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Keep Android Open
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...
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Google releases Gemma 4 open models
Our most intelligent open models, built from Gemini 3 research.
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Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection
If you are running Android 8 or higher, a virus has been installed on your device and is silently awaiting remote activation. Over the past few months, devic...
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We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
The weights of Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) are now open. A 1T parameter multimodal model, and best open-weight model for coding, trained in Europe.
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F-Droid 2.0
After more than a year of hard work, we are thrilled to announce the launch of F-Droid 2.0, a complete redesign of the official F-Droid app and the largest a...
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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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Our position on open-weights models
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on open-weights models
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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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Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
Following the security disclosure published in the v8.8.9 announcement https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v889-released/ the investigation has continued in collaboration with external experts and with the full involvement of my (now former) shared hosting provider.
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Changing how we develop Ladybird
Ladybird is changing how code enters the project as we prepare to ship a browser to real users.
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Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source. Explore the IRC client that turned conversations into comics and helped introduce Comic Sans to the world.
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Devtools must be open source
The age of personalized software is here.
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Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
Kolibri is an English-German Mixture-of-Experts model with 78B total and 3B active parameters, a context of up to 1M tokens and open weights under Apache 2.0, specialized for sovereign, mission-critical work.
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Free the Icons
Apple should end their prohibition on shapes in MacOS app icons
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Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
Your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. Self-hosting should feel like using a smartphone that serves webapps, not a sysadmin side job.
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A/I shuts down
The day we discovered we had been designated a global terrorist organization, we promised that we would try to resist as long as this was possible, that we would not back down as long as we could see options to stand our ground. For years, we have proudly maintained and defended a free, privacy-friendly, autonomous…
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Homebrew 7.0.0
Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 7.0.0. The most significant changes since 6.0.0 are faster installations and upgrades, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, built-in vulnerability checks and an advisory database, the end of macOS 10.15 support and Intel Macs moving to Tier 3.
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Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac
Several users have recently reported a website pretending to offer an official macOS version of Notepad++: notepad-plus-plus-mac.org
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Jellyfin 12.0
{/ cspell:ignore crobibero Brainz EOTF desync /}
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OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor
OpenShot 4.0 adds professional color grading, screen and webcam recording, local object masks, 10 new effects, a cleaner native timeline, and faster creative workflows.
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We need a federation of forges
Git is decentralized, but what of the rest?
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Help Keep Thunderbird Alive
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
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Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Soft launch of open-source code platform for government
Code.overheid.nl platform is now live, enabling government organisations to jointly develop and publish open-source software independently.
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Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
A historic first for the animation industry!