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Google Unveils HEIR: A Compiler for Private AI on Encrypted Data
Google has released HEIR, an open-source compiler that lets neural networks run computations directly on encrypted data — with no decryption on the server. The technology promises to resolve the age-old conflict between the convenience of cloud services and user privacy.
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AMD GAIA 0.23: Installing and Running AI Agents Straight From the Terminal
AMD's open GAIA platform gets an update that lets you manage AI agents from the command line and makes working with them safer by default.
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Comma.ai Releases an eGPU Dock with Open-Source Firmware
George Hotz has unveiled Tiny Chestnut — a PCIe Gen4 x4 to USB4 dock with open-source firmware that lets you connect a graphics card to a self-driving system or an ordinary PC.
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Rsync 3.5: an “extraordinary” release closes 33 vulnerabilities
The popular file-synchronization utility has received an update that its developers have called “extraordinary” because of the sheer number of security issues it fixes.
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Woxi: An Open-Source Implementation of the Wolfram Language in Rust
The Woxi project offers an interpreter for the Wolfram Language written in Rust, with a range of interfaces — from a browser-based sandbox to a Jupyter kernel and a notebook editor.
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QEMU 11.1: UFS Write Booster Emulation, New RISC-V and Arm Extensions
The popular emulator and virtualization system QEMU 11.1 has been released. There are no major new features in this version, but the set of improvements touches several subsystems at once.
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Mojo 1.0: Modular's Language Gets a Stable Foundation
Modular has released version 26.5 of its platform and announced Mojo 1.0 — the language, in development since 2023, has finally been declared stable and production-ready.
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GNOME Designers Share Long-Term Plans for GNOME Shell
Tobias Bernard of the GNOME design team has published a collection of ideas on how the project's graphical shell might change over time.
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NVIDIA's Rust-Based Nova Driver Gains New Capabilities in Linux 7.3
Ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window, developers have prepared a batch of changes for the Rust-based DRM drivers — including Nova, the future replacement for Nouveau on NVIDIA graphics cards.
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Django moves to an annual release cycle with three years of support
The Django web framework project has adopted a proposal for an annual release cycle. Every release will be supported for three years, and the “LTS” label is becoming a thing of the past.
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Post-Quantum Cryptography Comes to Python
The pyca/cryptography library has gained support for the post-quantum algorithms ML-KEM and ML-DSA — now they're available to the entire Python ecosystem with a single pip install command.
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Meta Releases Muse Glimmer — an Open Agentic Model with 30 Billion Parameters
Meta Superintelligence Labs has unveiled Muse Glimmer, a language model with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license, designed for always-on local agents.
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Illinois Now Requires Operating Systems to Report Children's Ages — No Break for Open Source
The state governor has signed a law requiring device makers, OSes and app stores to build in age verification. Unlike Colorado and California, the text carves out no exception for free software.
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Gentoo Temporarily Takes Bugzilla Offline Amid an Onslaught of AI Scrapers
Gentoo developer Michał Górny reported that he had to shut down the distribution's bug tracker: it had been overwhelmed by bots harvesting data to train AI.
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The Nixpkgs Core Team Announces Its Own Dissolution
After roughly ten months of work, the Nixpkgs core team has decided to disband, citing burnout and systemic governance problems within the project.
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U.S. Department of Energy Launches Genesis Open Models Initiative
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the launch of the Genesis Open Models Initiative, a program dedicated to open artificial intelligence models.
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Oracle Bans AI Code in OpenJDK — but Not in Its Own Products
The OpenJDK project, stewarded by Oracle, has refused to accept neural-network-generated code, even as Larry Ellison insists that Oracle's own code is now written by artificial intelligence.
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WeatherNext: DeepMind's AI Gives You an Extra Day to Prepare for Cyclones
Google DeepMind has published a paper in Nature about WeatherNext, a model that predicts the track and strength of tropical cyclones at a world-record level — and has open-sourced it.
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Three Paperclip Vulnerabilities Allow Command Execution via Malicious Agent Import
Three flaws — including a critical one with a maximum CVSS score of 10.0 — have been found in Paperclip, the open-source platform for managing teams of AI agents. All of them boil down to the same thing: an agent's configuration turns into executable code.
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Open VSX Removes 77 “Evil Twin” Extensions That Stole Developer Data
The Open VSX marketplace has purged a cluster of 77 malicious extensions that masqueraded as genuine tools and shipped data about developers' systems and environments to a domain controlled by the attackers.
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