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How an open-source approach helped DeepSeek and other Chinese AI companies; Hugging Face: Alibaba's Qwen is now the world's largest open-source AI ecosystem (South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

How open-source AI is helping China win hearts and market share
China’s free-for-all AI models, developed by firms like DeepSeek and Alibaba, present a viable alternative to US closed-source systems.

Open Letter to CRL from the academic wing of #CripLib - ACRLog
https://acrlog.or…

Open Letter to CRL from the academic wing of #CripLib - ACRLog
Editor's note: We welcome a guest blog post from the academic librarians of #CripLib, which focuses on the intersection of disability and library work. Note: The focus is on our concerns about the quality of the article and the editorial process that led to it being published as research - NOT on the author as

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.

So Bitvise, the developer of an SSH client that competes with PuTTY, the widely-used open-source SSH and Telnet client, somehow got hold of the domain putty.org and is using it to promote its own products.
Here's how Bitvise responded to a tech blogger/journalist who wrote about this situation.
https://blog.pupred.…

As we're getting more into hikes around our new home – and I record tracks of them to also improve #openstreetmap – I've made a #wanderer profile at @… to share some nice trails.
It's an open source trail/track sharing platform that's federated thanks to #ActivityPub, so if you can read this post, you can follow my profile there too!*
* that is except you read this through the bridge to BlueSky, then you're out of luck and should give the actual Fediverse another try 😉

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...

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…

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…

Happy Fourth of July!
There are many great things about the United States of America, but there are so many ways “we need to do better.” Together, we can.
Check out my article for Heal Our Culture: “Commit To Do Better”
https://open.substack…

Commit To Do Better
At the start of every Caldwell Presbyterian Church worship service, our leaders share a “land acknowledgment,” remembering and acknowledging the native people and First Nations from whom the land our church was built on was unlawfully taken from / stolen from.

Excellent, informative post by #SenatorChrisMurphy addressing why bombing Iran was perhaps not the best idea:
https://op…

8 Things You Should Know About Trump's Strikes on Iran
America’s addiction to military intervention in the Middle East is a stubborn habit to break for our nation, and it’s heartbreaking.

Excellent, informative post by #SenatorChrisMurphy addressing why bombing Iran was perhaps not the best idea:
https://op…

8 Things You Should Know About Trump's Strikes on Iran
America’s addiction to military intervention in the Middle East is a stubborn habit to break for our nation, and it’s heartbreaking.

I've just finished recording my first time as a #podcast guest talking about #QEMU for The Open Source Way. I shall post the link once its been through the editing and release process.

I've spent little to no time on Mastodon in the last few weeks, let alone posting...
The reason has been the illness and then death of my beloved dog “Sam”, aka “Unixdog”, which has left me pretty broken up.
The grief is still not out of my heart, and it doesn't look like things are getting better at the moment, but I will try to bring normality back into my life and thus post Linux and Open Source related topics here again.
And I hope that Sam is doing well in dog…

@…
maybe interesting for you?
https://infosec.exchange/@srlabs/114777189749813576

Check out and share my latest post for #ResistAndHeal: “Reading is Important”
https://open.substack.com/pub/resistandhe…

Reading Is Important
It turns out reading is important, especially when you are the most powerful chief executive and government official on earth.

As I've seen a good number of people here post about "Worktree.ca" as a "Canadian-owned" alternative to GitHub: it's a closed-source fork of Gitea which "one day" (maybe, if the company doesn't change its mind) will be open core. It also runs on AWS…
Not that it's any of my business, but migrating there feels like the code-equivalent of leaving Twitter for Bluesky: Moving from one company-owned walled garden to the next, without having learned a lesson. All painted in a nationalist cash grab. 🤷‍♂️

As I've seen a good number of people here post about "Worktree.ca" as a "Canadian-owned" alternative to GitHub: it's a closed-source fork of Gitea which "one day" (maybe, if the company doesn't change its mind) will be open core. It also runs on AWS…
Not that it's any of my business, but migrating there feels like the code-equivalent of leaving Twitter for Bluesky: Moving from one company-owned walled garden to the next, without having learned a lesson. All painted in a nationalist cash grab. 🤷‍♂️

I wrote a little blogpost about #AI #bots that are like a plague of locusts on the #OAPEN #Library

Funnelling locusts – further reflections on the OAPEN Library and DOAB’s response time 
In my previous post on our less than optimal performance of the OAPEN Library and DOAB, I wrote about the effect of AI bots on our systems, and that it has become a common problem for many sites providing open access (OA) or open source software content. All of them – including the OAPEN Library … Continue reading "Funnelling locusts – further reflections on the OAPEN Library and DOAB’s response time "

#EUOS #digitalsovereignty #tech #bigtech
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