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Forgejo announces version 17.0 of the community-driven Git forge, covering notable changes, upgrade notes and release artifacts for self-hosted teams that want an open alternative to proprietary code hosts.
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Introducing Muse Spark Open, The Most Capable US Open-Weight Model to Date
Meta Superintelligence Labs releases the weights of Muse Spark Open, a natively multimodal 816B-parameter (42B active) model with a 1M-token context window built for coding and agentic work. It runs on two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios via MLX, is offered through hosted inference partners and major model hubs, ships with Helion GPU kernels for SGLang, and is released under the Muse Model License after safety evaluation.
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End-to-end encrypted relays for OCapN
Jessica Tallon of the Spritely Institute describes end-to-end encrypted relays for OCapN: how capability-secure networked objects can communicate through untrusted relays without exposing plaintext, and what that unlocks for peer connectivity.
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Virtual Oxide Labs: Emulating a Full Oxide Rack
Oxide's Product Assurance team introduces Voxel, a tool that emulates a full Oxide rack, including its real control plane, switches, service processors and customer-like networking topologies, so the team can test current software without scarce hardware; it covers image creation, launch, SP emulation and the MPL 2.0 release.
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Felix Palmer announces A5 v1.0, the pentagonal Discrete Global Grid System that encodes any point, line or polygon on Earth as 64-bit cell IDs. The release freezes a permanent cell ID definition and adds compacted coverings with set operations, spatial hierarchy functions, equal-area cells and faster indexing across languages.
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On the 30th anniversary of KDE's original announcement, long-time contributor Cornelius Schumacher reflects on joining the project in 1999, the values of digital freedom it embodies, how its community keeps renewing itself, and the goals it set for enterprise, documentation and styling.
2 min · 462 words
Counting Stars: Open Source Hardware at Chip Companies
Zero ASIC founder Andreas Olofsson tallies GitHub stars on public chip design repositories by company to argue that the semiconductor industry contributes almost nothing to open source hardware. Ten-person Zero ASIC ranks first with about 3,900 stars, ahead of SiFive, NVIDIA, AMD and Intel, and the post explains the counting method and notes the work of startups and projects like OpenROAD.
6 min · 1,310 words
Making all divisions slower to fix a bug in 0.000000000000000000542% of cases
The Futhark compiler blog explains how signed integer division by -1 of the most negative two's-complement integer is undefined behaviour in the C code Futhark generates, how the compiler now adds a branch to every signed division to handle that single case correctly, what that costs on contrived and real benchmarks, and why unsigned division avoids the overhead.
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A new model for open source: closed to pull requests, open to remix
Geoffrey Huntley revisits The Cathedral and the Bazaar and argues that in the AI era open source needs a new model: keep code open but close it to pull requests, and instead publish guidance so people remix and patch software for their own needs, as he now plans to do with his own GitHub projects.
3 min · 680 words
Anthropic’s Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke
A former Mononoke engineer compares Anthropic's description of 'derived data' in its new Scion version control system with how Meta's open-source Mononoke source control server used the same idea years earlier, and argues that Anthropic should have credited Mononoke as prior art.
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How the PHP Security Team Handles Your Reports
Alexandre Daubois of the PHP security team explains how security reports for php-src are triaged today, who does the work, the tools the team uses, what falls inside and outside the security policy, and how to send a report, including AI-assisted ones, that the team can act on.
5 min · 1,136 words
Package managers have an integrity problem
Trail of Bits tested 25 popular package managers to see whether they detect a compromised registry injecting malicious code into legitimate packages; fewer than half used tamper-checking lockfiles by default and only two verified every package.
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Plasma 6.8 released (KDE’s 30th birthday)
KDE announces Plasma 6.8 for its 30th anniversary: foundation work for future Plasma, desktop improvements, Wayland polishing, and app updates across the stack.
6 min · 1,283 words
Daniel Stenberg explains CVE-2026-92392, a HIGH-severity HTTP/2 upload use-after-free in curl fixed in 8.23.0 that could be turned into remote code execution, how it was found and handled, and why the release cycle was shortened.
6 min · 1,317 words
Tanner Linsley announces TanStack Start 1.0 as production-stable: type-safe full-stack routing for React and Solid, Vite 8, migration notes from RC, and how AI changed Start’s development and contribution load.
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A slightly faster slimmer curl
Daniel Stenberg describes recent curl and libcurl work that trims binary size and improves performance: removing unused code paths, tighter defaults, and build-time options that make curl slightly faster and leaner without changing its familiar CLI behavior.
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Introducing Firefox Enterprise
Mozilla announces Firefox Enterprise, which pairs the Gecko-based Firefox browser with a customer-operated management console for organizations with strict security, governance and compliance needs, pitching it as a way to reduce dependence on a few technology providers and as a first step in a wider sovereignty push.
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Astral announces an experimental integration between its uv package manager and ty type checker, adding first-class support for Python scripts on the CLI and in the editor and a unified uv check command, as a step toward an integrated Astral toolchain.
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Making 1,750 programmable PCB badges for Canada's biggest hackathon
Nick Ficara tells how Hack the North's cardstock name tag became 1,750 programmable circuit-board badges with a screen, buttons and radio, walking through EVT, DVT and PVT prototypes, part-selection errors, flipped ICs, supply chain and the production run, with open-source hardware, firmware and a WebAssembly emulator.
24 min · 5,525 words
Positron October Release Highlights
Positron is Posit’s new, next-generation IDE for data science. Positron is designed to be an extensible, polyglot tool for exploring data and reproducible authoring in Python, R, and more.
6 min · 1,320 words