Collaborate Disseminate
A coalition of a half-dozen open-source AI stakeholders — Hugging Face, GitHub, EleutherAI, Creative Commons, LAION and Open Future — are calling on EU policymakers to protect open source innovation as they finalize the EU AI Act, which will be the w… Continue reading Hugging Face, GitHub and More Unite To Defend Open Source in EU AI Legislation
Earlier this week, Meta announced it has teamed up with Microsoft to launch Llama 2, its “open-source” large language model (LLM) that uses artificial intelligence to generate text, images, and code. In an opinion piece for The Register, long-time ZDNe… Continue reading ‘Meta’s Newly Released Large Language Model Llama-2 Is Not Open Source’
Long-time Slashdot reader caseih writes: A thoughtful post on the Adafruit Blog chronicles the problems facing open-source hardware companies, and how more and more companies, including Sparkfun, Arduino and Prusa, are becoming more and more proprietar… Continue reading When Open Becomes Opaque: the Changing Face of Open-Source Hardware Companies
VanMoof ebikes is currently “exploring all possible routes out of its debt” after rumors of a pending bankruptcy. But the blog 9to5Mac highlights another concern.
“If the company goes under, and the servers go offline, that could leave ebike owners u… Continue reading If VanMoof eBikes Locks You Out of Your Own Bike, a Rival Company’s App Could Help
Long-time Slashdot reader Amiga Trombone shares a report from Phoronix: With Red Hat now restricting access to the RHEL source repositories, AlmaLinux and other downstreams that have long provided “community” rebuilds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with 1… Continue reading AlmaLinux No Longer Aims For 1:1 Compatibility With RHEL
Wikipedia defines the Yocto Project as “a Linux Foundation collaborative open source project whose goal is to produce tools and processes that enable the creation of Linux distributions for embedded and IoT software that are independent of the underlyi… Continue reading Linux Foundation’s Yocto Project Expands LTS to 4 Years
This week the Linux Foundation shared an update on the Zephyr Project, a small real-time operating system for connected, resource-constrained and embedded devices:
The project recently achieved several milestones including surpassing 80,000 commits si… Continue reading Linux Foundation Celebrates Zephyr Project’s Small Real-Time Operating System
Linux Foundation Europe “has announced the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) Project to help facilitate more performant, commercial-ready software for the RISC-V processor architecture,” reports Phoronix.
“Among the companies joining the RISE Project … Continue reading ‘RISE’ Project Building Open Source RISC-V Software Announced by Linux Foundation Europe
Slashdot reader Zapotek brings an update from the Ecsypno skunkworks, where they’ve been busy with R&D for distributed computing systems:
Armed with Cuboid, Qmap was built, which tackled the handling of nmap in a distributed environment, with great… Continue reading Peplum: F/OSS Distributed Parallel Computing and Supercomputing At Home With Ruby Infrastructure
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Bluesky Social, the popular new beta social network, is taking a big open-source step forward. On May 15th, 2023, it open-sourced the codebase for its Bluesky Social app on GitHub. This fits well with its… Continue reading Bluesky Social Just Took a Big Open-Source Step Forward