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I'm new to the world of open source development, at least as an author. This is mostly because it has always felt like whatever tool I need, someone has already made it. It makes it seem like any tool I can think of is an internet search away, be it for my professional needs or my personal hobbies. This notion was challenged last year when I was looking for a good tool to backup my favorite YouTu…

Switzerland's federal government has launched a pilot program to replace Microsoft 365 with open source alternatives across 3,000 workstations. That's about 7% of the federal workforce. The target is to complete the migration by end of 2027. This move follows a successful proof-of-concept and a new digital sovereignty law. A separate fast-track military migration is also already underway. The gre…

September marks the official start of Preptember , a month dedicated to organizers planning local gatherings and getting ready for Hacktoberfest . This year, Hacktoberfest is entering a new chapter. We’re shifting away from open-source contributions and focusing on community-building and educating folks around open artificial intelligence. As the AI landscape rapidly evolves, we think it's more i…

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Building an Open-Source Image Editor Because the Alternatives Were Too Expensive When I started integrating image editing into one of my applications, I evaluated several popular image editing libraries. Many of them were excellent. They offered polished UIs, powerful editing capabilities, and years of development behind them. However, I quickly ran into a problem. No single library provided all …

Homegames is a free and open-source game platform. Play, make and share games in your browser. No account required to play. - Make games in your browser with a simple code editor - Live game preview lets you test your changes with live multiplayer sessions - Manage game assets right from the studio. Upload your own files or draw/record something in the studio. - Publish games if you want to share…

Wrapping the first build-in-public run for Fud AI . The short version: Native iOS + Android calorie + nutrition tracker Snap a photo -> estimated calories + macros (plus barcode, label, photo library, voice, type, manual, saved meals, copy-day) BYOK: your own Gemini / OpenRouter key, or optional Fud AI Plus AI Coach that reads your logs, progress + weight + body-fat tracking, BMR your way Open so…

The open source Git project just released Git 2.55. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time. The post Highlights from Git 2.55 appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

I started this project in December 2025. Not because anyone asked. Not because I saw a gap in the market. Because I compose chess problems as a hobby and every tool I tried to export a diagram with either watermarked the output, required an account, or exported at 72 DPI like it was still 2003. So I built my own. Seven months later: 5 stars on GitHub, 6 forks, a handful of npm downloads, about $1…

We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together. An open letter regarding the launch of Akrites – a coordinated effort to remediate vulnerabilities in the open source software the world runs on For decades, open source has been one of the great achievements of technology – software we built together and came to depend on completely. Today, this code underpins the world’s critical infrast…

SOFAIR will work with Cambridge, Oxford, and Edinburgh on alternative AI architectures, while a second lab will examine how AI systems learn. UCL will lead the SOFAIR Lab, which will develop open-source AI models and investigate alternatives to current AI architectures UCL will lead a new national research lab focused on developing open-source artificial intelligence systems that can operate on m…