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cURL’s Daniel Stenberg: AI slop is DDoSing open source
cURL creator Daniel Stenberg says AI is a double-edged sword: it floods projects with bogus bug reports but also finds real, deep vulnerabilities that other tools miss.
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cURL creator Daniel Stenberg says AI is a double-edged sword: it floods projects with bogus bug reports but also finds real, deep vulnerabilities that other tools miss.
Twilio launched A2H, an open-source protocol for AI agents to communicate with humans, handling escalations and notifications across channels like SMS and voice.
Mini Diarium is a secure, offline journal app. It encrypts entries locally with AES-256, offers key file authentication, and works on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Built with Tauri, SolidJS, and Rust.
AI-generated PRs are flooding open source, overwhelming maintainers and degrading code quality. A "guild system" (web of trust) is proposed to verify contributors and filter out bot-generated spam.
SourceHut updated pricing, launched new profiles with avatars/pronouns, added email formatting & resource IDs. Future plans include organizations & SSH deploy keys. Infrastructure and community contributions continue.
Gentoo is migrating from GitHub to Codeberg, citing "continuous attempts to force Copilot usage" and concerns over AI-generated code quality and ethics.
MySQL users/devs invite Oracle to form an independent foundation for the database, citing concerns over Oracle's management, declining popularity, and lack of transparency.
Linus Torvalds' 1991 hobby, Linux, grew via early community collaboration, shared code, a crowdfunded PC upgrade, and GPL licensing, becoming a global OS that powers much of the world.
AI-generated "slop PRs" are overwhelming open-source maintainers (Godot, Blender), causing burnout. Projects seek policies or funding. GitHub, blamed by some, is adding features to help manage low-quality contributions.
FairScan is a free, open-source Android app that simply scans documents using your phone, avoiding the ads, privacy issues, and data selling common in other scanning apps.