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The Register ·
IBM and NASA have got together again and released an open source AI model of the Moon that could be used to make new discoveries about Earth’s natural satellite. The NASA‑IBM Lunar Foundation Model has been trained on an extensive lunar...
TNW ·
IBM and NASA are releasing an AI model trained on decades of observations of the Moon, and making it available openly. The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model is arriving on Hugging Face alongside what its creators describe as the first...
News – MeriTalk · · Medium severity
Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is becoming increasingly important as investigators confront rapidly expanding volumes of breach, malware, identity, financial, and communications data. Used effectively, OSINT can help investigative...
TechRadar ·
Mike Moore is Deputy Editor at TechRadar Pro. He has worked as a B2B and B2C technology journalist for over a decade, including at one of the UK's leading national newspapers and fellow Future title ITProPortal, covering everything from...
Hackaday ·
Drones have become a potent military threat, particularly on the small scale. Nimble multi-rotor drones are fast, difficult to spot, and can cause plenty of harm if allowed to go about their work unhindered. The first step to dealing...
Hacker News ·
AlienVault OTX · · Medium severity
Gigabud is an Android remote access banking trojan active since 2022, attributed to GoldFactory group, targeting victims across Southeast Asia, South Asia, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. The malware now utilizes Vwork, a...
Phoronix ·
A ReactOS developer for this open-source operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Windows drivers and applications has achieved an intriguing software stack. With the experimental ReactOS ARM64 build for running...
Hacker News ·
Hacker News ·
Help Net Security ·
Tencent’s Zhuque Lab built AI-Infra-Guard, an open-source security scanner for AI systems. It fingerprints running services such as Ollama, vLLM and ComfyUI and checks them against more than 1,600 known CVEs, inspects MCP servers and...
Tech-Economic Times ·
Speaking at Goldman Sachs' Communacopia + Technology Conference in San Francisco, Friar said OpenAI is focusing on sectors including chip design, life sciences and financial services, as businesses increasingly seek AI systems...
SiliconANGLE ·
French artificial intelligence lab Mistral AI SAS today announced that it has raised €3 billion, or about $3.49 billion, in funding. It was joined by more than two dozen other backers including Salesforce Ventures, Nvidia Corp. and ASML...
Computerworld ·
Swiss authorities have launched a pilot project to determine whether it is possible to replace Microsoft 365 with similar open-source services, RTS reports . This follows a proof-of-concept project in which 172 civil servants tested the...
TechRadar ·
Swiss Federal Government is ditching Microsoft on thousands of devices to switch to open source
TechRadar ·
Microsoft engineer claims 'typing code is absolutely over', with AI and GitHub Copilot set to transform coding as we know it
Hacker News ·
Hacker News ·
Slashdot ·
Switzerland has a population of 9,154,242. And its federal government just launched a pilot program to test open source alternatives to Microsoft 365 on 3,000 workstations, reports the blog It's FOSS. "That's about 7% of the federal...
AlienVault OTX · · Medium severity
The Kimsuky threat group continues Operation GitPower campaigns utilizing malicious LNK files disguised as financial and business documents. Thirteen LNK variants collected between August 11-19, 2026, employ GitHub Personal Access...
TechSpot ·
Fowler was not suggesting that software engineers are becoming unnecessary. But as AI handles more routine coding work, developers may spend less time writing individual lines and more time on system design, requirements, dependencies,...
Help Net Security ·
ToolHive is an open-source platform that runs Model Context Protocol servers inside containers. An MCP server is the connector that lets an AI client like Cursor or Claude Code reach an outside tool, and Stacklok ships ToolHive under...
Hacker News ·
Hacker News ·
Phoronix ·
NVIDIA continues building out more functionality around the open-source, upstream Nova kernel graphics driver within the Linux kernel. Making it out to the mailing list this Saturday is a set of 13 patches for introducing a NVIDIA vGPU...
Hacker News ·
Latest InfoTech News, IT, Information Technology News | The HinduBusinessLine ·
Indian engineers are increasingly recognising that developing deep expertise requires going upstream and understanding technologies through engagement with the wider community
Slashdot ·
BrianFagioli writes: Audacity 4.0 has been released with a rebuilt Qt interface, a new clip-editing model, customizable workspaces, native high-DPI rendering, and a new AUP4 project format. The open source audio editor also adds ASIO...
Ars Technica ·
Nvidia has agreed to buy AI model platform Hugging Face for $13 billion, in the latest step by the $5.4 trillion chip giant to use its financial might to accelerate the technology’s boom while exerting greater control over the industry....
TechSpot · · Unconfirmed
Update (September 3): Nvidia has now confirmed that it will acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, turning last week's reports into one of the chipmaker's largest deals ever. The deal includes up to $1 billion in equity incentives to...
Wired · · Unconfirmed
The long-rumored deal will give the chip giant access to—and help it promote—a huge repository of open-source AI models and data sets.
Slashdot ·
BrianFagioli writes: Perplexity has built a local artificial intelligence engine designed specifically for Apple silicon and the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model. Called Lily, the engine uses a Rust runtime and custom Metal kernels, with neither...
TNW ·
The technology behind World ID can let people prove their age, nationality or possession of a valid ID without handing over the personal information behind it World is opening up one of the privacy technologies behind World ID, giving...
TechRadar ·
Rene Millman is a seasoned technology journalist whose work has appeared in The Guardian, the Financial Times, Computer Weekly, and IT Pro. With over two decades of experience as a reporter and editor, he specializes in making complex...
Help Net Security ·
Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt started as AWS employees. The two built DuckDB, an analytical database that runs inside your process instead of on a server somebody has to administer. If you ship anything on top of DuckDB, your...
Help Net Security ·
Sift is a free, open-source command line tool that searches for passwords, API keys, and other sensitive data across the places a company keeps its work: local disks, Windows file shares, an entire Active Directory domain, SharePoint,...
TechSpot ·
For the time being, Linux and other open-source software projects are safe from California's upcoming age-verification law. State lawmakers recently passed Bill 1856, which introduces several significant amendments to the original...
TechSpot ·
Fans of minimalist ergonomic split keyboards and users familiar with the Silakka54 might be interested in a new Hall-effect variant. If it catches on with resellers, it could become one of the more affordable Hall-effect keyboards...
MEDIANAMA ·
California lawmakers have passed a bill that would exempt qualifying open-source operating systems from the state’s age-verification requirements. Assembly Bill 1856 says that an operating system provider “does not mean a person or...
TechCentral ·
China is shaping how open-source technology is developed, licensed and deployed.
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