@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow 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…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialThe 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.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialOpen Slopware
“Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.”
#AI
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
@frankel@mastodon.top @Techmeme@techhub.socialCal.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…
@cdarwin@c.imEvery 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…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzWonder how many folks have joined the waitlist... https://office.eu/
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialIt 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 …
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeHappy Saturday! Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--Trump's supposed cyber-first war strategy,
--How an OpenClaw agent attacked an open source project maintainer,
--Electronic warfare threatens maritime navigation,
--Trump's offensive cyber-based strategy,
--…
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialMost organisations lack the visibility to meaningfully reduce their cloud carbon footprint. Julien Nioche (DigitalPebble, creator of SPRUCE) is at #bbuzz26 to show what GreenOps at scale actually looks like with open source tooling.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/spruce-it-up-open-source-greenops-at-scale/
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialFrankreich verpflichtet alle Ministerien bis Herbst 2026 zu Open-Source-Plänen. Alle Ministerien müssen bis Herbst 2026 Pläne für den Wechsel zu Open-Source-Software vorlegen. Das Kalkül dahinter ist nüchtern: Wer die Software kontrolliert, kontrolliert die Infrastruktur. Deutschland diskutiert noch. Horst Schulte über eine Lücke, die größer wird.
#OpenSource
@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizzaDisabling Google's default apps on Android can help reduce your exposure to Google's data mining system somewhat, while their open source alternatives are generally excellent.
https://theprivacydad.com/using-android-without-a-google-account-in-2026/…
@david@boles.xyzThe Generative Excess: Soul, Dream, and Idea
There are three things you cannot show me. You cannot open your hand and reveal your soul. No technology exists to replay your dream from last night with any fidelity. And no surgeon can extract from your skull the moment a thought first assembled itself into an idea. Each of these phenomena exists, if it exists at all, only as a first-person event, invisible to external observation, resistant to measurement, and stubbornly…
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgHugest missed opportunity here is that the 12th fret inlay isn't open mouth Pac Man. Also if you're in an 80s band and this isn't your guitar what even are you doing.
https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/electric-
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@seeingwithsound@mas.toNvidia 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…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Warum Cloud-Lock-in zum Sicherheitsrisiko wird—Digitale Souveränität braucht einen Exit-Plan:
Mit dem Wechsel hin zu Open-Source-Strukturen hat Schleswig-Holstein Anfang des Jahres ein deutliches Signal gesetzt. Die Abhängigkeit von großen Technologiekonzernen ist kein Naturgesetz.»
Viele verantwortliche Leute glauben wenn sie die Tools aufzuzählen, dass dies ein Plan sei. Es ist komplexer & benötigt Zeit.
💻
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Unclassified
anrimeal:
🎵 Chapter III - Source and time
#anrimeal
https://open.spotify.com/track/128EraZAXa1wiND0VIGBV8
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaFinally a scalable open-source alternative to Samsara
@finlaydag33k@social.linux.pizzaAnyone that knows good open-source tools for buring data to M-DISC (Blueray)?
Will be running primarily on Windows for now and an easy to use front-end is appreciated.
#askfedi
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Jump Source:
🎵 Empathy Dub 1
#JumpSource
https://jumpsource.bandcamp.com/track/empathy-dub-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/7D73jgxePgeYRQycBlIkXQ
@datascience@genomic.socialVideo tutorials for modern ideas and open source tools. #python
@rberger@hachyderm.ioSince OpenClaw is spreading everywhere and is being promoted by various means for use by the general public. And the general public has no clue. Somethings really bad are going to happen.
Since OpenAI hired the author of OpenClaw and is facilitating its open source foundation, supplying the models and stack, IMHO they could easily get tied into litigation from the first OpenClaw Agents Go Wild incident.
(Though I am not a lawyer)
#OpenClaw #OpenAI
@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizza#Calisthenics 1.Woche geschafft
Die 48h Regenration für jede Muskelgruppe machen wirklich den Unterschied.
Hab früher schon versucht, jeden Tag z.B. Liegestütze zu machen und dann wegen Muskelkater des Todes aufgegeben. Aber jetzt die Abwechslung von Push/Pull/Squat mit Springseil für Cardio zwischendrin ist ein guter Mix.
Eine
@gevoel@mastodon.greenHow many people does heat actually kill?
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatebrink/p/how-many-people-does-heat-actually?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
> It dep…
@cdarwin@c.imJust 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
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaOK. With Bitwarden acting every bit the American company it is, are there any drop-in replacements out there? Preferably standalone rather than part of a package. #security #passwordmanager
@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
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Münchens IT-Wende: Open Source ist für die neue Koalition der Normalfall
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialMicrosoft, your climate plan ran into a problem and needs to restart. Read the coalition's open letter and add your name.
https://microsoftlies.com/?utm_source=ensocial
@paulwermer@sfba.socialMicrosoft, your climate plan ran into a problem and needs to restart. Read the coalition's open letter and add your name.
https://microsoftlies.com/?utm_source=ensocial
@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
@qbi@freie-re.deKlingt nice. Aber fast die Hälfte der Commits stammt von #Claude.
#vibecoding
https://bsd.network/@lcheylus/11656610
@zachleat@zachleat.comI 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 😬
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzHi all, just a tardy reminder that a few (a bunch?) of us will be meeting at https://meeting.iridescent.nz at 20:00 NZST tonight (Tue 14 Apr) to discuss libre/open source state of play. This is coming on heels of the weekend's Ōtautahi InstallFest which went quite well, I think! We'll have a debrief on t…
@chrislowles@mastodon.social @kubikpixel@chaos.social«@… & Co. — Mit Custom-ROMs mehr Datenschutz für Android:
Das eigene Smartphone soll keine Petze mehr sein? Wie man den Datenschutz von Android mit und ohne Custom-ROMs verbessert […]»
Viele IT-Konzerne bauen auf Open-Source auf aber nun wollen die diesbezüglich nichts mehr der Allgemeinheit überlassen, denn unsere Daten ist ihr Vermögen.…
@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…
@niklaskorz@rheinneckar.social
@curiouscat@fosstodon.orgRE: https://floss.social/@CoMaps/116409089820321174
Looks interesting.
The website offers some good information on weaning yourself from privacy invading market leading products in many areas.
"Explore European and open-source alternatives to …
@adulau@infosec.exchangeThis release includes a major new feature: a graph visualisation for the MISP standard and STIX format, making it easier to explore, understand, and present CTI data structures directly from JSON.
CTI Transmute is an online service available at cti-transmute.org and also an open source project availabl…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNvidia 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/…
@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
@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.
@geant@mstdn.socialHave 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…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.socialfür alle #IBM-#TrackPoint-fans: es gibt jetzt eine trackpoint-maus: https://www.theverge.com…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialWe rely on open source, 👍
we need open source, 👍
we want open source 🎉
We donate to open source.
@hex@kolektiva.socialRE: #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.
@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/
@totientfunction@mathstodon.xyzVery 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…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
@kornel@mastodon.social#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, …
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeIt's been a few months and I have a lot of new followers so, periodic reminder: I make extra capacity in my home lab facilities available on a best-effort basis to support noncommercial/hobby/open source projects who would otherwise not be able to afford them.
Services are generally provided free of charge if they're not a major time/consumable commitment on my part, or on a cost-recovery basis for anything particularly large. If you're not making money from the project I w…
@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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe EU unveils an open-source age verification app that requires legal ID to shield minors from harmful content, aiming to standardize verification in the bloc (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@heiseonline@social.heise.deServus, 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…
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Elin Manahan Thomas, George Frideric Handel, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Harry Christophers:
🎵 Eternal source of light divine (Birthday Ode for Queen Anne)
https://open.spotify.com/track/301GhrxRRyQ0h8NP6NQQxc
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy @frankel@mastodon.topThe Java Week Geekly, special Belgrade edition, is available! Get it now!
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/136/
@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.
🫴
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @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/
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… every open source developer should be paid — radical thought, I know 😅
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social @adulau@infosec.exchangeOpen Contributions Descriptor — or how to map your contribution in open source, open data, and open standards
🔗 Blog post #opensource
@cdarwin@c.imFrance 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.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @gevoel@mastodon.greenHalf 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
> …
@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…
@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 — @…,
@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…
@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
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @kubikpixel@chaos.social«Schwierige Kundschaft — 83 Prozent der Europäer misstrauen US-Techfirmen:
Noch schlechter schneiden chinesische Unternehmen ab. Den Umstieg vollziehen bislang jedoch nur wenige»
Das Europa nun langsam aber sicher und hoffentlich auch nicht nur jetzt aus Protest auf Open-Source setzt ist mein Wunsch. Doch zu viele Firmen sehen MS, Apple & Co. als den Standart obwohl sie sich darüber beschweren?!
🧑💻
@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…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deDer 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
@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…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft says it is "exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context", including a team of always-on agents within Microsoft 365 (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mic…
@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).
🔐
@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.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…
@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.
🤖
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialQdrant, 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/
@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.
🤖
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
@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/…
@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-…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @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…
@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.
