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The Linux kernel community has adopted its first formal policy for AI-assisted contributions, emphasizing disclosure, legal accountability, and human review.

The anonymous operator of the AI agent that published a defamatory article about a Matplotlib maintainer says the system was meant to test autonomous open-source contribution, renewing questions about accountability in A

Google’s new Gemma 4 release brings multimodal, tool-using AI onto phones and other hardware, with smaller variants designed to run locally and a free mobile app to distribute the experience.

Microsoft has released an open-source toolkit focused on runtime security for AI agents, signaling a new phase in enterprise efforts to govern autonomous systems after deployment.

CuerdOS, a lesser-known Debian-based Linux distribution, is positioning itself around performance, stability, and an unusual set of preinstalled applications.

WireGuard creator Jason Donenfeld says a Microsoft developer account lockout has stopped Windows updates from shipping, exposing a broader fragility in how critical open source software reaches users.

The release of AGIBOT WORLD 2026 as an open-source dataset signals continuing pressure to build shared data foundations for embodied robot development.

Arcee, a 26-person U.S. startup, is promoting a new reasoning model called Trinity Large Thinking as it tries to offer Western companies an open-weight alternative to both Chinese and closed-source AI systems.

Netflix has open-sourced VOID, a video AI framework that removes objects from scenes and adjusts the physical interactions those objects originally caused.

Zenclora est une nouvelle distribution Linux qui supprime tout ce qui est non essentiel et ajoute une fonctionnalité distinctive qui la différencie des autres distros axées sur les performances.

Developer Gavriel Cohen went from side project to major Docker partnership in just six weeks — a story that captures the sudden, unpredictable dynamics of open-source success.

Security researchers discover 151 malicious packages using invisible Unicode characters to hide payloads from code review tools and terminal displays.

While most document scanning apps push cloud subscriptions and harvest user data, FairScan takes a radically different approach. The free, open-source Android app does one thing well: turning your phone camera into a clean document scanner with zero strings attached.

Block's open-source coding agent Goose offers a compelling free alternative to Claude Code, winning over developers with extensibility and transparency.

Block's open-source AI agent Goose matches Claude Code's core capabilities while running locally with no subscription fees or rate limits.

Mozilla's new AI strategy positions the nonprofit as the open-source counterweight to Big Tech's dominance of artificial intelligence.