2026-06-22 17:16:54
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
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
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Open access to standards documents.
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-open-access-to-standards-documents/90856
saved 2026-05-21
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/
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…
Part 1 of a new short story by Linda Teppler is out! Free to read on Substack #writingcommunity #banskolife #writing
Open source is benefiting from the current AI trend: some projects are already improving their security posture and reducing their attack surface.
Proprietary software, for now, seems more out of the loop.
But once LLMs become better at analysing binaries, compiled code, and obfuscation, I wonder how vendors will handle the likely increase in vulnerability disclosures.
#ai
OpenDesk kann vieles, aber halt nicht alles. Das ist das Fazit einer Studie aus Zürich, die die Open-Source-Lösung als Microsoft 365-Alternative unter die Lupe genommen hat. 🔍
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11303065?wt_mc=sm.red.…
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…
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/
RE: https://unstable.systems/@jneen/116618931097778342
Worth looking at both the quoted text here and •especially• the linked page, which is quite good.
I’ll add another item of my own. The first screenshot mentions giving an LLM the task of “implementing an HTTP server in JavaScript from scratch” in 90 minutes. Sounds impressive, right? Until you remember that every open-source Javascript HTTP server in existence ••was in the training data••.
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Auch Zürich will hybriden Ansatz ausprobieren.
#OpenDesk #digitaleSouveränität
an attack on free software maintainers... https://glama.ai/blog/2026-03-19-open-source-has-a-bot-problem
Europe’s Digital Future
The EU Tech Sovereignty Package is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reclaim control over our digital foundations.
For too long, public sector procurement has defaulted to proprietary lock-in, creating a weak sovereignty posture that hinders European resilience.
We are calling for a fundamental shift: the Open Source First principle.
OPNsense
Professionelle Open-Source-Firewall für zu Hause und im Unternehmen
Seit einigen Monaten betreibe ich OPNsense auf einer dedizierten Firewall-Appliance — und ich möchte ehrlich sagen: Es war eine der besten Entscheidungen, die ich in Sachen Heimnetz- und Büronetz-Sicherheit je getroffen habe. Dieser Artikel erklärt, was OPNsense ist, was es kann, wo es an Grenzen stößt und warum es einer herkömmlichen Fritzbox in fast jeder Hinsicht überlegen ist.
My neurologist advised that I should try EEG Neurofeedback. Unfortunately public health insurance doesn't cover it.
Well, I'm just going to DIY it. I just ordered an open source Neurofeedback device with some electrodes.
https://www.olimex.com/Products/EEG/OpenEE
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (#ICCL) has released an open source tool designed to reduce LLM hallucinations.
If my 15-year-old PC had a GPU I'd be tempted to give it a try.
https://www.
https://open-source-wettbewerb.de/
> das Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung übernimmt erneut die Schirmherrschaft für den Open Source Wettbewerb.
> Der Wettbewerb zeichnet Projekte aus, die digitale Verwaltungsprozesse verbessern, die Zusammenarbeit in der Verwaltung …
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
from my link log —
MiniZinc high-level solver-independent constraint satisfaction and optimization modelling language.
https://www.minizinc.org/index.html
saved 2019-09-30
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
@… Just saw this, and had no idea this exists: ESP32 Bit Pirate Inspired by the Bus Pirate of old, a modern version: https://l…
The Baker, the Polluters and the Planet
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatehistorian/p/the-baker-the-polluters-and-the-planet?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
«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.
🕵️
Short of a total fascist takeover, Open Source will be the winner again. Here's another drop creating the ocean https://magnitude.dev/
Paperweight è un'applicazione desktop open-source, pensata per l'utilizzo locale che analizza la tua casella di posta per mappare la tua impronta digitale e a riprendere il controllo e a eliminare i tuoi dati.
Cosa fa:
- Inventario degli account: mappa tutte le aziende che ti hanno mai contattato via email, con classificazione dei rischi e raccomandazioni sulle azioni da intraprendere.
- Annullamento iscrizione in blocco: trova e annulla l'iscrizione a tutte le li…
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…
Finally found a #japanese keyboard for android that I like - Sumire ! Open-source, works offline, settings are usable in english, and installable from Fdroid! https://github.com/KazumaProject/Japan
Do you have experience developing Open Educational Resources (OER) or developing educational software? The Journal of Open Source Education (JOSE) is looking for reviewers to help with our check-list driven peer review process. Happy to answer questions about reviewing for JOSE if you're interested.
https://forms.gle/Rizd3TcHnQKhrbYY7
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…
@… the spirit of open source will never allow it. Instead, it's to be renamed:
LibreDaemon Noir Ultra
#FreeBSD
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…
Are they right? 🤔
"Euro-Office defaults to the fully proprietary OOXML document format, developed and controlled solely by Microsoft. This makes it a de facto ally of Microsoft in its content lock-in strategy, with control remaining firmly in Redmond and far from Europe."
https://blog.do…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Stringman: Fest montierter Open-Source-Roboter räumt einzelne Räume auf
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
« Once an organisation accepts that the difficult software will be bought elsewhere, internal teams slowly lose the habit of building. Procurement becomes a substitute for strategy. Legal review becomes a substitute for leadership. Risk management becomes a substitute for execution. »
https://…
Google has re-engineered its search engine to keep users inside its own ecosystem with AI-powered interactive experiences. If your task is to find and critically assess information on the open web, you're fresh out of luck.
https://www.
Needless to say, do not sign up for W or give them your ID information no matter how simple they eventually manage to make it.
You simply don’t need to.
You’re already in a far superior – non-corporate, federated – space.
Do not sign up for W. And warn your friends.
The only time you have any power to stop this is now. If they succeed in gaining network effects, you will be as powerless to stop them as you are with X.
And yes, they’re just another venture capita…
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…
Vor 20 Jahren trat der erste bekannte Y2K38-Bug in Produktion auf.
Beim Open-Source-Webserver AOLserver führte „jetzt 1 Milliarde Sekunden“ erstmals über die 32-Bit-Zeitgrenze hinaus. Verbindungen liefen sofort ab, Timer kippten, Scheduler blockierten.
Das Jahr-2038-Problem war damit nicht mehr theoretisch.
Und 20 Jahre später ist es noch immer nicht gelöst.
Hi all, just a tardy reminder that a few (a bunch?) of us will be meeting at https://meeting.iridescent.nz at 20:00 NZST tonight (Tue 14 Apr) to discuss libre/open source state of play. This is coming on heels of the weekend's Ōtautahi InstallFest which went quite well, I think! We'll have a debrief on t…
Frankreich verpflichtet alle Ministerien bis Herbst 2026 zu Open-Source-Plänen. Alle Ministerien müssen bis Herbst 2026 Pläne für den Wechsel zu Open-Source-Software vorlegen. Das Kalkül dahinter ist nüchtern: Wer die Software kontrolliert, kontrolliert die Infrastruktur. Deutschland diskutiert noch. Horst Schulte über eine Lücke, die größer wird.
#OpenSource
NFL owners to vote on Nashville hosting 2030 Super Bowl: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7212952/2026/05/18/super-bowl-64-nashville-location-vote/
from my link log —
Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source?
https://dusted.codes/can-we-trust-microsoft-with-open-source
saved 2021-10-23
Una lettera aperta agli utenti di suite per ufficio, poco prima dell'annuncio di Euro-Office
«Negli ultimi giorni avrete letto diversi articoli che annunciano l'arrivo di EuroOffice, presentato come la prima suite per ufficio open source sviluppata in Europa. Ci sentiamo in dovere – seppur a malincuore, poiché l'open source dovrebbe basarsi sulla trasparenza e non sull'inganno – di correggere questa affermazione. La prima suite per ufficio open source sviluppata in Euro…
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/
Socket: TeamPCP, the gang claiming GitHub's repositories breach, also executed 20 "waves" of supply chain attacks recently, compromising 500 pieces of software (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/teampcp-software-supply-chain-attack-spree-github/…
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
SpaceX signs a computing deal worth up to $6.3B with Reflection AI for access to Nvidia GB300s at Colossus 2; Reflection will pay $150M per month through 2029 (Deirdre Bosa/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/spacex-ai-colossus-data-center-reflection.html
Just over a week after Mosaic 1.0 was released, CERN gifted the Web to the world as open source software. As of 30 April 1993, the still relatively new Internet communications platform was suddenly free for anyone to use, with no strings attached.
https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-mosai
Yugabyte bets on open-source memory infrastructure for AI agents
<https://www.forkable.io/p/yugabyte-bets-on-open-source-memory> (Paul Sawers, 2026-05-12)
"… I check in with Karthik Ranganathan, CEO and co-founder of Yugabyte, an open-source database com…
FediSuite: Open-Source Social-Media-Management fürs Fediverse — Alle deine Fediverse-Accounts an einem Ort.
FediSuite ist eine kostenlose Open-Source-Plattform zum Planen von Beiträgen, automatischen Aufteilen langer Posts in Threads, Verwalten von Benachrichtigungen und dem Handling mehrerer Accounts auf 14 Fediverse-Plattformen — @…,
Vor 20 Jahren trat der erste bekannte Y2K38-Bug in Produktion auf.
Beim Open-Source-Webserver AOLserver führte „jetzt 1 Milliarde Sekunden“ erstmals über die 32-Bit-Zeitgrenze hinaus. Verbindungen liefen sofort ab, Timer kippten, Scheduler blockierten.
Das Jahr-2038-Problem war damit nicht mehr theoretisch.
Und 20 Jahre später ist es noch immer nicht gelöst.
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…
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Münchens IT-Wende: Open Source ist für die neue Koalition der Normalfall
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…
«Warum Cloud-Lock-in zum Sicherheitsrisiko wird—Digitale Souveränität braucht einen Exit-Plan:
Mit dem Wechsel hin zu Open-Source-Strukturen hat Schleswig-Holstein Anfang des Jahres ein deutliches Signal gesetzt. Die Abhängigkeit von großen Technologiekonzernen ist kein Naturgesetz.»
Viele verantwortliche Leute glauben wenn sie die Tools aufzuzählen, dass dies ein Plan sei. Es ist komplexer & benötigt Zeit.
💻
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…
from my link log —
MiniZinc high-level solver-independent constraint satisfaction and optimization modelling language.
https://www.minizinc.org/index.html
saved 2019-09-30
Socket, which helps companies safeguard open-source code against hackers, raised $60M led by Thrive Capital at a $1B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-20/security-firm-thwarting-…
Paris-based Kyber, which develops a low-latency remote device control SDK and is founded by VLC lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf, raised $5M led by Lightspeed (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/he-made-your-…
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…
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
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
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
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
Cybersecurity startup Chainguard, Cisco, Cloudflare, JPMorgan Chase, and others launch Athena, a coalition to secure open-source software using AI (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-15/chaingu…
Servus, freie Software! 🥨 In München weht ein neuer Wind durchs Rathaus – und der riecht verdächtig nach Open Source.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11292444?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_sou…
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenReception 1.0: Open-Source-Terminverwaltung für Arztpraxen ist fertig
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…
Europa hat jetzt sein eigenes Office – und das ist auch noch Open Source! 🚀
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11320254?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon
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…
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-…
Google: Neues KI-Modell läuft auch auf Laptops mit nur 16GB RAM
Google veröffentlicht Gemma 4 12B: Das lokale Open-Source-Modell läuft schon auf Laptops mit nur 16 GByte RAM.
https://www.