'Free Software Awards' Winners Announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory
EditorDavid / slashdot - This week the Free Software Foundation honored Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, and Govdirectory with this year's annual Free Software Awards (given to community members and groups making"significant" contributions to software freedom):Andy Wingo is one of the co-main…
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Meta is reportedly working on a new AI model called 'Avocado' and it might not be open source
Karissa Bell / engadget - Mark Zuckerberg has for months publicly hinted that he is backing away from open-source AI models. Now, Meta's latest AI pivot is starting to come into focus. The company is reportedly working on a new model, known inside of Meta as "Avocado," which could…
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Mistral closes in on Big AI rivals with new open-weight frontier and small models
Rebecca Bellan / techcrunch - Mistral unveils its Mistral 3 lineup, including a frontier model and efficient small models designed for offline, customizable enterprise use—aiming to prove small, fine-tuned AI can beat closed-source giants.
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Back to Top / Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 10:21 am / permalink 16480 / 15 stories in 3 months
Linux Kernel 6.18 Released with Potential LTS Status
techpowerup - Linus Torvalds released Linux kernel 6.18 bringing new hardware support, virtualization improvements, and file system updates. The biggest change is the removal of the Bcachefs file system. Then, Linux 6.18 adds KVM x86 CET virtualization support, letting…
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Years-old bugs in open source tool left every major cloud open to disruption
Jessica Lyons / theregister - Fluent Bit has 15B+ deployments … and 5 newly assigned CVEs A series of "trivial-to-exploit" vulnerabilities in Fluent Bit, an open source log collection tool that runs in every major cloud and AI lab, was left open for years, giving attackers an exploit …
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Shai-Hulud worm returns, belches secrets to 25K GitHub repos
Connor Jones / theregister - Trojanized npm packages spread new variant that executes in pre-install phase, hitting thousands within days A self-propagating malware targeting node package managers (npm) is back for a second round, according to Wiz researchers who say that more than 2…
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Microsoft Open Sources Zork Trilogy Code, Preserving Gaming History
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft and Activision have released the source code for Zork I, II, and III under the MIT License, officially preserving the text adventure classics.The post Microsoft Open Sources Zork Trilogy Code, Preserving Gaming History appeared first on WinBuzze…
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Pionix Raises €8M To Boost Open-Source EV Charging
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - German e-mobility startup Pionix has secured over €8 million in funding to expand its open-source solutions for the global e-mobility market. The late seed round was led by Ascend Capital Partners and included participation from Start-up BW Seed Fonds (ma…
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For the Steam Machine to change PC gaming, Valve must solve Linux's anti-cheat problem
engadget - Following months of rumors, Valve finally announced the new Steam Machine earlier this week. And while I might question the company's decision to ship a system with only 8GB of VRAM in 2026, I believe the "Gabecube" will do more for PC gaming than anythin…
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Moonshot launches open-source ‘Kimi K2 Thinking’ AI with a trillion parameters and reasoning capabilities
Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Chinese startup Beijing Moonshot AI Co. Ltd. Thursday released a new open-source artificial intelligence model, named Kimi 2 Thinking, that displays significantly upgraded tool use and agentic capabilities compared to current models. The company said the …
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The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
Simon Willison / simonwillison - The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant programThe Python Software Foundation was recently "recommended for funding" (NSF terminology) for a $1.5m grant from the US government National Science Foundation to help improve the se…
Back to Top / Monday, October 27, 2025, 4:21 pm / permalink 15472 / 4 stories in 4 months
FTC removes Lina Khan-era posts about AI risks and open source
Rebecca Bellan / techcrunch - One post, authored by Khan’s staff, was published on January 3, 2025 with the title “AI and the Risk of Consumer Harm.” It noted that the FTC was “taking note of AI’s potential for real-world instances of harm – from incentivizing commercial surveillance …
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Reflection AI secures $2B funding for its frontier AI lab
Reflection AI has closed a high-profile funding round, raising $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation. Backed by Nvidia and other investors, the startup is set to expand its open-source, frontier AI infrastructure and safety research. This ambitious injection of cash underscores the competitive race to dominate the AI landscape.
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Qualcomm acquires Arduino to supercharge the global maker movement
Cate Lawrence / tech - Qualcomm Technologies today announced its agreement to acquire Italian open-source hardware and software company Arduino. Arduino is a leading open-source hardware and software company that provides ...
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xAI releases cheaper, fast language model Grok 4 Fast
Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - xAI has introduced Grok 4 Fast, a lighter version of its flagship model. According to the company, it performs on par with Grok 4 in most tasks but uses about 40 percent less compute. That efficiency also translates into lower costs - xAI says the price p…
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Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’
Emma Roth / theverge - For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from last week, Google admitted that “the open web is already i…
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Microsoft open sources 6502 BASIC, a key piece of computing history
techspot - A few months after releasing the Altair BASIC source code, Microsoft has shared another cornerstone of its early software success. The company announced that 6502 BASIC is now open source, giving programmers and archivists access to the official product a…
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Switzerland enters AI race with ‘transparent’ LLM
Laura Varley / siliconrepublic - The large-scale open, multilingual language model includes many languages that have so far been underrepresented in LLMs, such as Swiss German and Romansh.Read more: Switzerland enters AI race with ‘transparent’ LLM
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Microsoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976
Tom Warren / theverge - After years of unofficial copies of Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC floating around on the internet, the software giant has released the code under an open-source license. 6502 BASIC was one of Microsoft’s first pieces of software, adapted in 1976 by Microsoft cof…
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Switzerland launches its own open-source AI model
Mariella Moon / engadget - There's a new player in the AI race, and it's a whole country. Switzerland has just released Apertus, its open-source national Large Language Model (LLM) that it hopes would be an alternative to models offered by companies like OpenAI. Apertus, Latin for …
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