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The Linux 7.4 Merge Window Is Easily The Largest In Kernel History
Linux 7.4-rc1 enters the largest merge window in kernel history, marked by a record volume of AI-driven patches and hardware updates.
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DeepSeek Drops Enhanced Coding Agent With Aim to Rival Anthropic
DeepSeek enters the competitive coding arena with an open-source super agent designed to rival systems from Anthropic and OpenAI.
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Ghostty 1.4 is out with big improvements on Linux
Ghostty 1.4 releases with notable Linux performance gains, reduced memory usage, and fixes for broken SSH sessions.
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AKAI Sample Key: The MPC Sample Gets a Keyboard and Surprise! It’s Open Source!
Akai introduces the Sample Key keyboard sampler alongside an open-source MPC firmware community initiative.
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This open-source app lets you run practically any phone app on your Android Auto car screen
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‘Tokens Are Cheap’: Open Source Subreddit Bans AI
Reddit's r/opensource bans AI projects and non-English speakers, sparking immediate backlash and alternative community creation.
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 GPUs Get Up To 2X Faster AI Compute Performance With New GPU Unlock Mod, Real-World Gains Of Up To 60%
A new open-source GPU unlock mod is doubling AI compute performance for NVIDIA RTX 20, 30, and 40 series graphics cards by removing firmware throttles.
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Google Open-Sources Harness2, a Recursive Agent Harnessing Framework
Google open-sources Harness2, enabling AI agents to improve themselves and rewrite their own playbooks without retraining.
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KDE Plasma 6.8 Released, Marks 30 Years Of The KDE Project
The KDE Project marks its 30th anniversary with the official release of KDE Plasma 6.8, introducing new features and an X11 farewell.
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PhotoCraft is an open-source, AI-built clone of Photoshop
PhotoCraft emerges as an open-source, AI-built clone of Photoshop, according to emerging technology coverage.
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Anthropic launches free AI security scans for open-source projects
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“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
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Someone Rebuilt Free, Open-Source Versions of Photoshop, Premiere, and Lightroom Using AI
An AI developer has launched ArtCraft, a suite of open-source creative applications designed to rival Adobe's Photoshop, Premiere, and Lightroom.
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IBM & Red Hat Find More Than 400 New Vulnerabilities In Popular Java Code
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A New Open-Weight Challenger to Anthropic, Reflection, Emerges
Reflection, a new open-weight AI model, lands on the U.S. scene as a direct challenger to Anthropic, sparking industry buzz.
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Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions
Google has frozen its open-source bug bounty program amid a massive surge of invalid AI-generated vulnerability reports.
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Android's controversial new developer verification rules are officially here
Google has officially implemented controversial new developer verification and sideloading rules for Android, triggering backlash from app makers.
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F-Droid 2.0 launches with UI overhaul and automatic updates
F-Droid releases version 2.0, introducing a major user interface overhaul and automatic updates in its largest update in ten years.
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NVIDIA DLSS 5 Gets Open-Source Vulkan Reimplementation, Runs on RTX 40 GPUs and Even in Web Browsers
Nvidia DLSS 5 receives an open-source Vulkan reimplementation, expanding compatibility to RTX 40 hardware and web browsers.
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Qualcomm Posts Open-Source GPU Driver Patches For Adreno 850 One Day After Announcement
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OpenRGB 1.0 Launches for Open-Source RGB Customization on Windows, Linux, and macOS
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How to Play IBM Stock as It Teams Up with NASA to Launch a New Open-Source Model
NASA and IBM launch an open-source lunar AI model to improve crater detection, ice mapping, and landing site selection.
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IBM, NASA launch AI model to help map ice, craters on Moon
NASA and IBM have released an open-source AI model designed to map lunar craters and ice to support future moon exploration missions.
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Audacity enters a “new era” with the biggest update in the free and open-source audio editor’s 26-year history
Audacity enters a new era with Audacity 4, delivering its largest feature update and a modernized user interface.
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Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I.
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'Just a hobby, won't be big': Linus Torvalds introduced Linux 35 years ago
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Happy 35th Birthday, Linux!
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GIMP Making Progress On New Project File Format After Nearly 30 Years With XCF
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Linux Kernel 7.2 Officially Released, This Is What’s New
Linux Kernel 7.2 debuts with cache-aware scheduling, AI-enriched code review, and faster I/O performance across major file systems.
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Nvidia unveils first open-source AI model since CEO Jensen Huang entered the chat
Nvidia enters the open-source AI arena with the release of Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and plans for a massive 1-trillion-parameter successor.
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Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal
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Zuckerberg lays out vision to put superintelligent AI in everyone's hands
Meta’s CEO vows to democratize superintelligent AI by open‑sourcing its top model and adding private‑mode agents.
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Meta launches new AI model as Zuckerberg champions open-weight push
Meta has launched a new artificial intelligence model as part of its open-weight push to compete against China.
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Mark Zuckerberg attacks ‘closed’ AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
Mark Zuckerberg is challenging 'closed' AI rivals as Meta pivots back toward open-weight models, including a consumer-ready home version.
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Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default
Developers are demanding that AI providers like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Cursor prioritize security and privacy as default settings for coding tools.
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Cloudflare Announces Open-Source Cloudflare OS As AI "Operating System"
Cloudflare’s new open‑source Cloudflare OS bills itself as an AI‑focused operating system, promising built‑in security and a record of every agent action.
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OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents implicated in new security breaches
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AI's manifesto war
The AI industry is splitting over a 'manifesto war' regarding open-source leadership and the security risks of open weights models.
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Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font
A new open-source 'Ghost Font' allows humans to read text while feeding AI scrapers gibberish to protect digital content.
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Nvidia, Microsoft launch open AI security alliance
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DeepSeek’s Normally Boring CEO Is Reportedly Spiraling After Supposed Leak
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American Open-Source Labs Think They Can Beat China’s Best AI Startups
American open-source labs are challenging China's AI startups with the release of high-performance coding models like Poolside's Laguna S 2.1.
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Do you prefer Google’s 3D emoji or the classic style? [Poll]
Google expands the open-source Noto Emoji project by releasing thousands of reimagined 3D emojis.
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China's open-weight Kimi model stuns AI world with frontier-level results
Chinese startup Moonshot AI has unveiled its open-weight Kimi model, drawing intense global coverage for challenging US dominance.
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Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."
Linus Torvalds responds to developers opposing AI-generated code in Linux by challenging them to fork the project or leave entirely.
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Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off
Linux creator Linus Torvalds declares the kernel is not an anti-AI project, telling critics to either accept the tool or fork the code.
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The AI race is shifting from bigger models to cheaper, smarter systems
The artificial intelligence industry is pivoting away from raw power toward cost-efficiency as business spending faces increased scrutiny.
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Valve shares official 3D print files to let users build their own Steam Machine e-ink faceplate
Valve is empowering its community by open-sourcing the 3D print files and firmware needed to create custom e-ink faceplates for the Steam Machine.
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Palantir CEO flames AI firms live on TV: ‘I feel like I’m gonna get kicked out!’
Palantir's CEO sharply criticized fellow artificial intelligence firms during a television appearance while addressing government customers.
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White House accelerates plans for AI model standards
The White House speeds up voluntary AI model standards, sparking industry talks and a boost for open‑source models.
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Git 2.55 Released With Rust Support Enabled By Default, git history fixup
Git 2.55 has been officially released, introducing Rust support enabled by default and performance enhancements for large repositories.
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Microsoft called Linux a cancer, now ships its own free distro that's nothing like Ubuntu or Fedora
Microsoft has transitioned from calling Linux a 'cancer' to releasing its own free distribution, Azure Linux 4.0, for public use.
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The First Vibe Coded MMORPG Is Free, Open Source, and Surprisingly Complete
A new open-source MMORPG created with AI assistance is trending for its 'vibe coded' development and rapid global community expansion.
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OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos
OpenAI is aggressively expanding its cybersecurity capabilities through new partnerships and the launch of GPT-5.5-Cyber to patch open-source bugs.
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What is GLM-5.2? Another open-source Chinese AI model has Silicon Valley's attention.
Z.ai's new open-source model GLM-5.2 is beating GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks and gaining Silicon Valley's attention.