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TROT-Open-Source-Roboter lässt Evolution von Vierbeinern nachvollziehen
Mit dem TROT-Roboter können Forscher evolutionäre Veränderungen von Vierbeinern vergleichen. Der Roboter ist Open Source und kann nachgebaut werden.

Say what you will but AI has the douchbag developer persona down pat.
https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html…

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.

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.

How #Github #monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem
https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteachin

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.

France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, calling US tech dependence a strategic risk
The ministries have until the fall to find a solution.

Kampf um digitale Souveränität: Experten fordern Gratis-OpenDesk für Unis
Hochschul-IT-Vertreter warnen vor Abhängigkeit von US-Software und verlangen vom Bund kostenlose Lizenzen für die heimische Open-Source-Alternative OpenDesk.

from my link log —
Stoat: an open-source, user-first chat platform.
https://github.com/stoatchat
saved 2026-01-13 https://dotat.at/:/SLXXQ.html

Stoat
Open source, user-first chat platform. (formerly Revolt) - Stoat

Only $1.5mil?
#Python #Anthropic

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

*UPDATE*
The Pattullo Bridge is permanently closed to vehicles; the sidewalk will remain open for cyclists and pedestrians until the morning of Feb. 17.
At 7 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 14, all four lanes will open on the stalΕəwΓasəm (Riverview) Bridge.
Visit:

Just stumbled upon this: #Azul buys #Payara!
I'd say, that's an interesting perspective for #JakartaEE .

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.

Can we call Windows abandonware now?
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116380259791929422

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

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 …

FOSDEM 2026 Recap
All about our presence at FOSDEM 2026.

«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…

#Code reviews seem to be the biggest bottleneck in software development right now.
Open source package ecosystems are victims of their own success. There's a long tail of iffy packages that nobody has reviewed, and nobody wants to.
For the top projects, maintenance is tough. Stakes are high. Reviews are hard. Contributions are meh quality (even before LLMs). It's not just code, …

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.

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

Ransomlook 2.0 "Mira" Released - Observability, Crypto Traceability, and a Cleaner Core.
Thanks to all the contributors who helped and worked on this release. A huge thanks to @… for his continuous commitment to make ransomlook always better.
Ransomlook remains firmly committed to an open-source codebase and to keeping it that way. We believe security to…

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…

Have you seen the GÉANT #SecurityDays 2026 workshop programme yet?
This year features 9 hands-on workshops across 3 days, covering everything from threat hunting and crisis simulations to open-source tooling and #DDoS defence.
All workshop participants will also receive a PCD certificate re…

RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@Lapizistik/116029889151683472
Es heißt jetzt nicht mehr Open Source, In-House Technikkompetenz¹, Scheiß Windows, Self-Hosting, eigene Datenhaltung, wir erfinden einen neuen Standard nur für uns, Datenschutz, …
…sonde…

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.

@…'s keynote at the EU Open Source #Policy Summit 2026 pressed all the key points that I've been worried about.
#OpenSource is Digital

RE: #enshitificaton of software, hardware, and services and the austerity to fascism pipeline. The state is just an older type of walled garden. The solution isn't to improve the walled garden, but to leave it forever.
When we build systems, together, that cannot be shut down, that exist outside of these political systems, then we are opting out. Anarchism is the open source option of political ideologies.

I'm looking for 12 testers using Play Store for an Android app I built with Claude AI:
Widekey Keyboard. Each key holds two characters. Tap once for the left, tap twice quickly for the right. (No autocorrect, no word prediction, no swipe typing.)
Intended for people who find standard touch keyboards on small screens imprecise.
Free, no ads, no data collection, Apache 2.0 open source.
Please send me a DM with your Android account email if you're interested.

GitHub - kaie/widekey-keyboard
Contribute to kaie/widekey-keyboard development by creating an account on GitHub.

Whoa, just set up a wiki.js instance! Slick! Took about 10 minutes. If you're not familiar, see https://js.wiki

Analysis: news organizations' open-source activity has fallen from a peak of 2,092 new public GitHub repositories in 2016 to 396 in 2025, an ~80% decline (Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/journalism-lost-its-culture-of-sharin…

Journalism lost its culture of sharing. Here’s how we rebuild it
The data are clear: The open-source culture that defined an earlier era of online journalism has collapsed.

A bit overshadowed by Vulkan descriptor heaps and HDR extensions: the latest #Nvidia beta drivers for #Linux (595.45.04) also introduce an alternative to the current systemd-based power management triggers, instead relying on the kernel's own suspend and hibernate notifiers when NVreg_UseKern…

@… beschreibt eine stille Verschiebung: Die USA behandeln europäische Digitalregeln nicht mehr nur als wirtschaftliches Ärgernis, sondern als strategisches Problem. Cyberpolitik wird damit zum Instrument geopolitischer Interessen. Wer digitale Souveränität will, muss mit Gegenwind rechnen.

@… every open source developer should be paid — radical thought, I know 😅

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

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

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
> …

Grüezi zäme🙃
Auch dieses Jahr vom 16.3. bis dem 21.3. dürfen wir an den #informatiktage der Stadt Zürich teilnehmen!💥
Wir von Revamp-it bieten die ganze Woche eine oder mehrere Veranstaltungen an 💫
...uuund wir haben noch Plätze frei!✨
Am kommenden Mittwoch:

Sichere Cloud in der Schweiz🇨🇭 ? Ja!
Lerne die Nextcloud kennen – die Open-Source-Cloud Al…

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

Der Saugroboter ist noch da, aber seine Intelligenz wohnt leider nicht mehr hier. 🤤
Nachdem Vorwerk die Cloud-Plattform im Oktober 2025 abgeschaltet hat, fühlen sich viele Käufer im Stich gelassen.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11206147?wt_mc=sm.re

»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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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.

More fallout from the chardet AI licensing kerfuffle.
#AI

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

I was really pleased with the range of @… microgrants, although it was uncompetitive - we were able to fund all the proposals that fit the open call and had enough detail to evaluate.
Crowdfunding for free/open source at this level is tricky because people do it for fun and intrinsic value, it's hardly possible to fund at a market value, and underpaying while …

Anyone know of an Android to-do list application that is
* Completely device local, no network connectivity required or used
* No ads or spyware
* Doesn't time-out tasks even if they sit around for a year uncompleted (looking at you, google calendar)
* Supports recurring maintenance tasks for weekly, monthly, etc. cleaning or something
Open source preferred, but willing to pay a reasonable price if it's out there as a commercial tool

Before you leave for a likely well-deserved weekend break, don't miss today's Metacurity for the most important infosec developments you should know, including
--Claude Opus 4.6 found 500 severe flaws in open source repos without much prompting,
--Asian cyberespionage group broke into sensitive systems in 37 countries,
--ICE's Mobile Fortify does not reliably ID people,
--CISA tells agencies to stop using edge devices past EOS,
--764 member busted a…

Claude Opus 4.6 found 500+ severe flaws in open source repos without much prompting
Asian cyberespionage group broke into sensitive systems in 37+ countries, ICE's Mobile Fortify does not reliably ID people, CISA tells agencies to stop using edge devices past EOS, 764 member busted and charged with receiving CSAM, French cops bust four with spying on Starlink for China, much more

Commission trials European open source communications software https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-trials-european-open-source-communications-software/
"The European Commission is trialling using European open source software…

A look at Confer, an open-source AI assistant project from Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike that is designed to provide end-to-end encryption for AI chats (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/0…

Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging
Introducing Confer, an end-to-end AI assistant that just works.

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

Hardening Firefox with Anthropic’s Red Team 
#infosec

Hardening Firefox with Anthropic’s Red Team  | The Mozilla Blog
For more than two decades, Firefox has been one of the most scrutinized and security-hardened codebases on the web. Open source means our code is visible,

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…

Qdrant, which develops an open-source vector search engine for production AI systems, raised a $50M Series B led by AVP (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/03/12/qdrant-closes-50m-series-b-to-expand-vector-search-infrastructure/

I hate Discord. The platform is proprietary, the U/X is just completely confusing and it's difficult to find anything.
If you run a project, I love @… - it's open source, the U/X is great and you can archive everything in markdown (and much more).

GitHub - discourse/discourse: A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple. - discourse/discourse

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

Nathaniel Moore will speak on 'Running Containers with Open Source Akash Network, a Blockchain-based Distributed Computing Platform' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

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…

Zhipu leads rally in Chinese AI stocks, surging 30%, as a wave of new releases hits market
The Shanghai STAR AI Industry Index climbed 1.7% before paring gains.

Ah, yes, scale and market penetration, the two founding pillars of open source.
(Actually, I’m not even being sarcastic. Don’t confuse free software and open source. Open source is open as in “open for business” and “open for enclosure”. Free software is about free as in “freedom”. Very different things, even if, in both cases, the source is readily available.) @…

OpenForum Europe (@OpenForumEurope@mastodon.cloud)
Attached: 1 image @HennaVirkkunen@ec.social-network.europa.eu gave a keynote address, lauding the EU as "the beacon of open source technology". Existing innovation must now be supported to reach scale, ensure financial sustainability and achieve wider market penetration.

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…

Human-caused climate change is unmistakably distinct from Earth’s natural climate variability
Five independent fits across four independent archives and 66 million years — the empirical case in two figures

Max Englander will speak on 'Building a Postgres DBaaS with open source' as part of our PostgreSQL@SCaLE track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

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.

Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’
Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source.
According to a new study from a team of researchers in Europe, vibe coding is killing open-source software (OSS) and it’s happening faster than anyone predicted.
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Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’

Adam Gordon Bell will speak on 'When AI Agents Meet Production Infrastructure' as part of our Open Source AI track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

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.

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.

Open Contributions Descriptor — or how to map your contribution in open source, open data, and open standards
🔗 Blog post #opensource

«AI Slopageddon and the OSS Maintainers»
– by console.log()
Good article about the use of AI in open source projects and the problems that arise from it, mainly for the maintainers of the projects.
🧑‍💻 https://redmonk.com/kholterhoff/2026/02/03/a…

AI Slopageddon and the OSS Maintainers
AI slop is ripping up the social contract between maintainers and contributors essential to open source development. Practitioners have been repeatedly assured that AI would supercharge their communities, but so far that hasn’t been the case. Just look at what happened last month. Mitchell Hashimoto’s Ghostty implemented a zero-tolerance policy where submitting bad AI-generated code

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…

Z.ai launches GLM-5, its flagship open-weight model, saying it has best-in-class performance among open-source models in reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks (Z.ai)
https://z.ai/blog/glm-5

De economische modellen zijn verouderd en moeten opnieuw worden gecalibreerd.
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatehistorian/p/the-comfort-of-elegant-equations?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&a…

The Comfort of Elegant Equations
Why climate change will not respect the assumptions built into our economic models

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.

TV-Software: Gericht stiftet Verwirrung um Open Source
Seit Jahren versucht eine Stiftung zwei Open-Source-Lizenzen gegen eine Walmart-Tochter durchzusetzen. Es gibt Erfolge und eine Merkwürdigkeit.
https://www…

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

Stormy 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

«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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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.

Alibaba's DAMO Academy releases RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model to help robots perform real-world tasks like navigating rooms, trained on Qwen3-VL (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

Greg Schoeninger will speak on 'How Hollywood is using Open Source models to make High Quality VFX Edits' as part of our Open Source AI track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

Kerri-Leigh Grady will speak on 'Outsource the Tedium with Open Source and Cloud AI - Automated Planogram Generation' as part of our Open Source AI track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

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…

«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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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.

Source: Chinese AI startup Zhipu anonymously released its new AI model on OpenRouter under the name Pony Alpha; Zhipu plans to launch GLM-5 later this week (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/chinas-zhipu-rolls-new-ai-mo…

China’s Zhipu Rolls Out New AI Model in Stealth Mode
Zhipu, one of China’s prominent AI developers, has anonymously released its new large language model under a different name on OpenRouter, a popular AI model marketplace for developers. Pony Alpha, a new open-source LLM launched on OpenRouter a few days ago, is Zhipu’s new model, known as GLM-5, in disguise, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. In a post on X,

Deutschland-Stack: Open-Source-Bündnis warnt vor „Souveränitäts-Washing“
Die OSB Alliance kritisiert Schlupflöcher für Hyperscaler und fordert eine ausnahmslose Open-Source-Strategie für die neue staatliche Technologie-Plattform.

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/
…

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

Welcome to Open Source Gardens, where openness is sown and freedom is grown!
Open Source Gardens connects people via Open Source (philosophy, seeds, software & hardware) in a horticultural and creative way. Read about who we are and why we are doing this on this page.
🌱 https://opensourcegardens.info

«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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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.

Phillip Waclawski will speak on 'Over 25 years in Education, promoting Linux, Open source, and MySQL' as part of our MySQL@SCaLE track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Schadcode-Sicherheitslücken in Werbeblocker Pi-hole geschlossen

»Open Source — Die Suche nach mehr digitaler Unabhängigkeit:
Tech-Konzerne wie Microsoft sind mächtig, doch ein Großteil der deutschen Ministerien und Behörden nutzt die Software. Das macht verwundbar, glauben viele. Bundesregierung und erste Bundesländer setzen deshalb zunehmend auf den offenen Quellcode.«
Zu lange haben zu viele blind den Konzernen geglaubt und hatten sich (so gut wie) nicht darum gekümmert.
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Um in IT-Fragen weniger verwundbar zu sein, setzen Bundesregierung und Ministerien auf Open Source
Um in der IT weniger verwundbar zu sein, setzen Bundesregierung und Ministerien nicht mehr auf Microsoft-Software, sondern vermehrt auf den offenen Quellcode.

Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung ​ ​
Die neue digitale Bibliothek der TIB Hannover verknüpft als Open-Source-Projekt Wissenschaftsergebnisse direkt mit Original-Daten und Programmcodes für alle.

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.

»Sicherheitsexperten warnen — OpenSource-#KI könnte zu gravierendem Security-Problem werden:
Setzen User:innen von #OpenSource-KI ihre #Sicherheit aufs Spiel? Sicherheitsforscher:innen warnen jetzt davor, …

Sicherheitsexperten warnen: Open-Source-KI könnte zu gravierendem Security-Problem werden | t3n
Setzen User:innen von Open-Source-KI ihre Sicherheit aufs Spiel? Sicherheitsforscher:innen warnen jetzt davor, dass die Tools gravierende Security-Probleme mit sich bringen, wenn sie falsch genutzt werden. Was sie bei ihrer Untersuchung herausgefunden haben. Open-Source-Projekte im KI-Bereich werden immer populärer. Mittlerweile arbeitet sogar ein deutsches Forschungskonsortium an einem solchen Modell für die EU. Die Alternativen zu kommerziellen […]

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

»Vernetzte Fernseher vor Gericht — Open Source Code muss nicht installierbar sein:
Seit Jahren versucht eine Stiftung zwei Open-Source-Lizenzen gegen eine Walmart-Tochter durchzusetzen. Es gibt Erfolge und eine Merkwürdigkeit.«
Nur weil was Kostenlos ist, heißt es noch lange nicht, dass mensch es ohne Erwähnung der Open-Source Lizenz- & Code-Hinweis in seine Projekte integrieren darf.
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Vernetzte Fernseher vor Gericht: Open Source Code muss nicht installierbar sein
Seit Jahren versucht eine Stiftung zwei Open-Source-Lizenzen gegen eine Walmart-Tochter durchzusetzen. Es gibt Erfolge und eine Merkwürdigkeit.

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

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/…

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 intelli…

Entire, founded by ex-GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, raised a $60M seed at a $300M valuation to build open-source developer tools to better manage AI-written code (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/former-github-c…

Former GitHub CEO raises record $60M dev tool seed round at $300M valuation | TechCrunch
Thomas Dohmke's new startup offers an AI system to allow developers to better manage all the code AI agents produce.

The Allen Institute for AI launches SERA, open-source coding agents including 32B- and 8B-parameter models designed to adapt to private codebases (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/27/ai2-launches-family-open-sou…

Ai2 launches family of open-source AI developer agents that adapt to any codebase - SiliconANGLE
Ai2 launches family of open-source AI developer agents that adapt to any codebase - SiliconANGLE