Open source tools to boost your productivity
For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an…
A New Trick Could Block the Misuse of Open Source AI
When Meta released its large language model Llama 3 for free this April, it took outside developers just a couple…
Tangara: Open-source Apple iPod Phone lookalike raises over $150,000 in crowdfunding campaign
The Tangara relies upon open-source hardware, unlike its infamous inspiration. (Image source: Crowd Supply)The Tangara is proving popular on Crowd…
Grimes on Living Forever, Dying on Mars, and Giving Elon Musk Ideas for His Best (Worst) Tweets
Not surprisingly, I agree. I have been wondering—can an AI-generated piece of music have soul?Yes. I signed an NDA, so…
A Crucial Early Warning System for Disease Outbreaks Is in Jeopardy
Internal dissent within the mostly volunteer disease-news network known as ProMED—which alerted the world to the earliest cases of Covid,…
A New Wave of Peer-to-Peer Apps Heralds a Farm-to-Table Internet
Michael Calore: Lauren, can you imagine doing your job without some type of cloud-based software?Lauren Goode: Yes, I could. I…
The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?
He describes Shapiro’s paper as “an awakening.” In CRDTs, Kleppmann saw the technical basis for a new class of software…
Meta’s Open Source Llama Upsets the AI Horse Race
Meta’s license for Llama 2 also requires companies with more than 700 million monthly active users to establish a separate…
