Tootfinder

Projects 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…

For open source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing | TechCrunch
AI coding tools have enabled a flood of bad code that threatens to overwhelm many projects. Building new features is easier, but maintaining them is just as hard.

So.. yeah. https://www.404media.co/this-ai-tool-rips-off-open-source-software-without-violating-copyright/

This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright
Malus, which is a piece of satire but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell software without crediting the original developers.

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

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.

from my link log —
Verilator: open-source SystemVerilog simulator and lint system.
https://github.com/verilator/verilator
saved 2026-03-20 https://

LibreOffice 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://

LibreOffice 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.

This 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/

Open 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…

I just published The Open Contributions Descriptor format as an IETF Internet-Draft.
#opensource #opendata #openstandard

"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…

Trump 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…

'War is not close to ending,' Israeli general says after Iran strikes areas near nuclear site | CBC News
Iranian missiles struck two communities in southern Israel late Saturday, leaving buildings shattered and dozens injured in dual attacks not far from Israel's main nuclear research centre, while President Donald Trump warned the U.S. will "obliterate" Iranian power plants if it doesn't fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.

Wait, those open source heroes in the Linux world who valiantly sell enterprise software and provide the infrastructure for surveillance capitalism are preemptively complying with fascism?
Why, say it ain’t so!
#linux #ageVerification

I 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

It’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.

The 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…

Can you one you smart computer people shut down and delete this web site?
https://malus.sh/

Part 1 of a new short story by Linda Teppler is out! Free to read on Substack #writingcommunity #banskolife #writing

An 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…

advogato: Advogato trust network (2009)
A network of trust relationships among users on Advogato, an online community of open source software developers. Edge direction indicates that node i trusts node j, and edge weight denotes one of four increasing levels of declared trust from i to j: observer (0.4), apprentice (0.6), journeyer (0.8), and master (1.0).
This network has 6541 nodes and 51127 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

#Leanstral: #OpenSource foundation for trustworthy #vibecoding
https://

Don'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…

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, much more

We 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…

«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…

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 Godot are being swamped by contributors who may not even understand the code they're submitting.

Ground Station: An Open Source SDR Orchestration Platform for Satellite Tracking and Decoding

The 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 …

an attack on free software maintainers... https://glama.ai/blog/2026-03-19-open-source-has-a-bot-problem

Moonshot 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

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.

AI 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…

Security: Learning the Language of Privacy by Matthew Plascencia
Watch now: https://youtu.be/qV5KVKQdCmI?si=imAhOc_xz9p-MfAn
🔒 Dive into the essentials of privacy and security in the open source world!

Mastodon, 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…

Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to X, plans to target creators with new features | TechCrunch
Mastodon is looking to grow its open source, decentralized social network with new features aimed at creators.

from 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/…

Fairphone and /e/ team up to build open source, sustainable smartphone
The Fairphone 3 becomes an open source, Google-less, repairable smartphone.

We found the cyber Amish :
#ai #cyberamish

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116110194513314869
seeing a future of personal computing with people running open source operating systems on their outdated cyberdecks with scrounged-up hardware from the detritus that datacenters leave behind when the next generation of GPUs and storage becomes available (but only to large corporations)
very cyberpunk

Wenn Microsoft Unis mit Gratis-Software anfüttert, und die deutsche Open-Source-Lösung Eintritt verlangt, dann ist das keine „digitale Souveränität“ – das ist Cloud-Dating mit Folgen. 🙃 IT-Experten fordern: OpenDesk auch für Studis auf „Freemium“ setzen, bevor der Lock-in zur Beziehung fürs Leben wird! #heise #CloudLockIn

Expertenforderung: OpenDesk sollte für Unis gratis sein
Hochschul-IT-Vertreter warnen vor Abhängigkeit von US-Software und verlangen vom Bund kostenlose Lizenzen für die heimische Open-Source-Alternative OpenDesk.

Politics
https://open.substack.com/pub/jimehansen/p/politics?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
> James Hansen

advogato: Advogato trust network (2009)
A network of trust relationships among users on Advogato, an online community of open source software developers. Edge direction indicates that node i trusts node j, and edge weight denotes one of four increasing levels of declared trust from i to j: observer (0.4), apprentice (0.6), journeyer (0.8), and master (1.0).
This network has 6541 nodes and 51127 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

GLM-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

GLM-5: The World’s Strongest Open-Source LLM Solely Trained on Chinese Huawei Chips
The listed Chinese AI company Zhipu AI has introduced GLM-5, the fifth generation of its large language model. The model comprises 745 billion parameters

Dear #Business. Here's a reminder to you who rely on #OpenSource in your software and services.
Your digital infrastructure is cheap because you CAN get it for almost no cost.
How cheap?
Look at the Harvard Business Review study from 2024: The ROI of Open Source is 2000 ×.
…

Open source software valued at $8 trillion in Harvard study
"Any time you spend on building that software to operate is time taken away from building the services that customers really want and will pay for. Open source software helps companies get to their goals faster..."

Heute um 9:15 Uhr wird der diesjährige Workshop des KIM – Kompetenzzentrum Interoperable #Metadaten eröffnet. Jede:r kann hier online teilnehmen: https://meet.academiccloud.de/gl/rooms…

Before submitting one or more talks to @… 2026, I wrote a blog post based on my 2024 presentation: Bring Back RSS for Operational Security.
#rss #infosec

Bring Back RSS for Operational Security
Personal webpage of Alexandre Dulaunoy - from information security to open source and art

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung ​ ​

#OpenTelemetry Project Publishes “Demystifying OpenTelemetry” Guide to Broaden Observability Adoption
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/02/opentelemetry-observability/

A research project led by the University of Glasgow has launched a free, open-source tool designed to make AI systems more trustworthy by enabling more rigorous audits, including by non-experts.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/uk-research…

UK researchers launch AI audit tool for non-experts
A research project led by the University of Glasgow has launched a free, open-source tool designed to make AI systems more trustworthy by enabling more ...

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/879623/openclaw-founder-peter-steinberger-joins-openai

What comes next is the next stage of enshittification: monetization
Has anyone seen any hint of a real revenue source for BSky? I know that at one point they had a domain registrar partnership deal, but that can’t pay for a billion-user social network. @…

Jay 🦋 (@jay.bsky.team)
I raised a Series B last year for Bluesky to build the open social web. I want to thank our investors who share our vision, our users who light up the network (2.4B posts and counting), and the developers bringing the Atmosphere to life. Can’t wait to show you all what comes next! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

advogato: Advogato trust network (2009)
A network of trust relationships among users on Advogato, an online community of open source software developers. Edge direction indicates that node i trusts node j, and edge weight denotes one of four increasing levels of declared trust from i to j: observer (0.4), apprentice (0.6), journeyer (0.8), and master (1.0).
This network has 6541 nodes and 51127 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

Wonder how many folks have joined the waitlist... https://office.eu/

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

Maurice on 🔥:
"Progressive sollten besser politische Entscheidungen an sich kritisieren als technokratische Kniffe wie das #Sondervermögen, die die Schuldenbremse umgehen."
Die zirkulierenden 95% sind sus und irreführend.

Empörung zum Sondervermögen? Eigentor!
Warum die Studien zum Sondervermögen und die reaktionäre Empörung darüber falsch sind. Und was die bessere Strategie für Progressive wäre

Open Slopware
“Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.”
#AI

open-slopware
Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives. Fork of the repo by @gen-ai-transparency after its deletion.

Collabora Online
<https://www.collaboraonline.com/>
The Collabora name is instantly recognisable but somehow, I had forgotten the open source aspect: <

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…

'Like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault': Why AI led one company to abandon open source
Cal is moving its flagship open-source program to a proprietary model because it can't cope with the dangers of AI hacking its open code.

Talking to Drones: Natural Language Control of PX4 Using a Phone, MCP and ChatGPT Realtime API
https://osselcna2026.sched.com/event/2JQsT/talking-to-drones-natural-language-control-…

Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026: Talking To Drones: Natural Language Cont...
View more about this event at Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026

Nvidia will spend $26 billion to build open-weight AI models, filings show https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-investing-26-billion-open-source-models/ "The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, an…

Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show
The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.

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.

"Shambaugh gives his time to the open source ecosystem that underpins vast amounts of commercial software. He now has defamatory material indexed under his name. He will spend time managing the fallout. He bears the cost of someone else’s product working exactly as designed.
The agent’s owner bears none of it. OpenClaw bears none of it. The companies whose AI models power OpenClaw bear none of it."

The Machine That Cannot Be Wrong
On AI agents, open source maintainers, and the infrastructure nobody is watching

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

Digitale Souveränität klingt gut – aber wie wird eigentlich gemessen?
Bei Microsoft oder SAP gelten Probleme als normal:
„Kinderkrankheiten“, „Migration“, „gehört dazu“.
Bei Open Source? Sofort: „Risiko“, „Experiment“, „unkomfortbael“.
Warum messen wir mit zweierlei Maß? Solange diese Denke dominiert, bleibt Open Source ein Feigenblatt – und echte digitale Unabhängigkeit in weiter Ferne. #60Sekunden

«Sniffnet 1.5: Welches Programm funkt nach Hause?
Der Open-Source-Netzwerkmonitor @… ordnet Traffic nun einzelnen Programmen zu. Version 1.5.0 bringt zudem Blacklists und Adapter-Vorschauen»

Zu viele glauben immer noch nichts zu verbergen zu haben und realisieren nicht, dass sie das Produkt sind anhand von IT- & Online-Tools.
🕵️

Sniffnet 1.5: Welches Programm funkt nach Hause?
Der Open-Source-Netzwerkmonitor Sniffnet ordnet Traffic nun einzelnen Programmen zu. Version 1.5.0 bringt zudem Blacklists und Adapter-Vorschauen.

Whoever runs their account does more harm than good to their brand.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung ​ ​

Yes siree, never a shortage of critical cybersecurity news, so check out today's Metacurity for the most important developments you should know, including
--Anthropic case puts courts at center of fight over AI supply chain authority,
--Iran officials tied to cyber ops killed in airstrikes,
--Bennett and Brassard win Turing Award,
--Japan to allow offensive operations starting Oct. 1,
--Tech giants pledge to help open source with AI bug surge,
--Apple p…

Anthropic case puts courts at center of fight over AI supply chain authority
Iran officials tied to cyber ops killed in airstrikes, Bennett and Brassard win Turing Award, Japan to allow offensive operations starting Oct. 1, Tech giants pledge to help open source with AI bug surge, Apple patches WebKit flaw, Chinese hacker group steals $7m posing as a cyber firm, much more

It 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 …

Microsoft has locked the lead developers of two prominent open source security projects out of their accounts.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/microsoft-locks-open-so…

Microsoft locks open source devs out of their accounts
Microsoft has locked the lead developers of two prominent open source security projects out of their accounts.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung ​ ​

#OpenSource #security at Astral
https://astral.sh/blog/open-source-security-at-astral…

As far as I can tell mainstream open source, github-native culture is now completely horrible, co-opted by Microsoft, and destroyed by Anthropic, Google and OpenAI. The free/open source projects I'm involved with are constantly ripped off by vibe-coded interfaces that ignore the license, and when I point this out I get abuse. I just got told by a reddit user "thank you for your work but it doesn't matter much any more". Only

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wissen zum Nachbauen: TIB startet Open-Source-Plattform für die Forschung ​ ​

Stolpersteine in Open Source-Projekten werden kritischer bewertet als Probleme, die es bei jeder SAP-Einführung gibt. Parallel sind die realen Kosten der Microsoft-Abhängigkeit deutlich höher als offiziell ausgewiesen. Dank Trump muss sich der deutsche Staat bewegen und Schritt für Schritt bewegen.
#DigitaleSouveränität

Digitale Souveränität kostet – und Deutschland hat die Rechnung lange ignoriert
Stolpersteine in Open Source-Projekten werden kritischer bewertet als Probleme, die es bei jeder SAP-Einführung gibt – und genau das verzerrt die Debatte. Parallel sind die realen Kosten der Micros…

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

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.

Every 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…

About | Sovereign Tech Agency

Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter hybrid MoE open-weight model; filing: Nvidia plans to spend $26B over the next five years to build open models (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-investing-26-billion-open-source-models/…

Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show
The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.

„Crimson Desert“ angespielt: Das Zelda für Erwachsene erfordert starke Nerven
„Crimson Desert“ schürt große Erwartungen bei vielen Open-World-Fans. Nach rund 50 Spielstunden ergibt sich jedoch ein durchwachsenes Bild.

AI is a threat to the existence of open source software.

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?’

Sources: Nvidia is pitching NemoClaw, an upcoming open-source AI agent platform for enterprises, and plans to offer security and privacy tools for it (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-planning-ai-agent-platform-launch-open-source/

Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform
Ahead of its annual developer conference, Nvidia is readying a new approach to software that embraces AI agents similar to OpenClaw.

NemoClaw: Nvidia erweitert OpenClaw um Sicherheitsfunktionen
Nvidia hat NemoClaw vorgestellt, einen Open-Source-Stack, der die Nutzung von KI-Agenten auf Basis von OpenClaw einfacher und sicherer gestalten soll.

Die neue Bürger-App: Wildbergers Masterplan für Deutschlands Verwaltung
Zwischen Deutschland-Stack und KI: Digitalminister Wildberger erklärt, wie er mit SAP, Telekom, Startups und Open Source den digitalen Stillstand brechen will.

I'm really liking MacDown 3000 for editing and viewing Markdown files on macOS. Especially the ability to customize the style sheets.
#macOS

Home - MacDown 3000
MacDown 3000 - A free, open source Markdown editor for macOS with live preview, syntax highlighting, GitHub Flavored Markdown, and Apple Silicon optimization. Download the best lightweight Markdown editor for Mac.

«Nextcloud Hub 26 vorgestellt. Der Weg zur echten Datensouveränität:
[…] End‑to‑end‑Verschlüsselung lässt sich direkt im Browser einrichten. Dateien können klassifiziert werden, damit sensible Inhalte automatisch geschützt bleiben. […]»
Spannend wie @… sich entwickelt aber weiss wer welche E2EE Technik sie einsetzen, sprich wo kann ich es nachsehen?…

Nextcloud Hub 26 vorgestellt. Der Weg zur echten Datensouveränität - fosstopia
Technik-Blog für Linux, Unix, Open Source, Cloud Computing, Nachhaltigkeit und Co.

Dienstag: Verfahren gegen X in Irland, Starlink erhält Genehmigung in Vietnam
Deep Fakes von Grok Starlink mit Betriebslizenz in Vietnam SPD: Forderung nach Social-Media-Verbot Kommentar zum SPD-Vorschlag Open-Source-Bündnis warnt

Mozilla launches Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client for users and businesses who want to run their own self-hosted AI infrastructure, available on GitHub (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/mozil…

Mozilla launches Thunderbolt AI client with focus on self-hosted infrastructure
New tool builds on deepset’s Haystack toward a “decentralized open source AI ecosystem.”...

Die 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…

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.

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…

KI-Hype OpenClaw: OpenAI nimmt österreichischen Entwickler unter Vertrag
Peter Steinberger hat OpenClaw entwickelt, einen mächtigen KI-Agenten für die eigene Hardware. Nun arbeitet er für OpenAI. OpenClaw bleibt Open Source.

Anthropic's Mythos adds to concerns about rising workloads for open-source maintainers, as many have already been dealing with a "crazy" number of bug reports (Chris Stokel-Walker/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Vorwerk schaltet Neato-Cloud ab: Tausende Nutzer fordern Open-Source-Lösung
Nach der vorzeitigen Abschaltung der Neato-Cloud-Plattform durch Vorwerk fordern tausende Nutzer in einer Petition den Erhalt ihrer smarten Saugroboter.

GitHub führt Maßnahmen gegen KI-Slop ein – ohne das Problem klar zu benennen
Viele Open-Source-Projekte haben ein Problem: Sie ertrinken in Codeänderungen, die mithilfe von KI erstellt wurden. GitHub ergreift jetzt Maßnahmen.

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

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.
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Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Expertenforderung: OpenDesk sollte für Unis gratis sein

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Expertenforderung: OpenDesk sollte für Unis gratis sein

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Expertenforderung: OpenDesk sollte für Unis gratis sein