@Techmeme@techhub.socialMistral launches Voxtral TTS, an open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports nine languages, including Hindi and Arabic, based on Ministral 3B (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/mistral-releases-a-new-open…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: 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.
@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/…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialDigitale Souveränität wird gern beschworen, doch "Souveräne Clouds“ der Hyperscaler bleiben dem US-Recht unterworfen. Bezahlen mit Wero statt US-Diensten, Open Source statt Lock-in. Persönliche Entscheidungen ersetzen keine Politik – aber sie zeigen, dass Alternativen existieren #Kuratiert.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI releases a set of prompts designed to be used with its open-weight safety model gpt-oss-safeguard that lets developers make their apps safer for teens (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/openai-adds…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
@frankel@mastodon.top
@gevoel@mastodon.greenMore cows, more wives
https://open.substack.com/pub/worksinprogress/p/more-cows-more-wives?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
> It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single …
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzHuh. A self-hosted dead man's switch... https://linuxiac.com/lastsignal-is-a-new-open-source-dead-mans-switch-you-can-self-host/ Interesting.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Gecko: a fast GLR parser with automatic syntax error recovery.
https://vnmakarov.github.io/parsing/compilers/c/open-source/2026/04/22/gecko-glr.html
saved 2026-04-23
@L29Ah@qoto.org#прыщинг @…
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15082 недорогой фотолитографический агрега…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy @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
@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizzaSCaLE 23x is proud to host Open Source in Higher Education as a co-event this year. Don't miss what they have planned: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/special-event/open-source-higher-education
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk
@brichapman@mastodon.social
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialTech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.
FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source
@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
@vform@openbiblio.socialOpen 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…
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deI don't understand Open Source.
I use it, I love it, I promote it, and sometimes I contribute, but I don't get it. Perhaps I don't need to.
@rene_mobile@infosec.exchangeI just learned that a new release of the decentralized, open source Android (and iOS, but that requires a centralized Apple service) key attestation library warden-supreme has landed. It explicitly supports alternative/custom roots of trust for the attestation chain now and comes with a test for @… keys:
@nemobis@mamot.frPro tip: bookmarking https://www.tind.io/ is an effective way to let Firefox autocomplete accidentally bring you to a safe space when you're at risk of visiting a dangerous domain a few letters longer.
@adulau@infosec.exchangeI just published The Open Contributions Descriptor format as an IETF Internet-Draft.
#opensource #opendata #openstandard
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpen-source tool Scrapling gains traction with OpenClaw users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission and has 200K downloads since its release (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openclaw-users-bypass-anti-bot-systems-clou…
@makeratschool@kanoa.deEs gab hier schon mal einen thread zu doctolib Alternativen. Ich meine sogar irgendwas mit EU Förderung oder war es sogar Open Source? Wer kann sich erinnern oder kennt entsprechende Lösungen ?
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.usRight, time to crank out some open source PR's out
@gevoel@mastodon.greenThe Smell of Progress: A Brief History of Bird Droppings Ruling the World
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatehistorian/p/the-smell-of-progress-a-brief-history?utm_source=share&utm_medium=an…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… my context was:
― the The AI/ML Security Working Group.
The working group is an Open Source Security Foundation project. The OpenSSF is a project of the Linux Foundation.
If you must use extreme, inflammatory phrases such as "the beast" and "shitcan" in the future:
― be clearer about the meanings.
Cc
@barijaona@mastodon.mgVernissage is an open-source photo-sharing platform compatible with the Fediverse, such as Mastodon and Pixelfed. Designed with a focus on photography.
https://vernissage.photos/home
@publicvoit@graz.social"Wie wäre es, wenn die #EU mal so richtig groß in #OpenSource-Projekte investiert? Nicht ein bisschen hier, ein bisschen da. Nicht das eine Land sucht sich Projekt X aus Eigeninteresse heraus und macht dann das Nötigste, sondern wirklich breit – von Basistechnologien bis zum Desktop und einzelnen Program…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialVive la resistance!
New App Detects the Radio Fingerprint of Smart Glasses and Warns You When Someone Is Using Them Nearby
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/app-smart-glasses-bluetooth
@pgogl@troet.cafeLibreOffice teilt heftig aus:
Konkurrent OnlyOffice sei 'fake Open-Source'
The Document Foundation greift nach Microsoft nun auch OnlyOffice scharf an und warnt vor einem geschlossenen Ökosystem. Die Macher hinter LibreOffice bezeichnen den Konkurrenten als "falsches Open Source", das Nutzer in die Abhängigkeit treibt.
https://
@veit@mastodon.socialI have been thinking about how LLM agents pose a threat to open source projects and what strategies can offer us at least some protection. Nevertheless, this is likely to remain a challenge: https://cusy.io/en/blog/how-llm-agents-endanger-open-source-projects.html
@newsie@darktundra.xyzThis 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/
@totientfunction@mathstodon.xyzAm 5. Mai gibt es wieder ein lokales "Free Software Foundation Europe"-Treffen in Wien! Komm vorbei, wenn dich die gesellschaftlichen und politischen Aspekte von Freier Software/Open Source Software interessieren und du dich mit anderen austauschen möchtest!
Wann?
Dienstag, 5. Mai 2026
Ab 18:30 Uhr gemütliches Ankommen
Um 19:00 Uhr Start
Wo?
Im @…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deadvogato: 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
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgThe 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…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@cjust@infosec.exchangeThe 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 …
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyTrump 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…
@marcel@waldvogel.family"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,
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialOpen Slopware
“Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.”
#AI
@esoriano@social.linux.pizzaAn 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…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngAI bros are just loving open source — loving it to death... maybe quite literally! (Godot being latest popular example[1])
More and more projects are impacted by floods of bogus AI pull requests and resulting discussions, stealing precious time and nerves away from their maintainers doing actual productive work. More buggy and insecure software (incl. commercial offerings) due to slopcoding, more websites getting attacked daily by AI crawlers in desperate search for any new bits (liter…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialI'm going to stop writing to my Labour MP. The last one was about digital sovereignty (i.e. need for government to use open source, not big tech firms where possible).
I got back a vindication of the government's plans for data centres and AI.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alSay 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…
@mnalis@mastodon.online31st Developers and Devops DORS/CLUC conference starts tomorrow in Zagreb, Croatia.
And on Saturday we'll have #SOTMHR #Openstreetmap track https://
@Tuxramus@social.linux.pizzaPart 1 of a new short story by Linda Teppler is out! Free to read on Substack #writingcommunity #banskolife #writing
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… That’s so cool, is it open source? Would love to see how you did it :)
@paul@social.van.buu.re
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeDon'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…
@rafa_font@mastodon.onlineWe 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…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Fairphone and /e/ team up to build open source, Google-free, sustainable smartphone.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/fairphone-and-e-team-up-to-build-open-source-sustainable-smartphone/…
@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizzaStephanie Lieggi, Cyril Oberlander will speak on 'Powering California's Future: How State Universities Can Drive Innovation through Open Source' as part of our Open Source in Higher Education track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialGLM-5 is een krachtig model, open weights en volledig getraind op Huawei Ascend-chips, zonder gebruik te maken van NVIDIA-hardware. Onderstreept het belang van Europese investeringen in AI.
https://www.trendingtopics.eu/glm-5-the-wo
@cdarwin@c.imMastodon, a decentralized, open source social media platform and alternative to centralized social media apps like X and Threads,
announced on Wednesday its plans to make its platform more approachable for newcomers
while also targeting creators with the launch of new features.
The changes follow the expansion of Mastodon’s core development team over the past 18 months
to include people with experience across web and mobile and back end,
as well as the hiring o…
@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…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Ein Netflix-Ersatz im Eigenbau — Es muss nicht immer Streaming sein: Jellyfin ist ein Medienserver aus der Open-Source-Sphäre. Er stellt Filme, Musik, Fotos und Hörbücher im Browser, am Tablet und Smartphone und via AppleTV auch am Fernseher bereit.»
Wer von euch kennt @… noch nicht? Hier ein Tipp vom @…
@mela@zusammenkunft.netIm 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/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialProjects with open codebases like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of submissions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/for-open-source-prog…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Verilator: open-source SystemVerilog simulator and lint system.
https://github.com/verilator/verilator
saved 2026-03-20 https://
@kubikpixel@chaos.social @EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy @Techmeme@techhub.socialAlibaba Cloud releases a cheap AI coding tool built on open-source models like Alibaba's Qwen 3.5, as well as Zhipu, Moonshot, and MiniMax models (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-25/…
@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 …
@stsquad@mastodon.org.ukThis is an excellent video from #veritasium touches in the history of free software, #compression #algorithms and the dangers of supply chain attacks in open source projects.
How One Ha…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itan attack on free software maintainers... https://glama.ai/blog/2026-03-19-open-source-has-a-bot-problem
@frankel@mastodon.top @heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
@rene_mobile@infosec.exchangeI just learned that a new release of the decentralized, open source Android (and iOS, but that requires a centralized Apple service) key attestation library warden-supreme has landed. It explicitly supports alternative/custom roots of trust for the attestation chain now and comes with a test for @… keys:
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«AI Slop oder besserer Code — GCC-Arbeitsgruppe für KI-Richtlinien gestartet:
Die Working Group for GCC AI Policy soll festlegen, inwiefern Contributors KI-Tools beim Entwickeln der GNU Compiler Collection nutzen dürfen.»
Da bin ich mal gespannt wie sich das auswirkt und ob dadurch die IT-Sicherheit im Open-Source Bereich wirklich erhöht wird.
🧑💻
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIt’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.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
@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…
@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizzaSpeaker Spotlight: Henrietta Dombrovskaya
PostgreSQL and Academia—Establishing Partnership Watch the full talk:
https://youtu.be/6sgV0UxZw5Y?si=eFG9FQs67e0ImYey
Join us at SCaLE 23x to explore how open source is transforming education! 🚀
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMoonshot 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
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @kubikpixel@chaos.social«Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'
Projects like @… are being swamped by contributors who may not even understand the code they're submitting.»
The AI will still create security issues in general. Open-source software suffers from t…
@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…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @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/…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deDie Open-Source-Lösung ist teurer als Microsoft. Klingt absurd? Ist aber gerade Realität an deutschen Unis.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11176449?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=masto…
@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/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @heiseonline@social.heise.de @heiseonline@social.heise.de @heiseonline@social.heise.de @heiseonline@social.heise.de @heiseonline@social.heise.de @heiseonline@social.heise.deTV-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…
