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KDE at 30
KDE is an open community of friendly people who want to create a world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy.
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Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow
With the stability gained over the past five Godot 4 releases, it's time for polish and quality-of-life improvements for everyday development.
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Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia
Wikipedia faces existential challenges from generative AI companies. Do researchers and teachers in higher education have an ethical duty to defend it?
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OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1
We’ve been working on some exciting new features for OpenTTD 16, and they need testing! The first beta release is now available, and we’ve opened the competition to create the title game for the next release.
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Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed
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).
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Apple ignores DMA interoperability requests and contradicts own documentation
A new FSFE report exposes how 56 interoperability requests under the Digital Markets Act have produced no concrete solutions by Apple, and how their declin...
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A big win for Android interoperability
Google gatekept key Android features, and the European Commission asked what we thought about it. Now Alphabet must open 11 Android features to all.
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Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source
Cal.com just closed their source code, arguing AI has made open source too dangerous. After 13 years of building Discourse in public, we're staying open. Here's why.
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Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer
For the past few months, the 3D printing community has been poking at a very interesting question: what if a multi-material printer were not limited to the colors physically loaded on it? And we must say it right now: This is a...
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Rune is now open source
Rune is now open source under the GPLv3. A native, keyboard-driven IDE written primarily in Go is ready for Go developers to inspect, change, and help build.
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Bluesky Protocol Services
A new home for the infrastructure Bluesky runs on the open network — including Jetstream v2 with network replay, a new Jetstream SDK, and a lex-based TypeScript SDK
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State of the Fin 2026-01-06
Happy New Year and welcome to the State of the Fin!
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Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy
The rise of LLMs as a useful development tool over the last year or so has been significant. The power and flexibility of tools like Claude Code and ChatGPT have given a lot of functionality both to experienced developers and new developers alike. But there are trade-offs.
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Bluesky Trademarks ATProto
Bluesky now owns the trademark for AT Protocol to shield the ecosystem and make sure it can be used as widely as possible.
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Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
In Brief: Two motions regarding
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June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more
We now have a new way for you to help us write the monthly updates :)
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Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
The Dillo 3.3.0 release contains several new features, configuration options and bug fixes. It is the first release to provide experimental support for FLTK 1.4 (see the details below).
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GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview
On a long pull request, checking what’s blocking often means scrolling past dozens of comments and timeline events just to reach the merge box. And once you’re there, you still…
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Mozilla's open source AI strategy
The future of intelligence is being set right now, and the path we’re on leads somewhere I don’t want to go. We’re drifting toward a worl
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PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project
OSM US is incredibly excited to announce the latest Charter Project: OldInsuranceMaps.net (OIM)!If you’re a map nerd you’ll remember ever seeing a Sanborn Insurance Map in person. They often come in absolute...
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Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue
The trademark infringement issue has now been resolved. The author of the website and project in question has removed all uses of the Notepad++ trademark from his product, website, and related materials. The unauthorized references have been taken down, and the trademark infringement is no longer ongoing.
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Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap)
Nico, Minitap’s CEO, shares what the team found in Google’s Artemis repository and why attribution matters for the open-source community.
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Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM
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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ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data
Atproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.
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Briar is in maintenance mode
This is a quick update about the status of Briar. Short version: the project is still active but we’re only making essential security updates and bugfixes for now. Long version: For several years we’ve been trying to find solutions to some of the longstanding issues with Briar, such as high battery usage and…
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Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler
Most supply-chain attacks against RubyGems exploit a narrow window: an account is compromised, a malicious version ships, and any bundle install in the minutes that follow resolves straight to it. ...