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Chris Mason Leaves Meta and Steps Down as Btrfs Maintainer
Btrfs creator Chris Mason is wrapping up his work at Meta and formally relinquishing his duties as the project's maintainer, while staying on as a code reviewer.
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Stop Flooding Open Source with AI Garbage for a Line on Your Résumé
A maintainer of open source projects writes that over the past year the nature of third-party contributions has changed dramatically: developers are using AI to fake useful activity on GitHub.
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X Corp. Shuts Down Nitter: The Project Receives a Cease and Desist Notice
After letters from X Corp.'s lawyers, the repository of Nitter — a free alternative web interface for Twitter/X — has been switched to archive mode. Along with it, the XCancel redirect service has ceased operating.
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Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest Half a Million Euros in Flatpak
The Sovereign Tech Agency will channel €508,640 into hardening Flatpak's sandbox and developing new portals. The work is due to be completed by the end of 2027.
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SourceHut Bans Code and Content Created with LLMs
The project-hosting service SourceHut is adding a ban on “original” content written with the help of large language models to its terms of service. The new rules take effect on September 10, 2026.
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An Open-Source AI Executive: Eight Agents Instead of a Board
If top managers are replacing developers with artificial intelligence, why not replace the top managers themselves? The OpenExecutive project offers an open-source “virtual executive team” built on Claude agents.
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Nvidia in Talks to Buy Hugging Face for $13 Billion
According to Business Insider, Nvidia is discussing an acquisition of the popular platform for open AI models. The deal has yet to be sealed and could still fall through.
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Bambu Lab and the AGPLv3 Violation: How a Chinese 3D Printer Maker Skirts Copyleft
At the FOSSY 2026 conference, activists from the Software Freedom Conservancy discussed Bambu Lab's ongoing violation of the AGPLv3 license — and why its license-evasion trick is exactly the one the AGPL was written to counter.
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Haiku R1 Beta 6: The BeOS-Compatible OS Ships for the Project's 25th Anniversary
Nearly two years after the fifth beta, the Haiku team has released the sixth — a week before the quarter-century anniversary of the project inspired by BeOS.
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Armbian 26.8: rewritten installer and bootable UEFI images
The distribution for ARM and RISC-V single-board computers gets a new installer, a live ISO with UEFI support, and Linux 7.1 as the default kernel.
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AWS Acquires DuckLabs: DuckDB Stays Open
The team behind the analytical DBMS DuckDB will join Amazon Web Services as early as the start of September. The developers promise that the “duck stack” will remain free under the MIT license.
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Z.ai confirms: the “stealth model” Ox Alpha belongs to the GLM series, and its weights will be released
The Chinese company Z.ai has acknowledged that the much-discussed Ox Alpha model is a new development from the GLM family, and has promised to publish its weights.
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LibreOffice 26.8: a faster Writer, cell shuffling in Calc and new chart types
The semi-annual update of the free LibreOffice office suite, version 26.8, is out. Among the new features are faster handling of large documents, experimental support for Chartex charts and improved compatibility with Microsoft formats.
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X Demands Shutdown of Nitter — the Open-Source Project for Reading Posts Without an Account
The social network X has served notice on the Nitter project, accusing it of illegal data scraping and demanding that it take down every instance and the code repository.
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Flood of AI Bug Reports in QEMU Called a DoS Attack on Maintainers
In a matter of minutes, one user filed more than 125 cookie-cutter, AI-generated bug reports in QEMU. A Red Hat engineer viewed it as a denial of service against the project's maintainers.
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GNU Emacs 31.1 Released: Mouse by Default and a Theme for Newcomers
The legendary GNU Emacs text editor has received its 31.1 update, bringing out-of-the-box mouse support in the terminal and a dedicated theme for first-time users.
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Hugging Face in Talks Over a Sale at a $13 Billion Valuation
According to Business Insider, the AI-model-sharing platform is being valued at more than $13 billion. But the founders' sense of responsibility to the community casts doubt on whether a deal will happen at all.
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Critical Keycloak Vulnerability Lets Attackers Hijack Any Account via Password Reset
Red Hat and the Keycloak project have released patches for the critical flaw CVE-2026-18963 (CVSS 9.1): an unauthenticated attacker can take over any account, including an administrative one, by forcing the system to reset the password.
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GLM-5.3 tops the applied LLM leaderboard — five times cheaper than its rivals
The open GLM-5.3 became the first model to clear all five Ed-o-meter test categories at 100%, beating the closed-source models from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost.
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Qwen 3.8 27B Cracked a Reverse-Engineering Job in Half an Hour
A writer at XDA Developers handed the open-source Qwen language model a reverse-engineering task — and, by his account, it finished the job in about thirty minutes.
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