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Proto Rig: Modular bitcoin mining system from Block
Block, Inc. has unveiled Proto Rig, a modular and repairable bitcoin mining system, alongside Proto Fleet, a free open source fleet management platform.
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September 2025
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Debian 13.0 'Trixie' released, featuring Linux 6.12 LTS and official RISC-V support
The Debian Project has officially announced the release of Debian 13.0 'Trixie', the latest stable version of the popular GNU/Linux distribution.
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September 2025
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ATIS and Linux Foundation partner to advance open and intelligent 5G/6G network deployment
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Linux Foundation, formalising their collaboration to accelerate progress towards open, intelligent, and sustainable next-generation networks, including 5G and 6G.
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September 2025
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Space-ng announces its Sol3 ecosystem for computer vision in space
Space-ng has introduced its Sol3 hardware and software ecosystem at the 39th Annual Small Satellite Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah in the US.
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September 2025
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SUSE recognised as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Multicloud Container Platforms, Q3 2025
SUSE has announced its recognition as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Multicloud Container Platforms, Q3 2025, for its platform SUSE Rancher Prime.
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September 2025
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Batch Processing or Streaming: What's Better?
Are you debating whether to go for batch processing your company's data or streaming it in real time? Here's a look at the trade-offs involved when selecting which process is best for your architecture and business, with hybrid models emerging as winners.
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September 2025
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Arduino advances Zephyr RTOS migration
Arduino has rolled out Core v0.3.2, the latest update in its ongoing transition from Arm's now-discontinued Mbed OS to the Zephyr real-time operating system (RTOS).
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September 2025
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Perplexity AI eyes the acquisition of Google's Chrome
Indian-origin entrepreneur Aravind Srinivas, co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, has submitted an unsolicited all-cash offer worth US$ 34.5 billion (around 3.02 Aravind Srinivas, co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI lakh crore) to acquire Google's Chrome browser-nearly double the AI startup's own valuation.
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September 2025
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OpenAI goes the open source way with two new language models
NxtGen has officially rolled out ‘M’, an open source, agentic generative AI platform developed entirely in India and designed to convert human instructions into actionable outcomes for both public and enterprise use.
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September 2025
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KDE Gear 25.08 features significant performance enhancements
The KDE Project has announced the release of KDE Gear 25.08, the latest stable version of its open source application suite designed for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and GNU/Linux distributions.
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September 2025
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Alibaba's Qwen3 Coder cuts into Anthropic, Google market share
Alibaba's new open source coding model, Qwen3 Coder, is beginning to reshape the competitive AI landscape, showing early signs of denting the market share of established players such as Anthropic and Google.
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September 2025
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NxtGen's M is an open generative AI platform made in India
NxtGen has officially rolled out 'M', an open source, agentic generative AI platform developed entirely in India and designed to convert human instructions into actionable outcomes for both public and enterprise use.
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September 2025
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A Simple System that Uses Duplicati for Backing Up Data
The open source based data backup system outlined here can be really useful for a small office home office setup. Learn how to set up Duplicati on Windows, back up data to a Linux server, schedule daily backups, secure them with encryption, restore files when needed, and receive email notifications.
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August 2025
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Lisp for Robotics: Implementing Graph Traversal
Created in 1959 by John McCarthy, Lisp is a programming language designed to manipulate symbolic data easily, which is a key characteristic of AI. This language is still used for prototyping and to demonstrate different AI concepts. Here's a short tutorial on how it can help to implement three graph traversal algorithms.
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August 2025
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LibreOffice 25.2.5 is stable and reliable after 63 bug fixes
The Document Foundation has officially released LibreOffice 25.2.5, the fifth maintenance update in the LibreOffice 25.2 series.
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August 2025
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The Evolution of PostgreSQL in the Age of AI
PostgreSQL, enhanced with the pgvector extension, brings semantic search capabilities into a traditional SQL environment. With support for both structured queries and Al-driven search, pgvector enables developers to build intelligent, cost-effective applications within a familiar ecosystem, positioning PostgreSQL as a future-ready, Al-native database. Let's learn more....
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August 2025
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Calico: Open source platform for Kubernetes networking, security, and observability is in version 3.30
Calico is an open source, unified platform that integrates networking, security, and observability for Kubernetes environments—whether deployed in the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge.
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August 2025
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Red Hat launches RHEL for Business Developers
Red Hat has announced Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Business Developers, a new self-service offering aimed at simplifying access to its flagship enterprise Linux platform for development and testing.
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August 2025
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Data Governance in the Digital Era: An Overview
Data governance plays a critical role in ensuring effective data management in an organisation. Businesses who invest in it are at a definite advantage over those who don't.
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August 2025
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Shape the Success of Your Business with Smart Data Management and Security Practices
In today's world, data is a company's best asset, if used well. Also, data management and data security are no longer merely good business practices - they are critical to the success of an organisation.
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August 2025
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Wireshark 4.4.8 comes with updated protocol support and key bug fixes
The Wireshark team has announced the release of Wireshark 4.4.8, the eighth maintenance update in the 4.4 stable series of the world's most popular open source network protocol analyser.
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August 2025
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HealSphere: An Open Source-Based Mental Health Support Platform
This real-world CI/CD implementation has been developed using open source tools to deploy a modular mental health support platform.
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August 2025
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Using Kafka Connectors for Data Pipelines: An Overview
Find out how to use Kafka Connect and the pre-built connectors that come with it to connect Kafka to the external systems that businesses use, including databases and cloud storage. There are some best practices for using these connectors too.
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August 2025
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Unleashing the Power of GraphRAG for Smarter Recommendations
Explore how GraphRAG addresses the core limitations of vector-based retrieval and is a significant step forward in the evolution of intelligent applications.
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August 2025
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SageMath: A First Look at Public-Key Cryptography
In the last article in this SageMath series (published in the March 2025 issue of Open Source For You), we concluded our discussion on symmetric-key encryption. As promised, this article will focus on public-key cryptography (PKC). However, before diving into that, we will briefly examine some recent developments in the field of quantum computing. We will also introduce the concept of cryptanalysis to understand how these emerging trends could have potentially catastrophic implications for cybersecurity.
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August 2025
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PostgreSQL vs MySQL vs MariaDB: Which Database Fits Your Needs?
Discover how you should go about choosing between the three popular open source relational database management systems - PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB.
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August 2025
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AI Agents in Your Workforce
Companies are experimenting with AI agents for tasks ranging from coding and payroll processing to more intense ones like chip design.
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August 2025
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GitHub Copilot: Maximising Developer Productivity in Enterprise Java Applications
This brief tutorial on using GitHub Copilot for developing Enterprise Java applications also showcases its various features.
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August 2025
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"We believe genAl will soon run itself, optimising and scaling without humans"
Bud Ecosystem's software helps genAl work on regular hardware, doing away with the need for large GPUs or a complicated setup and leading to reduced costs. In a chat with OSFY's Nidhi Agarwal and Niraj Sahay, Jithin VG, Founder and CEO of Bud Ecosystem, talked about building India's top genAl model, the challenges of running AI at scale without GPUs, and how open source tools can help more people and companies use Al on their own terms.
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August 2025
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Implementing Zero Trust with the Power of Open Source
Zero trust architecture that trusts nothing and no one is the order of the day. What's great is that open source offers a range of tools to implement such architecture. Find out what these tools are, and how to put them to best use.
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