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The article explains that GitHub mining, or repository mining, is a research method used to analyze data from GitHub repositories—such as issues, pull requests, and discussions—to understand real user challenges and beha…
Foursquare Open Source Places transitioned from public S3 bucket access to a new Places portal in October 2024, requiring user registration and token generation for data retrieval through an Iceberg catalog. The dataset …
Nexu.io released Codex Slides, an open-source AI slide studio that runs inside the Codex coding agent, allowing users to turn prompts, repositories, or file folders into presentation-ready decks in about 4–5 minutes for …
Lemmy released version 1.0.0-beta.1 with numerous bug fixes and improvements, including federation enhancements, community moderation updates, and UI changes. The development team will continue refining the API and worki…
Local moratoria on data center construction, driven by anti-AI activism and community concerns, have blocked $18 billion in projects and slowed billions more, according to a recent report. The trend threatens to hinder A…
A Slavic village's Kupala Night bonfire ritual is analyzed as an early coordination interface that combined understanding of seasons and community belonging. The piece argues that ritual and science split these functions…
In May 2026, Hawkesbury City Council councillors dismissed reporting by the local Hawkesbury Gazette as "AI slop" to discredit accountability journalism, marking the first documented use of the term as a political weapon…
Craig McLuckie, co-creator of Kubernetes and CEO of Stacklok, told InfoQ that AI-generated "slop" pull requests are overwhelming open source communities and displacing the traditional good-first-issue onboarding pathway …
The mlx-community/Laguna-S-2.1-oQ2e quantized model running in-process through mlx-vlm on a 128 GB Apple M5 Max achieved a perfect overall score of 1.000 across six tasks, with 40.85 generation tok/s and 37.77 GB peak ML…
Researchers warn that AI tools used to predict climate migration and allocate humanitarian aid rely on datasets biased toward wealthier nations, systematically underrepresenting the Global South communities most affected…
The federal government is prioritizing artificial intelligence over people and the planet by implementing an 'AI First' national strategy, dismantling environmental protections to accelerate data center construction, and…
The PyTorch Foundation has opened nominations for its 2026 Contributor Awards, recognizing individuals who strengthen projects like PyTorch, vLLM, DeepSpeed, Ray, Helion, and Safetensors through technical innovation, doc…
Residents of Boxtown, a historic Black community in southwest Memphis, are confronting the impacts of the Colossus AI data center complex built by xAI and now leased to Anthropic and Google, raising familiar questions ab…
PauseAI, an organization building a civic and social movement for existential AI safety, argues that its approach is a high-value, neglected intervention to reduce catastrophic risks from AI. With a presence in over 15 c…
Global demand for critical minerals such as lithium, nickel, and cobalt is surging due to the renewable energy transition, electric vehicles, and the rapid growth of AI and data centres. Amnesty International’s decade-lo…
The Lean FRO and Mathlib Initiative have launched Tau Ceti, an open-source repository of formal mathematics where all code is written by AI contributors under human-directed roadmaps and adversarial AI review. The projec…
Apache Polaris, co-created by Snowflake and Dremio, graduated to a Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation in February 2026 after eighteen months of incubation. The project now runs monthly releases and has s…
ClickHouse, the open-source database, has built a thriving ecosystem around open standards including OpenTelemetry for observability, the Model Context Protocol for AI agents, and open table formats like Iceberg and Delt…
The article discusses the history and current state of MySQL, noting its decline in popularity after Oracle's acquisition but arguing it may be due for a renaissance. Despite PostgreSQL becoming the default choice for ma…
Agenmatic, an AI lead generation platform, monitors 40+ online communities in real time to detect buying signals and helps service providers turn high-intent prospects into clients, claiming 10x+ response rates versus co…