2026-05-05 16:42:00
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/
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
Building an #OpenSource #RobotVacuum — Meet OOMWOO
https://makerspet.com/blog/building-an
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
Inference cloud startup DeepInfra raised a $107M Series B co-led by 500 Global and Georges Harik; it currently supports more than 190 open models (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/04/deepinfra-la…
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
This will increase a lot of uncertainty in all areas:
«Artificial Intelligence — Decades-Old Bash Tricks Expose AI Coding Agents to Supply Chain Attacks:
Decades-old Bash shell tricks can bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents, potentially turning malicious repositories into supply chain attack vectors.»
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für die sammlung von #icons-sammlungen:
"CoreUI Icons"
https://www.designerinaction.de/gestaltung/coreui-icons-open-source-icon-set…
The European Commission has presented the European Technological Sovereignty Package, which aims to boost European performance in semiconductors, AI, cloud and open source.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026…
At this year’s French Open, the air is particularly thick with tension.
After a tournament of shocks and upsets, only five top-10 seeds and one Grand Slam champion are left across the men’s and women’s draws.
The stakes always get higher deeper into a tournament, but the openness of this year’s draw further complicates matters.
Lower-ranked players are facing unusual situations with less formidable foes in their way,
and with that comes expectation.
A less forebo…
RE: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
It’s OK, Palantir should still have access.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Elin Manahan Thomas, George Frideric Handel, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Harry Christophers:
🎵 Eternal source of light divine (Birthday Ode for Queen Anne)
#Spotify
Source: OpenAI and White House are discussing a government stake in the company, to seed something like the "Public Wealth Fund" that OpenAI outlined earlier (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/trump-open-ai-altman-stake.html
Sovereignty Is Engineered, Not Procured
Europe often asks whether it can build a company like Palantir: a software champion capable of serving intelligence, defence, law enforcement, crisis response, cyber defence, and public-sector decision-making at scale.
The usual answer is that Europe lacks data, capital, talent, or legal room. I do not think this is the full story.
The capacity is there. The data is there. The technical talent is there. The public-sector problems are …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jump Source:
🎵 Empty Bars (feat. Billy Woods)
#JumpSource
https://jumpsource.bandcamp.com/track/empty-bars-ft-billy-woods
https://open.spotify.com/track/3G5gureMPAj9d5OqjtZrqs
can’t fucking believe that “omg we’re down all the time b/c we're being ddosed by too much code 🥺”-github is fucking hosting a fucking meet and greet with the fucking dude who’s responsible for some of the worst offenses by enabling an legion of mac minis flooding the world with slop.
guess github is now fully integrated into the org chart
Die EU legt ihr „European Technological Sovereignty Package" vor: Chips Act 2.0, Cloud and AI Development Act, Open-Source-Strategie, Energie-Fahrplan. 80 Prozent der europäischen Tech-Infrastruktur kommt aktuell von außerhalb Europas. Das Paket soll das ändern — t3n erklärt die vier Säulen. #DigitaleSouveränität
#GPN24 Lounge is serving well.
Currently: Midtempo/Dark Electro by twyn!b
Next up: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn24-lounge/talk/LW9BEW/
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I've always thought it was a bit ironic that git was designed to be perfectly decentralized, only to have Github become the one centralized way one uses git (for many people, at any rate).
But this post makes a good point: the centralization also means that it functions as a reliable archive. If a popular open source project spins up its own git server, and then later goes mostly defunct -- or least, the git server goes away -- the code is pretty much gone. But with git…
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Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
One aspect of open source development that some organisations have difficulty with, is that it's such a good signal of an organisation's resource priorities. There's no point putting out a statement saying you're still committed to something, when a key project repo hasn't had a commit in months.
Being an Open Source developer is the closest I ever got to being a scientist. But at least my code has taken flight on Mars (didn't get the github badge for it, though, as the relevant project is not github hosted)
And here is a first try on the snippet for open vs. closed source. Honestly, it doesn't look as good, as the first one. Maybe because, the flag colors are missing?
Any other ideas?
https://fingolas.eu/OpenClosed/
A Pro-Earth Reading List for Humans 📚
https://open.substack.com/pub/ayanaelizabeth/p/a-pro-earth-reading-list-for-humans?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
> Beach read…
Fauxx: Data poisoning for your everyday tracking
Fauxx is an open-source Android (@…) privacy tool that poisons data broker and ad-tech profiles by generating continuous, plausible, off-demographic synthetic activity from your device. The goal is simple: make your real behavioral signal statistically indistinguishable from noise.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
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
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Schadcode-Sicherheitslücken in Werbeblocker Pi-hole geschlossen
Something for the US #TTRPG bubble:
https://open.substack.com/pub/exeuntpress/p/im-teaching-free-game-design-cl…
Bayerns Microsoft-Ausgaben stiegen von 30 auf 49 Millionen Euro — und der Milliarden-Rahmenvertrag hätte das nochmal ordentlich multipliziert. Jetzt heißt es „ausgewogener Mix" aus Open Source und Standardsoftware. Ausgewogen. Na dann. Besser spät als nie. Schleswig-Holstein macht das schon länger vor, Frankreich auch. Manchmal braucht man halt Druck @…
Ten years contributing to an open source project teaches you things no documentation ever could. Jason Gerlowski, PMC Chair of Apache Solr, is at #bbuzz26 to share what a decade of OSS security experience actually looks like in practice.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/oss-security-lessons-from-10-years-at-apache-solr/
Get your ticket: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/
Boosted in Reddit: <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tu5ezw/open_source_organisations_weigh_in_on_age/>
– and BSD Cafe Billboard <
Donation campaign to help fundraise legal costs to protect the #meshcore trademark
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116852094369507352
DO
NOT
RUN
SKETCHY
SOFTWARE
Apparently the initial access was via a .dmg with a compromised copy of a "clipboard manager" which is open source and so was ea…
⚙️ #Kestra is an open-source, event-driven orchestration platform for data, #AI and infrastructure workflows, unifying scheduled and event-driven automation behind a declarative, language-agnostic interface #opensource
A lot of open source projects take care to preserve compatibility with the past, so that changes do not break the projects of existing users.
But then there are others. In my list of "damn the past, full speed ahead on incompatible changes!!" are my most recent encounters:
- Python (not only was the Python 2 abandonment unforgivable and cost many of us a lot of useless conversion work, but the versions of Python 3 seem to change from one to the next to the degree that…
Mit Open Source wäre das nicht passiert …
#microsoft #legacy #brick
RE: https://dice.camp/@realms/116459545804565917
I'd argue that "AI"-based development creates a bigger attack surface on closed source/proprietary software than open source software:
1. It's more likely that internal software development uses LLMs as they're most affordable to companies; leaving them more vulnerable to prompt injection and other types of attacks targeting LLM use.
2. It's more likely that internal commits aren't vetted as much (or even purely vibe-coded) as ones in open source projects.
3. It's more likely that attacks on open source projects are discovered quicker.
Also a reminder that the "Mythos" thing—like all the other doomerist things coming out of "AI" companies—is a marketing stunt to get Anthropic free press coverage.
RadixArk, led by former xAI employee Ying Sheng, raised a $100M seed at a $400M valuation to make AI inference more efficient via its open-source SGLang engine (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com…
This has been on my mind for *weeks*. I've been saying for a long time that it's possible to have an AI that only uses consensually-gathered content, is open source open weights, runs on your own machine, and is designed to empower creators instead of exploit them. Well, we've finally got one. https://www.
Whenever I'm forced to use commercial, proprietary software, I look into open-source alternatives because I know it's only a matter of time before the company in question tries to fuck me with a random change to its terms of service.
By the way, Plex users, welcome to Jellyfin.
Keep hearing about NAM in the guitar modelling world. This seems like an interesting development. Who doesn't love #FOSS #GuitarModeling taking the top spot?
#guitar
Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite frameworks, and says the projects will stay open source (Cloudflare)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/voidzero-joins-cloudflare/
Quelloffenes HDMI 2.1 kommt endlich für Linux
Ein AMD-Entwickler kündigt vollwertiges HDMI 2.1 für den Linux-Open-Source-Treiber an. Auch für den Nouveau-Treiber gibt es eine erste Implementierung.
https://www.
OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s MythoOpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-launche
Something for the US #TTRPG bubble:
https://open.substack.com/pub/exeuntpress/p/im-teaching-free-game-design-cl…
I'm trying to build a fork if Ghidra, and depending on what version of Gradle I use, I get different errors.
Using the minimum version gives me this:
https://discuss.gradle.org/t/could-not-open-cp-init-generic-class-cache-for-in…
Google introduces Gemma 4 12B, a unified, encoder-free open multimodal model that can run locally on devices with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/goo…
2026 On Track for Warmest Year
https://open.substack.com/pub/jimehansen/p/2026-on-track-for-warmest-year?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
> James Hansen
Open source isn’t free. We’re just not paying for it: Who maintains the maintainers?
A lot of things don’t add up in the world of software. The skills gap remains stubbornly wide, with IT and data skills the hardest to recruit for five consecutive years. Yet, at the same time, entry level roles are declining as employers redeploy existing employees rather than hiring new ones.
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This is how open my tech is:
OS PC/Laptop: ⛓️💥 🔒
OS Smartphone: 🔒
Browser: ⛓️💥
Messaging: ⛓️💥 🔒
E-Mail: 🔒
Microblogging: ⛓️💥 ⛓️💥 ⛓️💥
Office Software: ⛓️💥
Cloud: ⛓️💥
Open Source: 67%
⛓️💥⛓️💥⛓️💥⛓️💥⛓️💥⛓️💥⛓️💥🔒🔒🔒
Created @ fingolas.eu/OpenClosed
Off the coast of California, dozens of marine protected areas have been established in recent decades.
These patches of the open ocean either prohibit or tightly restrict commercial and recreational fishing.
Off the coast of Santa Barbara, we set sail with members of the environmental group Santa Barbara Channelkeeper to learn about what's being done to protect our marine habitat.
Microsoft releases ASSERT, an open-source framework that lets developers generate and run AI behavior tests using natural-language descriptions (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/new-microsoft-tool-lets-de…
Chinese AI developer MiniMax launches M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Opus 4.7, costing $0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with $5 for Opus 4.7 (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/chin…
«Forscher wirft ganze Sammlung von Zero-Day-Exploits ins Netz:
Ein anonymer Sicherheitsforscher hat ohne vorherige Benachrichtigung der betroffenen Hersteller und Open-Source-Projekte funktionsfähige Exploit-Codes für insgesamt 15 bislang unbekannte Schwachstellen veröffentlicht.»
Da ist wohl einer über was sehr wütend und trotzt nun mit unangemeldeten Zero-Day-Exploits was leider erheblichen Web weiten Schaden auswirken kann.
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Insurance tech startup Corgi denies accusations that it used Papermark's open source software code to develop its software and present it as its own (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/corg
Together AI, which offers access to open-source models, raised $800M led by Saudi Aramco's Prosperity7 at an $8.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $1.3B (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/business/dealbook/together-ai-fu…
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…
Im Norden weht ein neuer digitaler Wind 🌬️ Mecklenburg-Vorpommern macht Ernst und verabschiedet sich schrittweise von Microsoft.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11352440?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&…
Starlette, an open-source Python framework underpinning FastAPI, has a vulnerability, called BadHost, that can allow hackers to bypass authorization (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/information-te
OpenAI releases Symphony, an open-source spec for agent orchestration that turns a project-management board like Linear into a control plane for coding agents (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/open-source-codex-orchestration-symphony
Microsoft announces the Agent Control Specification, an open-source standard that aims to provide granular, consistent governance over AI agent behavior (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/microsoft-offers-devs-a-better-w…
OpenAI unveils an updated GPT-5.5-Cyber model, launches the Patch the Planet initiative in partnership with Trail of Bits to fix open source bugs, and more (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-launche
University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a "worm" powered by open source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors attacks for each computer (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/technol
Keine Alterskontrolle für Linux
Gesetze, die eine Altersverifikation in Betriebssystemen vorsehen, nehmen zumindest in Kalifornien und Colorado wohl Open-Source aus.
https://www.heise.de/news/Keine-Alterskont…
SenseTime releases SenseNova-U1, an open-source image model that it says can "read" images without translating them to text, reducing computing power needs (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/chinese-ai-giant-sensetime-is-…
Xiaomi open sources MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro under the MIT License, saying both models are among the most efficient available for agentic "claw" tasks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/open-source…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Stringman: Fest montierter Open-Source-Roboter räumt einzelne Räume auf
How hacker group TeamPCP exploited the open source trust model and distribution method to compromise and inject malware into over 1,000 software packages (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/teampcp-breaks-open-source-software-trust-model/
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…
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…
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Münchens IT-Wende: Open Source ist für die neue Koalition der Normalfall
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…
Cybersecurity company Aikido Security acquires Root, which has raised about $31M and develops an AI platform for securing open-source components (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjxak411qzx
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Bund in der Abhängigkeitsfalle: Kostenexplosion bei Microsoft-Lizenzen