The Register, Friday, October 16th, 2026
Open Source Sovereignty Gets Down to the Boring Business of Making It Work
At Open Source Summit Europe, sovereignty talk turned to migration targets, security rules and compliance metrics.
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The New Stack, Wednesday, October 14th, 2026
Linus Torvalds Let Claude Code Fix the Linux Page Cache. Then Reviewers Found a Race
Torvalds used Claude Code on a long-standing page-cache bottleneck; reviewers then found a race condition.
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Techstrong.ai, Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
Open Source Finally Has Its Take on the Adobe Creative Suite
ArtCraft used AI and Rust to build open source near drop-in replacements for Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and more.
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It's FOSS, Thursday, October 8th, 2026
FOSS Weekly #26.41: Open Source Trouble, More Rust in Ubuntu, Adobe Photoshop's Linux Clone, Rich CLI Tool and More
It's FOSS weekly: DigitalOcean ends open source credits, Google pauses its OSS bug bounty over AI spam, and Sequoia PGP lands in Ubuntu.
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The New Stack, Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
OpenSSH 10.6 Deliberately Breaks Two Features in the Name of Security
OpenSSH 10.6 disables compression dictionary sharing and rejects some usernames, knowingly breaking existing setups.
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Open Source For You, Monday, October 5th, 2026
Open-Source Tool Runs AI Locally
Strata, an MIT-licensed inference engine, runs a 125B-parameter model on gaming PCs by splitting work across GPU, RAM and CPU.
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InfoQ, Saturday, October 3rd, 2026
AI Agents Are Disrupting Open Source Security Disclosure
AI agents turn small public clues into exploits quickly, weakening embargoes and pushing open source toward faster patching.
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Infosecurity Magazine, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
AI Is Finding More Vulnerabilities but Open Source Needs More People to Fix Them
OpenSSL reports AI-driven vulnerability reports rising from about 9 to 70 a month, straining the experts needed to triage and fix them.
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CSO Online, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Rolling the Cyber Dice With Open-Source and Open-Weight AI Models
Weighs the security risks of cheaper open-weight AI models, including hidden backdoors and data poisoning, and how to contain them.
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The New Stack, Saturday, September 26th, 2026
Avoiding Vendor Lock-In Through an Open-Source Approach: A Developer's Perspective
A developer's perspective on how open source helps avoid vendor lock-in and preserve architectural flexibility.
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theCUBE Research, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Open Source Maintainers Are Becoming the Weakest Link in Enterprise Software Supply Chains
AI-generated code is overwhelming unpaid open-source maintainers, and only 6-7% of software is cryptographically signed.
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Seldo.com, Sunday, September 13th, 2026
Nobody Pays for Open Source. We Can Force Them To.
Registry operators should charge companies for open source and distribute royalties to maintainers automatically.
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How-To Geek, Friday, September 11th, 2026
5 Open-Source Desktop Apps That I Always Recommend Instead of Their Paid Rivals
How-To Geek recommends Bitwarden, LibreOffice, Kdenlive, GIMP, and Audacity as free alternatives to paid apps.
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Help Net Security, Wednesday, September 9th, 2026
AI-Infra-Guard: Open-Source Security Scanner for AI Systems
Tencent's open-source AI-Infra-Guard scans AI services, MCP servers, and agent skills, but lacks built-in authentication.
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It's FOSS, Tuesday, September 8th, 2026
FreeCORE Is What Your TrueNAS CORE Box Should Have
FreeCORE, an independent fork of TrueNAS CORE, keeps a FreeBSD and OpenZFS path alive for users avoiding Linux.
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The Register, Friday, August 28th, 2026
LibreOffice 26.8 Is Out - Local First, and With No AI
LibreOffice 26.8 doubles down on local-first computing and explicitly declines to add AI features.
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FOSS Force, Friday, August 28th, 2026
LibreOffice 26.8 Again Proves Open Source Is About More Than Code
Christine Hall examines how LibreOffice 26.8's release process reflects open source's community and governance side.
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Open Source For You, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
The Engineering Blueprint: Transitioning From Enterprise Code to Open Source
Siemens describes its decade-long path from proprietary enterprise code to a successful open source project.
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It's FOSS, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
LibreOffice 26.8 Doubles Down on No AI, Right After Collabora Welcomed It
The Document Foundation's LibreOffice 26.8 skips AI features entirely, sticking to core open source office basics.
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FOSS Force, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Libgcrypt 1.12.3 Released With Bug Fixes, Curve Alias, and Faster Crypto
The GnuPG project's Libgcrypt 1.12.3 update brings bug fixes, a new curve alias, and cryptographic performance gains.
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OpenSSL 4.0.2 Patches Multiple Security Flaws Across Core Components
OpenSSL 4.0.2 fixes a heap buffer overflow and memory exhaustion issues across core cryptographic components.
more → FOSS Force, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Beyond Syslog: Building a Tamper-Proof E-Commerce Audit Trail With immudb
A technical walkthrough of using the open-source immudb database to build cryptographically verifiable audit logs.
more → It's FOSS, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Linux 7.3 Is Shaping Up to Be One of the Most Performance-Focused Kernel Releases in Years
Early Linux 7.3 kernel work points to major filesystem, scheduling, and latency performance improvements.
more → It's FOSS, Monday, August 17th, 2026
Looking Beyond Tmux and Screen: 8 Terminal Multiplexers Worth Trying
It's FOSS surveys eight terminal multiplexers beyond tmux and GNU Screen for managing multiple sessions.
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TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
The War Between Open Source, Open Weight, and Closed AI Models
Enterprises face the same proprietary-versus-open choice with AI models they faced with software.
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Open Source For You, Friday, August 7th, 2026
Building Trust and Adoption Through Compliance in Open Source
Compliance certifications drive enterprise adoption of open source OS projects in regulated sectors.
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Help Net Security, Monday, August 3rd, 2026
CISA Lays Out New Guidance for Using Open-Source Software
CISA publishes security principles for federal agencies managing open-source software and open AI systems.
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Help Net Security, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
Multi-Patch Vulnerability Fixes Can Leave Open Source Exposed
University of Texas researchers found multi-patch CVE fixes create exploitable gaps between the first and final patch.
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O'Reilly Radar, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
The Open Source Agent Toolkit In 2026
A layer-by-layer guide to open source AI agent tooling, arguing teams should pick the best tool per layer rather than one stack.
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InfoQ, Friday, July 10th, 2026
Linux Foundation Launches Akrites to Protect Critical Open Source Software from AI-Powered Threats
The Linux Foundation's Akrites program coordinates open-source vulnerability response against AI-powered attackers.
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How-To Geek, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
4 Open-Source Tools That Can Replace Your Claude Subscription (and Sometimes Outperform It)
Four open-source tools that can replace a paid Claude subscription while boosting privacy.
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Help Net Security, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
20 Open-Source Cybersecurity Tools to Keep Your Team Ready for Anything
A roundup of 20 recent open-source security tools, many built around defending against AI agents.
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Open Source For You, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
Self-Hosting LLMs Using Ollama and Docker
A practical guide to privately deploying LLMs with Ollama and Docker for data sovereignty.
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TecMint, Monday, July 6th, 2026
Nushell: A Better Shell for Files, Processes, and JSON
Nushell treats output as structured data, easing work with files, processes, and JSON.
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Open Source For You, Friday, July 3rd, 2026
Open-Source 'OpenAN' Launched by Huawei and Partners
Huawei and telecom partners launch OpenAN, an open-source framework for autonomous network deployment.
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How-To Geek, Friday, July 3rd, 2026
We Ditched 3 Popular Paid Subscriptions for These Open-Source, Self-Hosted Alternatives
How-To Geek staff replaced three paid subscriptions with free, open-source self-hosted apps.
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Help Net Security, Tuesday, June 30th, 2026
Hottest Cybersecurity Open-Source Tools of the Month: June 2026
A curated roundup of seven open-source cybersecurity tools from June 2026, heavily focused on AI agent security.
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DevOps.com, Monday, June 15th, 2026
MiMo Code Is the Open Source Answer to Claude Code
Xiaomi releases MiMo Code, an MIT-licensed open source terminal coding agent rivaling Claude Code.
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Computerworld, Monday, June 15th, 2026
Nextcloud CEO: Open Source Moves From 'a Nerdy Audience' to the Geopolitical Stage
Nextcloud's CEO says open source has shifted from a niche technical interest to a strategic geopolitical priority in Europe.
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It's FOSS, Tuesday, June 9th, 2026
Tired of File Size Limits? This Open Source Tool Sends Large Files Directly Browser to Browser
CheezyPizza is an open-source WebRTC tool for direct browser-to-browser file transfers with no size limits.
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How-To Geek, Friday, June 5th, 2026
These Free Linux Apps Made Expensive Creative Software Harder to Justify
Free Linux creative tools like Kdenlive, Darktable, and Blender offer viable alternatives to costly subscription software.
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Security Boulevard, Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026
Open Source Is Free Until Someone Comes to Collect
Free open source defers rather than eliminates cost, and most organizations lack the governance to manage that liability.
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Help Net Security, Thursday, May 28th, 2026
Hottest Cybersecurity Open-Source Tools of the Month: May 2026
A curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity tools released in May 2026.
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InfoQ, Thursday, May 7th, 2026
Leading Open Source Author Calls for Verification over Trust in Software Supply Chains
Daniel Stenberg advocates for software verification over trust in supply chains, citing curl's security practices.
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How-To Geek, Saturday, May 2nd, 2026
5 Free and Open-Source Apps That Save Me Hundreds of Dollars and Hours of Work
A journalist highlights five powerful FOSS alternatives to paid productivity and software tools that can save hundreds of dollars annually.
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OpenSource For U, Monday, April 13th, 2026
Popular FOSS Tools For LLM Observability, Monitoring And Evaluation
This overview of popular tools for monitoring large language models also sheds light on how LLM-as-a-judge enhances their performance.
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Help Net Security, Friday, April 10th, 2026
OpenSSL 4.0.0 Release Cuts Deprecated Protocols And Gains Post-Quantum Support
OpenSSL 4.0.0 removes several long-deprecated features, adds support for Encrypted Client Hello, and introduces API-level changes that will require code updates for applications built against older versions.
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Thunderbolt Wants To Do For AI Clients What Thunderbird Did For Email
This self-hostable enterprise AI client lets you bring your own models and keep your data off third-party servers.
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How-To Geek, Tuesday, April 7th, 2026
Four Open-Source Windows Apps That Are Better Than Their Paid Rivals
Open-source applications sometimes have a reputation for being slightly buggy or unpolished, and that is sometimes true. However, in many cases-including some of the most important types of apps you'll need-the free and open-source options are leagues ahead of the paid options. Here are four of my favorites. - VLC Media Player - The best multi-purpose media player - Bitwarden - Stop reusing insecure passwords - Joplin - Note taking without a paywall - OBS Studio - Recording, streaming, and more in one program Open-source applications once had a reputation for being buggy, or "not user-friendly." However, these days, many of the best apps out there are open-source and free.
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How AI Has Suddenly Become Much More Useful To Open-Source Developers
More open-source developers are finding that, when used properly, AI can actually help current and long-neglected programs. However, legal and quality issues loom.
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