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VideoLAN is 20 years old today
The VideoLAN project and the VideoLAN non-profit organization are happy to celebrate today the 20 th anniversary of the open-sourcing of the project.
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AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
Last week, Elastic announced they will change their software licensing strategy, and will not release new versions of Elasticsearch and Kibana under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2). Instead, new versions of the software will be offered under the Elastic License (which limits how it can be used) or the Server…
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Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
We're adopting Rust as our C++ successor language, and using AI agents to accelerate the transition.
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Vim Boss
hyperextensible Vim-based text editor
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Google open-sources the Pebble OS
The source code for the Pebble operating system in now open, to support the volunteer community maintaining Pebble watches.
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BitTorrent v2
libtorrent-2.0 has just been released with a few major new features. One of them is support for BitTorrent v2 .
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PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
Today’s customers live in a multi-platform, multi-cloud, multi-OS world – that’s just reality. This world brings new challenges and customers need tools to make everything work together.
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Our position on open-weights models
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on open-weights models
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Microsoft acquires Github
Today, we announced an agreement to acquire GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform. I want to share what this acquisition will mean for our industry and for developers. The era of the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge is upon us. Computing is becoming embedded in the world, with every part of…
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Gemma: New Open Models
Gemma is a family of lightweight, state-of-the art open models built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models.
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Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator
htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable, IE11 compatible & has reduced code base sizes by 67% when…
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MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations
Standing by its commitment to provide equitable and open access to scholarship, MIT has ended negotiations with Elsevier for a new journals contract. Elsevier failed to present a proposal that aligned with the principles of the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts.
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Atom 1.0
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
Did you ever dream about creating your own chip? I mean, a physical chip. One which you can hold in your hand, and which does exactly what you've designed it to do?
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Blender 5.0
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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Servo’s new home
Servo has left the Mozilla nest.
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PostgreSQL 10 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of PostgreSQL 10, the latest version of the world's most advanced …
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Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
DAWO.community, working together on a digitally autonomous workplace for the Dutch government.
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Explaining React's license
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Debian 13 “Trixie”
After 2 years, 1 month, and 30 days of development, the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 13 (code name trixie ).
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PostgreSQL 14
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of [PostgreSQL 14](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/release-14.html), the latest version of the world’s [most advanced …
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Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
Ever since git init ten years ago , Zig has been hosted on GitHub. Unfortunately, when it sold out to Microsoft , the clock started ticking . “Please just give me 5 years before everything goes to shit,” I thought to myself. And here we are, 7 years later, living on borrowed time.
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Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab
Here we would like to share our thoughts about these issues and what we’re planning to do to make things better with GitLab.