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Kubernetes, Rust, Linux and DOS? The Year in Open Source

Elasticsearch and Redis dominated discussions surrounding open source licensing changes.
Kubernetes celebrated its 10th anniversary.
Linux remained a crucial part of the tech landscape, with 4.55% of desktops running on it.
Rust was seen as key to bringing memory safety to codebases.
Funding remains a significant challenge for open source developers, with 86% of investment still based on employee contributions.
Microsoft open sourced the 1988 code for MS-DOS 4.0.
FreeDOS celebrated its 30th anniversary, with developer Jim Hall sharing lessons learned about grounding projects in community and communication.
New open source projects included the Dillo web browser and the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE.
GitHub released the Secure Open Source Fund in November, with American Express, Microsoft, Shopify, and Stripe among its initial donors.
The open source movement continued to grow and evolve, with an ever-increasing community of satisfied users.

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Researchers open-source Genesis simulation platform for training robots

A research group has released Genesis, an AI simulation engine for robot development.
Genesis allows training of robotics-focused AI models 10,000 times faster than real-world training.
The platform includes a physics engine, a tool called RoboGen for generating virtual robots, and a chatbot interface for designing simulations using natural language.
Genesis also provides the ability to capture footage of simulations for training data and customization of camera angles and rendering methods.

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Startup set to brick $800 kids robot is trying to open source it first

Startup Embodied, which announced its closure, plans to open source its Moxie robot to allow it to continue functioning.
The $800 robot designed to provide emotional support for kids cannot perform its core features without the cloud.
In response to customer backlash, former members of Embodied's technical team are developing an open-source server application called 'OpenMoxie' to maintain Moxie's basic functionality.
Embodied plans to release all necessary code and documentation to developers and users to ensure the robot's continued operation.

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How I Made $700 a Month With My Open-source Scheduling Tool

Building an open-source startup by open-sourcing an existing product can bring massive exposure.
Open-source solutions can attract self-hosters and require support from contributors.
Developers may not pay for the open-source tool unless it offers custom implementation or enterprise support.
Choosing the right license and being part of the community are essential for successful open-source projects.

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Indexing code at scale with Glean

Meta has released Glean, an open-source code indexing system. Glean can extract information about source code and produce it to developer tools through an efficient query language. Developed by Facebook to navigate scale on efficiently, Glean has since been expanded for use within Meta to better build code browsing, search, and documentation generation.
Code indexing, the job of collecting data from code, is essential for navigating code, such as code navigation (“Go to definition”) in an IDE or code browser; code documentation; and code analysis tools, such as dead code detection or linting.
The larger the codebase, the more important it is to do code indexing ahead of time as it becomes impractical to have the IDE process all the code at startup. Glean has been developed as a centralized indexing infrastructure that can power many powerful developer tools.
Glean’s query language is very general, enabling it to extend beyond just code navigation. Storing arbitrary language-specific data provides powerful elements such as detecting dead code, while providing a language-neutral view of the data.
Glean allows for incremental indexing, addressing the perennial problem of providing up-to-date data about the latest code. We can’t make indexing alertary, but Glean enables processing just the changes, obtaining O(changes) over O(repository).
Glean has been deployed within Meta to better build code browsing, search, and documentation generation. Our target was C++ developers initially due to the long compile times but we imagine other languages following the same path in the future. Glean can also be used to detect and remove dead code, track progress on API migrations, and automate data removal.
Glean is open-source and available for use. There’s a growing number of ad-hoc queries made by people and systems to solve a variety of problems, thanks to Glean’s general concept.

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Overture makes its open-source transportation dataset generally available

The Overture Maps Foundation has made its transportation dataset generally available.
The dataset includes information about more than 53 million miles of roads worldwide.
Companies can use this dataset to power ride-sharing apps, logistics software, navigation tools, and more.
The dataset combines aerial road imagery with information about highway signs, traffic rules, rail and ferry routes.

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Techniques to secure open source software

Open source projects are increasingly targeted by attackers seeking to exploit software vulnerabilities.
There has been a significant increase in software supply chain attacks, with incidents reaching 245,000 in 2023.
Open source leaders need to prioritize security and implement measures to address potential threats proactively.
Zero-trust builds and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) can enhance open source software security.

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Microsoft Researchers Release AIOpsLab: An Open-Source Comprehensive AI Framework for AIOps Agents

Microsoft researchers, along with researchers from other institutions, have developed AIOpsLab, an open-source framework for evaluating AIOps agents.
AIOpsLab aims to provide standardized and reproducible benchmarks for testing and improving AIOps agents.
It integrates real-world workloads, fault injection capabilities, and interfaces to simulate production-like scenarios.
The framework offers valuable insights into agent performance and aids in continuous improvement of fault localization and resolution capabilities.

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Meet FineFineWeb: An Open-Sourced Automatic Classification System for Fine-Grained Web Data

Researchers have introduced FineFineWeb, an open-source automatic classification system for fine-grained web data.
The system decomposes Fineweb into 67 unique categories, conducts correlation analysis, and provides specialized test sets for evaluation.
The data construction process involves deduplication, URL labeling, FastText and BERT training, and domain-domain similarity analysis.
Domain-benchmark relationships, duplication analysis, and domain-specific performance correlations are also studied.

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LightOn and Answer.ai Releases ModernBERT: A New Model Series that is a Pareto Improvement over BERT with both Speed and Accuracy

LightOn and Answer.ai have released ModernBERT, an open family of encoder-only models that is a pareto improvement over BERT in terms of speed and accuracy.
ModernBERT extends the context length to 8,192 tokens, allowing it to handle long-context tasks effectively.
The model incorporates architectural enhancements such as Flash Attention 2 and rotary positional embeddings (RoPE) to improve computational efficiency and positional understanding.
ModernBERT outperforms models like RoBERTa and DeBERTa in various benchmarks and is more resource-efficient for inference on GPUs.

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Meet Moxin LLM 7B: A Fully Open-Source Language Model Developed in Accordance with the Model Openness Framework (MOF)

Researchers from various universities and organizations have released Moxin LLM 7B, a fully open-source language model.
It was developed under the Model Openness Framework (MOF) and provides comprehensive access to its code, datasets, and checkpoints.
Moxin LLM 7B offers a robust option for NLP and coding applications, with features like grouped-query attention and sliding window attention.
The model's strong performance in zero-shot and few-shot evaluations demonstrates its capability for complex reasoning and multitask challenges.

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Patronus AI Open Sources Glider: A 3B State-of-the-Art Small Language Model (SLM) Judge

Patronus AI has open-sourced Glider, a 3-billion parameter Small Language Model (SLM) designed for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs).
Glider provides quantitative and qualitative feedback, acts as an inference-time guardrail for LLM systems, and offers detailed reasoning chains and highlighted phrases for interpretability.
Key features of Glider include detailed scoring, explainable feedback, efficiency, multilingual capability, and open accessibility.
Glider has been validated through rigorous testing and shows strong alignment with human judgments, making it a reliable choice for AI applications.

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Hugging Face Releases Picotron: A Tiny Framework that Solves LLM Training 4D Parallelization

Hugging Face has released Picotron, a lightweight framework for LLM training.
Picotron simplifies 4D parallelization and reduces code complexity.
It performs efficiently and supports diverse hardware setups.
Picotron streamlines development workflow and offers scalability.

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Microsoft AI Research Open-Sources PromptWizard: A Feedback-Driven AI Framework for Efficient and Scalable LLM Prompt Optimization

Microsoft AI Research has open-sourced PromptWizard, an AI framework that optimizes prompts in black-box LLMs.
PromptWizard uses a feedback-driven critique-and-synthesis mechanism to refine prompt instructions and in-context examples iteratively.
The framework demonstrates effectiveness across 45 tasks, achieving high accuracy in zero-shot and one-shot scenarios.
PromptWizard reduces token usage and API calls by up to 60 times compared to discrete methods, making it cost-efficient.

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Hiring Kit: Linux Administrator

This customizable hiring kit, written by Mark W. Kaelin for TechRepublic Premium, outlines the skills, experience, and knowledge to look for when recruiting a Linux administrator.
Linux administrators must be knowledgeable about a mix of proprietary and open-source systems, hardware, and software, and must be able to communicate effectively with different components.
In organizations of moderate size, Linux administrators work with a team of other system administrators, network architects, system engineers, and cybersecurity specialists to maintain a secure and efficient IT infrastructure.
The hiring kit provides salary details, a job description, interview questions, and a job advert for recruiting a Linux administrator.

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