Open source software has quietly reached a level of power that surprises even experienced users. Some tools offer ...

Slop’ pull requests from LLMs are deluging maintainers, and you can generate small utility functions on your own in seconds. The open source world is grappling with AI.

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“Once contribution and reputation building can be automated, the attack surface moves from the code to the governance process around it. Projects that rely on informal trust and maintainer intuition ...

Does vibe coding risk destroying the Open Source ecosystem? According to a pre-print paper by a number of high-profile researchers, this might indeed be the case based on observed patterns and some ...

Edge AI reached an inflection point in 2025. What had long been demonstrated in controlled pilots—local inference, reduced latency, and improved system autonomy—began to transition into scalable, ...

Redis, the company behind the popular value-key database of the same name, has returned its main system to an open source license, although the move failed to satisfy some critics.… Adding the GNU ...

A $6.6 billion AI data center is coming to Independence, and furious residents say the site could do the city more harm than ...

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The residents of Bly Road in Independence worry that a proposed 400-acre AI data center down the street will end their quiet way of life.

AI coding tools have enabled a flood of bad code that threatens to overwhelm many projects. Building new features is easier ...