ai and ml DeepSeek's innovative harness treats everything as a plug-in Chinese AI labs keep moving forward while US labs play defense
software Give Google the boot by building your own search engine Got $10 and a gig of storage space? Marlin lets you weight your crawl toward the parts of the web you actually care about
ai and ml OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models Contributors wanted: 167B transparent tokens have a long way to go against AI giants' trillions
ai and ml Modular's Mojo programming language hits 1.0 milestone Developers await open source compiler release to dispel uncertainty following Qualcomm acquisition
ai and ml The future is for billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe Mark Zuckerberg muses about 'superintelligence' and 'arc of human civilization'
security AI slop pollutes the CVE pipeline with fake vulns With NIST still buried under its backlog, expect AI-generated bogus reports to continue
databases MariaDB again faces questions over Galera's open source future Support for the MySQL build ends in September as the company develops separate premium replication technology
ai and ml Closed models refuse to help researcher swat Linux bug "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that" is an effective sales pitch for open source
ai and ml Tech giants link hands to praise open AI models after OpenAI - Hugging Face attack The Open Security AI Alliance says the Hugging Face/OpenAI mess proves frontier labs can't be trusted to properly secure sensitive systems
ai and ml OpenAI's Hugging Face debacle makes a great case for open models If you think OpenAI and Anthropic are the only ones with these capabilities, think again
columnists Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much Trump's unpredictability is pushing governments and businesses toward open source while Britain remains glued to US tech
columnists FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another Word up
ai and ml Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else Building bot-free alternatives may require lefties, libertarians, and culture warriors to share code
os platforms Dev accidentally commits Copilot binary to FreeBSD ports repo Git is aptly named: it isn’t easy – but there are alternatives
ai and ml Codeberg gives vibe-coded projects the toss, promotes human FLOSS AI no longer welcome in human-focused community
ai and ml Fresh off AI layoffs, Block now wants to whack Slack with agent-human collab tool Because what could be more appealing to humans than sharing virtual space with AI?
security Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports
software GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way
applications The Document Foundation says Microsoft's file formats keep users on a short leash OOXML may carry an ISO certificate, but only Office can be trusted to render it properly
os platforms NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD New maintainer revives the project with Darwin components, Gershwin, and Claude Code
os platforms Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer' More a rewrite really, and of a very early version: Linux 0.11 – in Rust
offbeat Microsoft open-sources Comic Chat, its cartoon IRC curiosity Step back three decades to 'a period when software teams were willing to color outside the lines'
software How to teach an old Intel Mac new tricks with OpenCore Legacy Patcher Why to do it, and what to watch out for
os platforms OpenMandriva's accused repo wrecker says it wasn't sabotage – it was a message Ex-contributor claims he wasn't a rogue admin, hadn't left the project, and never intended to harm the distro
software RISC-V firmware project wants every board booting from the same hymn sheet HFI proposes a familiar PC-style route from power-on to operating system
offbeat Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole 'Performance is abysmal, bus contention is bonkers, but it does work'
ai and ml Sticker shock has execs rethinking this whole AI thing This week on The Reg's Kettle podcast, we wonder whether tokenminning is going to bring the industry back down to Earth
personal tech LisaFPGA brings Apple's magnificent misfire back in programmable logic Open source recreation costs a fraction of the original and may even work with Twiggy drives
ai and ml AI tool scours the web for job openings, preps your resume and cover letter Searching for work sucks; AI combs the internet and sucks it all up. Combine the two and let 'er rip with this Python project
software OpenMandriva claims disgruntled admin trashed repos after community bust-up Linux distro accuses former contributor of deleting years of work and pushing a package that could have broken installs
os platforms KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives 6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not
software Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ditches SharePoint while Bavaria also mulls Microsoft alternatives
ai and ml Avoid AI atrophy – new tool promises to reverse vibe coding skills decay Want big muscles? Keep working out. Want big coding skillsets? Flex your dev skills with the Atrophy CLI app before they wither away
software New tool gives CLIs a warm and GUI feeling instead Fed up with forgetting flags? Let Instagui read --help output and build a browser GUI instead
os platforms Secure Unix ancestor KSOS did type safety before Rust made it cool Modula-based source code resurfaces after nearly four decades
offbeat C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched
software Vim text editor game teaches you keyboard shortcuts with ice cream delivery Browser game teaches Vim's famously unintuitive movement commands to keep your hands on the keyboard
ai and ml Godot says bye bye AI, bans vibe-coded contributions 'We can’t trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it,' say maintainers who previously called the flood of vibe-coded pull requests 'demoralizing'
personal tech Purism launches supersized 16-inch laptop for buyers who put privacy before price Kill switches, Coreboot, and PureOS target the security-conscious with deep pockets
os platforms Mageia 10 keeps the 32-bit Linux flame alive Polished Mandriva descendant still makes room for PCs the 64-bit world has left behind
DATABASES Oracle promises to open up MySQL governance, but the community wants guarantees Open source advocates remain concerned over lack of binding commitments
SOFTWARE One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V A homebrew PC and mini-mainframe were only the warm-up for Yuri Zaporozhets' latest operating system
security Miasma campaign poisons 20-plus npm packages, hunts for developer secrets Microsoft says latest attack targets Leo Platform and RStreams packages, harvesting creds and going after more maintainers
SOFTWARE Three FOSS projects for developers, procrastinators, and media wranglers Prism tracks AI emissions, Super Productivity keeps tasks local, and TAMOSS brings the BBC's media API to Kubernetes
Software Apple takes over Swift Package Index, vows to remove GitHub dependency SPI co-creator Dave Verwer joins Apple, says 'We will be moving away from that model completely'
DATABASES Elastic stretches workforce 7% thinner as AI does more of the heavy lifting CEO says automation is enabling leaner teams as engineering is split into three core areas
OS PLATFORMS Alpine Linux 3.24 scales new desktop heights with COSMIC Plus interesting news from the Xfce-on-Wayland project
Security Sniff out stale AI override advice with this open source CLI Package dependencies can create vulnerabilities that are fiendishly hard to find and stamp out
Security OpenAI: Yoo-hoo, look over here, we do that security stuff too! A plethora of pwn-prevention, including a 'Patch The Planet' pledge
DevOps Vercel debuts eve open source agent framework, tries to fix shadow AI with Passport Cost premium of using AWS indirectly via Vercel is mitigated by more efficient use of compute resources, CTO claims
OS PLATFORMS FreeBSD 15.1 lands, but desktop dabblers still have to draw their own GUI Better laptop sleep and Wi-Fi support make the beastie more portable-friendly, but getting beyond the shell remains a DIY job
devops Git good with Epic Games' new open source VCS, Lore Got big binaries? Tired of other version control systems that treat them like inferior files? Lore might be worth a look
AI AND ML Smelly config files will make your agents waste tokens, researchers warn Researchers urge developers to see that less is more when it comes to instructions
DevOps Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more Homebrew was "less vulnerable 10 years ago than npm is today," project lead tells us
Personal Tech System76 boss reckons he can liberate the entire PC stack... just give him another 15 years Bootstrapped Linux box-botherer flogs new Thelio kit, talks up COSMIC, and politely declines to bolt AI onto everything
Software Firefox 152 understands 'Sssh!' As Google continues crippling Chrome ad-blockers, it's a good time to try Firefox
OS PLATFORMS Linux kernel 7.1 sends Intel 486 support to silicon heaven More than 140,000 lines of code bite the dust as ancient CPUs, bus mice, and other legacy leftovers face the chop
AI AND ML ERP users may soon get ahead by going headless, says Rimini Street boss Look to AI agents and open source to escape the vendor-driven upgrade cycle
AI + ML A modest proposal: Reformat everything to make documents more palatable to AI What's up, DocLang?
SOFTWARE Red Hat gives Ubuntu a bootc up the backside at Canonical shindig Bootable containers pitch shows how distro can be managed with familiar OCI tooling
SOFTWARE Flatpak-NG sounds like bad news for systemd refuseniks Linux app packaging rethink could leave alternative-init distros in the cold
SOFTWARE MX Linux 25.2 provides possible refuge from AI as well as systemd Plus, Raspberry Pi edition finally catches up
offbeat Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR Who needs fancy menus and high definition? 240-MP will play your media files like it's 1999
DevOps GitHub pulls pin on npm's auto-run scripts Shai-Hulud worm exploited exactly this. Better late than never, says everyone except the malware authors
cyber-crime Miasma worms its way onto GitHub as attack kit goes open source As if there weren't enough package poisonings to worry about
Applications LibreOffice brands Euro-Office a 'de facto ally' of Microsoft's lock-in strategy The Document Foundation accuses newly launched Euro-Office of undermining digital sovereignty by defaulting to Microsoft's OOXML document format
DEVOPS Devs know AI code is riddled with holes, but ship it anyway Pressure to deploy wins out over security as four in five orgs confess to breaches from vulnerable apps
devops Python JIT compiler project under threat after steering council says proper process wasn't followed No new features to be submitted to main branch, existing code removed in 6 months if new proposal not created and accepted
OS Platforms History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system When a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'
Software 'Please do not vibe f--- up this software': Broken backups spark AI coding row in rsync project Users probe backup failures find Claude-assisted commits. Veteran engineer retorts: "I did not just vibe-code 'convert test suite to python'."
RESEARCH Nobody needs Mythos or 0-days to build a chaos-causing computer worm – free open source models work just fine 'Attackers can now cheaply operationalize known vulnerabilities at scale,' boffins tell The Reg
AI and ML Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it Project Headroom could save you big money, too
Software Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs Foundation sparks revolt after disbanding team responsible for many community-requested fixes and moderation tools
AI and ML QEMU mulls relaxing AI contribution ban Red Hat engineer reckons the balance of risk has shifted, but core code stays off limits
Software That an app 'Fits on a Floppy' is still a useful measure in 2026 In a world of mass-produced bot-slopware, small is more beautiful than ever
os platforms ReactOS brings its Windows NT tribute act to ARM64 Experimental build boots on Raspberry Pi 5, but for now the joy is mostly in getting there
Software California may let Linux bypass age check Exemption in amendment offers relief to open source software makers
AI AND ML Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately Could the Chocolate Factory's mission to reshape the web backfire?
Security Clear your calendar, Drupal user: You have a critically urgent patch to install The org’s staying mum on the details, but Wednesday’s fixes reach back to unsupported 8.9 branches
Hardening open source projects may deter contributions TanStack weighs invitation-only pull requests after supply chain attack Shai-Hulud worm exploited GitHub Actions misconfiguration to poison shared cache, now project weighing nuclear option on unsolicited contributions
Databases Google tells database devs to lean hard on AI for PostgreSQL work Cloud giant says humans remain accountable, even when code gets an assist from the machines
OSES KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund backs the desktop project while public sector interest in homegrown alternatives grows
Databases dBase debased: Database titan fades to black after 47 years Blog post mourning decline appears to have helped knock what was left of the veteran app's online presence offline
Security Malware crew TeamPCP open-sources its Shai-Hulud worm on GitHub Where it’s been well and truly forked, seemingly without Microsoft’s code locker noticing
Software Rodent-obsessed developer creates Ratty to bring 3D graphics to the command line Inspired by TempleOS, this terminal emulator is just about as bonkers
oSes Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages Dull but important … so, a bit like Debian itself, really
Software macOS 27 threatens to bury Time Capsule, FOSS brings a shovel Apple's old backup boxes only speak AFP and SMB1, but NetBSD under the hood gives them one last shot
Software NHS code clampdown draws open source backlash Plus a petition for the UK Civil Service to go FOSS by default
Software NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change
Devops Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho
OSes Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too
Security Two different attackers poisoned popular open source tools - and showed us the future of supply chain compromise
