Talks and travels: FrOSCon, Germany – The lost outpost
My keynote, Decentralising Freedom: Open Source for Sovereignty, was the featured talk on day 2 of FrOSCon 2025.| The lost outpost
Resemble AI has recently released Chatterbox Multilingual, a production grade open-source Text To Speech (TTS) model designed for zero-shot voice cloning in 23 languages. It is distributed under the MIT license, making it freely available for integration and modification. The system builds on the original Chatterbox framework and adds multilingual capability, expressive controls, and built-in […] The post Meet Chatterbox Multilingual: An Open-Source Zero-Shot Text To Speech (TTS) Multilingu...| MarkTechPost
EmbeddingGemma is Google’s new open text embedding model optimized for on-device AI, designed to balance efficiency with state-of-the-art retrieval performance. How compact is EmbeddingGemma compared to other models? At just 308 million parameters, EmbeddingGemma is lightweight enough to run on mobile devices and offline environments. Despite its size, it performs competitively with much larger embedding […] The post Google AI Releases EmbeddingGemma: A 308M Parameter On-Device Embedding ...| MarkTechPost
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has released OLMoASR, a suite of open automatic speech recognition (ASR) models that rival closed-source systems such as OpenAI’s Whisper. Beyond just releasing model weights, AI2 has published training data identifiers, filtering steps, training recipes, and benchmark scripts—an unusually transparent move in the ASR space. This makes OLMoASR one […] The post What is OLMoASR and How Does It Compare to OpenAI’s Whisper in Speech Recognition? appeared fi...| MarkTechPost
Introduction Tencent’s Hunyuan team has released Hunyuan-MT-7B (a translation model) and Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B (an ensemble model). Both models are designed specifically for multilingual machine translation and were introduced in conjunction with Tencent’s participation in the WMT2025 General Machine Translation shared task, where Hunyuan-MT-7B ranked first in 30 out of 31 language pairs. Model Overview Hunyuan-MT-7B Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B […] The post Tencent Hunyuan Open-Sources Hunyua...| MarkTechPost
My keynote, Decentralising Freedom: Open Source for Sovereignty, was the featured talk on day 2 of FrOSCon 2025.| The lost outpost
Agencies are under pressure to make code public, with CMS leading efforts to drive open-source collaboration and governmentwide savings. The post New SHARE IT Act Mandates Federal Code Sharing to Cut Software Costs appeared first on GovCIO Media & Research.| GovCIO Media & Research
Redis, who? Pogocache offers speed, simplicity, and flexibility for modern caching needs.| It's FOSS News
DocumentDB joins the Linux Foundation to ensure open, vendor-neutral development.| It's FOSS News
The Kotlin incremental compiler has been a true gem for developers chasing faster compilation since its introduction in build tools. Now, we’re excited to bring its benefits to Buck2 – Meta’s buil…| Engineering at Meta
Tencent Holdings Ltd. today open-sourced a new lineup of language models, the Hunyuan-MT series, that is optimized for translation tasks. The Chinese tech firm says that the algorithms significantly outperform Google Translate on a popular artificial intelligence translation benchmark. The Hunyuan-MT series comprises four models. The two flagship models, Hunyuan-MT-7B and Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B, both feature 7 […] The post Tencent open-sources Hunyuan-MT translation model series appeared fir...| SiliconANGLE
AMSTERDAM — Last October, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) published its definition of what it would take for an AI The post What Is Open Source AI Anyway? appeared first on The New Stack.| The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
A new open source project aims to accelerate the emergence of AI agents using multiple large language models (LLMs). At The post Why Tech Giants Are Backing the New Agentgateway Project appeared first on The New Stack.| The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a powerful tool with significant potential, but it’s currently poorly and sometimes insecurely implemented The post XSLT Debate Leads to Bigger Questions of Web Governance appeared first on The New Stack.| The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Six containerized applications that can be used to build a foundational home network lab to improve efficiency and privacy.| The New Stack
¿Qué es Updo? Updo es una herramienta CLI (licencia MIT) para monitorizar uptime y rendimiento de sitios y APIs HTTP/HTTPS. Puede verificar varios destinos a la vez, hacer peticiones con cabeceras/POST/JSON, comprobar certificados SSL (caducidad), emitir alertas (webhooks/desktop), exportar métricas a Prometheus y, si quieres cobertura mundial, ejecutarse en Lambdas de AWS en 13 regiones […]| Administración de Sistemas
El desarrollador independiente sn4k3 ha publicado en GitHub la última versión de NetSonar, una utilidad de diagnóstico de red ligera, moderna y de código| Administración de Sistemas
I am going to share an anecdote on how I implemented {#key} logic block in Svelte| Tan Li Hau's Blog
Svelte issue #5012 - Slot containing only {@html value} renders in wrong place on update| Tan Li Hau's Blog
I am going to tell you an anecdote on how I investigated and fixed a bug in Svelte. I documented down my train of thoughts as detailed as possible. I hope this gives anyone who is reading, a glimpse on how to work on the Svelte source code.| Tan Li Hau's Blog
Independent developer sn4k3 has released the latest version of NetSonar, an open-source, lightweight, and modern network diagnostic utility that is quickly| System Administration
OCX 2026: Six Communities. One Shared Experience.The global open source community will gather in Brussels from 21 to 23 April 2026 for the Open Community Experience (OCX) 2026. It isn’t just another conference; it’s where six open source communities collide to shape the future of software, developer tools, mobility, AI, compliance, and research. With one pass, you get access to six experiences and endless opportunities. This conference will connect over 600 leading developers, contribut...| Blog Posts
Learn how GitHub Models helps open source maintainers automate repetitive tasks like issue triage, duplicate detection, and contributor onboarding — saving hours each week. The post How GitHub Models can help open source maintainers focus on what matters appeared first on The GitHub Blog.| The GitHub Blog
Open source is aging. We can better support Gen Z contributors through purpose, flexibility, and pathways to leadership. The post Who will maintain the future? Rethinking open source leadership for a new generation appeared first on The GitHub Blog.| The GitHub Blog
At AWS, we design cloud services that give customers the freedom to choose technology that best suits their needs. Our commitment to interoperability with open standards and open source technologies is a key reason customers choose AWS. This is one of the reasons why we launched Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) in 2019. Amazon DocumentDB […]| AWS Open Source Blog
Welcome to Part 4 of our blog series on Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability where we will cover the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, AWS’ involvement with the Linux Foundation-based open standard, and our support of A2A in the Strands Agents SDK. Here is what we’ve covered so far: Part 1: How the Model Context Protocol (MCP) […]| Amazon Web Services
In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we highlight the engineering minds driving innovation across Salesforce. Today, we feature Pratima Nambiar, a Distinguished Architect with 17 years of experience at Salesforce. Pratima has played a crucial role in developing and scaling the service mesh architecture that facilitates secure communication among thousands of services on Salesforce’s Hyperforce […] The post Building Hyperforce Service Mesh: Blast Radius Reduction, Scale Optimiza...| Salesforce Engineering Blog
Over the duration of multiple programs with funders, we’ve heard firsthand their needs. Executives know they have the budget and desire to fund security, but need help with how to start generating outcomes. To create and sustain open source security programs requires dedicated administration work, experience with the open source community, knowledge of open source maintainer dynamics, a pool of experts who understand the needs of open source maintainers, quality assurance, and project parti...| OSTIF.org
Open educational resources (OERs) can save you valuable time and energy in creating teaching materials. They’re freely available for use in the classroom, and you can modify and adjust them to suit your students. OERs can also make it easier to diversify and personalize your curriculum, facilitating innovative teaching styles like flipped learning. But how […] The post Where Educators Can Find High-Quality Open Educational Resources appeared first on TAO.| TAO
An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief The founders of PingCAP realized that existing open-source databases like mySQL were decades old and thus leveraged out-of-date architectures. Then they asked themselves: if they were to build the ideal open-source database, what would it be? The result is TiDB. TiDB is a mySQL-compatible distributed database that offers both a […]| Intellyx – The Digital Transformation Experts – Analysts
The European Union (EU) has long declared its intention to achieve digital sovereignty, but reality points in the opposite direction. Today, public| System Administration
AMSTERDAM — If your organization generates revenue from open source software, whether directly or indirectly, you should at least be The post The Cyber Resilience Act: Fear, Confusion — And Reassurance appeared first on The New Stack.| The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Last week, DeepSeek released a new version of its model to much fanfare. Except the fanfare did not come from the model’s performance improvement, hybrid nature (combining both reasoning and non-reasoning into a single model, like GPT-5), or strong agentic capabilities. It came from an unprompted comment from| Interconnected
Discover why OpenAI's gpt-oss model family is ideal for building reliable and safe AI agents, not just for developers.| Tigris Object Storage Blog
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft will both work on the open source, document-oriented database system, per the annoucement at Open Source Summit Europe.| The New Stack
When the Asahi Linux team released its first alpha version of a GNU/Linux-based operating system for Macs with Apple M-series processors in 2022, things were still pretty rough around the edges. Thunderbolt, Bluetooth, cameras, and sleep mode weren’t working yet. And neither was hardware-accelerated graphics. That’s all changed over the past few years. Last fall […] The post Intel hires developer who reverse engineered the Apple M1 GPU, bringing open source Linux graphics to Apple Silic...| Liliputing
Automating Playwright visual test maintenance with GitHub Actions simplifies updating baseline screenshots across platforms. By running tests on both Windows and Linux via a workflow, developers avoid manual setup and ensure consistent UI validation, even when third-party libraries like CO2.js change underlying data.| Scott Logic
Many workshops and learning courses were organized by enthusiasts who generously shared their knowledge free of charge. It was a great time. The events were hosted at Programista company, right in …| olimex
The evidence for applications having a half-life continues to spread across domains. The first published data covered IBM mainframe applications up to 1992 (half-life of at least 5-years), and was mostly ignored. Then, the data collected by Killed by Google up to 2018, showed a half-life of at least 3-years for Google apps. More recently, […]| The Shape of Code
AI Singapore (AISG) has released SEA-LION v4, an open-source multimodal language model developed in collaboration with Google and based on the Gemma 3 (27B) architecture. The model is designed to support Southeast Asian languages, including those with limited digital resources, and provides both text and image understanding capabilities. SEA-LION v4 uses a commercially permissive license […] The post SEA-LION v4: Multimodal Language Modeling for Southeast Asia appeared first on MarkTechPost.| MarkTechPost
The ESP32-C5-EVB is a brand-new evaluation board built around the ESP32-C5-WROOM-N8R4 module from Espressif, designed to bring dual-band wireless connectivity, ample memory, and robust control features into one compact, versatile package. Whether you’re developing IoT appliances, home automation solutions, or industrial controllers, this board delivers the flexibility and reliability you need. Why ESP32-C5 Matters Espressif’s […]| olimex
No one is against "Investing in Infrastructure". No one wants bridges to collapse, investing is always more popular than spending, and it's even alliterative! What's more, since infrastructure is almost invisible by definition, it's politically safe to support investing in infrastructure because no one will see when you don't follow through on your commitment!| Go To Hellman
Below is a well-deserved Q2 update highlighting ecosystem tooling and solutions across April, May, and June.| Cardano Developer Portal Blog
Get ready, North America! The Calico team is thrilled to announce our participation in KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, where we’ll be showcasing the latest advancements in Kubernetes networking, security, and observability. We’re excited...| Tigera - Creator of Calico
A few interesting things are happening around open source artificial intelligence, and even if you haven't been paying much attention to generative AI beyond the big name brands like ChatGPT, I think this is something that you should take a look at. The post Open Source AI is Going Mainstream appeared first on Leon Furze.| Leon Furze
tl;dr – Go play around with generativetextbooks.org and let me know what you think.| improving learning
Take a deep dive into what circuit breakers are, why you might need them, and the options you have in Ruby.| Evil Martians
Introducing Redprints CFP, an open source CFP management application built for the SF Ruby Conference with Rails and Inertia.js.| Evil Martians
We share what have we learned creating PostCSS and the huge ecosystem around it. Get 8 key lessons from Andrey Sitnik, creator of PostCSS.| evilmartians.com
Thursday Sept. 4th 6:30pm Location: American Red Cross 3131 N Vancouver Ave · Portland, OR Speaker: Robert Hodges Cheap, Fast, Scalable: Introducing Analytics with Open Source ClickHouse® Real-time…| PDXPUG
Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 is a new Z-Wave USB adapter with Long Range support, which follows the launch of the Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 (SkyConnect) Zigbee 3.0, Thread, and Matter USB dongle in 2022. Home Assistant explains that Z-Wave operates in the sub-GHz (865-926 MHz) frequency band, where waves can more easily go through thick walls and reach across large households, and do not need to compete in the crowded 2.4 GHz airspace used by wireless protocols such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zi...| CNX Software – Embedded Systems News
Notes from writing a new toy Kotlin Multiplatform app this summer.| Zac Sweers
After more than a year of work and contributions from a number of developers in the community, I'm pleased to share a functionally-complete KSP implementation of Anvil code gen.| Zac Sweers
CatchUp turned 7 recently. This is a little overview of where it's been and where it's going.| Zac Sweers
The open weight model is important but also a bit subversive...| Spyglass
Setting standards that determine how AI can be used requires a scale that even the biggest banks can’t muster.| Digital Finance
The Danish data management company Grit42 has done what many companies and public services dream... Indlægget Grit42 Made The Switch From Big Tech To Open Source and Saved Money blev vist første gang den Dataetisk Tænkehandletank.| Dataetisk Tænkehandletank
Of around 7,000 languages in the world, a tiny fraction are supported by AI language models. NVIDIA is tackling the problem with a new dataset and models that support the development of high-quality speech recognition and translation AI for 25 European languages — including languages with limited available data like Croatian, Estonian and Maltese. These Read Article| NVIDIA Blog
Why privacy in blockchain must start with open source| Help Net Security
As organizations continue to innovate and scale their operations, security teams face a fundamental challenge: the lack of a common language for security data across diverse tools and services. This fragmentation makes it increasingly difficult to efficiently process and analyze vast amounts of security data, limiting threat detection and response capabilities. This is where the […]| Amazon Web Services
Today, we’re excited to announce the private preview of the Postgres Change Data Capture (CDC) connector in ClickPipes! This enables customers to replicate their Postgres databases to ClickHouse Cloud in just a few clicks and leverage ClickHouse for ...| PeerDB Blog
Last month, we acquired PeerDB, a company that specializes in Postgres CDC. PeerDB makes it fast and simple to replicate data from Postgres to ClickHouse. A common question from PeerDB users is how to model their data in ClickHouse after the replicat...| PeerDB Blog
Providing a fast and simple way to replicate data from Postgres to ClickHouse has been a top priority for us over the past few months. Last month, we acquired PeerDB, a company that specializes in Postgres CDC. We're actively integrating PeerDB into ...| PeerDB Blog
We are thrilled to join forces with ClickHouse to make it seamless for customers to move data from their Postgres databases to ClickHouse and power real-time analytics and data warehousing use cases. We released the ClickHouse target connector for Po...| PeerDB Blog
Today, PeerDB is pleased to announce that our target connector for Elasticsearch is now in beta. Elasticsearch is a popular search engine system underpinned by a distributed document database, and we have been seeing a lot of use cases for Elasticsea...| PeerDB Blog
Earlier this week, we launched PeerDB Streams, our latest product offering for real-time replication from Postgres to queues and message brokers such as Kafka, Redpanda, Google PubSub, Azure Event Hubs, and others. Today, we are announcing one of the...| PeerDB Blog
We spent the past 7 months building a solid experience to replicate data from Postgres to Data Warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, ClickHouse and Postgres. Now, we want to expand and bring a similar experience for Queues. With that spirit, we are...| PeerDB Blog
pg_dump and pg_restore are reliable tools for backing up and restoring Postgres databases. They're essential for database migrations, disaster recovery and so on. They offer precise control over object selection for backup/restore, dump format option...| PeerDB Blog
PeerDB offers a fast and cost-effective way to move data from PostgreSQL to data warehouses, such as Snowflake, and to queues like Kafka. This enables businesses to have real-time and reliable access to data, which is of utmost importance in this AI ...| PeerDB Blog
Introduction Logical Replication is one of the many ways a Postgres database can replicate data to other Postgres database (a.k.a standby). Logical replication directly reads from the write-ahead log (WAL), recording every database change, avoiding t...| PeerDB Blog
At PeerDB, we are building a fast and a cost-effective way to replicate data from Postgres to Data Warehouses and Queues. Today we are releasing our Azure Event Hubs connector. With this, you get a fast, simple, and reliable way to Change Data Captur...| PeerDB Blog
The open source community has been abuzz for the past two years about European governance in open source software. From casual meetups to professional conferences, the implication of government funding and regulation of the free-use software sector has resulted in heavily debated discourse around the legal, financial, societal, and functional changes possible with the introduction […]| OSTIF.org
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of OpenEXR, a project at the Academy Software Foundation. OpenEXR is an open source specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, which “accurately and efficiently represents high-dynamic-range scene-linear image data,” (https://openexr.com/en/latest/). With the help of Shielder and […]| OSTIF.org
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of MaterialX. MaterialX is an open source project hosted at the Academy Software Foundation for “representing rich material and look-development content in computer graphics, enabling its platform-independent description and exchange across applications and renderers,” (materialx.org). With the help of […]| OSTIF.org
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of PowSyBl. PowSyBl is an open source library for energy grid modeling, visualization, and simulation. With the help of Ada Logics and Linux Foundation Energy, this project manages electrical grids and provides users with efficient and secure power system blocks. | OSTIF.org
With "third-party", we usually mean someone not part of an agreement, but who may still be influencing (or influenced by) it. When this party is an Open Source project we depend on, I propose we use the term "second-party" instead. Here's why.| Code = Conversation
With the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) arriving in 2024, software in general is – for the first time – about to be legislated. This means any business who wishes to place software on the EU market will have to comply to new cybersecurity demands, and by implication this will affect tens of thousands of … Continue reading A Vocabulary for a Post-CRA Open Source Age→| Code = Conversation
New EU laws are coming that will affect Open Source. Should we worry?| Code = Conversation
Let’s have a thought experiment. Assume there is an Open Source-licensed Perl module published on CPAN that you care about, and that hasn’t had any updates in a very long time – what are your options? In this blog post, I’ll take a dive into this problem, and use the Geo::Postcodes::NO module as an example. … Continue reading A FIXIT-dive into an old CPAN module→| Code = Conversation
The world’s most popular operating systems and apps rely on open source software projects overseen by The Apache Software Foundation By Sally Khudairi, VP Sponsor Relations Apache software touches our lives every day — often without our being aware of it. From using mobile devices, to accessing websites, to banking online, to posting on social […] The post Individual Donors Help Keep Apache Software Free for Billions of Users Worldwide appeared first on The Apache Software Foundation Blog.| The Apache Software Foundation Blog
A comparison of n8n vs Zapier, sharing why I switched back to Zapier to save time, avoid hosting hassles, and build powerful automations faster with a larger app ecosystem.| BrianChristner.io
El lanzamiento del modelo DeepSeek-R1 ha marcado un punto de inflexión en la industria de la IA, al demostrar que es posible desarrollar modelos de lenguaje...| www.xataka.com
The Gulf nation offers advanced software without fees or restrictions, positioning itself as a neutral tech power between the U.S. and China.| Rest of World
The AI wave is here, and it’s only getting bigger. According to a recent report from McKinsey, “over the next three years, 92 percent of companies plan to increase their AI investments.” As this AI wave washes over almost every industry and is integrated deeply and extensively into critical and non-critical operations, it ushers in a pivotal new cybersecurity battleground: securing AI.| Open Source Security Foundation
Welcome to the July 2025 edition of the OpenSSF Newsletter! Here’s a roundup of the latest developments, key events, and upcoming opportunities in the Open Source Security community.| openssf.org
Learn how to forward Rust tracing logs to the Qt logger using CXX-Qt 0.8.0. Achieve unified logging, consistent formatting, and better filtering for Rust + Qt applications.| KDAB
For data engineering teams serious about delivering production-grade data products, implementing systematic test coverage across their Medallion architecture represents not only a technical improvement but a fundamental shift toward sustainable and trustworthy data operations. The post Data Quality Test Coverage In a Medallion Data Architecture first appeared on DataKitchen.| DataKitchen
💥 80% of data governance initiatives fail. Not because of tools. Not because of frameworks. But because the business isn't involved, and no one agrees on what data truly matters. That's where Critical Data Elements (CDEs) change everything. The post Critical Data Elements: Your Shortcut to Data Governance That Actually Works first appeared on DataKitchen.| DataKitchen
Finally, some positive-sum competition between the US and China| Interconnected
This post shows how I used a git spare checkout to build vuxml files without having the whole ports tree present.| Dan Langille's Other Diary
In a recent blog post, I laid out the argument that, if you have securely implemented end-to-end encryption in your software, then the jurisdiction where your ciphertext is stored is almost irrelev…| Dhole Moments
Netzpodcast – Proton verlässt die Schweiz – zugenagelte Hardware und Open Source Betriebssysteme – Was macht der EDÖB? In der 65. Folge vom Netzpodcast sprechen wir über die Themen «Proton verlässt die Schweiz», «zugenagelte Hardware und Open Source Betriebssysteme» sowie «was macht der EDÖB?». Der Podcast der Digitalen Gesellschaft informiert über die aktuellen netzpolitischen Themen mit Bezug zur Schweiz und ordnet sie ein.| Digitale Gesellschaft
New tools from IBM Research can help LLM users check AI-generated content for accuracy and relevance and defend against jailbreak attacks.| IBM Research
The open-source LLM combines the sequence-modeling skill of a transformer with the inferencing speed of an SSM. IBM Granite will soon adopt key Bamba features.| IBM Research
An affiliate project of the AI Alliance, TT 1.0 makes it easier to develop and benchmark geospatial models.| IBM Research
“We started in 2017 with Calico and never regretted it!” —Stefan Fudeus, Product Owner/Lead Architect, 1&1 Mail & Media Challenge 1&1 Mail & Media, part of the IONOS group, powers popular European internet brands including... The post How 1&1 Mail & Media Scaled Kubernetes Networking with eBPF and Calico appeared first on Tigera - Creator of Calico.| Tigera – Creator of Calico
Kubernetes networking is deceptively simple on the surface, until it breaks, silently leaks data, or opens the door to a full-cluster compromise. As modern workloads become more distributed and ephemeral, traditional logging and metrics just... The post Top 5 Kubernetes Network Issues You Can Catch Early with Calico Whisker appeared first on Tigera - Creator of Calico.| Tigera – Creator of Calico
Kubernetes has transformed how we deploy and manage applications. It gives us the ability to spin up a virtual data center in minutes, scaling infrastructure with ease. But with great power comes great complexities, and...| Tigera - Creator of Calico
OpenAI just released GPT OSS - their first open-source AI models since 2019. These aren't just free downloads; they're transparent, powerful systems that show you exactly how they think while running on regular business hardware. This could democratize advanced AI development.| Deepak Gupta | AI & Cybersecurity Innovation Leader | Founder's Journey from ...
I’m writing this article within the context of the SOAM “RE:FUND OUR DIGITAL FUTURE: REIMAGINING FUNDING ARCHITECTURES FOR PUBLIC INTEREST TECHNOLOGY” residency program I’m taking…| Tara Tarakiyee - Techverständiger
