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OpenSearch has come a long way since Amazon Web Services first announced the project back in January 2021, in response to Elastic’s decision to move Elasticsearch and its accompanying visualization tool, Kibana, away from Apache 2.0 and onto a combin...
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Vercel Labs has released agent-desktop, an open-source CLI for AI agent computer use on macOS, Windows and Linux. agent-desktop reads each app through the operating system’s accessibility tree, not through screenshots. An agent gets a JSON snapshot w...
Parts of this article were drafted with AI assistants; I checked every number against the model card and the evaluation logs....
Bhasha tags every word of code-mixed Indian text with its language. My test said Tamil scored 0.87; human-labelled comments said 0.72....
Endor Labs this week added an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to its portfolio that evaluates every reachable open source vulnerability against a code context graph to generate fixes that typically require only 10 lines of code to be generated and ...
A team of researchers from Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley have released TokenEconomizer, an open-source cost controller for coding agents. TokenEconomizer is a plugin that learns from past sessions in a repository to cut waste in later ones. It w...
A free model that sorts complaints in 13 Indian languages into 53 categories based on RBI, IRDAI and CPGRAMS lists. What a synthetic test hid, and what real posts showed....
Across sixteen code-generating models, 5.2% of package names suggested by commercial models and 21.7% of those from open-source models point at software that does not exist. Correcting a hallucinated dependency costs an afternoon. Proving to an asses...
A compression library you have never configured, patched in private eight months ago, is now on CISA's actively-exploited list and sitting inside half your stack. Elsewhere, the tools that move your code had a rough week, and Home Assistant is about ...
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2026 in Salt Lake City will bring the cloud native community together with projects, vendors and end users in what is one of the largest open source events....
The October 2026 Project Teams Gathering (PTG) brought together contributors, operators, and open-source advocates across the Open Infrastructure Foundation ecosystem. Across five days of virtual design and roadmap alignment, total attendance across ...
Synthhead at Synthtopia looks at a run of recent announcements that let musicians replace or extend the software running on their hardware. The starting point is the M-Vave FM-1, a low-cost FM synthesizer that drew independent developers writing thei...
Ananthu Ashok, writing at Open Source For You, covers Hermes, an open source push-to-talk voice assistant that pairs an ESP32 with a Windows PC. The project comes from developer ROHITCRAFTSYT and is released under the MIT license, with firmware, wiri...
Strix, the open-source AI penetration testing tool, can now run on any of the 400+ models on Vercel AI Gateway....
AI services are becoming a fast-growing attack surface in production environments. The processes that run your models, agents, and inference pipelines tend to rely on open-source dependencies, ranging from AI-specific frameworks like LangChain and Hu...
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MentorAgent is an open-source library for .NET 10 that puts an AI agent between your systems and your users, and keeps it under your rules. On one side, the agent uses what you already have: the methods of your .NET application, the tools of MCP serv...
Mistral has released the weights for Large 4, aka "Le Chonk," a trillion-parameter model trained entirely in Europe. Mistral says it beats its open rivals at coding, and independent testing shows it's fast and fairly cheap. It still can't match China...
On Thursday, Mistral released the weights for its frontier open model, Mistral Large 4 (ML4), on Hugging Face....
The Eclipse Foundation, as a co-founder and committed maintainer of the OSPO Alliance, is thrilled to announce that the Open Source Good Governance Handbook is now available in Tamil!...
The US Justice Department is looking into Nvidia's planned acquisition of open-source platform Hugging Face....
Linux deleted its requirement to label AI help and Torvalds continues to use it as a tool...
Trending is a score, not usage. The downloads field is a 30-day count, per Hugging Face’s docs. How to sort by what people actually pull....
The Quiet Stack: 10 Open-Source Tools Every Programmer Should Know in 2026...
MIT Technology Review marks 50 years of EMACS, one of the first full-screen text editors and still in use today. It grew out of TECO, a text editor Dan Murphy wrote in 1962 for the PDP-1 at MIT, and Carl Mikkelsen’s Control-R add-on from 1971, which ...
Repair Café International marked the first anniversary of its Linux Repair Café starter kit on repaircafe.org. The kit is a guide for running sessions where visitors bring an old laptop and leave with Linux Mint installed. One year in, 165 Repair Caf...
A financially motivated operator or small group has been using the Hugging Face Hub since September 2026 to distribute cryptocurrency miners and backdoors disguised as small Qwen2 language models, according to a report shared by Pluto Security. The c...
Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is NVIDIA's open-weight speech-to-text model for recordings. Specs, accuracy, 40 languages, license, and how to run it.
Unleash 8.3 is out, and the headline is security: every API token you create from now on is hashed before it ever reaches the database. There’s also a simpler way to add a strategy, three new constraint operators, and a few housekeeping improvements....
Infini-AI-Lab has released Hermit, an open-source harness adapter framework for AI agents. Hermit is a framework from Infini-AI-Lab that trains an external ‘harness adapter’ while the agent’s model and harness stay frozen. The first release, v0.1.0, ...
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weights speech LLM built for transcription. One model handles 40 languages and recordings up to 1 hour. A text instruction picks the output style for each request. Options include verbatim, written...
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Hi users!We have released fluent-packagev6.1.0on 2026-10-29.
Fluent Package is a stable distribution package of Fluentd. (successor of td-agent)This is a new release of the v6.1 series. Note that this is NOT an LTS version.
If you prefer stability, please use the LTS version (v6.0.x) instead.Fluent