AI-generated bug reports flood Open Sauce projects
Developer Backlash
A surge of low-quality software vulnerability reports generated by artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked frustration among open-source developers, who warn that the trend wastes valuable time and resources.
Red Hat swallows Neural Magic
Wants to enhance AI optimisation
Red Hat, the IBM-owned open-source software firm, is set to acquire Neural Magic, a Massachusetts-based startup known for optimising AI models to run more efficiently on standard processors and GPUs.
Open saucers have job security
No one wants to fire them
While tech companies are laying off staff claiming that they are cutting costs because of “economic headwinds” they do not seem that keen to let their open saucers go.
Open saucy database outfit in trouble
MariaDB.com rumoured to be floundering
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth rumour declaring that the open-source database company MariaDB.com is deep in trouble.
Open source might be a Ukraine war casualty
Weaponised and bogged down
Open source and cloud technology might be collateral damage in the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Open source developer burns own libraries
Protesting against not giving back to the community
Popular open-source libraries colors and faker were defaced by their creator as the open saucey equivalent of a suicide bombing.
French surrender to Open Source
No more of your ‘orrible roast beef eating proprietary stuff
The French government's wants to use open source to make it a vector of digital sovereignty and a guarantee of "democratic confidence."
Nintendo shuts down open source project
Submit to the power of our mighty briefs
Nintendo has targeted the developer of an open-source Switch payload injector with a cease and desist notice and the DragonInjector developer decided to call it a day.
Microsoft admits it was on the wrong side of history
Ballmer was wrong about Open Source
Microsoft’s current president Brad Smith has accepted the company was on the wrong side of history when it called Open Sauce software cancer.
Open source gets Munich agreement
We have in our hands a piece of paper which means Linux on the desktop in our time.
In an uncharacteristic notable U-turn, newly elected politicians in Munich have decided that its administration needs to use open-source software, instead of proprietary products like Microsoft Office.