden kaufen können. Ein Fall aus den USA zeigt das Ausmaß.»
Drei mal dürft ihr raten weshalb ich @… & Co. so wie Open-Source im alg. bevorzuge & teilweise darauf beharre. Nein, nur Open-Source ist nicht DIE L…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @heiseonline@social.heise.de @kubikpixel@chaos.social«Kalifornisches #Gesetz zwingt Betriebssysteme zu Altersabfragen:
Ab 2027 müssen #Betriebssystem'e in #Kalifornien das Geburtsdatum neuer Nutzer abfragen. Das sieht der Digital Age Assurance A…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
