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NVIDIA and Two Dozen Companies Form the Open Secure AI Alliance
An industry alliance led by NVIDIA aims to make open AI models safer and give defenders tools they can inspect and run for themselves.
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Moonshot AI prepares to release Kimi K3 — the first open model in the 3T class
An announcement for Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI has appeared on Hugging Face — according to its developers, the first open model at the three-trillion-parameter level. The weights are expected to be published on July 27, 2026.
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go/analysis: how Go's modular static-analysis system is built
The Go team documents the golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis package — a common interface between code analyzers and driver programs. It powers go vet, IDEs, and other tools.
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GNU C Library 2.44 Released: the /etc/tunables.conf File and New Optimizations
The GNU developers have unveiled glibc 2.44, a new feature release of a key library for Linux and other platforms. Among the novelties are a system-wide parameter configuration file and faster math functions.
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PoC Exploit for GitLab: An Authenticated User Gains Command Execution as git
A researcher has published a working exploit for unpatched self-managed GitLab: all it takes is to commit two crafted Jupyter notebooks and request a diff of them.
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Debian Votes on the Fate of LLMs in the Project
Debian developers have begun discussing a general resolution that will determine whether large language models may be used when working on the project.
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Codeberg vs. AI: Armin Ronacher on the Risks of the New Rule
Codeberg has banned hosting projects written predominantly by generative AI. Developer Armin Ronacher explains why this attempt to protect open source could end up working against the very community it aims to defend.
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FreeBSD Ports Tree Frozen Over a 150-Megabyte File
The FreeBSD Project has announced a temporary freeze of its ports repository: the cause wasn't a break-in, but an oversized commit that broke mirroring to GitHub.
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Pip 26.2 Gets a --only-deps Flag: The End of a 16-Year Dependency Saga
After nearly two decades of workarounds, pip is finally getting an option to install a project's dependencies without installing the project itself.
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Codeberg declares war on “vibe coding”: two resolutions against LLMs
Members of Codeberg e. V. have voted to refuse to train AI on user data and to ban projects generated by large language models. The platform sees LLMs as a threat to the free-software ecosystem.
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Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
The community behind the nonprofit forge Codeberg has voted for an amendment to its rules that classifies cryptocurrency projects as content harmful to the platform's reputation. The decision sparked debate among users.
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PyPI Bars Adding Files to Releases Older Than 14 Days
The Python package index is introducing a restriction: new files can no longer be uploaded to releases more than two weeks old. The measure is meant to protect older versions from being “poisoned” when tokens and workflows are compromised.
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Jellyfin's Founders Are Leaving the Project: A Change of Leadership
Jellyfin lead Joshua Boniface and core team member Anthony have announced their departure — following Andrew's resignation. The remaining team will carry on developing the popular open-source media server.
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Open Models Scare OpenAI. Should the US Be Afraid of Them?
The success of the Chinese open-weight model Kimi K3 has ignited a debate over banning such systems in the US. Behind all the talk of safety lies a far more mundane problem: frontier labs are finding it ever harder to turn AI into a business.
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GNOME Rethinks Its Vulnerability Handling Amid a Flood of AI-Generated Reports
The GNOME project is cutting its vulnerability disclosure window to 30 days and will stop forwarding AI-generated reports, while the person leading the effort steps down.
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The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired
The last patent covering the MPEG-4 Part 2 (MPEG-4 Visual) format has expired today. The technology has now passed entirely into the public domain.
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GNU Hurd Reports Progress: AArch64 Support and Translators in Rust
The GNU Hurd project has published its quarterly development report, announcing advances in porting to the AArch64 architecture and experiments with writing translators in the Rust language.
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A Book About the XZ Utils Backdoor Has Been Released: “Half a Second”
Adrian Mastronardi has published a book chronicling the story of the 2024 attempt to plant a backdoor in XZ Utils. The book is distributed freely, but under a non-commercial, no-derivatives license.
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The NextBSD Project Revived: Apple's Userland on Top of the FreeBSD Kernel
Developers have resumed work on NextBSD — a project that combines Apple's open-source userland components with the FreeBSD kernel.
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The Pebble Project Announces a Major Update
The repebble.com team has published a piece titled “Pebble Mega Update — July 2026,” describing the progress of the revived smartwatch platform. The publication drew a notable response in the Hacker News community.
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