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Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter hybrid MoE open-weight model; filing: Nvidia plans to spend $26B over the next five years to build open models (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-investing-26-billion-open-source-models/…
Microsoft 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…
I have received A Lot Of Feedback (ALOF™) in the last week. The hardest and most insidious bits echo “Why does Open Source Thing need money?” which rhymes with “Why do you—a software developer working on Open Source Thing—need money?”
Trying not to read too much into it 😬
France will cut its reliance on extra-EU proprietary tech, favoring open-source and digital sovereignty.
DINUM orders ministries to map dependencies and plan exit from extra-European tech by fall.
France plans to replace Windows with Linux; EU open-source options include openSUSE
https://www.
für alle #IBM-#TrackPoint-fans: es gibt jetzt eine trackpoint-maus: https://www.theverge.com…
Source: 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
Half of the United States Is Now in Drought
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatehistorian/p/half-of-the-united-states-is-now?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
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Hrittik Roy will speak on 'Help! My LLM is a Resource Hog: How We Tamed Inference with Kubernetes and Open Source Muscle' as part of our Open Source AI track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
Sources: 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/
Can we call Windows abandonware now?
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116380259791929422
There’s life beyond VSCode… thought I’d share my dev setup:
• Main monitor: WezTerm¹ running in a three (sometimes four)-way split with Helix Editor² as my main editor, a terminal pane for general commands while working, and Yazi³ usually running in another for working with files/directories in a project.
• Other monitor: Sublime Merge⁴ always running full-screen so I can immediately see exactly what I’ve changed (in real time) as I’m working.
Others (not shown): Br…
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
No 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
FediSuite: 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 — @…,
Very interesting @… talk about risk misalignment for EU policy regarding digital sovereignty and free and open source software. It's a policy problem, not a technical problem!
I also really like the general bit of wisdom at the end:
"If we want to move somebody, [we must] first understand them. And this means standing where they stand, and not wh…
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/
This year, the Mastodon team returned to FOSDEM for the third time.
FOSDEM is an annual gathering of open source developers, held in Brussels.
We’re excited to report that the Fediverse is feeling vibrant!
FOSDEM has become a central element of EU Open Source Week
- a series of events, meetups and workshops that have formed around the conference itself.
The range of events makes this trip to Brussels valuable for our team,
with opportunities to meet other …
Die Aktivitäten von Google laufen darauf hinaus, dass unabhängige App-Entwickler immer mehr eingeschränkt werden und alternative Android-Versionen wie #GrapheneOS in den Augen von Firmen, welche Apps entwickeln, als nicht vertrauenswürdig eingestuft werden.
Obwohl mein GrapheneOS-Handy jetzt schon die Sicherheitsupdates bietet, die offiziell erst im November kommen. Und wichtige weiter…
More fallout from the chardet AI licensing kerfuffle.
#AI
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…
Vorbildlich: Die Kleinstadt Treuchtlingen setzt seit 25 Jahren konsequent auf Open Source (seit 2001). Thin Clients, LibreOffice, Koha, Jitsi, Owncast, Ansible. Keine Lizenzkosten, volle Souveränität, volle Funktionalität.
Während bayrische Großstädte Millionen (München @… 👀) für KI-Cloud-Deals und M365-Lizenzen ausgeben, beweist Treuchtlingen: E…
Not a privacy tool, but I love #protopage for an at-a-glace overview of your RSS feeds:
#rss
If 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
@…'s keynote at the EU Open Source #Policy Summit 2026 pressed all the key points that I've been worried about.
#OpenSource is Digital
HomeKit 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.
Heute mal Hugo ausprobiert. Gewöhnungsbedürftig - aber schauen wir mal. Ein Blog-System, das keine Datenbank verwendet, sondern nur statische Webseiten. Nach jedem neuen Beitrag muß ein Build durchgeführt werden. Fühlt sich an wie ein Bastelsystem, kann aber mit etwas Gewöhnung und Einarbeitung gut funktionieren. Alles sehr, sehr schnell. Einen Versuch ist es wert.
https://
We rely on open source, 👍
we need open source, 👍
we want open source 🎉
We donate to open source.
One of the things our community keeps coming back for is the Sunday Barcamp, an open, unconference-style day where attendees set the agenda.
Just a room full of people from across the open source data world, figuring out what they want to talk about together. It kicked off #bbuzz25 in the best possible way, and it's back for #bbuzz26 on June 7th. Entry to our barcamp is included in every onsite conference pass.
Will you be there? Get your ticket now: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/
So there was something about Github culture over time, and maybe just tech and linkedIn culture that started poising my brain.
This idea that when I make stuff... it's gotta be _for other people_ or designed to be consumed by other people... and you have to have a little marketing pitch and sell it... drive adoption etc... That's the narrative that got wedge into my skull.
Open source use to be you published a tar balls for people to download.
Anyway.... I'm b…
Open 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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The third episode in Linda Teppler 's Farmers Pride series is out. #writingcommunity #writing
Projekt: Lesefortschritt zwischen allen Geräten synchronisieren und nahtlos Audiobooks und die dazugehörigen E-Books immer genau dort öffnen, wo man zuletzt aufgehört hat, zu lesen. Open Source und selbstgehostet.
https://workspace.zusammenkunft.net/wo
Open Contributions Descriptor — or how to map your contribution in open source, open data, and open standards
🔗 Blog post #opensource
@… Have you seen this story? https://www.phoronix.com/news/ATI-R300-Occlusion-Query-Fix Developer in Czechia working on fixing up R300…
I'll be speaking about #opensource in #varberg next week. Come and join me!
https:/…
✍️ Seltani: an online, shared, text-based, open-source fan project based on the Myst series of games
#games
Elizabeth K. Joseph will speak on 'Open Source in Closed Ecosystems' as part of our General track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
"H&M Foundation launches open-source toolkit to cut textiles emissions"
#Clothes #Fashion #Emissions
It'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
Hong Kong-listed Zhipu AI surged 30% after releasing its GLM-5, an open-source LLM with enhanced coding capabilities and long-running agent tasks (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/chinese-ai-stocks-new-model-and-agent-releases-zhipu-mini…
"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…
Tutti 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…
The 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…
«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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Some 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…
I 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:
Menselijke 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…
Sources: 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
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
«Stoolap - High-performance embedded SQL database in Rust»
Have any of you tried it before and what is your experience with it? Can it be used in the same way as SQLite? I ask because the open source project is relatively new, i.e. are there certain arguments to (not) use it productively?
🦀 https://stoolap.io…
für die sammlung von #icons-sammlungen:
"CoreUI Icons"
https://www.designerinaction.de/gestaltung/coreui-icons-open-source-icon-set…
The AI-assisted overhaul of a Python character encoding detection library raises questions about software relicensing and derivative versions of the original (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_kills_software_licensing/
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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…
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
Anthropic 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…
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
»Politik und Macht — Europa vs. Silicon Valley - So wird die EU digital unabhängig:
Die Gesetze gibt es schon, nun müssen sie umgesetzt werden. Auch Nutzer:innen können etwas tun.«
Das unter anderem Europa die digitale Kolonie der USA sind möchte anscheinend noch immer fast niemensch wahr haben. Seit Jahren befürworte ich Open-Source Software aber wurde deshalb häufig belächelt.
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I’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
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…
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…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
"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/…
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
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…
«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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Dify, 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
Sources: Alibaba appointed Cloud CTO Zhou Jingren to lead its AI unit after a pivot from open source to monetizable "MaaS" models led to Qwen exec departures (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b39da303-3188-447b-8b65-3dd8dad8b59a
«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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Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Schadcode-Sicherheitslücken in Werbeblocker Pi-hole geschlossen
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-…
Will 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/…
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 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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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.
Meta 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
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.
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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.
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung