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India denies mandatory smartphone source code access
India does not mandate smartphone manufacturers to share their source code with the government, industry bodies and official sources have clarified, countering a Reuters report that suggested authorities were considering compulsory access to proprietary software.
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February 2026
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KawaiiGPT turns cybercrime into a one-click operation
KawaiiGPT, a free and open source black-hat AI tool, is significantly lowering the barrier to cybercrime by enabling phishing, malware creation, and ransomware campaigns within minutes.
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February 2026
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MongoDB makes source code of mongot publicly available
MongoDB has released the source code for mongot, the engine powering MongoDB Search and Vector Search, under the Server Side Public License (SSPL).
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February 2026
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Panasonic Automotive secures open source compliance
Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd, has achieved conformance with ISO/ IEC 5230 (OpenChain), the international standard for open source software (OSS) licence compliance, strengthening its position as a supply-chain-ready open source leader in automotive software.
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February 2026
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Top researchers return to OpenAl
OpenAI has welcomed back three high-profile researchers, Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenholz, following their brief tenure at former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's AI startup, Thinking Machines. Their return comes at a critical time, reinforcing OpenAI's technical leadership amid intense competition for AI talent, particularly from Google.
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February 2026
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When Machines Learn Faster Than Us
The danger lies not in machines getting more intelligent with time... but in humans finding it convenient to depend on that intelligence.
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February 2026
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PM Modi pitches open source digital platforms for the Global South at CSPOC
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 28th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC) on January 15, 2026, at the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan, Parliament House Complex, New Delhi, positioning open source digital platforms as a key pillar of India's engagement with the Global South.
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February 2026
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Google to cut AOSP code releases to twice a year from 2026
Starting in 2026, Google will publish Android Open Source Project (AOSP) code only twice a year, down from quarterly releases, according to updates in official AOSP documentation.
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February 2026
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WordPress's official account faces criticism for mocking the FAIR decentralisation project
An official WordPress.org X (formerly Twitter) account has sparked backlash across the open source community after posting a mocking, sarcastic comment targeting the FAIR (Federated And Independent Repositories) Project, an open source initiative focused on decentralising WordPress plugin and theme distribution.
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February 2026
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IoT Gateways: A Layer Between IoT Devices and Cloud
Behind every smooth IoT experience, the gateway is doing the heavy lifting. It is not just plumbing for data; it can mean the difference between chaos and clarity in connected systems.
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February 2026
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NVIDIA releases open source AI models for autonomous vehicles
NVIDIA has unveiled Alpamayo, a family of open source artificial intelligence models for autonomous vehicles, at CES 2026, positioning the platform as a direct challenge to proprietary systems such as Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD).
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February 2026
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IBM launches Sovereign Core to aid digital sovereignty
IBM has announced IBM Sovereign Core, describing it as the industry's first AI-ready, sovereign-enabled software built on open source foundations to help enterprises, governments, and service providers build, deploy, and manage sovereign AI environments.
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February 2026
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Elon Misk announces open sourcing of X's recommendation algorithm
Elon Musk has pledged to open source X's recommendation algorithm, positioning the platform as the first major social network to publicly release the full code behind both content and advertising rankings.
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February 2026
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Open Source Tools that Assist Industry 5.0
Unlike Industry 4.0, Industry 5.0 integrates human expertise with Al. There are quite a few open source libraries that can be used for this new global system.
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February 2026
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CI/CD Pipelines: Powering Machine Learning Projects
By embracing continuous integration and continuous deployment, machine learning systems can keep pace with the environments they operate in. GitHub Actions helps build automation into the workflow, leading not only to a well-performing model but a complete pipeline that continuously delivers value to users.
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February 2026
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Google and Meta bet on TorchTPU to break NVIDIA'S hold over AI computing
Google is mounting an open source-led challenge to NVIDIA's dominance in AI computing by re-engineering its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to run PyTorch efficiently, targeting the software layer that determines developer adoption at scale.
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February 2026
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Polars + DuckDB: The New Power Combo for In-Process Analytics
Polars and DuckDB form an excellent in-process analytics stack for 2026. They occupy the important middle ground between traditional DataFrame libraries and fully distributed systems, offering high performance without operational overhead.
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February 2026
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Designing Flawless Products with FreeCAD
FreeCAD and Python work in partnership to deliver perfect product designs. Here's how...
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February 2026
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Tech Majors are Racing Towards Net-Zero - What About You?
Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Infosys, Wipro-global and Indian firms are heading closer to achieving net-zero emissions, a mandate to combat climate change. Here is what you need to know to start your journey...
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February 2026
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G42 releases NANDA 87B, a Hindi-English LLM built on Llama
Abu Dhabi-based AI group G42 has released NANDA 87B, an open source Hindi-English large language model with 87 billion parameters, strengthening the availability of high-scale open AI for one of the world's largest language communities.
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February 2026
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Top Open Source Tools for Cloud Management
Adopting the cloud has never been easier. Managing it, however, has quietly become one of the hardest problems in modern engineering. Thankfully, open source cloud management tools are of immense help.
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February 2026
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Open Source Tools for Agentic Al: An Overview
This outline of the essential tools, platforms, and frameworks across each layer of the agentic Al stack provides a structured blueprint for organisations seeking to adopt these systems at scale.
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February 2026
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Lux: Excellence in Data Analysis and Visualisation
Data is sacred in today's world, and Python libraries like Lux make data analysis and visualisation so much easier.
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January 2026
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The Role of Open Source in Building Modern Data Infrastructure
It's no secret that open source is emerging as the backbone of modern data infrastructure. Here’s a list of the core open source technologies used to deploy this infrastructure, along with some real-world examples and a brief on why open source matters.
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December 2025
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The Whispering Machines: How Open Source is Bringing Intelligence to the Tiniest Devices
Built on open source frameworks, TinyML is enabling complex machine learning models to run on the microcontrollers embedded in connected devices, bringing artificial intelligence to the very edge of the network.
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December 2025
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Setting Up Snort to Secure Your Network
Snort is a popular, open source intrusion detection system that monitors traffic in real time to detect malware. Here’s a detailed explanation of how to set it up on Ubuntu and test it by generating traffic from another system.
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December 2025
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When AI Meets DevOps to Build Self-Healing Systems
Traditional DevOps, with its rule-based automation, is struggling to work effectively in today’s complex tech world. But when combined with AlOps, it can lead to IT systems that predict failures and solve issues without human intervention.
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December 2025
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How to Automate Java Code Modernisation
This short guide illustrates that automating Java code modernisation with Python and OpenAI API is not just possible-it's remarkably effective.
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December 2025
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The Quest to Build a Quantum Computer
The road to large-scale quantum computing is long and hard, with incremental advances paving the way. But the destination is in sight.
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December 2025
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Job Opportunities: What's Hot in the Cloud Space?
If there's one field that refuses to slow down, it's cloud computing. Even as automation and AI reshape roles, cloud adoption continues to surge. From startups deploying microservices overnight to enterprises migrating decades of legacy systems, cloud remains the engine of digital transformation. For professionals, this means one thing: skills that live in the cloud won't come down anytime soon.
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