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Microsofts Open-Source-Kommandozeileneditor bringt einige Verbesserungen
Microsofts Open-Source-Editor Edit für die Eingabeaufforderung hüpft auf Stand 1.2.0. Die Entwickler haben Verbesserungen eingebaut.

Open Source, Open Threats? Investigating Security Challenges in Open-Source Software
Seyed Ali Akhavani, Behzad Ousat, Amin Kharraz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12995

Open Source, Open Threats? Investigating Security Challenges in Open-Source Software
Open-source software (OSS) has become increasingly more popular across different domains. However, this rapid development and widespread adoption come with a security cost. The growing complexity and openness of OSS ecosystems have led to increased exposure to vulnerabilities and attack surfaces. This paper investigates the trends and patterns of reported vulnerabilities within OSS platforms, focusing on the implications of these findings for security practices. To understand the dynamics of OS…

#cybersecurity

MatchPlant: An Open-Source Pipeline for UAV-Based Single-Plant Detection and Data Extraction
Worasit Sangjan, Piyush Pandey, Norman B. Best, Jacob D. Washburn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12295

MatchPlant: An Open-Source Pipeline for UAV-Based Single-Plant Detection and Data Extraction
Accurate identification of individual plants from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images is essential for advancing high-throughput phenotyping and supporting data-driven decision-making in plant breeding. This study presents MatchPlant, a modular, graphical user interface-supported, open-source Python pipeline for UAV-based single-plant detection and geospatial trait extraction. MatchPlant enables end-to-end workflows by integrating UAV image processing, user-guided annotation, Convolutional Neu…

Kinda cool to see the programme for the UN's open source week... https://www.un.org/digital-emerging-technologies/content/open-source-week-2025 but, of course, it's already almost entirely co-opted by corporate interests. They shit on ev…

I'm happy that my talk on open source eSIM integration into embedded Linux devices has been accepted at Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2025, for details see https://osseu2025.sched.com/event/25Vlq/open-source-for-esim-integration…

Open Source Summit Europe 2025: Open Source for ESIM Integration - Haral...
View more about this event at Open Source Summit Europe 2025

Social Media Reactions to Open Source Promotions: AI-Powered GitHub Projects on Hacker News
Prachnachai Meakpaiboonwattana, Warittha Tarntong, Thai Mekratanavorakul, Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Pattaraporn Sangaroonsilp, Raula Kula, Morakot Choetkiertikul, Kenichi Matsumoto, Thanwadee Sunetnanta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12643

Social Media Reactions to Open Source Promotions: AI-Powered GitHub Projects on Hacker News
Social media platforms have become more influential than traditional news sources, shaping public discourse and accelerating the spread of information. With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), open-source software (OSS) projects can leverage these platforms to gain visibility and attract contributors. In this study, we investigate the relationship between Hacker News, a social news site focused on computer science and entrepreneurship, and the extent to which it influences de…

ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Public Servants
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/add-name-bethesda-declaration/?source=Bluesky&utm_source=Bluesky&utm_campaign=bethesdadec

If you work in an open knowledge project (basically an open source project that deals mostly with data), you might be interested in these diataxis workshops that are running for projects like yours.
Book here (apply if you're not sure if your project is eligible) https://vurt.org/events/workshops-april-2025/ - and please share widely to help reach this rather niche audience? Thanks!

heise | Mit Open Source Geld verdienen: Entwicklung über Fonds und Spenden finanzieren
Open-Source-Software hält die Welt am Laufen, aber nur wenige Entwickler erhalten Geld für ihre Arbeit. Dabei kann die Bezahlung auch freiem Code helfen.

Beyond Code: #APIs as the Next #OSS Battleground
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/06/09/o…

They get what they deserve. #Signal is waiting for you with open (source) arms. https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/digitales/meta-whatsapp-werbung-100.html

Meta kündigt Werbung auf WhatsApp an
Werbung auf WhatsApp: Darüber wurde schon seit Langem spekuliert. Nun soll es tatsächlich vorbei sein mit der Werbefreiheit auf dem Messenger. Das bestätigte der Mutterkonzern Meta.

Stand Up for Science has a great campaign--"Summer Fight for Science in America!" It's a call to bring science to the people--open labs, etc. Check it out! https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/summer-fight?source=Website

from my link log —
jemalloc postmortem.
https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/
saved 2025-06-13 https…

Jason Evans
The jemalloc memory allocator was first conceived in early 2004, and hasbeen in public use for about 20 years now. Thanks to the nature of open source software licensing,jemalloc will remain publicly available indefinitely. But active upstream development has come to anend. This post briefly desc...

If one would have reported the (sad) Munich decision years ago to abort the attempt to use Linux and Open Source in local administration the same way that the Denmark thing now is reported by the fanboy press, the headlines would have been "Germany bans Linux".

Understanding the Issue Types in Open Source Blockchain-based Software Projects with the Transformer-based BERTopic
Md Nahidul Islam Opu, Md Shahidul Islam, Sara Rouhani, Shaiful Chowdhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11451

Understanding the Issue Types in Open Source Blockchain-based Software Projects with the Transformer-based BERTopic
Blockchain-based software systems are increasingly deployed across diverse domains, yet a systematic understanding of their development challenges remains limited. This paper presents a large-scale empirical study of 497,742 issues mined from 1,209 open-source blockchain projects hosted on GitHub. Employing BERTopic, a transformer-based topic modeling technique, we identify 49 distinct issue topics and organize them hierarchically into 11 major subcategories. Our analysis reveals that both gene…

Want an #FreeSoftware on iOS and iPadOS via an independend app store like #Fdroid for Android: Help https://appfair.org/…

At this year's Berlin Buzzwords, Viola Rädle & Raphael Franke will present gamma_flow, an open-source Python package for real-time spectral data analysis.
Learn more: https://2025.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/gamma_flow-deno…

Can We Trust Machine Learning? The Reliability of Features from Open-Source Speech Analysis Tools for Speech Modeling
Tahiya Chowdhury, Veronica Romero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11072

Can We Trust Machine Learning? The Reliability of Features from Open-Source Speech Analysis Tools for Speech Modeling
Machine learning-based behavioral models rely on features extracted from audio-visual recordings. The recordings are processed using open-source tools to extract speech features for classification models. These tools often lack validation to ensure reliability in capturing behaviorally relevant information. This gap raises concerns about reproducibility and fairness across diverse populations and contexts. Speech processing tools, when used outside of their design context, can fail to capture b…

Was für ein Shit Move von GitHub (Microsoft) https://infosec.exchange/@tomgag/114504958452945090 /via @…

Tommaso Gagliardoni (@tomgag@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 1 image In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess. So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world. I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfy…

heise | Interview zu GitHub Sponsors: Warum Geld für Open Source wichtig ist
Bei GitHub ist Martin Woodward für die Beziehung zu Entwicklern zuständig. Im Interview erklärt er, warum Open-Source-Maintainer Geld verdienen sollten.

When these "government switching from Microsoft to Open Source" stories get published I always look for "plans to" or "will", to indicate that this is probably just a late-stage supplier negotiation tactic.
https://mastodon.social/@therecord_media/114…

on my way to the optional friday meeting of early arrivers to RetroNetConf, our small German-language meeting of various #retronetworking enthusiasts https://osmocom.org/projects/retronetw…

Training-free LLM Merging for Multi-task Learning
Zichuan Fu, Xian Wu, Yejing Wang, Wanyu Wang, Shanshan Ye, Hongzhi Yin, Yi Chang, Yefeng Zheng, Xiangyu Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12379

Training-free LLM Merging for Multi-task Learning
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities across diverse natural language processing (NLP) tasks. The release of open-source LLMs like LLaMA and Qwen has triggered the development of numerous fine-tuned models tailored for various tasks and languages. In this paper, we explore an important question: is it possible to combine these specialized models to create a unified model with multi-task capabilities. We introduces Hierarchical Iterative Merging (Hi-Merging), a …

Just found @…'s 2019 blog post looking at the Prisoner's Dilemma as a way to describe Open Source sustainability,
https://dri.es/balancing-makers-and…

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

Bandwidth enhanced current noise suppression with a SERF magnetometer
Tobias Menold, Arianna Bertoluzza, Patrick Hildebrand, Ann-Kathrin Gottschalk, Daniel Braun, J\'ozsef Fort\'agh, Andreas G\"unther
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11923

Bandwidth enhanced current noise suppression with a SERF magnetometer
This work investigates the behavior of a spin-exchange relaxation-free (SERF) magnetometer integrated into the feedback branch of a closed-loop control circuit, designed to actively suppress noise from a current source. In this configuration, the magnetometer bandwidth is enhanced by almost two orders of magnitude as compared to the open-loop setup. Incorporating an injection transformer, the proposed system effectively reduces current noise to below 3 nA/sqrt(Hz) over a broad frequency bandwid…

quick rant about the “supply chain” term in relation to open source software, as most people do after dinner

Information Suppression in Large Language Models: Auditing, Quantifying, and Characterizing Censorship in DeepSeek
Peiran Qiu, Siyi Zhou, Emilio Ferrara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12349

Information Suppression in Large Language Models: Auditing, Quantifying, and Characterizing Censorship in DeepSeek
This study examines information suppression mechanisms in DeepSeek, an open-source large language model (LLM) developed in China. We propose an auditing framework and use it to analyze the model's responses to 646 politically sensitive prompts by comparing its final output with intermediate chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning. Our audit unveils evidence of semantic-level information suppression in DeepSeek: sensitive content often appears within the model's internal reasoning but is omitted or rep…

The Space Between Us: A Methodological Framework for Researching Bonding and Proxemics in Situated Group-Agent Interactions
Ana M\"uller, Anja Richert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11829

The Space Between Us: A Methodological Framework for Researching Bonding and Proxemics in Situated Group-Agent Interactions
This paper introduces a multimethod framework for studying spatial and social dynamics in real-world group-agent interactions with socially interactive agents. Drawing on proxemics and bonding theories, the method combines subjective self-reports and objective spatial tracking. Applied in two field studies in a museum (N = 187) with a robot and a virtual agent, the paper addresses the challenges in aligning human perception and behavior. We focus on presenting an open source, scalable, and fiel…

Souveränität: Öffentlicher Gesundheitsdienst setzt verstärkt auf Open Source
Das Zendis und das Robert-Koch-Institut wollen die MS-365-Alternative OpenDesk in eine Kommunikationsplattform des Öffentlichen Gesundheitsdiensts integrieren.

I look forward to attending @… AI and digital workspace #hackathon in Paris in June together with my colleagues from @…

#GitHub #CLI Enhances Support for Triangular Workflows
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/06/GitHub-

Docmost: Open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software
https://docmost.com
Das klingt ernsthaft gut und würde einige Usability-Probleme des Mediawikis lösen. Unter anderem durch Markdown als Standard und Drag & Drop-Seitenhierarchie.
Realtime-Collaborative-Editing, schicke Ko…

The IRS open sourced most of its Direct File tax software on GitHub last week, fulfilling a legal requirement under the SHARE IT Act, despite Intuit pressure (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/directfile-open-source-…

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

Was für ein Shit Move von GitHub (Microsoft) https://infosec.exchange/@tomgag/114504958452945090 /via @…

Tommaso Gagliardoni (@tomgag@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 1 image In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess. So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world. I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfy…

To conclude the first evening of Berlin Buzzwords, Gregor Bransky invites you to join a tour of c-base. Afterwards, you can unwind at one of its recreational areas, enjoying a refreshing beverage by the waterside of the Spree.
A travel group will form during the Get-Together.
📅 When: Today – 7 pm
📍 Where: c-base, Rungestraße 20 | 10179 Berlin
Learn more:

Satellite Events
Satellite Events Find out what other open source events and meet-ups are taking place around Berlin Buzzwords.You are hosting a meetup, get-together, workshop or other kind of event at the same time? Get in touch, and we’ll happily add your event to our list! MICES EU 2025 Our partner conference, MICES - Mix-Camp E-Commerce Search, takes [...]

Ooooo….
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-fair-package-manager-project-for-open-source-content-management-system-stability

Linux Foundation Announces the FAIR Package Manager Project for Open Source Content Management System Stability
Linux Foundation announces FAIR Package Manager project, creating simplicity, security and consistency for the WordPress ecosystem

{tesseract} allows you to read text from images https://docs.ropensci.org/tesseract/ it can also be combined with {magick} https://

Open Source OCR Engine
Bindings to Tesseract: a powerful optical character recognition (OCR) engine that supports over 100 languages. The engine is highly configurable in order to tune the detection algorithms and obtain the best possible results.

Au départ, j'avais pensé que d'un point de vue fonctionnel, https://github.com/OriPekelman/alpair était une sorte d'alternative open source Š https://

The IRS open sourced much of its incredibly popular Direct File software as the future of the free tax filing program is at risk of being killed by Intuit’s lobbyists and Donald Trump’s megabill.
Meanwhile, several top developers who worked on the software have left the government and joined a project to explore the “future of tax filing” in the private sector

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

Just found @…'s 2019 blog post looking at the Prisoner's Dilemma as a way to describe Open Source sustainability,
https://dri.es/balancing-makers-and…

I updated my website's list of links to add @USERNAME@WEBSITE to every social media account I own.
This way, it’s clearer what my name is and which site it belongs to. It might look like federation, but it’s not on most sites; it just works as a placeholder.
Read more here: https://midtsveen.codeberg.page

If you are like me, then you might have installed the #GoogleAuthenticator app, back in the days when it was the only solution out there for #TOTP #2FA.
But that is long ago. Since …

Eliciting Reasoning in Language Models with Cognitive Tools
Brown Ebouky, Andrea Bartezzaghi, Mattia Rigotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12115 https://

Eliciting Reasoning in Language Models with Cognitive Tools
The recent advent of reasoning models like OpenAI's o1 was met with excited speculation by the AI community about the mechanisms underlying these capabilities in closed models, followed by a rush of replication efforts, particularly from the open source community. These speculations were largely settled by the demonstration from DeepSeek-R1 that chains-of-thought and reinforcement learning (RL) can effectively replicate reasoning on top of base LLMs. However, it remains valuable to explore alte…

Stephen Fry: 40 Years On
Over zijn eerste Mac en Jobs en Tim en het WWW.
https://open.substack.com/pub/stephenfry/p/40-years-on?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
> What We Were L…

40 Years On
What We Were Like In Our Work And Our Play

📝 If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions? – Pivot to AI https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/if-ai-is-so-good-at-coding-where-are-the-open-source-contributions/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

Introducing FAIR: A federated approach to strengthen the WordPress ecosystem;
A new community-led initiative to extend WordPress distribution beyond a single point of control. @…

Introducing FAIR: A federated approach to strengthen the WordPress ecosystem | We Love Open Source - All Things Open
Last week, at AltCtrl.org, a community gathering focused on the open web, a large group of contributors from the WordPress Ecosystem introduced FAIR, a new federated approach to plugin and... Read More

Towards Sustainable Computing: Exploring Energy Consumption Efficiency of Alternative Configurations and Workloads in an Open Source Messaging System
Maria Voreakou, George Kousiouris, Mara Nikolaidou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10693

Towards Sustainable Computing: Exploring Energy Consumption Efficiency of Alternative Configurations and Workloads in an Open Source Messaging System
Energy consumption in current large scale computing infrastructures is becoming a critical issue, especially with the growing demand for centralized systems such as cloud environments. With the advancement of microservice architectures and the Internet of Things, messaging systems have become an integral and mainstream part of modern computing infrastructures, carrying out significant workload in a majority of applications. In this paper, we describe an experimental process to explore energy-ba…

Towards Neural Audio Codec Source Parsing
Orchid Chetia Phukan, Girish, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar, Arun Balaji Buduru, Rajesh Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12627

Towards Neural Audio Codec Source Parsing
A new class of audio deepfakes-codecfakes (CFs)-has recently caught attention, synthesized by Audio Language Models that leverage neural audio codecs (NACs) in the backend. In response, the community has introduced dedicated benchmarks and tailored detection strategies. As the field advances, efforts have moved beyond binary detection toward source attribution, including open-set attribution, which aims to identify the NAC responsible for generation and flag novel, unseen ones during inference.…

Investigating Vulnerabilities and Defenses Against Audio-Visual Attacks: A Comprehensive Survey Emphasizing Multimodal Models
Jinming Wen, Xinyi Wu, Shuai Zhao, Yanhao Jia, Yuwen Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11521

Investigating Vulnerabilities and Defenses Against Audio-Visual Attacks: A Comprehensive Survey Emphasizing Multimodal Models
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs), which bridge the gap between audio-visual and natural language processing, achieve state-of-the-art performance on several audio-visual tasks. Despite the superior performance of MLLMs, the scarcity of high-quality audio-visual training data and computational resources necessitates the utilization of third-party data and open-source MLLMs, a trend that is increasingly observed in contemporary research. This prosperity masks significant security risks. E…

"Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software"
I'm always saying, open source software is good!
Which opensouce license is forbidding military use?
I remember that there was a discussion about that in the #searchwing project.
And of course, military can still ignore it. terrorists will ignore for sure..
Via @…

Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software
Ukraine used ArduPilot to help it wipe out Russian targets. It wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last.

I’m mostly out of the loop on IAAP stuffs (since overlays are members and fuck that), but Rian seems to have a valid concern here for ongoing credits:
https://mstdn.io/@rianrietveld/114658249992267461

If you're organising an event with an open call, I can't recommend @… enough for managing the process. Free/open source and so much easier than 'easychair' and anything else I've had to use.

#opensource

New release: FlowIntel 1.6.0 — an open-source case management tool — now with extended support for importing MISP events as cases, a timeline view for attributes, a new templating system for notes, and many other new features!
🔗 https://github.com/flowintel/flowintel/releases/tag/1…

Release Flowintel release version 1.6.0 with new features, modifications on analyzer and dashboard · flowintel/flowintel
This release introduces several new features, including: Templates for notes that can be reused across cases Importing a Flowintel template into a case Creating a case from a MISP event A timeline...

Great new :qgis: initiative by @… and @…:
Make #QGIS an open platform for building geospatial

QGIS 3D for Open Source Digital Twins | Lutra Consulting
Join our crowdfunding campaign to enhance QGIS 3D tools for open-source digital twins, bringing improved performance, features, and community-driven innovation.

Governments that want to make the switch to Linux should actively contribute. They shouldn't rush into anything. They should figure out possible technical difficulties beforehand and even fund open source software to help deal with those issues.
They need to plan for pushback from employees. Change is difficult and people will complain about stuff that they will grow to appreciate over time.

“Mikeal approached every project with the conviction that open source is not a license but a promise to lift others”
https://b.h4x.zip/mikeal/

Fast MRI of bones in the knee -- An AI-driven reconstruction approach for adiabatic inversion recovery prepared ultra-short echo time sequences
Philipp Hans Nunn, Henner Huflage, Jan-Peter Grunz, Philipp Gruschwitz, Oliver Schad, Thorsten Alexander Bley, Johannes Tran-Gia, Tobias Wech
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11771

Fast MRI of bones in the knee -- An AI-driven reconstruction approach for adiabatic inversion recovery prepared ultra-short echo time sequences
Purpose: Inversion recovery prepared ultra-short echo time (IR-UTE)-based MRI enables radiation-free visualization of osseous tissue. However, sufficient signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) can only be obtained with long acquisition times. This study proposes a data-driven approach to reconstruct undersampled IR-UTE knee data, thereby accelerating MR-based 3D imaging of bones. Methods: Data were acquired with a 3D radial IR-UTE pulse sequence, implemented using the open-source framework Pulseq. A denoi…

Open source software spotube (uses Spotify for data, YouTube for audio) got a legal notice
https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube

GitHub - KRTirtho/spotube: 🎧 Open source music client! Available for both desktop & mobile!
🎧 Open source music client! Available for both desktop & mobile! - KRTirtho/spotube

I've learned to use two new tools in the last weeks: https://bevy.org (a well-known game programming framework) and https://hax.cryspen.com

Bevy Engine
Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!

Un séjour outre-Manche
Billet "un peu spécial", comme on dit sur Youtube, pour parler de la fin de mes vacan mon récent déplacement professionnel en Angleterre, qui m'a certes permis dans un premier temps d'aller Š Bristol pour la conférence IASSIST 2025 (billet Š venir), mais aussi de m'arrêter Š Londres sur le chemin du retour pour deux jours d'observation avec l'équipe open science de la London School of Economics.

Un séjour outre-Manche
Billet « un peu spécial », comme on dit sur Youtube, pour parler de la fin de mes vacan mon récent déplacement professionnel en Angleterre, qui m’a certes permis dans un premier temps d&rsquo…

Phonikud: Hebrew Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion for Real-Time Text-to-Speech
Yakov Kolani, Maxim Melichov, Cobi Calev, Morris Alper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12311

Phonikud: Hebrew Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion for Real-Time Text-to-Speech
Real-time text-to-speech (TTS) for Modern Hebrew is challenging due to the language's orthographic complexity. Existing solutions ignore crucial phonetic features such as stress that remain underspecified even when vowel marks are added. To address these limitations, we introduce Phonikud, a lightweight, open-source Hebrew grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) system that outputs fully-specified IPA transcriptions. Our approach adapts an existing diacritization model with lightweight adaptors, incurring ne…

Packing3D: An Open-Source Analytical Framework for Computing Packing Density and Mixing Indices Using Partial Spherical Volumes
Freddie Barter, Christopher R. K. Windows-Yule
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08852

Packing3D: An Open-Source Analytical Framework for Computing Packing Density and Mixing Indices Using Partial Spherical Volumes
Accurate quantification of local packing density and mixing in simulations of particulate systems is essential for many industrial applications. Traditional methods which simply count the number of particle centres within a given volume of space (cell) introduce discontinuities at cell boundaries, leading to unreliable measurement of packing density. We introduce Packing3D.jl, an open-source Julia package providing analytic, partial-volume calculations for spheres intersecting Cartesian and cyl…

#Siemens hats drauf: #FOSS

"We need more open source Ruby code" says @… at @….
#opensource

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Refuel.ai has been acquired by Together.ai. All of us - our team, our technology, and our mission - are joining Together to help build the future of open source and enterprise AI.
https://www.refuel.ai/blog-posts/we-are-joining-to…

We’re Joining Together.ai

Wer mit einem #LLM experimentieren will, ohne Daten an #KI-Firmen abzudrücken, kann unterdessen viele "Open-Source"-Modelle herunterladen.
Auf etlichen Rechnern läuft das sogar erstaunlich schnell. So hat @…

📣 Calling all GÉANT Project partners…
Got an idea for digital research, data transfer or secure storage solutions to support open science?
The 2025 GÉANT Above-the-Net Services Incubator is officially open for proposals!
This is your opportunity to:
✅ Develop and test your innovative idea
✅ Deliver impact to the whole community through new, shared, open-source services
✅ Help shape the future of GÉANT's Above-the-Net services portfolio
Learn more: …

GÉANT Project Above-the-Net Services Incubator: Call for Proposals | GÉANT CONNECT Online
The GÉANT (GN5-2) Project’s Above-the-Net Services incubator is looking for practical proposals around three areas of service concept investment being developed by the GN5-2 Above-the-Net Services team. These are: Digital Research Environment (DRE) Object Storage Infrastructure Data Movement Infrastructure Through the incubator, the GN5-2 project will offer person months (PMs) to project partners to develop

Here you go a fork of @… know as @… is now on @… .

MCTS-Refined CoT: High-Quality Fine-Tuning Data for LLM-Based Repository Issue Resolution
Yibo Wang, Zhihao Peng, Ying Wang, Zhao Wei, Hai Yu, Zhiliang Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12728

MCTS-Refined CoT: High-Quality Fine-Tuning Data for LLM-Based Repository Issue Resolution
LLMs demonstrate strong performance in auto-mated software engineering, particularly for code generation and issue resolution. While proprietary models like GPT-4o achieve high benchmarks scores on SWE-bench, their API dependence, cost, and privacy concerns limit adoption. Open-source alternatives offer transparency but underperform in complex tasks, especially sub-100B parameter models. Although quality Chain-of-Thought (CoT) data can enhance reasoning, current methods face two critical flaws:…

‘Open prison’: The forced labour driving India’s $5 trillion economy dream | Labour Rights | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/6/7/open-prison-the-forced-labour-driving-indias-5-trillion-economy-dream?traffic_source=rss

@… These are all my own designs. All open source, available on my github repo. A few are in my Tindie store

For god's sake stop boosting those exaggerated "news" reports claiming at least in their headlines that "Denmark" is replacing Microsoft products with Open Source. They are *experimenting*. In *one* ministry. With about half the workforce, over the summer. Nothing firmly decided yet.
At least look for some a bit more original source for this, as such indeed good, news.

Signal is finally open source
In my previous posts I criticized Signal for not being on f-droid and not allowing users to compile it from source and use it which means they cannot prove the source code on github is actually what’s used to make the app. This is a standard of scrutiny that I only hold Signal to because it gained a reputation as being an app for activists. F-Droid works my compiling the public source code on the repository’s build servers. As soon as I verify this I’ll up…

My Linux box is ready for galactic conquest! Streaming SWTOR tonight – come see the Old Republic in action on an open-source rig. #SWTORonLinux

Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software https://www.404media.co/ukraines-massive-drone-attack-was-powered-by-open-source-software/

"Libki was born of the need to avoid interacting with teenagers and now allows librarians to avoid interacting with teenagers around the world!" 😄
Libki is a cross-platform Open Source computer reservation & time management system.
https://libki.org

Hello all - for anyone who's interested, we'll be having our June monthly #libre | Free and Open Source Software (#FOSS) catchup tomorrow (Tues) evening, at 20:00 NZST. We meet at

Instruction Tuning and CoT Prompting for Contextual Medical QA with LLMs
Chenqian Le, Ziheng Gong, Chihang Wang, Haowei Ni, Panfeng Li, Xupeng Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12182

Instruction Tuning and CoT Prompting for Contextual Medical QA with LLMs
Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in medical question answering (MedQA), yet adapting them to biomedical reasoning remains challenging due to domain-specific complexity and limited supervision. In this work, we study how prompt design and lightweight fine-tuning affect the performance of open-source LLMs on PubMedQA, a benchmark for multiple-choice biomedical questions. We focus on two widely used prompting strategies - standard instruction prompts and Chain-of-Thought (Co…

🕸️ Browsing If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions? – Pivot to AI (https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/if-ai-is-so-good-at-coding-where-are-the-open-source-contributions/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter).

Empirical Evaluation of Large Language Models in Automated Program Repair
Jiajun Sun, Fengjie Li, Xinzhu Qi, Hongyu Zhang, Jiajun Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13186

Empirical Evaluation of Large Language Models in Automated Program Repair
The increasing prevalence of software bugs has made automated program repair (APR) a key research focus. Large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities for APR, but existing studies mostly rely on smaller, earlier-generation models and Java benchmarks. The repair capabilities of modern, large-scale LLMs across diverse languages and scenarios remain underexplored. To address this, we conduct a comprehensive empirical study of four open-source LLMs, CodeLlama, LLaMA, StarCoder, and DeepSeek…

AIFoundry invites you to the 2nd edition of the AI Plumbers Conference, a meetup for low-level AI builders who value real conversations over keynote slides and for anyone working in modern data infrastructure, machine learning and open-source software projects. Connect, swap ideas and collaborate, free from the pressure of constant talks.
📅 When: June 15, 2025 – 10 am
📍 Where: GLS Event Campus Berlin, Kastanienallee 82 | 10435 Berlin
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AI Plumbers conference: 2nd edition · Luma
AIFoundry is bringing you the AI Plumbers Conference: 2nd edition — an open source meetup for low-level AI builders to dive deep into "the plumbing" of modern…

Meta launches V-JEPA 2, an open-source AI "world model" to understand and predict 3D environments and object movements, to help robotics and self-driving cars (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/11/meta-launc

Meta launches AI 'world model' to advance robotics, self-driving cars
Meta on Wednesday announced it's rolling out a new AI "world model" that can better understand the 3D environment and movements of physical objects.

Ein humanoider Open-Source-Roboter für 3000 US-Dollar
Hugging Face stellt einen humanoiden Roboter für 3000 US-Dollar vor, der gehen und mit Objekten interagieren können soll.
https://www.

02:13—Good Night #Fediverse! 😴💤
I added some more autistic flare at #Night

Auf Probefahrt mit dem neuen VanMoof: Stadtcruiser mit Power
VanMoof S6 und S6 Open sind die ersten E-Bikes des Herstellers seit der Pleite. Sie entpuppen sich als verfeinerte Versionen ihrer Vorgänger.

Comparative analysis of privacy-preserving open-source LLMs regarding extraction of diagnostic information from clinical CMR imaging reports
Sina Amirrajab, Volker Vehof, Michael Bietenbeck, Ali Yilmaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00060

Comparative analysis of privacy-preserving open-source LLMs regarding extraction of diagnostic information from clinical CMR imaging reports
Purpose: We investigated the utilization of privacy-preserving, locally-deployed, open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) to extract diagnostic information from free-text cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) reports. Materials and Methods: We evaluated nine open-source LLMs on their ability to identify diagnoses and classify patients into various cardiac diagnostic categories based on descriptive findings in 109 clinical CMR reports. Performance was quantified using standard classification …

France Becomes First Government to Endorse UN #OpenSource Principles, Joined by 19 Organizations
https://unite.un.org/fr/news/france-be

Added a link to nsf-iaa.org with some autistic flair: #Anarchism #Syndicalism

Satellite Event
AIFoundry invites you to the 2nd edition of the AI Plumbers Conference, a meetup for low-level AI builders who value real conversations over keynote slides and for anyone working in modern data infrastructure, machine learning and open-source software projects. Connect, swap ideas and collaborate, free from the pressure of constant talks.
📅 When: June 15, 2025 – 10 am-5 pm
📍 Where: GLS Event Campus Berlin, Kastanienallee 82 | 10435 Berlin
Register now:

Microservices and Real-Time Processing in Retail IT: A Review of Open-Source Toolchains and Deployment Strategies
Aaditaa Vashisht (Department of Information Science,Engineering, RV College of Engineering, India), Rekha B S (Department of Information Science,Engineering, RV College of Engineering, India)
https://arxiv.org/abs/25…

Microservices and Real-Time Processing in Retail IT: A Review of Open-Source Toolchains and Deployment Strategies
With the rapid pace of digital transformation, the retail industry is increasingly depending on real-time, scalable, and resilient systems to manage financial transactions, analyze customer behavior, and streamline order processing. This literature review explores how modern event-driven and microservices-based architectures, particularly those leveraging Apache Kafka, Spring Boot, MongoDB, and Kubernetes are transforming retail and financial systems. By systematically reviewing academic public…

A great open-source community is about more than just code — it's about people, too. A strong company culture fosters engagement and growth. Join Jessie de Groot and Marion Nehring at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to explore how values such as kindness, collaboration and developer experience influence companies and communities. Gain practical insights into fostering inclusion, engagement, and long-term impact.
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From Culture to Open Source: Build Value-driven Communities
A great open-source community isn’t just about code—it’s about people. For us – Weaviators – we believe a strong company culture of kindness and collaboration is essential for building an inclusive and engaged open-source ecosystem. Join us to learn what you can do to ensure your culture extends beyond your organization and how your values translate into external impact. Based on real-life examples and tactics,, we will explore: - The connection between company culture and open-source…

Information-Theoretic Detection of Unusual Source Code Changes
Adriano Torres, Sebastian Baltes, Christoph Treude, Markus Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06508

Information-Theoretic Detection of Unusual Source Code Changes
The code base of software projects evolves essentially through inserting and removing information to and from the source code. We can measure this evolution via the elements of information - tokens, words, nodes - of the respective representation of the code. In this work, we approach the measurement of the information content of the source code of open-source projects from an information-theoretic standpoint. Our focus is on the entropy of two fundamental representations of code: tokens and ab…

LLMs are now part of our daily work, making coding easier. Join Ivan Dolgov at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to learn how they built an in-house LLM for AI code completion in JetBrains products, covering design choices, data preparation, training and model evaluation.
Learn more: https://

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Open Source at a Crossroads: The Future of Licensing Driven by Monetization
The widespread adoption of open source libraries and frameworks can be attributed to their licensing. Open Source Software Licenses (OSS licenses) ensure that software can be sold or distributed as part of aggregate programs from various sources without requiring a royalty or fee. The quality of such code rivals that of commercial software, with open source libraries forming large parts of the supply chain for critical commercial systems in industry. Despite this, most open source projects rely…

To conclude the first evening of Berlin Buzzwords, Gregor Bransky invites you to join a tour of c-base. Afterwards, you can unwind at one of its recreational areas, enjoying a refreshing beverage by the waterside of the Spree.
A travel group will form during the Get-Together.
📅 When: June 17, 2025 – 7 pm
📍 Where: c-base, Rungestraße 20 | 10179 Berlin
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Satellite Events
Satellite Events Find out what other open source events and meet-ups are taking place around Berlin Buzzwords.You are hosting a meetup, get-together, workshop or other kind of event at the same time? Get in touch, and we’ll happily add your event to our list! MICES EU 2025 Our partner conference, MICES - Mix-Camp E-Commerce Search, takes [...]

Boosting Open-Source LLMs for Program Repair via Reasoning Transfer and LLM-Guided Reinforcement Learning
Xunzhu Tang, Jacques Klein, Tegawend\'e F. Bissyand\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03921

Boosting Open-Source LLMs for Program Repair via Reasoning Transfer and LLM-Guided Reinforcement Learning
Several closed-source LLMs have consistently outperformed open-source alternatives in program repair tasks, primarily due to their superior reasoning capabilities and extensive pre-training. This paper introduces Repairity, a novel three-stage methodology that significantly narrows this performance gap through reasoning extraction and reinforcement learning. Our approach: (1) systematically filters high-quality reasoning traces from closed-source models using correctness verification, (2) trans…

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IssueCourier: Multi-Relational Heterogeneous Temporal Graph Neural Network for Open-Source Issue Assignment
Issue assignment plays a critical role in open-source software (OSS) maintenance, which involves recommending the most suitable developers to address the reported issues. Given the high volume of issue reports in large-scale projects, manually assigning issues is tedious and costly. Previous studies have proposed automated issue assignment approaches that primarily focus on modeling issue report textual information, developers' expertise, or interactions between issues and developers based on h…