Pay securely with an Android smartphone, completely without Google services: This is the plan being developed by the newly founded industry consortium led by the German Volla Systeme GmbH. It is an open-source alternative to Google Play Integrity. This proprietary interface decides on Android smartphones with Google Play services whether banking, government, or wallet apps are allowed to run on a smartphone.
One of the things I discovered (or better said, something I suspected but had the chance to verify) while working on open-sourcing a tool (and API client tool): there is a big (mostly justified) trust deficiency out there .
The OpenWrt project has announced the release of OpenWrt 25.12, a free and open-source Linux-based operating system primarily used for embedded devices, most notably residential gateways and routers, as the first stable version in the new 25.12 series.
The newest open-source concern around AI that is seeing a lot of interest this weekend is when large language models / AI code generators may rewrite large parts of a codebase and then the “developers” claiming an alternative license incompatible with the original source license. This became a real concern this week with a popular Python project experiencing an AI-driven code rewrite and now published under an alternative license that its original author does not agree with and incompatible with the original code.
digiKam 9.0 has been officially released today as a massive update for this open-source, free, and cross-platform professional-grade photo management software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.
In the world of open source, relicensing is notoriously difficult. It usually requires the unanimous consent of every person who has ever contributed a line of code, a feat nearly impossible for legacy projects. chardet , a Python character encoding detector used by requests and many others, has sat in that tension for years: as a port of Mozilla’s C++ code it was bound to the LGPL, making it a gray area for corporate users and a headache for its most famous consumer.
As someone who loves both coding and language learning (I’m learning Japanese right now), I always wished there was a free, open-source tool for learning Japanese, just like Monkeytype in the typing community.
Following in the footsteps of Hashicorp, Hudson, etc. Zed has chosen to cash in the good will of its now substantial user base and start going to full corporate enshittification. Among other things like minimum age nonsense, they have also added binding mandatory opt-OUT arbitration.
This is the first release of Gram, an open source code editor with built-in support for many popular languages. Gram is an opinionated fork of the Zed code editor. It shares many of the features of Zed, but is also different in some very important ways.
Last month I posted HelixNotes here and some of you asked about mobile. Version 1.2.1 ships with an Android APK. Same codebase, Rust + Tauri 2.0, no separate app.
Since last post: Android support, Ollama for local AI, graph view performance improvements, wiki-link navigation, and a bunch of mobile UX polish.
Direct APK download from the site. IzzyOnDroid submission in progress. AGPL-3.0, source on Codeberg.
Nominations are now open for this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Board of Directors! We are looking to select up to four volunteer directors to serve for two years each.
The Open Source Endowment, a new nonprofit, aims to bring a university-style endowment model to open source by providing long-term, investment-backed funding for widely used but under-resourced FOSS projects.
This is the emails between the YouTuber YGK3D and Anycubic, it seems like they won’t send 3D printers to reviewers who mention their GPL3 license violations.
The Trump administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against countries’ attempts to regulate how American tech companies handle foreigners’ data, arguing that data sovereignty laws threaten the advancement of AI services and technology, Reuters reported, citing an internal diplomatic cable.
I compiled and analyzed the generative AI policies of 32 open source organizations, including foundations like the Linux Foundation, Apache, and Eclipse, as well as individual projects like the Linux Kernel, Gentoo, curl, and Matplotlib.
JADEx (Java Advanced Development Extension) is a safety layer that runs on top of Java.
It currently supports up to Java 25 syntax and extends it with additional Null-Safety and Immutability features.
The modern web has many critical building blocks, and React is one of those. First open-sourced by Meta in 2013, React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces through reusable components.
It used to be that good documentation, strong contracts, well designed interfaces, and a comprehensive test suite meant users could trust your platform. Help you develop it further. That it was rigid and well designed. And yet, all of these things actually just make it easier for competing companies to re-build your work on their own foundations.
The Document Foundation has formally revived LibreOffice Online, reversing its 2022 decision that had frozen the project and moved it to the “attic.” The Board has rescinded the previous votes, reopened the repository, and invited the community to resume development under upstream stewardship.
Following various Intel open-source projects recently being archived with Intel formally discontinuing their development, another wave of Intel open-source projects were formally sunset on Monday.
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has released Azul, a malware analysis platform built for reverse engineers and incident responders. It is the first public release of the tool, which is now on v9.0.0.
You can get an IDE to USB bridge from all the usual sources, but you may find those fail on the older drives in your collection– apparently they require drives using logical block addressing, which did not become standard until the mid-1990s. Some while some older drives got in on the LBA game early, you were more likely to see Cylinder-Head-Sector (CHS) addressing. That’s why [JJ Dasher], a.k.a [redruM0381] created ATABoy, an open-source IDE bridge that can handle the oldest drives that fit on the bus.
There are a whole lot of different keyboard solutions on Android, and let’s be honest: a lot of the offerings aren’t great. While many of them have strengths, I initially struggled in my de-googling of my life to find a keyboard that had everything I wanted with regards to layout, swipe typing, and voice input. What follows is the best method I’ve been able to come up with (credit to the cowboy-hatted individual who clued in me into FUTO voice).
Direct link to the funding campaign to help accelerate the development of Discord-like features, such as servers with rooms/spaces, as well as drop-in voice channels.
The PostgreSQL project has been chugging along for decades; in that time, it has become a thriving open-source project, and its participants have learned a thing or two about what works in attracting new contributors. At FOSDEM 2026, PostgreSQL contributor Claire Giordano shared some of the lessons learned and where the project is still struggling. The lessons might be of interest to others who are thinking about how their own projects can evolve.
We’ve been searching for a memory-safe programming language to replace C++ in Ladybird for a while now. We previously explored Swift, but the C++ interop never quite got there, and platform support outside the Apple ecosystem was limited. Rust is a different story. The ecosystem is far more mature for systems programming, and many of our contributors already know the language. Going forward, we are rewriting parts of Ladybird in Rust.
After a long period of controversy that went against the principles of openness and left the open source community surprised, MinIO has effectively come to an end.
Transmission 4.1.1, an open-source cross-platform BitTorrent client, is now available on multiple platforms. This bugfix update addresses over 20 issues reported since version 4.1 was released three weeks ago. These include:
The closed-source chat platform Discord announced on February 9 that it would soon require some users to verify their ages in order to access some content — although the company quickly added that the “vast majority” of users would not have to. That reassurance has to contend with the fact that the UK and other countries are implementing increasingly strict age requirements for social media. Discord’s age verification would be done with an AI age-judging model or with a government photo ID. A surprising number of open-source projects use Discord for support or project communications, and some of those projects are now looking for open-source alternatives. Mastodon, for example, has moved discussion to Zulip. There are some alternatives out there, all with their own pros and cons, that communities may want to consider if they want to switch away from Discord.
Recently I started doing translation suggestions for co-maps, and I felt like this was a good way to contribute to OSS (since I don’t have much money lying around).
Supercell Wx is a free, open source application to visualize live and archive NEXRAD Level 2 and Level 3 data, and severe weather alerts. It displays continuously updating weather data on top of a responsive map, providing the capability to monitor weather events using reflectivity, velocity, and other products. I use the AppImage.
Back in 2022 Intel announced OpenPGL as an open-source library for path guiding to help enhance the quality of path-based renderers. With time Blender began making use of OpenPGL and other industry interest and adoption. Unfortunately, Intel quietly ended work on OpenPGL in 2025 but has now fortunately found a new home.
I’ve released a new update for OpenJam’s Robocraft servers with lots of multiplayer bugfixes and a few new features as well. Robocraft was a vehicle combat sandbox MOBA which shut down official servers in January 2025. The OpenJam servers are a FOSS re-implementation of the official servers aiming for feature parity, though there’s still lots of missing features right now.
In KDE Plasma 6.6 Spectacle can read texts from screenshots, a new on-screen keybord is available for testing, a first-time wizard was added, current theme can be saved as a new global theme, emoji selector got a new easier skin tone selection, you can now connect to a Wi-Fi network via a QR code, application sound volume can be changed by scrolling over a taskbar button via mouse, and there is much more.
MapToPoster is a free Python project that you can use to create maps that are worthy of being hung on your wall. It uses OpenStreetMap data to render the same style of striking minimalist maps you see advertised on social media, while giving you control over the exact map location, scale, and colors used.
7-Zip, a popular open-source tool for compressing and extracting files, has released version 26.0. This update refreshes the internal code for several archive formats, such as ZIP, CPIO, RAR, UDF, QCOW, and Compound.
MythTV 36 is now available for this long-time open-source digital video recorder “DVR” software that has been around now for more than two decades as the leading choice for those wishing to watch and/or record live TV under Linux especially as an HTPC.
It’s an open source venture backed by $35M from FirstMark Capital, Spark Capital, and GV (Google Ventures). It’s a drop-in replacement for MySQL with an extension architecture. See their native UUID extension with efficient 16-byte storage as an example.
GitHub Repo.
- On-device translation using Mozilla’s translation models
- Transliteration of non-latin script
- OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for translating text in images
- Automatic language detection
- Image translation overlay that preserves original formatting
- Support for multiple language pairs
- No internet required for translation once models are downloaded
- All translation happens locally
Kopitalk
sga
Rekall Incorporated
codeinabox
new_otters_raft
Arthur Besse
Pierre-Yves Lapersonne
JADEx
ArkHost
BrikoX
Beep
ProdigalFrog
recursive_recursion
UnfinishedProjects
earthworm
