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In an important step for open science, CERN has been selected to host a new phase of Open Research Europe (ORE) , an initiative supported by the European Commission and a new funding consortium of European national funding agencies and research organisations. Aligned with the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access (2022)…
I’ve just started to migrate some repositories from GitHub to Codeberg. I’ve wanted to do this for a long time but have stalled on it because I perceived Codeberg as not being ready and the migration process as being a lot of (boring) work.
After an enormous amount of work and dedication from FreeCAD contributors we are delighted to announce that FreeCAD Version 1.1 is now released and available for download. There are significant amo…
I forked the python library httpx to httpxyz after over a year without a release of this popular package
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Our long-term payment provider Nexi has terminated our contract without prior notice. As a result, our supporters’ recurring credit card and direct debit d...
Wayland has been a broad misdirection and misallocation of time and developer resources at the expense of users. With more migration from other operating systems, the pressure to fix fundamental problems has become more prominent. After 17 years of development, now is a good time to reflect on some of the larger…
How an undefined behavior in C made me pull my hair out for days but became my first patch to the Linux kernel!
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Jazzband is sunsetting. New signups are disabled. Project leads will be contacted before PyCon US 2026 to coordinate transfers. The wind-down plan has the timeline. The retrospective looks back at the past decade.
A systematic audit of Algolia DocSearch found 39 admin API keys exposed across projects like Home Assistant, KEDA, and vcluster.
TADA (Text-Acoustic Dual Alignment) is Hume AI's open-source speech-language model that synchronizes text and audio one-to-one.
Last week, Dan Blanchard, the maintainer of chardet—a Python library for detecting text encodings used by roughly 130 million projects a month— released a new…
We’re pleased to announce the release of LibreOffice 26.2, the newest version of the free and open source office suite trusted by millions of users around the world. This release makes it easier than ever for users to create, edit and share documents on their own terms. Designed for individuals and organizations…
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Sarvam open-sources 30B and 105B reasoning models trained in India: MoE LLMs with leading Indian-language benchmarks; weights on AI Kosh and Hugging Face.
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Google has worked with the open source communities to build OpenTitan, the first open source silicon Root of Trust (RoT).
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OpenClaw has overtaken React to become the most-starred non-aggregator software project on GitHub — just five weeks after passing Linux.
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Nominations are now open for this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Board of Directors! We are looking to select up to four volunteer directors to serve for...
Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distribution
We're adopting Rust as our C++ successor language, and using AI agents to accelerate the transition.
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 20 Feb 2026, Week 8 F-Droid core During our talks with F-Droid users at FOSDEM26 we were baffled to learn most w...
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of 0 A.D. Release 28: “Boiorix”, the twenty-eighth version of …
Scores represent the mean of the following eight benchmarks listed below, excluding xbench-DeepSearch. The Step 3.5 Flash score is derived under standard settings (i.e., $w/o$ Parallel Thinking).
