Tootfinder

A look at various responses to AI firms' scraping, like open source Anubis that uses cryptographic JavaScript challenges, Cloudflare's "link mazes", and more (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/the-open-source-so

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.

A look at various responses to AI firms' scraping, like open source Anubis that uses cryptographic JavaScript challenges, Cloudflare's "link mazes", and more (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/the-open-source-so

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.

Autonomes Fahren & Co.: Deutsche Autobauer treiben Open-Source-Einsatz voran
Deutsche Autohersteller und Zulieferer wollen eine gemeinsame Open-Source-Plattform schaffen. Die Referenzarchitektur soll 2025 stehen, ein Serienfahrzeug 2030.

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…

Trotz gesetzlicher Vorgaben setzt der Bund weiterhin stark auf proprietäre #Software statt auf #OpenSource.
Milliarden fließen an US-Konzerne wie #Microsoft und

Digitalisierung: Open Source hat im Bund keine Lobby - Golem.de
Frust im Amt Die Verwaltung lässt sich nur mit Open-Source-Software souverän digitalisieren. Doch der Bund nutzt sie bislang kaum. Warum?

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

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

Oh, @… ist im Radio 😀
https://www.ndr.de/podcast/open-source-schwarmintelligenz-am-rande-des-burnouts,audi…

Open-Source: Schwarmintelligenz am Rande des Burnouts
Open-Source-Programmierer entwickeln wichtige Programme und teilen ihre Ergebnisse mit allen. Aber sie arbeiten oft unbezahlt bis zum Burnout. 11KM fragt: Warum? Und wie lange noch?

OpenS2S: Advancing Open-Source End-to-End Empathetic Large Speech Language Model
Chen Wang, Tianyu Peng, Wen Yang, Yinan Bai, Guangfu Wang, Jun Lin, Lanpeng Jia, Lingxiang Wu, Jinqiao Wang, Chengqing Zong, Jiajun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05177

OpenS2S: Advancing Open-Source End-to-End Empathetic Large Speech Language Model
Empathetic interaction is a cornerstone of human-machine communication, due to the need for understanding speech enriched with paralinguistic cues and generating emotional and expressive responses. However, the most powerful empathetic LSLMs are increasingly closed off, leaving the crucial details about the architecture, data and development opaque to researchers. Given the critical need for transparent research into the LSLMs and empathetic behavior, we present OpenS2S, a fully open-source, tr…

How fucking amazing is #OBS ?
If you've ever used it, bung them some money here:
https://obsproject.com/contribute

VLAI: A RoBERTa-Based Model for Automated Vulnerability Severity Classification.
This paper presents VLAI, a transformer-based model that predicts software vulnerability severity levels directly from text descriptions. Built on RoBERTa, VLAI is fine-tuned on over 600,000 real-world vulnerabilities and achieves over 82% accuracy in predicting severity categories, enabling faster and more consistent triage ahead of manual CVSS scoring. The model and dataset are open-source and integrated…

VLAI: A RoBERTa-Based Model for Automated Vulnerability Severity Classification
This paper presents VLAI, a transformer-based model that predicts software vulnerability severity levels directly from text descriptions. Built on RoBERTa, VLAI is fine-tuned on over 600,000 real-world vulnerabilities and achieves over 82% accuracy in predicting severity categories, enabling faster and more consistent triage ahead of manual CVSS scoring. The model and dataset are open-source and integrated into the Vulnerability-Lookup service.

Charting Uncertain Waters: A Socio-Technical Framework for Navigating GenAI's Impact on Open Source Communities
Zixuan Feng, Reed Milewicz, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tyler Menezes, Alexander Serebrenik, Igor Steinmacher, Anita Sarma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04921

Charting Uncertain Waters: A Socio-Technical Framework for Navigating GenAI's Impact on Open Source Communities
Open Source Software communities face a wave of uncertainty as Generative AI rapidly transforms how software is created, maintained, and governed. Without clear frameworks, communities risk being overwhelmed by the complexity and ambiguity introduced by GenAI, threatening the collaborative ethos that underpins OSS. We conduct a scenario-driven, conceptual exploration using a socio-technical framework inspired by McLuhan's Tetrad to surface both risks and opportunities for community resilience a…

ForgeHLS: A Large-Scale, Open-Source Dataset for High-Level Synthesis
Zedong Peng, Zeju Li, Mingzhe Gao, Qiang Xu, Chen Zhang, Jieru Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03255

ForgeHLS: A Large-Scale, Open-Source Dataset for High-Level Synthesis
We introduce ForgeEDA, an open-source comprehensive circuit dataset across various categories. ForgeEDA includes diverse circuit representations such as Register Transfer Level (RTL) code, Post-mapping (PM) netlists, And-Inverter Graphs (AIGs), and placed netlists, enabling comprehensive analysis and development. We demonstrate ForgeEDA's utility by benchmarking state-of-the-art EDA algorithms on critical tasks such as Power, Performance, and Area (PPA) optimization, highlighting its ability to…

OpenFreeMap
OpenFreeMap lets you display custom maps on your website and apps for free.
🗺️ #openfreemap

Open Vision Reasoner: Transferring Linguistic Cognitive Behavior for Visual Reasoning
Yana Wei, Liang Zhao, Jianjian Sun, Kangheng Lin, Jisheng Yin, Jingcheng Hu, Yinmin Zhang, En Yu, Haoran Lv, Zejia Weng, Jia Wang, Chunrui Han, Yuang Peng, Qi Han, Zheng Ge, Xiangyu Zhang, Daxin Jiang, Vishal M. Patel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507…

Open Vision Reasoner: Transferring Linguistic Cognitive Behavior for Visual Reasoning
The remarkable reasoning capability of large language models (LLMs) stems from cognitive behaviors that emerge through reinforcement with verifiable rewards. This work investigates how to transfer this principle to Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) to unlock advanced visual reasoning. We introduce a two-stage paradigm built on Qwen2.5-VL-7B: a massive linguistic cold-start fine-tuning, followed by multimodal reinforcement learning (RL) spanning nearly 1,000 steps, surpassing all previous open-source effo…

OpenSN: An Open Source Library for Emulating LEO Satellite Networks
Wenhao Lu, Zhiyuan Wang, Hefan Zhang, Shan Zhang, Hongbin Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03248

OpenSN: An Open Source Library for Emulating LEO Satellite Networks
Low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellations (e.g., Starlink) are becoming a necessary component of future Internet. There have been increasing studies on LEO satellite networking. It is a crucial problem how to evaluate these studies in a systematic and reproducible manner. In this paper, we present OpenSN, i.e., an open source library for emulating large-scale satellite network (SN). Different from Mininet-based SN emulators (e.g., LeoEM), OpenSN adopts container-based virtualization, thus …

FIDESlib: A Fully-Fledged Open-Source FHE Library for Efficient CKKS on GPUs
Carlos Agull\'o-Domingo (Universidad de Murcia), \'Oscar Vera-L\'opez (Universidad de Murcia), Seyda Guzelhan (Boston University), Lohit Daksha (Boston University), Aymane El Jerari (Northeastern University), Kaustubh Shivdikar (Advanced Micro Devices), Rashmi Agrawal (Boston University), David Kaeli (Northeastern University), Ajay Joshi (Boston University), Jos\'e L. Abell\'an (Universidad…

FIDESlib: A Fully-Fledged Open-Source FHE Library for Efficient CKKS on GPUs
Word-wise Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) schemes, such as CKKS, are gaining significant traction due to their ability to provide post-quantum-resistant, privacy-preserving approximate computing; an especially desirable feature in Machine-Learning-as-a-Service (MLaaS) cloud-computing paradigms. OpenFHE is a leading CPU-based FHE library with robust CKKS operations, but its server-side performance is not yet sufficient for practical cloud deployment. As GPU computing becomes more common in da…

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

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers https://www.404media.co/the-open-source-software-saving-the-internet-from-ai-bot-scrapers/

In my opinion this router is a real bargain.
cc: @… https://mastodon.social/@bananapi/114815411403617794

Anubis verifies that any visitor to a site is a human using a browser as opposed to a bot.
🍿One of the ways it does this is by making the browser do a type of cryptographic math with JavaScript or other subtle checks that browsers do by default but bots have to be explicitly programmed to do.
This check is invisible to the user, and most browsers since 2022 are able to complete this test.
In theory, bot scrapers could pretend to be users with browsers as well, but the ad…

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.

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

Freier Zugang zu Forschung: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern investiert in Open Access
Damit Wissenschaft nicht hinter Bezahlschranken bleibt, möchte Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Publikationen leichter zugänglich machen. Es gibt Beratung und Geld.

Narrowing the Gap: Supervised Fine-Tuning of Open-Source LLMs as a Viable Alternative to Proprietary Models for Pedagogical Tools
Lorenzo Lee Solano, Charles Koutcheme, Juho Leinonen, Alexandra Vassar, Jake Renzella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05305

Narrowing the Gap: Supervised Fine-Tuning of Open-Source LLMs as a Viable Alternative to Proprietary Models for Pedagogical Tools
Frontier Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini can decipher cryptic compiler errors for novice programmers, but their computational scale, cost, and tendency to over-assist make them problematic for widespread pedagogical adoption. This work demonstrates that smaller, specialised language models, enhanced via Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), present a more viable alternative for educational tools. We utilise a new dataset of 40,000 C compiler error explanations, derived from real in…

The mini model is only 80 MB. Even the full-weight model can be run on your laptop.
#ai

Interested in helping out with one of the most innovative, grassroots, publishing efforts around? The Journal of Open Source Software (@…) is looking for editors. We conduct collaborative checklist-based peer review of research software using GitHub issues. It's the most positive, rewarding, community-based reviewing/editing work I've ever been a part of.
https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2025/08/call-for-editors
Happy to answer questions if anyone is interested

Title: Open Source Phone? This BOOMER doesn't care! | Purism Librem 5
Topics: #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #LinuxPhone

Machine Learning in Acoustics: A Review and Open-Source Repository
Ryan A. McCarthy, You Zhang, Samuel A. Verburg, William F. Jenkins, Peter Gerstoft
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04419

Machine Learning in Acoustics: A Review and Open-Source Repository
Acoustic data provide scientific and engineering insights in fields ranging from bioacoustics and communications to ocean and earth sciences. In this review, we survey recent advances and the transformative potential of machine learning (ML) in acoustics, including deep learning (DL). Using the Python high-level programming language, we demonstrate a broad collection of ML techniques to detect and find patterns for classification, regression, and generation in acoustics data automatically. We h…

Eindelijk eens op F-droid gekeken naar een app om YouTube filmpjes te kunnen downloaden als dat zo uitkomt.
Bij Tubular (fork van NewPipe) is dat aardig gelukt.
Tubular
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.polymorphicshade.tubular

I don't like support chat rooms.
I know the are popular among open source projects, but whenever I have a question it's either buried by a completely unrelated conversation or I get an answer 3 days later without anyone @mentioning me so I have little chance of finding it.
I think the Fediverse is much better suited for asking questions.

Help End Cruel Sepsis Experiments on Animals #AnimalRights

Help End Cruel Sepsis Experiments on Animals
Mice and rats are cut open, their intestines punctured so that faeces leak into their bodies in ineffective experiments – urge the government to put an end to this.

New ZFS AnyRAID feature would probably get me to use ZFS at home instead of btrfs.
I have a lot of different-sized old SATA enterprise SSDs retired from @… and a cheap 8 bay eSATA enclosure. The performance is good enough. I can't really justify buying 8 new, matching drives.
AnyMirror would be good enough for my purposes.

‘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

#OpenSource: Plötzlich Applaus statt Augenrollen – weil Transparenz, Teilhabe und digitale Souveränität eben mehr sind als Nerd-Spielzeug. Wer digitale Kontrolle wirklich will, kommt an offenen Quellen nicht vorbei. Aber: Ohne politischen Willen bleibt’s beim frommen Wunsch. Quelle: Jörg Schieb

OpenDCVCs: A PyTorch Open Source Implementation and Performance Evaluation of the DCVC series Video Codecs
Yichi Zhang, Fengqing Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04491 https://

OpenDCVCs: A PyTorch Open Source Implementation and Performance Evaluation of the DCVC series Video Codecs
We present OpenDCVCs, an open-source PyTorch implementation designed to advance reproducible research in learned video compression. OpenDCVCs provides unified and training-ready implementations of four representative Deep Contextual Video Compression (DCVC) models--DCVC, DCVC with Temporal Context Modeling (DCVC-TCM), DCVC with Hybrid Entropy Modeling (DCVC-HEM), and DCVC with Diverse Contexts (DCVC-DC). While the DCVC series achieves substantial bitrate reductions over both classical codecs an…

@… #HC24S — Over the past few days, I made and improved a PR adding Field Day support to the Open Source #MorseWalker #CW …

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Forschung ohne Schranken: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern stellt Open-Access-Konzept vor

Apache Solr 9.8 introduces the LLM module, opening the doors to end-to-end natural language query support through vector-backed semantic search (K Nearest Neighbors). At Berlin Buzzwords 2025, Alessandro Benedetti discussed the open-source contributions from both an indexing and query perspective, as well as what's next for Solr in terms of Large Language Model integration.
Watch the full session here:

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says open-source AI is vital for US innovation and the US risks losing the AI race to China if it falls behind in open source (Clément Delangue/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/why-open-source-ai-became-an-american-…

Why open-source AI became an American national priority
To reflect democratic principles, AI must be built in the open. If the U.S. wants to lead the AI race, it must lead the open-source AI race.

@… I really like it! The model I have is 10 yrs old, but I'm still able to install all kinds of open source patches, firmware, plugins, add-ons, etc.
Back when I was in school, I wrote about one of those custom worksflows to manage my readings (I've since stopped using Koreader):

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Tycho:
🎵 Source
#Tycho
https://tycho.bandcamp.com/track/source
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Q7YgLgVdsdEsyOAwJY4V3

Der Podcast Die Open Source Couch von @…, Oliver Zendel und @… hat eine neue Folge. „The (AI-) End is Nigh“ heißt sie. Die vermutlich nächste Folge wird live auf der @…

#opensource

Open Source, Hidden Costs: A Systematic Literature Review on OSS License Management
Boyuan Li, Chengwei Liu, Lingling Fan, Sen Chen, Zhenlin Zhang, Zheli Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05270

Open Source, Hidden Costs: A Systematic Literature Review on OSS License Management
Integrating third-party software components is a common practice in modern software development, offering significant advantages in terms of efficiency and innovation. However, this practice is fraught with risks related to software licensing. A lack of understanding may lead to disputes, which can pose serious legal and operational challenges. To these ends, both academia and industry have conducted various investigations and proposed solutions and tools to deal with these challenges. However,…

Beim Einkaufen sollten die Behörden Freie Software Produkte und Entwicklungen bevorzugen. Also "Public Money Public Code" #PMPC. Der jetzige Gesetzes-Entwurf zur Vergabe hat da noch viel Luft nach oben, stellt in

Such an insightful article by OpenSourceAlternative.to!
“undefined stands out as a leading open-source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnel. The Cloudflare Tunnel ecosystem primarily consists of undefined solutions.”
🔗 https://opensourcealternative.to/alternativesto/cloud…

0 Open Source Alternatives to Cloudflare Tunnel
Discover the best open source alternatives to Cloudflare Tunnel, including

I updated my system. I use kmymoney, an open source accounting system. This worked really well! With the new version, without any warning, without any explanation, they changed the ENTIRE interface AND the way it deals with locales. This is open source at its best. And then, those wannabe OS contributors complain that people become aggressive. How on earth can someone make such a mess and be proud of it? I'm flabbergasted

Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:
1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.
2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.
3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.
4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.
5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.
It’s a grift, through and through.

"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.

Mentra entwickelt ein Open-Source-Betriebssystem für Smart Glasses
Das Start-up Mentra arbeitet an einer Open-Source-Alternative zu Smart-Glasses-Betriebssystemen der großen Techkonzerne.
http…

Ultra-Large-Scale Compilation and Manipulation of Quantum Circuits with Pandora
Ioana Moflic, Alexandru Paler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05608 https://arxi…

Ultra-Large-Scale Compilation and Manipulation of Quantum Circuits with Pandora
There is an enormous gap between what quantum circuit sizes can be compiled and manipulated with the current generation of quantum software and the sizes required by practical applications such as quantum chemistry or Shor's algorithm. We present Pandora, an efficient, open-source, multithreaded, high-performance-computing-enabled tool based on circuit rewrites. Pandora can be used for quantum circuit equivalence checking, full compilations of large circuits, and scalable, streaming quantum res…

Managing, Analyzing and Sharing Research Data with Gen3 Data Commons
Craig Barnes, Kyle Burton, Michael S. Fitzsimons, Hara Prasad Juvvala, Brienna Larrick, Christopher Meyer, Pauline Ribeyre, Ao Liu, Clint Malson, Noah Metoki-Shlubsky, Andrii Prokhorenkov, Jawad Qureshi, Radhika Reddy, L. Philip Schumm, Mingfei Shao, Trevar Simmons, Alexander VanTol, Peter Vassilatos, Aarti Venkat, Robert L. Grossman

Managing, Analyzing and Sharing Research Data with Gen3 Data Commons
Gen3 is an open-source data platform for building data commons. A data commons is a cloud-based data platform for managing, analyzing, and sharing data with a research community. Gen3 has been used to build over a dozen data commons that in aggregate contain over 28 PB of data and 64 million FAIR data objects. To set up a Gen3 data commons, you first define a data model. Gen3 then autogenerates 1) a data portal for searching and exploring data in the commons; 2) a data portal for submitting dat…

MultiObjectiveAlgorithms.jl: a Julia package for solving multi-objective optimization problems
Oscar Dowson, Xavier Gandibleux, G\"okhan Kof
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05501 …

MultiObjectiveAlgorithms.jl: a Julia package for solving multi-objective optimization problems
We present MultiObjectiveAlgorithms.jl, an open-source Julia library for solving multi-objective optimization problems written in JuMP. MultiObjectiveAlgorithms.jl implements a number of different solution algorithms, which all rely on an iterative scalarization of the problem from a multi-objective optimization problem to a sequence of single-objective subproblems. As part of this work, we extended JuMP to support vector-valued objective functions. Because it is based on JuMP, MultiObjectiveAl…

Packaged another open source #nodejs application for #NixOS today. A few words of advice (or more of a plea) to my fellow #FOSS JS devs:
1. Don't try to modify your frontend assets at runti…

OMAR-RQ: Open Music Audio Representation Model Trained with Multi-Feature Masked Token Prediction
Pablo Alonso-Jim\'enez, Pedro Ramoneda, R. Oguz Araz, Andrea Poltronieri, Dmitry Bogdanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03482

OMAR-RQ: Open Music Audio Representation Model Trained with Multi-Feature Masked Token Prediction
Developing open-source foundation models is essential for advancing research in music audio understanding and ensuring access to powerful, multipurpose representations for music information retrieval. We present OMAR-RQ, a model trained with self-supervision via masked token classification methodologies using a large-scale dataset with over 330,000 hours of music audio. We experiment with different input features and quantization options, and achieve state-of-the-art performance in music taggin…

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."

Finally found a great ad-free and tracking-free #OpenSource document scanner for iOS, with OCR and multi-page PDF output:
https://openscanner.app/

Open Scanner
Open Scanner is an open-source document scanning app for iPhone

Fuck it, im all on the style #anarchist,

Talking climate met Katharine Heyhoe
https://open.substack.com/pub/talkingclimatenewsletter/p/how-chinas-clean-energy-is-changing?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx

How China's clean energy is changing the world
China's clean-energy exports cut emissions worldwide, more record-breaking heat and floods, and a Saving Us action story

So people are still fudding against open source.
(FUD = Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt)
All of this applies to closed source as well (or even worse):
https://www.xda-developers.com/drawbacks-open-source-software/
Let me make that clear:
The sole…

I can't ignore these 8 drawbacks to open-source software
I've found these drawbacks when using certain open-source tools.

OSINT or BULLSHINT? Exploring Open-Source Intelligence tweets about the Russo-Ukrainian War
Johannes Niu, Mila Stillman, Anna Kruspe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03599 https://

OSINT or BULLSHINT? Exploring Open-Source Intelligence tweets about the Russo-Ukrainian War
This paper examines the role of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) on Twitter regarding the Russo-Ukrainian war, distinguishing between genuine OSINT and deceptive misinformation efforts, termed "BULLSHINT." Utilizing a dataset spanning from January 2022 to July 2023, we analyze nearly 2 million tweets from approximately 1,040 users involved in discussing real-time military engagements, strategic analyses, and misinformation related to the conflict. Using sentiment analysis, partisanship detectio…

Google is quite agressive with Gemini CLI , offering 1000 free Gemini 2.5 Pro requests per day for individual users. Essentially trying to push Anthropic and OpenAI away.
https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli-open-source-ai-age…

Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent
Free and open source, Gemini CLI brings Gemini directly into developers’ terminals — with unmatched access for individuals.

Hugging Face begins taking orders for its $449 Reachy Mini Wireless and $299 Reachy Mini Lite open source robots, which come as kits for developers to build (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/hugging-fa…

Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots | TechCrunch
Hugging Face is releasing two versions of its desktop robot meant for designing and coding AI applications.

OpenYield: An Open-Source SRAM Yield Analysis and Optimization Benchmark Suite
Shan Shen, Xingyang Li, Zhuohua Liu, Yikai Wang, Yiheng Wu, Junhao Ma, Yuquan Sun, Wei W. Xing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04106

OpenYield: An Open-Source SRAM Yield Analysis and Optimization Benchmark Suite
Static Random-Access Memory (SRAM) yield analysis is essential for semiconductor innovation, yet research progress faces a critical challenge: the significant disconnect between simplified academic models and complex industrial realities. The absence of open, realistic benchmarks has created a reproducibility crisis, where promising academic techniques often fail to translate to industrial practice. We present \textit{OpenYield}, a comprehensive open-source ecosystem designed to address this cr…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Web-Tipps: Wie Open Source ist ein Projekt?
https://www.

Here’s a reason to never use Gumroad.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91330297/doge-sahil-lavignia-gumroad

Thanks to DOGE, Gumroad’s founder has a second job with the VA
The creator economy pioneer Sahil Lavingia on his eyebrow-raising decision to embrace DOGE—and, after thinking it over, open source.

Der Podcast Die Open Source Couch von @…, Oliver Zendel und @… hat eine neue Folge. „The (AI-) End is Nigh“ heißt sie. Die vermutlich nächste Folge wird live auf der @…

Tomorrow (8 July) at 20:00 NZST, we'll be running our monthly #libre / #FOSS virtual gather at https://meeting.iridescent.nz

$\textit{Grahak-Nyay:}$ Consumer Grievance Redressal through Large Language Models
Shrey Ganatra, Swapnil Bhattacharyya, Harshvivek Kashid, Spandan Anaokar, Shruti Nair, Reshma Sekhar, Siddharth Manohar, Rahul Hemrajani, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04854

$\textit{Grahak-Nyay:}$ Consumer Grievance Redressal through Large Language Models
Access to consumer grievance redressal in India is often hindered by procedural complexity, legal jargon, and jurisdictional challenges. To address this, we present $\textbf{Grahak-Nyay}$ (Justice-to-Consumers), a chatbot that streamlines the process using open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Grahak-Nyay simplifies legal complexities through a concise and up-to-date knowledge base. We introduce three novel datasets: $\textit{GeneralQA}$ (general con…

VLAI: A RoBERTa-Based Model for Automated Vulnerability Severity Classification
C\'edric Bonhomme, Alexandre Dulaunoy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03607 …

VLAI: A RoBERTa-Based Model for Automated Vulnerability Severity Classification
This paper presents VLAI, a transformer-based model that predicts software vulnerability severity levels directly from text descriptions. Built on RoBERTa, VLAI is fine-tuned on over 600,000 real-world vulnerabilities and achieves over 82% accuracy in predicting severity categories, enabling faster and more consistent triage ahead of manual CVSS scoring. The model and dataset are open-source and integrated into the Vulnerability-Lookup service.

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."

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Demystifying NCCL: An In-depth Analysis of GPU Communication Protocols and Algorithms
Zhiyi Hu, Siyuan Shen, Tommaso Bonato, Sylvain Jeaugey, Cedell Alexander, Eric Spada, Jeff Hammond, Torsten Hoefler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04786

Demystifying NCCL: An In-depth Analysis of GPU Communication Protocols and Algorithms
The NVIDIA Collective Communication Library (NCCL) is a critical software layer enabling high-performance collectives on large-scale GPU clusters. Despite being open source with a documented API, its internal design remains largely opaque. The orchestration of communication channels, selection of protocols, and handling of memory movement across devices and nodes are not well understood, making it difficult to analyze performance or identify bottlenecks. This paper presents a comprehensive anal…

Small Models, Big Support: A Local LLM Framework for Teacher-Centric Content Creation and Assessment using RAG and CAG
Zarreen Reza, Alexander Mazur, Michael T. Dugdale, Robin Ray-Chaudhuri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05925

Small Models, Big Support: A Local LLM Framework for Teacher-Centric Content Creation and Assessment using RAG and CAG
While Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly utilized as student-facing educational aids, their potential to directly support educators, particularly through locally deployable and customizable open-source solutions, remains significantly underexplored. Many existing educational solutions rely on cloud-based infrastructure or proprietary tools, which are costly and may raise privacy concerns. Regulated industries with limited budgets require affordable, self-hosted solutions. We introduc…

atommovr: An open-source simulation framework for rearrangement in atomic arrays
Nikhil K Harle, Bo-Yu Chen, Bob Bao, Hannes Bernien
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02670 https://

atommovr: An open-source simulation framework for rearrangement in atomic arrays
The task of atom rearrangement has emerged in the last decade as a fundamental building block for the development of neutral atom-based quantum processors. However, despite many recent efforts to develop algorithms with favorable asymptotic scaling, no time-optimal algorithm has been developed for any rearrangement task. Moreover, no open-source code exists to reproduce or benchmark existing algorithms, and to assist the development of new rearrangement protocols. To address this deficiency, we…

Bridging Language Gaps in Open-Source Documentation with Large-Language-Model Translation
Elijah Kayode Adejumo, Brittany Johnson, Mariam Guizani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02497

Bridging Language Gaps in Open-Source Documentation with Large-Language-Model Translation
While open source communities attract diverse contributors globally, few repositories provide essential documentation in languages other than English. Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in software engineering tasks and translations across domains. However, little is known about LLM capabilities in translating open-source technical documentation, which mixes natural language, code, URLs, and markdown formatting. To understand the need and potential for LLMs i…

SIGIR 2025 -- LiveRAG Challenge Report
David Carmel, Simone Filice, Guy Horowitz, Yoelle Maarek, Oren Somekh, Ran Tavory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04942 h…

SIGIR 2025 -- LiveRAG Challenge Report
The LiveRAG Challenge at SIGIR 2025, held between March and May 2025, provided a competitive platform for advancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technologies. Participants from academia and industry were invited to develop a RAG-based question-answering system using a fixed corpus (Fineweb-10BT) and a common open-source LLM (Falcon3-10B-Instruct). The goal was to facilitate challenging comparisons of retrieval and prompting strategies. During the Live Challenge Day, 70 teams from 27 dif…

Oil, Gas, and Other Climate Solutions (Apparently)
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatehistorian/p/oil-gas-and-other-climate-solutions?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4my…

Oil, Gas, and Other Climate Solutions (Apparently)
Just five months until COP returns, that annual spectacle where world leaders gather to boldly pledge climate action, only for those promises to be quietly watered down or, conveniently, lost in translation

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Sentinel: SOTA model to protect against prompt injections
Dror Ivry, Oran Nahum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05446 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Sentinel: SOTA model to protect against prompt injections
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly powerful but remain vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, where malicious inputs cause the model to deviate from its intended instructions. This paper introduces Sentinel, a novel detection model, qualifire/prompt-injection-sentinel, based on the \answerdotai/ModernBERT-large architecture. By leveraging ModernBERT's advanced features and fine-tuning on an extensive and diverse dataset comprising a few open-source and private collections, Sentinel …

Beyond the Buzz: A Pragmatic Take on Inference Disaggregation
Tiyasa Mitra, Ritika Borkar, Nidhi Bhatia, Ramon Matas, Shivam Raj, Dheevatsa Mudigere, Ritchie Zhao, Maximilian Golub, Arpan Dutta, Sailaja Madduri, Dharmesh Jani, Brian Pharris, Bita Darvish Rouhani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05508

Beyond the Buzz: A Pragmatic Take on Inference Disaggregation
As inference scales to multi-node deployments, disaggregation - splitting inference into distinct phases - offers a promising path to improving the throughput-interactivity Pareto frontier. Despite growing enthusiasm and a surge of open-source efforts, practical deployment of disaggregated serving remains limited due to the complexity of the optimization search space and system-level coordination. In this paper, we present the first systematic study of disaggregated inference at scale, evaluati…

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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…

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.

Q&A with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Anthropic's growth to ~$5B in ARR, focusing on B2B, AI talent wars, open-source models, safety regulations, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/a-cheeky-pint-with-anthropic-ceo

A Cheeky Pint with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei joins John Collison to talk about Anthropic's growth to almost $5 billion in ARR, how AI models show capitalistic impulses, predictions for an agentic future, the economics of model businesses, and the 19th-century concept of vitalism.

Donnerstag: Amazon gegen Gewerkschaften, Apples Milliarden für US-Produktion
Behördenrüffel für Amazon Apples US-Investitionen Aus für Windows-Schulversion Open-Access für Forschung Telco-Branche für Mobilfunkzugang #heiseshow

#ActuallyAutistic logging offline, lmao!
https://midtsveen.codeberg.page

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Commit Stability as a Signal for Risk in Open-Source Projects
Elijah Kayode Adejumo, Brittany Johnson, Mariam Guizani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02487 https://

Commit Stability as a Signal for Risk in Open-Source Projects
Open source software (OSS) generates trillions of dollars in economic value and has become essential to technical infrastructures worldwide. As organizations increasingly depend on OSS, understanding project evolution is critical. While existing metrics provide insights into project health, one dimension remains understudied: project resilience -- the ability to return to normal operations after disturbances such as contributor departures, security vulnerabilities, and bug report spikes. We hyp…

HeroDevs, which provides support for legacy open-source software, raised $125M from PSG, intends to allocate $20M to its Open Source Sustainability Fund (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/24/herodevs-rais…

HeroDevs raises $125M to provide long-term support for legacy open-source software - SiliconANGLE
HeroDevs raises $125M to provide long-term support for legacy open-source software - SiliconANGLE

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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…

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Belgisches Gericht ordnet Sperre der Open Library des Internet Archive an
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OpenAI veröffentlicht neue offene Modelle
Mit zwei Open-Weight-Reasoning-Modellen will OpenAI offenbar vor allem der Konkurrenz aus China die Stirn bieten. Eine Herausforderung war dabei die Sicherheit.
https://www.

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.