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Open source AI is the path forward
Mark Zuckerberg outlines why he believes open source AI is good for developers, Meta and the world.
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Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
From the Zed Blog: We hope you'll join us in our mission to fundamentally advance software collaboration.
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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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Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder
Connect with Lunduke and other members of Lunduke community
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Timeline of the xz open source attack
Over a period of over two years, an attacker using the name “Jia Tan” worked as a diligent, effective contributor to the xz compression library, eventually being granted commit access and maintainership. Using that access, they installed a very subtle, carefully hidden backdoor into liblzma, a part of xz that also…
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Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC
This page has moved to https://martinfinkel.com/blog/unity-double-oss-standards/ .
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French court issues damages award for violation of GPL
On February 14, 2024, the Court of Appeal of Paris issued an order stating that Orange, a major French telecom provider, had infringed the copyight of Entr’Ouvert’s Lasso software and violate…
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NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules
With the R515 driver, NVIDIA released a set of Linux GPU kernel modules in May 2022 as open source with dual GPL and MIT licensing. The initial release targeted datacenter compute GPUs…
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Model Context Protocol
MCP is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives, from content repositories to business tools.
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DBRX: A new open LLM
Explore DBRX, the advanced open-source LLM from Databricks redefining model efficiency and quality, leading in AI benchmarks.
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We're forking Flutter
The Flutter team has a labor shortage. We're forking Flutter so that the community can accelerate Flutter's development.
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Our audit of Homebrew
This is a joint post with the Homebrew maintainers; read their announcement here! Last summer, we performed an audit of Homebrew. Our audit’s scope included Homebrew/brew itself (home of the brew CLI), and three adjacent repositories responsible for various security-relevant aspects of Homebrew’s operation…
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I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL
In 2018, I created the SerenityOS project after completing a drug rehab program.
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Social engineering takeovers of open source projects
By Robin Bender Ginn, Executive Director, OpenJS Foundation; and Omkhar Arasaratnam, General Manager, Open Source Security Foundation
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Open Sourcing DOS 4
See the canonical version of this blog post at the Microsoft Open Source Blog! ...
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Elasticsearch is open source, again
Elastic announces the return of open source licensing for Elasticsearch and Kibana, adding AGPL as an option alongside existing licenses. This change reinforces our long-standing commitment to open so...
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2M users but no money in the bank
2M users. No money in the bank. Erik's leaving. Exercism Teams. A new coding fundamentals platforms. There's a lot of news...
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Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters
Flux, the largest SOTA open source text-to-image model to date, developed by Black Forest Labs—the original team behind Stable Diffusion is now available on fal. Flux pushes the boundaries of creativity and performance with an impressive 12B parameters, delivering aesthetics reminiscent of Midjourney. To play around…
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ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives
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I turned my open-source project into a full-time business
When I started writing and publishing open-source software about 15 years ago, I was pretty radical about it. I only used permissive licenses like MIT or BSD, as all I cared about was reach. Using a copyleft license with strings attached seemed to hinder that reach. Getting another A-
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Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor
A rundown of my experience finding and fixing a bug in the Chromium/Google Chrome browser - specifically in the devtools. It includes details about the bug itself as well as notes about what it was like working on the Chromium project as a first-time contributor.
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I quit my job to work full time on my open source project
Quitting my job to start a company
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Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out
We are excited to share that vertical tabs and a new sidebar experience are now available in Nightly 131. This update has been highly anticipated and requested by the community, ...
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The xz attack shell script
Andres Freund published the existence of the xz attack on 2024-03-29 to the public oss-security@openwall mailing list. The day before, he alerted Debian security and the (private) distros@openwall list. In his mail, he says that he dug into this after “observing a few odd symptoms around liblzma (part of the xz…
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Inkscape 1.4
After months of waiting, we are finally ready to unbox the latest version of Inkscape... meet 1.4, the Geek edition, where accessibility and customization reign. Inkscape project developers, most of them volunteer contributors from countries around the world, have been plugging away behind the scenes on new features…
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PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias
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Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation
The ZSF has posted their own announcement which clearly explains their mission and specifically what the money will be used for. Instead, I want to talk more broadly about why we've decided to support ZSF.
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Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now
Vital personal and business information flows over the Internet more frequently than ever, and we don’t always know when it’s happening. It’s clear at this point that encrypting is something all of us should be doing. Then why don’t we use TLS (the successor to SSL) everywhere? Every browser in every device supports…
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Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects
Originally a thread on Twitter about the xz/liblzma vulnerability, when I finished typing it, I realized I had a real world slice of Open Source interaction that deserved more attention.