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Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Starlink weltweit ausgefallen
https://www.heise.de/new…

Macs mit Apple-Chip: Intel-Software läuft in Zukunft nicht mehr
Apple verzichtet ab macOS 28 auf die Übersetzungsschicht Rosetta. Entwickler sollen jetzt schon testen, ob ihre Apps dann noch auf Macs mit M-Chip laufen.

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.

Ich arbeite erst ein Monat bei pretix, aber habe mich als neurodivergente Person noch nie so wohl und willkommen bei der Arbeit gefühlt. Falls ihr für Android entwickelt, bewerbt euch: https://pretix.eu/about/de/job/appdev

Data management software vendor Rubrik agrees to acquire Predibase, which helps with deploying AI models; source: Rubrik plans to pay between $100M and $500M (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/25/rubrik-agrees-to-bu…

Rubrik agrees to buy AI startup Predibase for over $100 million
Rubrik is seeking to bolster its artificial intelligence capabilities through acquisition.

Finger verbrennen mit #Palantir - ein Kommentar von @mediathoms.bsky.social€:
https://share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothek-au…

Palantir-Einsatz bei der Polizei: Chance auf ein juristisches Eigentor
Polizeibehörden in verschiedenen Bundesländern setzen auf die umstrittene Software Palantir - trotz starker verfassungsrechtlicher Bedenken wegen Datenschutz und Bürgerrechten. Diese werden - wie in anderen Politikbereichen auch - ignoriert. Bis zum nächsten Urteil.

Mehr Quizzes für Metadatenmenschen, um spielerisch #Metadatenㅤㅤㅤ-dienste und ihre Möglichkeiten kennenzulernen! Ich habe mal mit einer Frage zu #lobid-gnd angefangen:

The virus in AUR, what software/packets are affected? #aur #linux @… #arch

Intel lagert sein #Marketing fast komplett aus und setzt auf KI – angeblich, weil man zu langsam auf den Markt reagiert habe. Doch die eigentlichen Probleme lagen in der Entwicklung und im Management. Jetzt wird Marketing zum Sündenbock für jahrelange Versäumnisse.
Es freut mich, das mein Ruhestand naht. Bevor ich als

Due to a recent post about #friction I've found out about #cinelinux.
Looks like a bilingual Brazilian blog/forum about #VFX and related topics and software solutions on Linux!
They aren'…

linux: Linux source inclusions (v3.16)
A network of Linux (v3.16) source code file inclusion. Nodes represent source files and a directed edge indicates if one file includes another.
This network has 30837 nodes and 213954 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/linux

Why is BMS software scraping my clipboard? Truly one of the great mysteries of the ages.

Hey hey! We’re still doing Tech Pizza Mondays. We understand there’s a certain conference in town, one that rhymes with “blanimé sporth”, so if you’re a part of that, join us tomorrow! #Toronto #tech #pizza

'"Time handling is everywhere in software, but many programmers talk about the topic with dread and fear. Some warn about how difficult the topic is to understand, listing bizarre timezone edge cases as evidence of complexity. Others repeat advice like "just use UTC bro" as if it were an unconditional rule - if your program needs precise timekeeping or has user-facing datetime interactions, this advice will almost certainly cause bugs or confusing behavior. Here's a co…

https://stephango.com/quality-software
The analogy of quality software from independent developers being like the quality food from independent farmers is so good!Don't know how I never thought of that before, but I'm definitely using it!

Kiedy odkrywasz, że kopia "Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual", którą trzymasz na pulpicie jest z 2020 roku, i musisz ją zaktualizować.

Sources: GPT-5 shows improved performance in coding, particularly in practical software engineering tasks, outperforming prior OpenAI models and Claude Sonnet 4 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-gpt-5-shines-coding…

OpenAI’s GPT-5 Shines in Coding Tasks
GPT-5 is almost here, and we’re hearing good things. The early reaction from at least one person who’s used the unreleased version was extremely positive.That’s good news for OpenAI. The ChatGPT creator has been under pressure to show major gains from its next big artificial intelligence model ...

💡 Forschungssoftware ist oft so komplex, dass in vielen Projekten die Dokumentation zur Software, die eine sinnvolle Nachnutzung erst ermöglicht, zu kurz kommt.
🛠️ In einem Arbeitstreffen möchte daher Dennis Ried @… , der Preisträger unseres 3. #NFDFI4Culture

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Koalitionszoff um Palantir-Software für Polizei
https://www.

OK, this seems interesting.
https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience/

delightful fediverse experience
Delightful curated lists of free software, open science and information sources.

Bei der Logitech MX Master 3 ist die Daumentaste "Maustaste 6" unter macOS und kann als solche in den Systemeinstellungen bei Schreibtisch & Dock als Mauskurzbefehl für Mission Control hinterlegt werden.
Ich hatte kurz Sorge, ich müsse Logitech Software installieren, um das zu konfigurieren.

Transkriptions-Software und "FLINTA", das reicht von "Familie" bis "Printer".

I'm skimming this year's #OSDI's proceedings because operating systems are 🆒.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi25/technical-sessions

OSDI '25 Technical Sessions
OSDI brings together professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds in what has become a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software. The symposium emphasizes innovative research as well as quantified or insightful experiences in systems design and implementation.

Das BSI warnt: Immer weniger Menschen nutzen 2FA und sichere Passwörter, obwohl Cybergefahren steigen. Nur 34% setzen auf 2FA, Updates werden vernachlässigt, Firewalls sind out. Die Argumentation des BSI ist klar: Wer sich schützt, bleibt seltener Opfer. Doch die Bereitschaft (und Unkenntnis) sinkt – fatal! #Cybersecurity

No sector has seen greater change than automotive. Packed with intelligent sensors, AI, GPS, cameras and in-car software, today’s vehicles generate and transmit vast volumes of data.
While this helps with seamless connectivity and smarter driving, it also creates serious security, privacy, and compliance risks automotive firms and tech providers can’t afford to ignore.

How connected cars are creating new data protection risks
Seamless connectivity helps with smarter driving, but creates security, privacy and compliance risks vendors can’t afford to ignore, argues Jonathan Armstrong.

On the rehabilitative power of being able to work from prison.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/preston-thorpe-is-a-software-engineer-at-a-san-francisco-startup-hes-also-serving-his-11th-year-in-prison/

Preston Thorpe is a software engineer at a San Francisco startup — he’s also serving his 11th year in prison | TechCrunch
A senior software engineer for Turso, Thorpe is part of an experimental program in the Maine state prison system that allows incarcerated people to work remote jobs from custody.

Satya Nadella's memo on Microsoft's layoffs portends the harsh reality that AI could make software companies more profitable while employing fewer people (Om Malik/On my Om)
https://om.co/2025/07/26/the-satya-of-satyas-layoff-memo/

The Satya of Satya’s Layoff Memo
“The tournament of today – a set-to between labor and monopoly. To paraphrase Sigmund Freud, sometimes a memo is not just a memo. That’s why we have to read between …

Oh wow. It looks like I last used HaikuOS for real in 2023 judging by screenshots, but holy moly, it's come a long way since. Typing this from my LibreWolf with extensions running and everything. There are minor issues with some of these Wayland/GTK ports, but they are absolutely usable. And lots of software has shown up in HaikuDepot since last time. I just wish sound was working on my hardware so this could be a fully viable desktop for me.

A GitHub public repository that allows you to add your climate-friendly/aware software to a browsable directory, after a peer review process. Accepted software is sorted into one or more of the following categories:
1. Measurement
2. Carbon Efficiency
3. Carbon Awareness
4. Special Tools
"GitHub's Green Software Directory"

This popped up on one of my feeds a while ago. Today I read it and I think it very well captures why #developing #software can be very hard at times.
"Why writing software is not like engineering"

Bin gerade sehr sauer… werde gezwungen, Microsoft-Software auf meinen sicheren Mac zu installieren… zur Verbesserung der Sicherheit.
Ich will gerade was anzünden…
#intune #FicktEuchHart

Palantir becomes the 20th most valuable US company, after its stock more than doubled in 2025, giving it a market cap of $375B (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/25/palantir-jumps-to-all-time-high-becomes-20th-most-valu…

Palantir joins list of 20 most valuable U.S. companies, with stock more than doubling in 2025
The provider of software for defense agencies jumped about 3% on Friday to a record, ranking the company among the top 20 U.S. firms by market value.

OH GOD SOMEONE SEND HELP I'VE STARTED LEARNING HOW TO TRACKER AGAIN
#genesis #ym2612 #furnace #tracker

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism
Richard Muscat* In the series Prospects for Degrowth I am a degrowth activist. It’s not a career path I ever envisaged for myself. I arrived here after a couple of decades working, for want of better phrasing, on “capitalism’s side”. First for a range of high-growth Silicon Valley software companies and their ilk; latterly directly in venture capital focused on climate change technology startups, aka “Climate Tech” or “Impact Investing.”

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism
Richard Muscat* In the series Prospects for Degrowth I am a degrowth activist. It’s not a career path I ever envisaged for myself. I arrived here after a couple of decades working, for want of bett…

software_dependencies: Software dependencies (2010)
Several networks of software dependencies. Nodes represent libraries and a directed edge denotes a library dependency on another.
This network has 1040 nodes and 5363 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.d…

Matt Levine keeps saying that cryptocurrencies are speedrunning decades of finance. Vibecoding tools are doing the same for software development. (Meaning, both are recapitulating the same disasters to find out why there were safeguards in the first place.)

Wer digitale Souveränität in der Verwaltung will, muss raus aus der Abhängigkeitsfalle proprietärer Software. Mit OpenDesk setzt ZenDiS auf offene Standards, Datenschutz und Kontrolle über die eigenen Daten. Smolianitski zeigt: Nur wer Technik versteht und gestaltet, bleibt wirklich souverän
#DigitaleSouveränität für die öffentliche Verwaltung: Gespräch mit Alexande…

Freitag: Magdeburg-Fab Opfer der Intel-Krise, kurzzeitiger Ausfall von Starlink
Intels rigoroser Sparkurs Starlink-Ausfall wegen Software MediaMarktSaturn vor chinesischer Übernahme Amazons neue Kindle Colorsoft Datenschutz-Podcast

good news: the webusb version of #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer software is now more or less as fast as native (the latency is a bit worse)
bad news: i have no idea why. i didn't do anything

Expectation: "Oh no, configuring this #Ubiquiti #Unifi Gateway will take hours!"
Reality: Spent two days drilling holes, running cables, and crimping RJ-45 & keystone jacks.
The software part took 45 minutes. 🤦‍♂️

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 "

Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
"They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so."
🎶 https://www.404media.co/sp…

Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
"They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so."

Oh, come on...
Can we please not make our cyclist-ridden country full of strange and untypical streets the testing ground for a manchild's misguided attempts at creating a technology he doesn't understand with a vast societal risk he doesn't respect.

Asana names LaunchDarkly CEO Dan Rogers as its new CEO starting on July 21, replacing co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, who is retiring and will remain board chair (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/25/asana-ceo-dan-rogers-replace-dustin…

Asana picks Dan Rogers, formerly of ServiceNow, to replace CEO Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz, the largest individual owner of Asana stock, will stick around as the software company's board chair.

Chinese Hackers Are Exploiting Flaws in Widely Used Software, Microsoft Says - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/world/asia/chinese-hackers-microsoft-sharepoint.html

Subtooting since people in the original thread wanted it to be over, but selfishly tagging @… and @… whose opinions I value...
I think that saying "we are not a supply chain" is exactly what open-source maintainers should be doing right now in response to "open source supply chain security" threads.
I can't claim to be an expert and don't maintain any important FOSS stuff, but I do release almost all of my code under open licenses, and I do use many open source libraries, and I have felt the pain of needing to replace an unmaintained library.
There's a certain small-to-mid-scale class of program, including many open-source libraries, which can be built/maintained by a single person, and which to my mind best operate on a "snake growth" model: incremental changes/fixes, punctuated by periodic "skin-shedding" phases where make rewrites or version updates happen. These projects aren't immortal either: as the whole tech landscape around them changes, they become unnecessary and/or people lose interest, so they go unmaintained and eventually break. Each time one of their dependencies breaks (or has a skin-shedding moment) there's a higher probability that they break or shed too, as maintenance needs shoot up at these junctures. Unless you're a company trying to make money from a single long-lived app, it's actually okay that software churns like this, and if you're a company trying to make money, your priorities absolutely should not factor into any decisions people making FOSS software make: we're trying (and to a huge extent succeeding) to make a better world (and/or just have fun with our own hobbies share that fun with others) that leaves behind the corrosive & planet-destroying plague which is capitalism, and you're trying to personally enrich yourself by embracing that plague. The fact that capitalism is *evil* is not an incidental thing in this discussion.
To make an imperfect analogy, imagine that the peasants of some domain have set up a really-free-market, where they provide each other with free stuff to help each other survive, sometimes doing some barter perhaps but mostly just everyone bringing their surplus. Now imagine the lord of the domain, who is the source of these peasants' immiseration, goes to this market secretly & takes some berries, which he uses as one ingredient in delicious tarts that he then sells for profit. But then the berry-bringer stops showing up to the free market, or starts bringing a different kind of fruit, or even ends up bringing rotten berries by accident. And the lord complains "I have a supply chain problem!" Like, fuck off dude! Your problem is that you *didn't* want to build a supply chain and instead thought you would build your profit-focused business in other people's free stuff. If you were paying the berry-picker, you'd have a supply chain problem, but you weren't, so you really have an "I want more free stuff" problem when you can't be arsed to give away your own stuff for free.
There can be all sorts of problems in the really-free-market, like maybe not enough people bring socks, so the peasants who can't afford socks are going barefoot, and having foot problems, and the peasants put their heads together and see if they can convince someone to start bringing socks, and maybe they can't and things are a bit sad, but the really-free-market was never supposed to solve everyone's problems 100% when they're all still being squeezed dry by their taxes: until they are able to get free of the lord & start building a lovely anarchist society, the really-free-market is a best-effort kind of deal that aims to make things better, and sometimes will fall short. When it becomes the main way goods in society are distributed, and when the people who contribute aren't constantly drained by the feudal yoke, at that point the availability of particular goods is a real problem that needs to be solved, but at that point, it's also much easier to solve. And at *no* point does someone coming into the market to take stuff only to turn around and sell it deserve anything from the market or those contributing to it. They are not a supply chain. They're trying to help each other out, but even then they're doing so freely and without obligation. They might discuss amongst themselves how to better coordinate their mutual aid, but they're not going to end up forcing anyone to bring anything or even expecting that a certain person contribute a certain amount, since the whole point is that the thing is voluntary & free, and they've all got changing life circumstances that affect their contributions. Celebrate whatever shows up at the market, express your desire for things that would be useful, but don't impose a burden on anyone else to bring a specific thing, because otherwise it's fair for them to oppose such a burden on you, and now you two are doing your own barter thing that's outside the parameters of the really-free-market.

One of the reasons I love FOSS and small commercial developers is that they don’t have teams of quasi-competitive coders and/or “product managers” who have formal incentives to make visible changes to software
E.g. Apple keeps changing their decor with apparently no real goal or concept of there being objectively better or worse visual styles. Someone made Liquid Glass & probably got a bonus for doing so. Quality of UX be damned, the look must always be fresh & new.

Federico Viticci :ticciseal: (@viticci@macstories.net)
Attached: 1 image Pocket Casts for iOS 18 on the left, Apple Podcasts for iOS 26 on the right. Between the illegible glass and the tab bar that disappears on scroll, I honestly have no idea who can take a look at this and say "Yes, that'll do it. That's good." Liquid Glass is a mess so far, *especially* on iOS. Actually pushing me to use apps without Liquid Glass.

Alibaba previews the Quark AI glasses, which are its first pair of AI-powered glasses and named after its AI assistant, with plans to launch them later in 2025 (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/ar…

Alibaba previews its first AI-powered glasses, joining heated race
The Quark glasses underscore the tech giant’s significant AI investments, which encompass both software and hardware products.

With all excitement and bling floating around I am enjoying my time today on GhostBSD Mate edition. Well rounded, everything works ootb, quiet styling (I've turned on a Dracula theme of course ;-).
Plus'es: samba , VLC, sound, LibreOffice, generic feel, the Stations (backup, software), sudo (I prefer doas, but newcomers will recognize sudo), install and go.
BSD generic: volume settings (mixer pcm etc), wifi (on a 2018 mini pc with Ryzen 2500U, seriously?) and of course BT are generic issues. Can be solved, but still.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that GhostBSD totally takes care of graphics drivers, dbus et al. I mean DisplayPort at 185hz ootb, great!
All in all a nice one 👍🏻, recommended!
Cc @… @…
@…
#ghostbsd

Operating system drama is basically YouTube drama but with way more keyboard clacking and less ukuleles. Friends turn into rivals overnight just because of which OS you use. It is wild to see people treat software choices like reality TV show rivalries.
What makes me even sadder is how something that should come from understanding and research turns into a full-blown philosophical fight. Choosing an OS should be about what works for you, not a reason to start a digital soap opera.

May 2025 recap | The latest edition of the GÉANT School of Software Engineering, hosted by PCSS, brought together developers and experts from across Europe to explore generative #AI tools, risks, secure coding practices.
Highlights:
🔹#GenAI Buzz-Free Programming with LLMs – training by Maciej Łabędzki…

Responsible AI in Practice: Shaping a Safer Future for AI-Powered Software Development | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Poznań, 20–22 May 2025 — The latest edition of the GÉANT School of Software Engineering, held at the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), brought together top-tier developers and experts from across Europe for a deep-dive into generative AI tools, risks, and secure coding practices. At the core of the event was the acclaimed training

So I spent a lot of time writing a post...which I think was kinda irrelevant but I wrote it due to me being excited with a Mastodon feature.
This can be seen in this screenshot I'm adding here:
Not a complaint comment: It would make more sense to me if the Fedi users showing up were mutual follows...just saying! No judgement!
#Mastodon

"Don't do that, Dave"
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/anthropics-new-ai-model-turns-to-blackmail-when-engineers-try-to-take-it-offline/?utm_source=semafor

#LouisRossmann Investigation Reveals Shocking Past Behind #PlayStation Repair Software Scandal 🔍🎮 #BetterWayElectronics created software to read secret

Karolina Skrivankova understands how #IoT really should work. The recordings of the #IRTF presentation will be available at <https://da…

At least people across academic disciplines are selling themselves out to "AI" bullshit.
Here: Let's get some software make wrong autocompletions of Latin texts and call it scholarship, while probably poisoning our knowledge corpus for years to come…
https://archive.ph/U0ePh

@… Your episode 52 on emotions had me wondering if you'd ever done anything on Maturana and Varela's ideas of autopoiesis and (loose) structural coupling. I'd be interested to hear you on that, also because these were ideas outside software actually applied to software via Winograd and Flores' _Understanding Computers and Cognition_. Lots of animal per…

How many RPMs? Your next car may run Red Hat Linux.
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-prepares-new-future-software-defined-vehicles-upcoming-general-availab…

Red Hat Prepares for a New Future of Software-Defined Vehicles with Upcoming General Availability of Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System
Open source, continuously-certified operating system platform set for Q3 2025 launch, bringing safety-certified Linux to automotive manufacturers and suppliers

ADHO (adho.org) updates at the opening of #DH2025 from Diane and Michael - the Italian Digital Humanities association officially joins ADHO, and announces awards including the Zampoli prize to Stylo software, the conference bursaries winners and Fortier prize nominees. Also note the Code of Conduct!

A nice and positive read, thanks @… for sharing it!
https://blog.nelhage.com/post/computers-can-be-understood/

jung: JUNG and javax class dependencies (2012)
A network of software class dependency within the JUNG 2.0.1 and javax 1.6.0.7 library namespaces edu.uci.ics.jung and java/javax. Nodes represent classes and a directed edge indicates a dependency of one class on another.
This network has 6120 nodes and 138706 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted

Scott Logic Lead Developer Darren Smith shares a report of carbon emission measuring software tools in 2025, their scope, and reviews these in the context of principal cloud service providers' offerings, including Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon AWS.
"Tools for measuring Cloud Carbon Emissions (updated for 2025)"

Tools for measuring Cloud Carbon Emissions (updated for 2025)
In this post I'll discuss ways of estimating the emissions caused by your Cloud workloads as a first step towards reaching your organisation's Net Zero goals.

US-German software firm Auterion says it plans to ship 33K of its AI drone "strike kits" to Ukraine by the end of 2025 to help combat mass Russian drone attacks (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fe708758-619e-47a8-ae7a-18adcede267a

New Zealand-based Halter, which provides smart collars and geofencing software for the dairy industry, raised a $100M Series D led by Bond at a $1B valuation (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

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

Wine is actually really good these days

Marc Benioff says "AI is doing 30% to 50% of the work at Salesforce now", including software engineering and customer service (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-26/salesforce-ceo-s…

Die Telekom feiert 232.000 neue Glasfaser-Homes-Passed im Mai – klingt nach Fortschritt, ist aber oft nur Fassade. Wer auf den echten Hausanschluss wartet, braucht allerdings Geduld: Zwei bis drei Jahre sind keine Seltenheit – das Ziel bleibt „Homes Connected“, nicht „Homes Passed“ - #Golem ht…

Palantir signs a deal with The Nuclear Company under which the startup will pay Palantir $100M over five years to develop AI software for the nuclear industry (Miquela Thornton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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

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

#Palantir: Vom Terrorjäger zum Fahrraddiebstahl-Detektiv. Wenn aus dem digitalen Superhelden ein Alltagsjobber wird. Aus „Terrorabwehr“ wird „Geldautomatensprenger-Suche“. NDR, WDR & SZ enthüllen: Die Software ist offenbar flexibler als gedacht
Wird die umstrittene Palantir-Software in Deutschland unangemessen genutzt?

Polizei-Ermittlungen - wird Palantir-Software unangemessen genutzt?
Die umstrittene Software Palantir soll der Polizei in Deutschland eigentlich zur Abwehr schwerer Gefahren dienen, etwa von Terroranschlägen. Nach Recherchen von NDR, WDR und SZ wird sie häufig auch bei anderen Anlässen genutzt.

Microsoft makes Windows 10's extended security updates free for an extra year for users who sync PC settings via a Microsoft Account and the Windows Backup app (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-ap

Microsoft makes Windows 10 security updates FREE for an extra year — but there's a catch, and you might not like it
Windows 10 users will have the option to continue receiving security updates for free beyond October 2025, so long as they sync their PC settings data with the cloud via a Microsoft Account.

Palantir: Deutsche Ermittler nutzen Big Data auch bei kleinerer Kriminalität
Die Software Gotham der US-Firma Palantir soll die Polizei etwa bei der von Anschlägen unterstützen. Doch eingesetzt wird sie sogar bei Eigentumsdelikten.

At its Discover 2025 conference, HPE unveiled HPE CloudOps Software, GreenLake Intelligence, which can deploy AI agents across its hybrid cloud stack, and more (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/…

HPE launches GreenLake Intelligence, adds AI agents throughout hybrid cloud stack
HPE launched new CloudOps Software, layered AI agents throughout its hybrid cloud stack, unveiled GreenLake Intelligence and expanded its AI factory. In addition, Digital Realty said it would standardize its data center footprint on HPE. At its flagship Discover 2025 conference, HPE showcased its new branding as well as play for AI workloads. The big picture from HPE is that hybrid IT operations, networking, storage and AI operations can be largely turnkey via AI agents.

Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26, with its new Liquid Glass design language (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/695142/apple-public-betas-liquid-glass-ios-macos-26…

Apple releases public betas of its new software updates with Liquid Glass
Apple has officially released the first public betas for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and more.

LegalOn, whose contract review tool uses AI to identify risks and suggest edits, raised a $50M Series C, bringing its total raised to $200M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/softbank-backed-legalon-fuels-ai…

SoftBank-backed LegalOn lands $50M to streamline legal workflows with AI | TechCrunch
LegalOn, which provides AI-powered contract review software for legal teams, has raised $50 million in a Series C round.

Freie 3D-Software Blender 4.5: visuell programmieren und effizient rendern
Das 3D-Programm Blender 4.5 ist erschienen. Es bringt Langzeitunterstützung bis 2027, verbesserte Node-Bedienung und soll effizienter rendern als der Vorgänger.

New Zealand-based Xero, which offers accounting software for small businesses, agrees to acquire payments software company Melio in a $2.5B cash-and-stock deal (Rajasik Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona

A profile of vibe coding startup Lovable, which became the fastest-growing software startup in history, reaching $100M in annualized revenue in eight months (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

Vibe Coding Unicorn Lovable Is The Fastest Growing Software Startup Ever
Stockholm-based Lovable hit over $100 million in annualized revenue in just eight months by using AI to enable millions of non-coders to instantly turn their ideas into websites, apps and online side hustles.

jdk: Java SE Dev Kit dependencies (1.6.0.7)
A network of class dependencies within the JDK (Java SE Development Kit) 1.6.0.7 framework. Nodes represent classes and a directed edge indicates a dependency of one class on another.
This network has 6434 nodes and 150985 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted, Multigraph
https://

Xbow, whose AI tool automates penetration testing and topped HackerOne's US leaderboard for finding and reporting software bugs, raised a $75M Series B (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-…

github: GitHub contest (2009)
The bipartite project-user membership network of the software development hosting site GitHub. A user connects to a project if that user is a member of that project.
This network has 177386 nodes and 440237 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/github

The Laude Institute, a nonprofit that runs the K Prize multi-round AI coding challenge, says a Brazilian prompt engineer won with just 7.5% of the right answers (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/a-ne

A new AI coding challenge just published its first results – and they aren’t pretty | TechCrunch
A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers.  On Wednesday at 5pm PST, the

IBM reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to $16.98B, vs. $16.59B est., and software revenue up 10% to $7.39B, vs. $7.49B est.; IBM drops 5% after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-23/ibm-po…

The new AI Action Plan, which includes some 90 recommendations, aims to loosen environmental rules and vastly expand AI software and hardware exports to allies (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-administration-superc…

Onebrief, which makes military workflow software, raised a $20M Series C extension led by Battery Ventures at a $1.1B valuation, taking the round total to $70M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-softw

Exclusive: Defense tech startup Onebrief hits $1.1B valuation
Onebrief's Series C extension was led by Battery Ventures.

Sources: Apple's team working on AI models wanted to release several as open source, Craig Federighi disagreed, largely concerned about public perception issues (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-losing-ground-ai-talent-wa…

Why Apple Is Losing Ground in the AI Talent War (It’s Not Just Money)
Earlier this year, the Apple team working on the company’s artificial intelligence models wanted to release several of them as open-source software. Doing so would have shown Apple’s technical progress in AI while also harnessing the help of outside researchers to improve the models. Still, it ...

Microsoft releases a patch for a SharePoint 0-day RCE flaw exploited globally on thousands of on-prem servers, says updates for SharePoint 2016 are in the works (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-21/micr…

Microsoft Server Software Comes Under Widespread Cyberattack (MSFT)
Microsoft Corp.’s server software is under attack from unidentified hackers, with cybersecurity analysts warning of widespread security breaches across the globe.

UK startup Inforcer, which helps SMBs automate and manage Microsoft 365, security, and more, raised a $35M Series B, a source says at a $200M valuation (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/inforcer-raises-35-million-ai-smb

The British Startup Helping SMBs Get Ready To Use AI
Inforcer's software helps IT shops manage security for SMB clients. Now the startup's raised $35 million in a Series B round to get them AI-ready, too.

While AI hasn't yet led to new physics discoveries, the tech is proving powerful in the field, aiding in experiment design and spotting patterns in complex data (Anil Ananthaswamy/Quanta Magazine)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up

AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. | Quanta Magazine
Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”

Researchers say hackers linked to the Chinese government were behind at least some of the recent widespread attacks using the SharePoint RCE vulnerability (Washington Post)

China-backed hackers used Microsoft flaw in attacks, defenders say
Researchers say Chinese actors, along with other criminal hackers, exploited a security flaw in SharePoint software widely used by governments and businesses.

Seattle-based tax compliance software maker Avalara, acquired by Vista Equity Partners in a 2022 deal valuing it at $8.4B, confidentially files for a US IPO (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/tax-software-compan…

A 0-day flaw in Microsoft SharePoint is being exploited in RCE attacks on servers globally; no patch exists and tens of thousands of servers are at risk (Washington Post)

Global hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
Unknown attackers exploited a “significant vulnerability” in Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration software, hitting targets around the world. 

Dallas-based iCounter, which uses AI to combat cyber risks, launches out of stealth from Apollo Information Systems with a $30M Series A led by SYN Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/07/16/icou…

Exclusive: iCounter raises $30M Series A
SYN Ventures leads the round.

Miami-based Payabli, which provides software companies with an embedded payments platform, raised a $28M Series B led by Fika Ventures and QED Investors (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/06/17/payabli-28-millio…

Exclusive: Payabli raises $28M to scale embedded payments
Payments are becoming a core strategy for software vendors.

Sources: Oracle is in talks with Skydance for a $100M/year deal for Paramount to use Oracle's cloud software if the Skydance-Paramount merger goes through (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-21/oracl…

Luxembourg-based Tadaweb, an open-source intelligence platform, raised $20M led by Arsenal Growth and ForgePoint, taking its total funding to $40M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software…

Exclusive: Open-source intelligence startup Tadaweb raises $20M
The new round was led by Arsenal Growth and Forgepoint Capital.

Boston-based Maven, which builds autonomous AI agents for enterprises' customer support, raised a $50M Series B led by Dell, taking its total funding to $78M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-softw…

Exclusive: Maven AGI raises $50M Series B
The Series B was led by Dell Technologies Capital.