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Sonatype adds new tools to secure open-source AI and ML models in software supply chains

Sonatype introduces new capabilities to secure open-source AI and ML models in software supply chains.
The new capabilities aim to address challenges related to the use of open-source AI and machine learning models in software supply chains.
Sonatype provides proactive defense against malicious AI models, centralized access to models, and policy management for AI components.
Additionally, Sonatype offers enterprise-grade observability and compliance to strengthen security strategies for AI models.

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Defog AI Open Sources Introspect: MIT-Licensed Deep-Research for Your Internal Data

Modern enterprises face challenges with internal data research due to data fragmentation across various sources and systems.
Defog AI has open-sourced Introspect, a tool that integrates diverse data sources for deep research.
Introspect uses a Sonnet agent to bridge structured and unstructured data, enabling comprehensive insights.
The tool is MIT-licensed and supports popular databases, making it accessible for enterprise environments.

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Open Source Isn't Dead...It's Just Forked

The balance between open source ideals and practicality was disrupted in 2024, leading to a surge in relicensing and forks in the community.
Open source software, rooted in free software ideals, evolved into a commercialized sector, creating tension between principles and profit.
Relicensing trends were notable in 2024, with Elastic, Redis Labs, and HashiCorp adopting restrictive licenses, prompting community forks.
Instances like Elastic's move to SSPL and HashiCorp's switch to BSL sparked community backlash, leading to fork projects like OpenSearch, Valkey, and OpenTofu.
Neutral governance models under organizations like the Linux Foundation became crucial for the success and sustainability of forks such as OpenSearch and Valkey.
Forks are seen as revolutionary in reshaping open source projects, emphasizing community inclusivity and sustainability under independent governance.
The balance between community ideals and commercial viability remains a central debate in the open source world, challenging the future of collaboration.
Fragmentation from forks poses challenges like compatibility issues, emphasizing the need for clearer communication and shared governance principles.
Foster's research suggests that the future of open source lies in transparent governance models, like those seen in successful fork projects.
While relicensing has led to an identity crisis in open source, community-driven forks offer pathways to rebuilding ecosystems around inclusivity and innovation.

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DeepSeek Open-Sources AI Model Training Details

Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek has released two open-source models - V3 large language model and R1 reasoning model, which achieved performance on par with major Western competitors at a fraction of the cost.
DeepSeek released eight open-source projects, disclosing details of the techniques used to optimize compute, communications, and storage for model training.
The open-source approach of DeepSeek contrasts with the closed-source model of Microsoft-backed OpenAI, which recently launched GPT-4.5 at a higher cost compared to DeepSeek's models.
DeepSeek reduced prices for access to its models and resumed account top-ups for developers after temporarily suspending them due to high demand.

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DeepSeek AI Releases Smallpond: A Lightweight Data Processing Framework Built on DuckDB and 3FS

DeepSeek AI has released Smallpond, a lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS. It aims to simplify data workflows without sacrificing performance.
Smallpond is designed to work seamlessly with Python, supporting versions 3.8 through 3.12. It provides flexibility in data partitioning and leverages DuckDB and Ray for efficient parallel processing.
In performance tests, Smallpond demonstrated its capacity by sorting 110.5TiB of data in just over 30 minutes, achieving an average throughput of 3.66TiB per minute.
Smallpond offers a practical solution for data scientists and engineers working with large datasets. It is an open source project that encourages collaboration and continuous improvement.

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DeepSeek’s Latest Inference Release: A Transparent Open-Source Mirage?

DeepSeek's recent update on its DeepSeek-V3/R1 inference system is generating buzz, yet its commitment to true open-source transparency is questionable.
The release highlights impressive technical achievements but lacks a full, reproducible blueprint and key components remain partially opaque.
The company's selective disclosure and lack of comprehensive documentation raise concerns about data provenance and limitations in the system.
DeepSeek's approach appears to prioritize polished presentation over genuine transparency, falling short of industry standards and open-source ideals.

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IBM AI Releases Granite 3.2 8B Instruct and Granite 3.2 2B Instruct Models: Offering Experimental Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Capabilities

IBM Research AI has introduced the Granite 3.2 Language Models, a family of instruction-tuned LLMs designed for enterprise applications.
The Granite 3.2 models include Granite 3.2-2B Instruct, a compact and efficient model, and Granite 3.2-8B Instruct, a more powerful variant.
The models have been trained using a mixture of curated enterprise datasets and diverse instruction-based corpora, ensuring they perform well across various industries.
The Granite 3.2 models outperform existing instruction-tuned LLMs on key enterprise use cases, achieving higher accuracy, lower inference latency, and maintaining contextual awareness for multi-turn conversations.

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Elastic delights investors with earnings and revenue beats

Elastic N.V. reported a strong earnings and revenue beat in the third quarter.
The company's earnings per share were 63 cents, higher than the consensus target of 47 cents.
Revenue for the period grew 17% to $382.1 million, surpassing the forecast of $368.3 million.
Elastic's stock rose over 14% in after-hours trading.

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Get Started with Wishlists on Github

Wishlist is a GitHub-based ecosystem to transform ideas into structured proposals.
The process involves forking/cloning the wishlist template, filling in the idea, and submitting a pull request.
Community members discuss, refine, and validate the proposals.
There is also an AI tool that helps convert simple ideas into structured technical proposals.

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Proxmox vs. VMware: Why More People Are Making the Switch

Proxmox VE is an open-source virtualization platform that offers virtual machines and containers in a web-based interface.
It provides built-in storage management, clustering, and backup tools at no cost.
Proxmox VE is lightweight, flexible, and suitable for small-to-medium businesses and edge deployments.
With concerns about VMware's future and the cost savings of Proxmox VE, many IT teams are switching to Proxmox VE as a powerful and cost-effective alternative.

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SongGen: A Fully Open-Source Single-Stage Auto-Regressive Transformer Designed for Controllable Song Generation

Researchers have proposed SongGen, an auto-regressive transformer model for controllable song generation.
SongGen supports two generation modes: Mixed Mode and Dual-Track Mode.
The model simplifies text-to-song generation by utilizing a single-stage approach.
SongGen outperformed existing models in text relevance and vocal control.

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DeepSeek AI Embarrasses OpenAI with Bold Open-Source Move: FlashMLA and the Death of OpenAI’s…

DeepSeek AI has released FlashMLA, an open-source decoding kernel designed to optimize AI workloads by maximizing GPU resource utilization.
The release of FlashMLA positions DeepSeek as a leader in AI hardware optimization and highlights OpenAI's departure from their original open-source mission.
OpenAI has shifted towards profit-driven models controlled by corporate stakeholders, whereas DeepSeek continues to prioritize open-source contributions.
FlashMLA's breakthroughs in computational throughput, memory efficiency, and GPU scheduling make it a game-changer for large-scale NLP models and real-time AI-driven analytics.

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DeepSeek Day 4 of Open Source Week: Optimized Parallelism Strategies

Optimized Parallelism Strategies play a vital role in training large AI models efficiently, saving time and costs.
DeepSeek's Day 4 of Open Source Week introduces DualPipe and EPLB, enhancing parallelism in model training.
DualPipe optimizes bidirectional pipeline parallelism by overlapping computation and communication phases.
It efficiently handles cross-node communication, boosting performance for large models like MoE setups.
EPLB is a load balancer for Mixture-of-Experts models, ensuring balanced workload distribution across devices.
These tools aim to streamline the AI training pipeline and improve efficiency at every step.
DualPipe and EPLB are open-source, enabling developers to accelerate their projects and reduce training times significantly.
DeepSeek's transparency in sharing Optimized Parallelism Strategies fosters collaboration and innovation in the AI community.
Efficient tools like DualPipe and EPLB make cutting-edge AI more accessible to a wider range of developers and researchers.
By leveraging these tools, projects requiring substantial computational resources can be trained faster and more effectively.

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Microsoft releases new Phi models optimized for multimodal processing, efficiency

Microsoft expands its Phi line of language models with two new algorithms optimized for multimodal processing and hardware efficiency.
The first addition is the text-only Phi-4-mini with 3.8 billion parameters, based on the decoder-only transformer architecture, reducing hardware usage and improving processing speed.
The second model, Phi-4-multimodal, has 5.6 billion parameters and can process text, images, audio, and video, outperforming other multimodal models in benchmark tests.
Both Phi-4-mini and Phi-4-multimodal will be made available on Hugging Face under an MIT license.

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These alternatives to popular apps can help reclaim your online life from billionaires and surveillance

As ownership and governance of apps and online services consolidate, individuals seek options to protect their private data and activities.
Services like Wallabag offer secure alternatives to commercial rivals for saving articles for later reading.
Signal stands out as an encrypted messaging app that prioritizes user privacy and security, being a nonprofit.
Nextcloud provides a self-hosted Dropbox alternative with enhanced privacy features and end-to-end encryption.
Bitwarden, an open-source password manager, ensures secure storage of passwords and sensitive information.
Joplin and Notesnook offer encrypted note-taking alternatives to Google Docs or Microsoft 365.
Ente.io provides a privacy-focused photo storage app to safeguard images from AI scanning and tagging.
Pi-hole and AdGuard Home serve as network-level ad blockers protecting various devices from online threats.
Setting up an encrypted VPN like Tailscale ensures secure web browsing without third-party surveillance.
Home Assistant acts as a central hub for managing smart home devices independently of proprietary services.

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