'OpenSlopware' briefly flowers, fades, falls – but fortunately was forked, fast. The splendidly-named "OpenSlopware" was, for a short time, a list of open source projects using LLM bots. Due to harassment, it's gone, but forks of it live on ... .
The European Commission has opened a feedback round for a new open-source strategy ... More than just a new round of plans, this process is intended to lead to a truly independent, open-source design of the European digital infrastructure.
100 years on, Eisenstein’s idiosyncratic open source idea to invite rewrites of Potemkin’s soundtrack long into the future doesn’t mean the mythmaking of the founding of the Bolshevik state is perpetuated uncritically.
MattNeuburg’s free TidBITS News app gets a notable update with a complete rewrite for iOS 26 and Swift 6.2, plus Dark mode support. Even better, he has open-sourced the code on GitHub for curious developers ... .
Two senators have introduced a short bill with an unusually big ambition. to stop US law from treating people who write and publish blockchain software as if they were running a shadow payments company. The proposal, titled the Blockchain... .
Cloudflare has acquired the core team behind the open source JavaScript frameworkAstro, bringing its creators in-house while pledging to keep Astro fully open source. The NewStack reports ... Server Islands extend the same architecture to the server ... .
A recent report jointly released by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the open-source platform Hugging Face showed that Chinese-developed open-source large language models account for 17.1 percent of global downloads over the past year.
Chainguard has widened its EmeritOSS Lifeline programme to cover 10 additional open-source projects, a move aimed at shoring up the security and reliability of widely used tools that have lost active maintainers.
Mentra Live is pitching itself as a Ray-Ban Meta alternative that stays open. Instead of a locked feature set, it runs MentraOS, an open-source operating system with an SDK for third-party apps ... Mentra also ties openness to trust.
One of the world's largest open-source research communities will convene in Turku in summer 2026, as the European Bioconductor Conference is held in Finland for the first time.
Google has introduced two new healthcare-focused artificial intelligence (AI) models, MedGemma 1.5 and MedASR, aimed at improving how medical images and clinical speech data are processed. The release... .