Tag: open-source
All the articles with the tag "open-source".
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Google Just Made Its AI Coding Assistant Free. Cursor and Copilot Should Be Nervous.
Gemini Code Assist now offers 180K completions per month and 240 daily chat sessions at zero cost. No credit card. Google is doing what Google always does: making the competition's product free.
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Yann LeCun Raised $1 Billion to Prove Every AI Company Is Wrong
AMI Labs just closed the largest seed round in European history. LeCun is betting against LLMs entirely, building JEPA world models instead. Either he is a visionary or he is about to burn a billion dollars in public.
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Cloudflare Built a WordPress Replacement in Two Months With AI. It Is Called EmDash.
Cloudflare launched EmDash, an open-source CMS built on Astro that sandboxes plugins so they cannot destroy your site. Two engineers built it in two months with AI agents. WordPress's 24-year reign just got its first credible challenger.
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Four Rival Open Source Projects Merged Into One. The Result Is 88% Smaller.
Video.js, Plyr, Vidstack, and Media Chrome had 75,000 GitHub stars combined and powered tens of billions of video plays. Their creators put ego aside and rewrote everything from scratch together.
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A Security Scanner Got Hacked. Then It Infected Everything It Scanned.
Trivy, one of the most trusted vulnerability scanners in DevOps, was compromised. The attack spawned CanisterWorm, a self-propagating npm worm that used blockchain as a command server. 141 packages infected. The irony is brutal.
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Unsung Hero: One Person Holds the JavaScript Ecosystem Together
Sindre Sorhus maintains 1,100+ npm packages with billions of downloads per month. If he stopped tomorrow, a significant portion of the npm registry would break. He funds himself through GitHub Sponsors.
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Llama 4 Scout Has a 10 Million Token Context Window. Let That Sink In.
Meta released Llama 4 with a 10 million token context window. That is roughly 20 full novels. The implications for how we use AI are enormous and nobody is talking about the right ones.
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OpenClaw Went From 9K to 250K GitHub Stars in Four Months. Then Its Creator Left.
An open-source AI agent called OpenClaw surpassed React on GitHub. NVIDIA called it 'to agentic AI what GPT was to chatbots.' Then the creator joined OpenAI. What happens now?
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GitHub Will Train AI on Your Code Starting April 24. You Have to Opt Out.
Starting April 24, GitHub will use your Copilot interactions to train AI models. Free, Pro, and Pro+ users are enrolled by default. You have to actively opt out. Most people will not.
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Unsung Hero: The Professor Whose Free Lectures Trained a Generation of Database Engineers
Andy Pavlo runs CMU's database research group. His free YouTube lectures have trained more database engineers than most universities. His research influenced DuckDB, CockroachDB, and every modern analytical database.