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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…

In October last year, US chip giant Qualcomm acquired Italian open source electronics and software pioneer Arduino. Not everyone was happy.
https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/2026/arduino-ceo-we-will-always-be-open-source

Arduino CEO: We will always be open source
In October last year, US chip giant Qualcomm acquired Italian open source electronics and software pioneer Arduino. Not everyone was happy.

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.

Trotz Herausforderungen setzt #SchleswigHolstein konsequent auf #OpenSource in Verwaltung und Justiz.
Seit 2024 werden Systeme wie #LibreOffice,

Schleswig-Holstein: Open Source ist praxistauglich trotz Umstellungsproblemen
Schleswig-Holsteins Regierung setzt auf Open Source. Der Umstieg ist für Verwaltung und Justiz nicht leicht – aber laut Digitalisierungsminister notwendig.

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

Ich möchte auf das Beiteilungsverfahren der EU zur Umsetzung von Open-Source Technologien hinweisen. Da kann von best-pratice-Strategien wie SM als Fediverse oder Softwareimplementierung in Firmen und Verwaltungen vieles eingebracht werden. Sinnvoll sind kurze, durchdachte Einträge, die zuvor in der eigenen Bubble diskutiert werden. Jetzt ist die Zeit, resilient zu werden!
Beteiligt Euch.
via @…

Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security: Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money.
Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of an open source security foundation warned after inspecting their books. And it's not just the bandwidth costs that are killing them.
🫴

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

Großwärmepumpen are heating up Germany: capacity is expected to increase 6x by 2030.
Rivers and sea are increasingly being used as a heat source. The cost of heat pumps appears to be proportional to their size.
These and other findings from a new study:
https://www.

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…

@… Have you seen this story? https://www.phoronix.com/news/ATI-R300-Occlusion-Query-Fix Developer in Czechia working on fixing up R300…

Old ATI R300 Open-Source Driver Sees Another New Fix In 2026
The Radeon R300 series turns 24 years old this year and thanks to the open-source ATI R300 Gallium3D driver that began via reverse engineering, it's still continuing to see the occasional random fixes from the open-source community.

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.

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

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

When Anthropic’s AI isn’t being used to mass murder schoolgirls in Iran, it’s helping Mozilla improve Firefox.
So it’s not all bad, surely.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/hardening-firefox-anthropic-red-team/

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,

It's that time again - tomorrow, Tues 10 March, 20:00 NZDT is when the next Aotearoa NZ #FOSS #OpenSource #Libre meetup starts. You can find us at

from my link log —
JSONata: a JSON query and transformation language.
https://jsonata.org/
saved 2026-02-09 https://dotat.at/:/CEJOA.html

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

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

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…

"The biggest absurdity here is that Trump is now focusing his war’s endgame on Iran’s willingness to open the strait. But the strait was open before Trump attacked Iran on February 28. Iran blocked it in retaliation for that attack."
https://r…

Trump has really, seriously, frighteningly lost his mind
His latest threat is bonkers

Your Laptop Can Now Run AI That Beat Data Centres 12 Months Ago | Mistral's Open Source Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AgVKPfrzUI

Acknowledging Reality in Vulnerability Disclosure.
Every few years, vulnerability disclosure is declared settled. We are told that the ecosystem has matured, that coordinated disclosure is the answer, and that whatever remains outside this model is either irresponsible, obsolete, or simply irrelevant.
🔗 https://www…

Acknowledging Reality in Vulnerability Disclosure
Personal webpage of Alexandre Dulaunoy - from information security to open source and art

Shortly after the war in Gaza began in 2023,
Bellingcat introduced a free tool authored by University College London lecturer and Bellingcat contributor, Ollie Ballinger,
that was able to estimate the number of damaged buildings in a given area.
This helped monitor and map the scale of destruction across the territory as Israel’s military operation progressed. 
Bellingcat is now introducing an updated version of the open source tool
— called the Iran Conflict D…

I tried #LightweightMusicServer at the recommendation of the #Tempus author (https://lemmy.world/post/43688357/2241

Tempus v4.12.0 android subsonic client release - Lemmy.World
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c8fc3ccb-4f2f-48e9-a0ca-b721f2be84e0.png] Tempus is an open-source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android. This app works with any service that implements the Subsonic API, including: - LMS - Lightweight Music Server [https://github.com/epoupon/lms] - personal fave and my backend - Navidrome [https://www.navidrome.org/] - Gonic [https://github.com/sentriz/gonic] - Ampache [https://github.com/ampache/ampache] - NextClo…

The problem is if Discord go to hell, I will be back at the beginning fighting against my player who would really want us to play using Facebook Messenger.
Discord was the best I could do. Anything open-source is doomed to fail.

✍️ Seltani: an online, shared, text-based, open-source fan project based on the Myst series of games
#games

okay, can people help me find things please? /nm
i SWEAR there was some sort of open-source, collaborative DNS service (possibly endorsed by @…?) but i CANNOT find any trace of it for the LIFE of me and i would really like to try it out :P

That looks nice https://www.hackster.io/news/a-kvm-that-fits-on-your-keychain-e2adb39f7a2b

A KVM That Fits on Your Keychain
Openterface’s KVM-GO is a pocket-sized, open source tool for hardware-level access to headless computers.

RE: https://mastodon.xyz/@nextcloud/115864346659649751
"Austria's Federal Ministry for Economy, Energy and Tourism is a case in point. The ministry recently completed a migration of 1,200 employees to the European open-source collaboration platform…

OpenScholar, l’outil d’IA open source qui surpasse les grands modèles de langage du marché
https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/recherche-openscholar-l-outil-d-ia-open-source-qui…

OpenScholar, l’outil d’IA open source qui surpasse les grands modèles de langage du marché
Développé par et pour les universitaires, OpenScholar vise à améliorer les recherches dans une littérature scientifique en plein foisonnement. En plus, il sait citer correctement ses sources.

Pretty Open Source blinky hardware has arrived -- and the hybrid supercap even had enough charge after days of shipping to blink happily.
More on @…' page at https://chip…

California batteries just supplied 44% of evening peak demand—proof that storage can replace gas plants.
D.C.'s gas hookup ban cleared the courts, opening the path to net-zero buildings.
Finland nears carbon-neutral power with wind and nuclear working together.
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Welcome It feels like a week of quiet competence. Outside this morning, April light has a soft edge. Cherry buds crack open along sidewalks, and the first swallows skim the low air as if testing a newly ironed sky. Inside our pages, systems click into place. A court upholds D.

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.
💻

Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’

I don’t really have a problem with LLM code review, in fact I think that may be one of the places where it is both good at the task and can be ethically justified, IF:
1. Training is ONLY on unencumbered open source software
2. Qualified humans act on the review.
I think (1) is important because the LLM is doing what a sufficiently high-capacity skilled human could do ethically. Reading code to learn from it. A code review doesn’t replicate training data, so copyright isn’…

OpenAI Codex ha analizzato la sicurezza di 1,2 milioni di commit e ha trovato 10.561 problemi di elevata gravitŠ
Venerdì OpenAI ha iniziato a distribuire Codex Security , un agente di sicurezza basato sull'intelligenza artificiale (IA) progettato per individuare, convalidare e proporre soluzioni per le vulnerabilitŠ.
La funzionalitŠ è disponibile in anteprima per i clienti ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, Business ed Edu tramite il sito web Codex, con utilizzo gratuito per il mese su…

What do you think about that, @… ?
https://uattest.net/

This is a totally sensible policy for video editing. The marketing term "AI" is absolutely misplaced for modern features like matte creation (image segmentation, background removal) or motion tracking (and pose estimation) and even speech-to-text transcription. These things have existed for a long time - just not as good - and they run locally in an open-source NLE (non-linear editor).

Tomorrow (Tues 10 Feb, 20:00 NZDT) is our next monthly #Libre / #FOSS / #OpenSource meeting. All welcome! Find us at

"H&M Foundation launches open-source toolkit to cut textiles emissions"
#Clothes #Fashion #Emissions

H&M Foundation launches open-source toolkit to cut textiles emissions
Philanthropic entity the H&M Foundation has launched a new open-access set of resources helping businesses across the textiles and fashion industry to identify and enact opportunities to cut emissions.

Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue https://www.404media.co/vibe-coding-is-killing-open-source-software-researchers-argue/

Do Wikipedia or Open Source projects need an AGENTS.md file that explains to “agentic AI” how to donate money from all the bank accounts and wallet apps the agent was granted access to?

Some non-news, but good to raise awareness.
TL;DR "structural waste amplified by CI/CD pipelines, security scanners, and AI-driven code generation"
... just cache your stuff or pay for hosting, thanks.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/28/open_source_opinio…

Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull
Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks

Meet Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), leading up to her keynote on Saturday at Southern California Linux Expo.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kimmcmahon-marketing_privac…

By 2027, 2.5 million French civil servants will stop using video conference tools from U.S. providers — including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex and GoTo Meeting — and switch to Visio, a homegrown service.
https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital…

France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
European governments are moving away from U.S. tech giants, opting for domestic or open-source alternatives. France plans to replace Zoom and Teams with a homegrown video conference system by 2027. Austria's military has adopted open-source office software, and a German state has switched to free software for administrative tasks. This shift aims for “digital sovereignty” amid concerns over data privacy and reliance on U.S. companies. The movement has gained momentum due to geopolitical ten…

Heute ist der vierte Teil der Artikelserie zu Open-Source-Lizenzen von Frank Hofmann (@…) und mir im Linux-Magazin (@…) erschienen:

Lizenzen für Dokumente, Bilder, Audio/Video, Fonts und Hardware
Open-Source-Lizenzen sind für Software gedacht. Für Dokumente, Bilder, Audio/Video, Schriftarten und Hardware gibt es eigene, passgenau zugeschnittene Lizenzen. Wir verbinden häufig freie Lizenzen lediglich mit Open-Source-Software. Mit der zunehmenden Popularität freier Software übertrug sich diese Idee jedoch auch auf andere Bereiche. FOSS-Lizenzen eignen sich jedoch nur bedingt, um Dokumente, Bilder, Audio, Video, Schriftarten oder Hardware zu lizenzieren. Daher entstanden schnell spezi…

Als diese Open-Source-Sache damals anfing, war das mehr oder minder ein:
• ich will mit dieser Computer-Kiste coole Sachen machen, und mit anderen teilen, was ich cooles gemacht hab!
• ich will mir doch von irgendeiner Firma nicht vorschreiben lassen, was für coole Sachen ich mit dieser Computer-Kiste anstelle!
Dann war das irgendwie erfolgreich,¹ und nachdem einige Kids plötzlich mit Kommerz­software Erfolg hatten, versuchten andere, den kapitalismus davon zu überzeugen, daß…

Good to see more free/open source projects move off the proprietary ai-scraping microsoft github platform to codeberg etc.
I think it's fair to say that projects left behind there aren't really free/open source.. Many aren't able to contribute to projects there for ethical reasons (e.g. microsoft's association with genocide, epstein, extractive LLMs, Trump, ICE etc), and github now exists to strip software of free/open source licenses.

#Vietnam was hit hard by the strike on #Iran: people stranded in the Middle East, not able to return after Tet aka New Year’s. The region also relies on fossil fuel energy imports from the region. A pity that energy corruption is so high

Vietnam Weekly | Michael Tatarski | Substack
A newsletter on the latest in Vietnam, from essential news to under-the-radar stories, delivered from Ho Chi Minh City every Wednesday and Friday. Click to read Vietnam Weekly, by Michael Tatarski, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Suggestions please!
I need an app to manage around 8 accounts spread over Masto, Bsky and X.
Is there an open source good one? I don't need scheduling, just the ability to have each account in its own column (or some similar solution) and be able to switch between them without having 6-7 browsers open on the desktop.

"Using Open Source Tools to Capture Closed Captions and Timecode": guest post by Morgan Morel of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center at the Library of Congress @ the LoC's blog "The Signal"
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/03/…

The “age verification” push is a much bigger deal and dangerous to freedom than any “AI” stuff The TechBros driven AI is going to lead to the biggest economic crash in history and probably be taken over by open source models but we’ll at least add new tools https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116186114328815729

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

Streaming-only Super Bowl ads gain traction among advertisers; source: NBCUniversal charges around $3M for a 30-second ad rather than $7M-$10M for a TV ad (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/streaming-only-super-…

Streaming-Only Super Bowl Commercials Open Ad Tier for Smaller Players
Streaming-Only Super Bowl Commercials Open New Tier for Marketers With Smaller Budgets

Overal is een motie voor ...
Dankzij @… kunnen we even bijna 25 jaar terug in de tijd naar de motie Vendrig die in 2002 voorstelde dat we 20 jaar geleden (2006) aan open source standaarden zouden voldoen...
'...
verzoekt voorts de regering ervoor te zorgen dat in 2006 alle door de publieke sector gebruikte software aan open standaarden voldoet;
...'
Motie Vendrig
#nlpol #DigitaleSoevereiniteit

Bericht der #FAZ: Schleswig-Holstein wagt den Bruch mit Microsoft – aus Angst vor Abhängigkeit von US-Konzernen und politischem Druck aus Washington. Richtiger Weg, aber Einführung holprig, zu wenig Schulung und natürlich knirscht es hier und da. Alles andere wären überraschend. Lehre: Unabhängigkeit braucht Geduld.

Abhängigkeit von USA: Schleswig-Holstein setzt auf Open-Source-Software
In Schleswig-Holstein setzt die Landesverwaltung auf Open-Source-Lösungen statt auf Microsoft-Programme, um zu sparen und unabhängig von US-Konzernen zu sein. Klingt gut – doch der Weg ist noch holprig.

We've started a #Fluxer community for #Nix, #NixOS and the wider ecosystem:

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

Open-Source Thermostatic Radiator Valve (OpenTRV) - OpenTRV retrofit open-source reference mechanical/hardware/software design for zoned heating to save carbon and money. #OpenTRV #TRV #heating

Open-Source Thermostatic Radiator Valve (OpenTRV)
OpenTRV retrofit open-source reference mechanical/hardware/software design for zoned heating to save carbon and money. #OpenTRV #TRV #heating #cutCarbon

Meta says Muse Spark powers Meta AI's "shopping mode" feature and that it plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open-source license (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/08/meta-muse-alexandr-wang

Meta debuts Muse Spark, first AI model under Alexandr Wang
Meta says the model narrows the performance gap with OpenAI, Anthropic and others.

OpenCiv3
OpenCiv3 is an open-source, cross-platform, mod-oriented, modernized remake of Civilization III by the fan community built with the Godot Engine and C#, with capabilities inspired by the best of the 4X genre and lessons learned from modding Civ3.
🕹️ https://openciv3.org

"Claude found more than 500 previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities in open-source code using just its "out-of-the-box" capabilities, and each one was validated by either a member of Anthropic's team or an outside security researcher."

Exclusive: Anthropic's new model is a pro at finding security flaws
The AI company sees the model's advancements as a major win for cyber defenders in the race against adversarial AI.

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.

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

Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B-parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, available under an MIT license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/ai-joins-the-8-hou…

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…

MX Linux Pushes Back Against Age Verification: A Stand for Privacy and Open Source Principles :mxlinux: 👏
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/mx-linux-pushes-back-against-age-verification-stand-privacy-and-open-sou…

»quicktype — Convert JSON into gorgeous, typesafe code in any language.
Convert JSON to Swift, C#, TypeScript, Objective-C, Go, Java, C and more.«
In my opinion, this open source tool is good for quickly creating a prototype, but then the programming only begins.
⚙️ https://quicktype.io

OpenScholar, l’outil d’IA open source qui surpasse les grands modèles de langage du marché
https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/recherche-openscholar-l-outil-d-ia-open-source-qui…

CHAOSS, Sustainability, and the Shifting Power Dynamics of Open Source - A conversation with Dawn Foster
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chaoss-sustainability-shifting-power-dynamics-open-source-kim-mcmahon-ylwnc/

⚡ Project Patchouli - Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware
#hardware

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.

Open-Source Thermostatic Radiator Valve (OpenTRV) - OpenTRV retrofit open-source reference mechanical/hardware/software design for zoned heating to save carbon and money. #OpenTRV #TRV #heating

Open-Source Thermostatic Radiator Valve (OpenTRV)
OpenTRV retrofit open-source reference mechanical/hardware/software design for zoned heating to save carbon and money. #OpenTRV #TRV #heating #cutCarbon

A big reason why I'm AntiAI is explained here:
(Disclaimer: I can't tell you how much of this article is accurate.)
«Software — 43 comment bubble on white
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.
In doing so, he may have killed "copyleft."»
🪦

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

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

Another El Nino Already? What Can We Learn from It?
https://open.substack.com/pub/jimehansen/p/another-el-nino-already-what-can?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
> James Hans…

GCVE will be at hackathon.lu - April 14th and 15th, 2026
So if you want to work on all the cool stuff around vulnerability management, federated publication of vulnerability information, analytics, and anything related to vulnerabilities, join us.
#gcve #opensource

GCVE will be at hackathon.lu - April 14th and 15th, 2026
This 2-day, in-person hackathon, held in Luxembourg on April 14–15, 2026 (09:00–17:00), combines a hands-on open-source hackathon with an integrated public conference morning on April 14 (09:00–12:00). The event focuses on the development of free and open-source software for cybersecurity and related domains. GCVE.eu will be there, so if you want to work on all the cool stuff around vulnerability management, federated publication of vulnerability information, analytics, and anything rela…

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.

«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.
🤖

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.

Operation Souveränität: Bundestag plant Befreiungsschlag von Microsoft & Co.
Eine fraktionsübergreifende Parlamentskommission will die Abhängigkeit von US-Tech-Giganten beenden und verstärkt auf europäische Open-Source-Lösungen setzen.

»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.

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 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

»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 […]

US-based AI startup Arcee releases Trinity Large, a 400B-parameter open-weight model that it says compares to Meta's Llama 4 Maverick 400B on some benchmarks (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/tiny

Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta's Llama | TechCrunch
30-person startup Arcee AI has released a 400B model called Trinity, which it says is one of the biggest open source foundation models from a U.S. company.

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

Zwischen Markt und Regulierung: Streit um Open Access
Open Access ist Konsens im Glasfasermarkt. Aber wie weit reicht die Pflicht zur Netzöffnung? Da gehen die Meinungen auseinander.
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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.

«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.

heise | Nach Deepseek: So geht es mit der chinesischen Open-Source-KI weiter
Die offenen Modelle, die vor allem in China vorangetrieben werden, setzen sich weltweit immer mehr durch, auch in Universitäten und Entwickler-Communities.

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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Nvidia veröffentlicht drei Open-Source-KI-Modelle für die Wettervorhersage
Nvidia hat drei neue KI-Modelle für Wettervorhersagen angekündigt. Sie sollen schneller und energieeffizienter sein als herkömmliche Supercomputer.

»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.

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.

«Partnering with @… to improve Firefox’s security
AI models can now independently identify high-severity vulnerabilities in complex software. As we recently documented, Claude found more than 500 zero-day vulnerabilities (security flaws that are unknown to the software’s maintainers) in well-tested open-source software.»
I am not an AI fan but with suc…

Partnering with Mozilla to improve Firefox’s security
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Operation Souveränität: Bundestag plant Befreiungsschlag von Microsoft & Co.

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. […]
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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…