Open-Source faces existential crisis

Database company Neo4j is attempting to convince the US legal system that "open source" means whatever they want it to mean.

EA throws a bone to gamers

Electronic Arts (EA) has released the source code for several classic Command & Conquer titles.

Hats off to AI

The Red Hat team has announced plans to integrate artificial intelligence with IBM's open-source Granite engine to enhance developer tools such as integrated development environments (IDEs) and create an AI-powered Code Assistant. The team is also working on streamlining AI acceleration in Toolbx and ensuring Fedora users have access to tools like RamaLama.

All roads will lead to Chromium

Even the Open Sauce movement thinks that Firefox is on its way out and is starting to get into bed with the sorts of names it previously spat when mentioning.

Plans to open source it

Nvidia has completed its $700 million acquisition of Run:ai, an Israel-based startup specializing in GPU cloud orchestration software for artificial intelligence workloads

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. 

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.

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.

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.

Weaponised and bogged down

Open source and cloud technology might be collateral damage in the war between Russia and Ukraine.