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from my link log —
Open access to standards documents.
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-open-access-to-standards-documents/90856
saved 2026-05-21

[RFC] Open Access to Standards Documents
tl;dr: ISO is seeking testimonials from “open source organizations” by June 4th on the importance of open access to ISO standards documents; this RFC is about that statement. Background Roughly speaking, under the usual ISO and IEC rules, all committee-related documents are only accessible to committee members or other members of their organization. There was an historical experiment run by JTC1, the committee within ISO which is responsible for technology-related standards, to open access…

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.

As the US House probes Airbnb's use of Chinese AI models, CEO Brian Chesky says the company is not sharing data with Chinese firms and uses open-source models (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

«#Zürich will sich von teurer #Microsoft-Software lösen – doch da gibt es ein Problem:
Die Zürcher Stadtverwaltung soll sich aus dem #M365-Würgegriff lösen und auf eine europäische

M365-Abhängigkeit: Zürich testet Open-Source-Alternative
Die Zürcher Stadtverwaltung soll sich aus dem Würgegriff von Microsoft lösen und auf eine europäische Büro-Software wechseln. Doch da ist der «Vendor Lock-in».

OpenDesk kann vieles, aber halt nicht alles. Das ist das Fazit einer Studie aus Zürich, die die Open-Source-Lösung als Microsoft 365-Alternative unter die Lupe genommen hat. 🔍
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11303065?wt_mc=sm.red.…

Trump keeps escalating his war against Iran. Sets deadline on Monday, shortly before midnight CET. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-nuclear-facility-fourth-week-us-troops-9.7137298?utm_source=flipboard&utm_me…

'War is not close to ending,' Israeli general says after Iran strikes areas near nuclear site | CBC News
Iranian missiles struck two communities in southern Israel late Saturday, leaving buildings shattered and dozens injured in dual attacks not far from Israel's main nuclear research centre, while President Donald Trump warned the U.S. will "obliterate" Iranian power plants if it doesn't fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.

🚨Cool chord alert🚨
#guitar
https://www.guitarworld.com/lessons/chords/5-chords-that-sound-like-theyr…

“Reminiscent of Joni Mitchell’s jazzier moments… but no strings were retuned to create it!” 5 chords that sound like they’re in an open tuning (but aren’t)
Because sometimes retuning your guitar is, well, a pain in the backside – and there are workarounds

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…

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

This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright https://www.404media.co/this-ai-tool-rips-off-open-source-software-without-violating-copyright/

Part 1 of a new short story by Linda Teppler is out! Free to read on Substack #writingcommunity #banskolife #writing

The levels of victimhood demonstrated by the "strudel studio" author charging $49 per year for the free/open source @… project, wrapped in their closed source editor plugin and abusing the (unregistered) strudel trademark with zero prior engagement with the community.
At this point if I looked I'd probably find many more similar projects an…

Im IT-Bereich gibt es eine besondere Form des ‚Whitewashings‘, nämlich das ‚Openwashing‘. Der Begriff beschreibt Software, die sich als Open-Source-Produkt ausgibt, es aber nicht ist. Um festzustellen, ob Software, die man einsetzen möchte, frei ist oder nur so tut, hilft: https://isitreallyfoss.com/

"PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, and other popular open source systems are not measured in and of themselves – only as part of commercial services."
What is the purpose of essentially delisting #PostgreSQL, #MySQL,

Cloud, KI & Co: Wie der Deutschland-Stack digitale Souveränität schaffen soll
Auf einem Berliner Cloud-Gipfel kollidierten komplexe staatliche Architekturvorgaben mit dem Tempo der Open-Source-Community. Zertifizierungen sollen helfen.

Cloud, KI & Co: Wie der Deutschland-Stack digitale Souveränität schaffen soll
Auf einem Berliner Cloud-Gipfel kollidierten komplexe staatliche Architekturvorgaben mit dem Tempo der Open-Source-Community. Zertifizierungen sollen helfen.

RE: https://unstable.systems/@jneen/116618931097778342
Worth looking at both the quoted text here and •especially• the linked page, which is quite good.
I’ll add another item of my own. The first screenshot mentions giving an LLM the task of “implementing an HTTP server in JavaScript from scratch” in 90 minutes. Sounds impressive, right? Until you remember that every open-source Javascript HTTP server in existence ••was in the training data••.
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an attack on free software maintainers... https://glama.ai/blog/2026-03-19-open-source-has-a-bot-problem

Another keynote not to miss at the GÉANT #SecurityDays 2026 this April.
Valerie Aurora, open-source software engineer and co-founder of the Amsterdam Internet Resiliency Club — on why internet connectivity in Europe is more fragile than we think, and how communities can prepare together.
Secure your place 👉

31st Developers and Devops DORS/CLUC conference starts tomorrow in Zagreb, Croatia.
And on Saturday we'll have #SOTMHR #Openstreetmap track https://

State of the Map Croatia (DORS/CLUC 2026)
State of the Map Croatia (DORS/CLUC 2026), 25th April 13:00 – 15:15 at Sveučilište Algebra Bernays, Gradišćanska ulica 24 in City of Zagreb, Croatia. As a part of an 31. annual DORS/CLUC open source / open data / Linux…

@… That’s so cool, is it open source? Would love to see how you did it :)

Ik had echt zo'n ontzettend brede grijns dit weekend. Vadertrots, allow me om te vertellen.
Ik sloeg de krant open en daarin zag ik - met instemming - dochterlief geciteerd worden.
Hiero:

An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements by the University about “Generative AI”
https://medium.com/center-on-privacy-technology/an-open-letter-to-geor…

from my link log —
Verilator: open-source SystemVerilog simulator and lint system.
https://github.com/verilator/verilator
saved 2026-03-20 https://

OPNsense
Professionelle Open-Source-Firewall für zu Hause und im Unternehmen
Seit einigen Monaten betreibe ich OPNsense auf einer dedizierten Firewall-Appliance — und ich möchte ehrlich sagen: Es war eine der besten Entscheidungen, die ich in Sachen Heimnetz- und Büronetz-Sicherheit je getroffen habe. Dieser Artikel erklärt, was OPNsense ist, was es kann, wo es an Grenzen stößt und warum es einer herkömmlichen Fritzbox in fast jeder Hinsicht überlegen ist.

OPNsense
Seit einigen Monaten betreibe ich OPNsense auf einer dedizierten Firewall-Appliance — und ich möchte ehrlich sagen: Es war eine der besten Entscheidungen, die ich in Sachen Heimnetz- und

Wait, those open source heroes in the Linux world who valiantly sell enterprise software and provide the infrastructure for surveillance capitalism are preemptively complying with fascism?
Why, say it ain’t so!
#linux #ageVerification

Ground Station: An Open Source SDR Orchestration Platform for Satellite Tracking and Decoding

The software presents as a web-based UI that allows users to manage satellite passes, view SDR waterfall data, decode basic signals such as GMSK telemetry, view telemetry packets, synchronize TLEs, manage multiple SDR devices, browse downloaded weather imagery, monitor DSP performance, and interface with antenna rotators.
Unlike tools such as SatDump, which focus primarily …

#Leanstral: #OpenSource foundation for trustworthy #vibecoding
https://

#Trivy got compromised on thursday and released a backdoored new version, which was rolled back. We spent the entire friday in incident response mode. Now they got compromised again over the weekend.
I have a lot of sympathy for people under pressure during an incident, but for fucks sake, having a security tool get compromised three times within two months is just completely bonkers. We sp…

Trivy Compromised a Second Time - Malicious v0.69.4 Release, aquasecurity/setup-trivy, aquasecurity/trivy-action GitHub Actions Compromised - StepSecurity
On March 19, 2026, trivy — a widely used open source vulnerability scanner maintained by Aqua Security — experienced a second security incident. Three weeks after the hackerbot-claw incident on February 28 that resulted in a repository takeover, a new compromised release (v0.69.4) was published to the trivy repository. The original incident disclosure discussion (#10265) was also deleted during this period, and version tags on the aquasecurity/setup-trivy GitHub Action were removed. Trivy m…

Open Slopware
“Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.”
#AI

open-slopware
Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives. Fork of the repo by @gen-ai-transparency after its deletion.

It’s impressive how eager open source projects are to fall in line to use dehumanizing technologies and to please fascists.
If this continues unabated I give personal computing maybe another 15 years and then they’ll make devices that aren’t dumb terminals to some cloud service illegal.

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical cybersecurity developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--White House opens backchannel to Anthropic as Pentagon fight simmers,
--Anthropic gave NSA access to Mythos Preview,
--Anthropic's donation to open source developers highlights how under-sourced they are,
--Asian regulators urge banks to use Mythos,
--LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge Kelp DAO lost $292m in DPRK exploit…

White House opens backchannel to Anthropic as Pentagon fight simmers
Anthropic gave NSA access to Mythos Preview, Anthropic's donation to open source developers highlights how under-sourced they are, Asian regulators urge banks to use Mythos, LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge Kelp DAO lost $292m in DPRK exploit, much more

We see and celebrate EU institutions that open shop in Mastodon, and those that add the Mastodon icon to their main website
One group of EU professionals ONLY have Mastodon as their social media contact
It's @… The Open Source Programme Office. They belong to the Directorate General of IT in the European Commission and their goal is to…

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

My neurologist advised that I should try EEG Neurofeedback. Unfortunately public health insurance doesn't cover it.
Well, I'm just going to DIY it. I just ordered an open source Neurofeedback device with some electrodes.
https://www.olimex.com/Products/EEG/OpenEE

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (#ICCL) has released an open source tool designed to reduce LLM hallucinations.
If my 15-year-old PC had a GPU I'd be tempted to give it a try.
https://www.

ICCL launches open source tool to reduce LLM hallucinations
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has released an open source tool designed to reduce LLM hallucinations.

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

Europe’s Digital Future
The EU Tech Sovereignty Package is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reclaim control over our digital foundations.
For too long, public sector procurement has defaulted to proprietary lock-in, creating a weak sovereignty posture that hinders European resilience.
We are calling for a fundamental shift: the Open Source First principle.

We found the cyber Amish :
#ai #cyberamish

Talking to Drones: Natural Language Control of PX4 Using a Phone, MCP and ChatGPT Realtime API
https://osselcna2026.sched.com/event/2JQsT/talking-to-drones-natural-language-control-…

Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026: Talking To Drones: Natural Language Cont...
View more about this event at Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026

Before submitting one or more talks to @… 2026, I wrote a blog post based on my 2024 presentation: Bring Back RSS for Operational Security.
#rss #infosec

Bring Back RSS for Operational Security
Personal webpage of Alexandre Dulaunoy - from information security to open source and art

Finally found a #japanese keyboard for android that I like - Sumire ! Open-source, works offline, settings are usable in english, and installable from Fdroid! https://github.com/KazumaProject/Japan

Auch Zürich will hybriden Ansatz ausprobieren.
#OpenDesk #digitaleSouveränität

The final keynote highlight from the GÉANT #SecurityDays 2026 this April.
Alexandre Dulaunoy, Head of CIRCL, Luxembourg's national CSIRT — on how 15 years of open-source security development has shown that sharing code, knowledge and intelligence builds networks of trust between defenders.
If you haven't got your ticket yet, this week is your last chance. Secure your place …

Digitale Souveränität klingt gut – aber wie wird eigentlich gemessen?
Bei Microsoft oder SAP gelten Probleme als normal:
„Kinderkrankheiten“, „Migration“, „gehört dazu“.
Bei Open Source? Sofort: „Risiko“, „Experiment“, „unkomfortbael“.
Warum messen wir mit zweierlei Maß? Solange diese Denke dominiert, bleibt Open Source ein Feigenblatt – und echte digitale Unabhängigkeit in weiter Ferne. #60Sekunden

Socket: TeamPCP, the gang claiming GitHub's repositories breach, also executed 20 "waves" of supply chain attacks recently, compromising 500 pieces of software (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/teampcp-software-supply-chain-attack-spree-github/…

A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale
GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has impacted hundreds of organizations.

Paperweight è un'applicazione desktop open-source, pensata per l'utilizzo locale che analizza la tua casella di posta per mappare la tua impronta digitale e a riprendere il controllo e a eliminare i tuoi dati.
Cosa fa:
- Inventario degli account: mappa tutte le aziende che ti hanno mai contattato via email, con classificazione dei rischi e raccomandazioni sulle azioni da intraprendere.
- Annullamento iscrizione in blocco: trova e annulla l'iscrizione a tutte le li…

Do you have experience developing Open Educational Resources (OER) or developing educational software? The Journal of Open Source Education (JOSE) is looking for reviewers to help with our check-list driven peer review process. Happy to answer questions about reviewing for JOSE if you're interested.
https://forms.gle/Rizd3TcHnQKhrbYY7

Heute um 9:15 Uhr wird der diesjährige Workshop des KIM – Kompetenzzentrum Interoperable #Metadaten eröffnet. Jede:r kann hier online teilnehmen: https://meet.academiccloud.de/gl/rooms…

Wonder how many folks have joined the waitlist... https://office.eu/

Glasfaserausbau in Gebäuden: „Die Klagen sind vorprogrammiert“
Mit Vollausbau- und Mitnutzungsrechten will die Bundesregierung den Glasfaserausbau beschleunigen. Netzbetreiber fordern hingegen eine Open-Access-Pflicht.

Glasfaserausbau in Gebäuden: „Die Klagen sind vorprogrammiert“
Mit Vollausbau- und Mitnutzungsrechten will die Bundesregierung den Glasfaserausbau beschleunigen. Netzbetreiber fordern hingegen eine Open-Access-Pflicht.

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.

Nvidia will spend $26 billion to build open-weight AI models, filings show https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-investing-26-billion-open-source-models/ "The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, an…

Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show
The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.

It feels like the open source world is fracturing. It used to be if we wanted alternatives to commercial software we could look to open source, but so much of open source software today is using AI.
Sure, some maintainers are saying "I only use it to speed things up, I still review all code before it gets added." but for lots of folks that's not good enough, and they draw a hard line at the use of any AI.
Are we looking at "open source" versus "open …

Maurice on 🔥:
"Progressive sollten besser politische Entscheidungen an sich kritisieren als technokratische Kniffe wie das #Sondervermögen, die die Schuldenbremse umgehen."
Die zirkulierenden 95% sind sus und irreführend.

Empörung zum Sondervermögen? Eigentor!
Warum die Studien zum Sondervermögen und die reaktionäre Empörung darüber falsch sind. Und was die bessere Strategie für Progressive wäre

What comes next is the next stage of enshittification: monetization
Has anyone seen any hint of a real revenue source for BSky? I know that at one point they had a domain registrar partnership deal, but that can’t pay for a billion-user social network. @…

Jay 🦋 (@jay.bsky.team)
I raised a Series B last year for Bluesky to build the open social web. I want to thank our investors who share our vision, our users who light up the network (2.4B posts and counting), and the developers bringing the Atmosphere to life. Can’t wait to show you all what comes next! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

@… the spirit of open source will never allow it. Instead, it's to be renamed:
LibreDaemon Noir Ultra
#FreeBSD

⭐ Starred a repository

TomBadash/Mouser
A lightweight, open-source alternative to Logitech Options for remapping buttons on the Logitech MX Master 3S mouse
github.com/TomBadash/Mouser

GitHub - TomBadash/Mouser: A lightweight, open-source alternative to Logitech Options+ for remapping buttons on the Logitech MX Master 3S mouse · GitHub
A lightweight, open-source alternative to Logitech Options+ for remapping buttons on the Logitech MX Master 3S mouse - TomBadash/Mouser

Moonshot introduces Kimi K2.6, an open-weight model that it says shows strong improvements in long-horizon coding tasks, available under a modified MIT License (Kimi AI)
https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6

#OpenSource #security at Astral
https://astral.sh/blog/open-source-security-at-astral…

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.

«Sniffnet 1.5: Welches Programm funkt nach Hause?
Der Open-Source-Netzwerkmonitor @… ordnet Traffic nun einzelnen Programmen zu. Version 1.5.0 bringt zudem Blacklists und Adapter-Vorschauen»

Zu viele glauben immer noch nichts zu verbergen zu haben und realisieren nicht, dass sie das Produkt sind anhand von IT- & Online-Tools.
🕵️

Sniffnet 1.5: Welches Programm funkt nach Hause?
Der Open-Source-Netzwerkmonitor Sniffnet ordnet Traffic nun einzelnen Programmen zu. Version 1.5.0 bringt zudem Blacklists und Adapter-Vorschauen.

Google has re-engineered its search engine to keep users inside its own ecosystem with AI-powered interactive experiences. If your task is to find and critically assess information on the open web, you're fresh out of luck.
https://www.

Google Search is no longer about searching
Google has re-engineered its search engine to keep users inside its own ecosystem with AI-powered interactive experiences. If your task is to find and critically ...

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…

Open source is benefiting from the current AI trend: some projects are already improving their security posture and reducing their attack surface.
Proprietary software, for now, seems more out of the loop.
But once LLMs become better at analysing binaries, compiled code, and obfuscation, I wonder how vendors will handle the likely increase in vulnerability disclosures.
#ai

Stolpersteine in Open Source-Projekten werden kritischer bewertet als Probleme, die es bei jeder SAP-Einführung gibt. Parallel sind die realen Kosten der Microsoft-Abhängigkeit deutlich höher als offiziell ausgewiesen. Dank Trump muss sich der deutsche Staat bewegen und Schritt für Schritt bewegen.
#DigitaleSouveränität

Digitale Souveränität kostet – und Deutschland hat die Rechnung lange ignoriert
Stolpersteine in Open Source-Projekten werden kritischer bewertet als Probleme, die es bei jeder SAP-Einführung gibt – und genau das verzerrt die Debatte. Parallel sind die realen Kosten der Micros…

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

Every modern digital technology
– from AI to quantum computing
– is based on foundational open source software building blocks.
Open source code is embedded in almost all products and services,
enabling economic growth and ensuring the resilience of our society and government.
While open source software has become the backbone of our digital infrastructure,
these essential components do not receive adequate support and investment.
Targeted and long…

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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.

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

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.

As far as I can tell mainstream open source, github-native culture is now completely horrible, co-opted by Microsoft, and destroyed by Anthropic, Google and OpenAI. The free/open source projects I'm involved with are constantly ripped off by vibe-coded interfaces that ignore the license, and when I point this out I get abuse. I just got told by a reddit user "thank you for your work but it doesn't matter much any more". Only

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…

Microsoft locks open source devs out of their accounts
Microsoft has locked the lead developers of two prominent open source security projects out of their accounts.

Yes siree, never a shortage of critical cybersecurity news, so check out today's Metacurity for the most important developments you should know, including
--Anthropic case puts courts at center of fight over AI supply chain authority,
--Iran officials tied to cyber ops killed in airstrikes,
--Bennett and Brassard win Turing Award,
--Japan to allow offensive operations starting Oct. 1,
--Tech giants pledge to help open source with AI bug surge,
--Apple p…

Anthropic case puts courts at center of fight over AI supply chain authority
Iran officials tied to cyber ops killed in airstrikes, Bennett and Brassard win Turing Award, Japan to allow offensive operations starting Oct. 1, Tech giants pledge to help open source with AI bug surge, Apple patches WebKit flaw, Chinese hacker group steals $7m posing as a cyber firm, much more

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.
🫴

Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security
fosdem 2026: Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money

NemoClaw: Nvidia erweitert OpenClaw um Sicherheitsfunktionen
Nvidia hat NemoClaw vorgestellt, einen Open-Source-Stack, der die Nutzung von KI-Agenten auf Basis von OpenClaw einfacher und sicherer gestalten soll.

Just over a week after Mosaic 1.0 was released, CERN gifted the Web to the world as open source software. As of 30 April 1993, the still relatively new Internet communications platform was suddenly free for anyone to use, with no strings attached.
https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-mosai

1993: Mosaic Launches and the Web Becomes Open Source
On 21 April 1993, Marc Andreessen announces NCSA Mosaic 1.0, the first version of its multimedia browser. Just over a week later, CERN gifts the World Wide Web to the world as open source software.

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

„Crimson Desert“ angespielt: Das Zelda für Erwachsene erfordert starke Nerven
„Crimson Desert“ schürt große Erwartungen bei vielen Open-World-Fans. Nach rund 50 Spielstunden ergibt sich jedoch ein durchwachsenes Bild.

I'm really liking MacDown 3000 for editing and viewing Markdown files on macOS. Especially the ability to customize the style sheets.
#macOS

Home - MacDown 3000
MacDown 3000 - A free, open source Markdown editor for macOS with live preview, syntax highlighting, GitHub Flavored Markdown, and Apple Silicon optimization. Download the best lightweight Markdown editor for Mac.

Die neue Bürger-App: Wildbergers Masterplan für Deutschlands Verwaltung
Zwischen Deutschland-Stack und KI: Digitalminister Wildberger erklärt, wie er mit SAP, Telekom, Startups und Open Source den digitalen Stillstand brechen will.

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 — @…,

FediSuite: Open Source Fediverse Social Media Management Platform
FediSuite is an open source Fediverse social media management platform for Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Misskey, and more.

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…

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/…

Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show
The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.

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.

Socket, which helps companies safeguard open-source code against hackers, raised $60M led by Thrive Capital at a $1B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-20/security-firm-thwarting-…

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.

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/

Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform
Ahead of its annual developer conference, Nvidia is readying a new approach to software that embraces AI agents similar to OpenClaw.

Mozilla launches Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client for users and businesses who want to run their own self-hosted AI infrastructure, available on GitHub (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/mozil…

Mozilla launches Thunderbolt AI client with focus on self-hosted infrastructure
New tool builds on deepset’s Haystack toward a “decentralized open source AI ecosystem.”...

heise | Open-Source-Grundausstattung: Freie und kostenlose Apps für Ihren Desktop
Sie haben keine Lust mehr auf Abhängigkeit von Adobe- und Microsoft-Abos? Quelloffene Software sorgt für den Befreiungsschlag auf dem Desktop – und spart Geld.

Open-Source-Grundausstattung: Freie und kostenlose Apps für Ihren Desktop
Sie haben keine Lust mehr auf Abhängigkeit von Adobe- und Microsoft-Abos? Quelloffene Software sorgt für den Befreiungsschlag auf dem Desktop – und spart Geld.

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

Scoop: Meta to open source versions of its next AI models
Alexandr Wang says new models are coming soon.

Mittwoch: Handy-Neuheit mit alten Funktionen, Google-Interesse an SpaceX-Plänen
Sony mit Klinkenbuchse & MicroSD-Fach Google-Server mit SpaceX im All München wieder mit Open Source Gigabit-Anschlüsse holen auf Ankers neue Solarbank

Mittwoch: Handy-Neuheit mit alten Funktionen, Google-Interesse an SpaceX-Plänen
Sony mit Klinkenbuchse & MicroSD-Fach + Google-Server mit SpaceX im All + München wieder mit Open Source + Gigabit-Anschlüsse holen auf + Ankers neue Solarbank

Terminbuchungssoftware: OpenReception-Entwickler sehen „Ende der Passwort-Ära“
Die Entwickler der Terminbuchungssoftware OpenReception erklären im Digital-Health-Podcast, warum Open Source mehr Chancen für Datensicherheit bietet und mehr.

Terminbuchungssoftware: OpenReception-Entwickler sehen „Ende der Passwort-Ära“
Die Entwickler der Terminbuchungssoftware OpenReception erklären im Digital-Health-Podcast, warum Open Source mehr Chancen für Datensicherheit bietet und mehr.

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.

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…

Tech giants launch AI-powered ‘Project Glasswing’ to identify critical software vulnerabilities
Anthropic unveils Project Glasswing with major tech partners, using an unreleased model to find and fix long-hidden software vulnerabilities.

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.

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

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.

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.

Servus, freie Software! 🥨 In München weht ein neuer Wind durchs Rathaus – und der riecht verdächtig nach Open Source.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11292444?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_sou…

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.