Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

It even showed its work through research papers and by open-sourcing its models. DeepSeeks breakthroughs caused some angst, but its fresh thinking and openness will likely spur bigger and faster innovations from the worlds top AI companies by this time next year. People downloaded variants of the open-source Phi-3 more than 4.5

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Engadget

APRIL 18, 2025

In other words, it doesn't track your internet activity while you're using it, helping to protect you and your anonymity. ProtonVPN is also open source, meaning that anyone with enough knowhow can take a look under the hood and validate Proton's technical claims.

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The AI Alignment Forum

JUNE 6, 2025

I think one intuition is that the explicit training that the model gets is always (say) in pre-training to predict the next token from internet text, that is, not to answer questions about itself, but just to predict text that other people or models produced. (00:16:38): Why does fine-tuning make sense here to me?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek launched a pair of state-of-the-art, open-source AI models that require far less computing power and capital than those of Western companies, sending shockwaves through Silicon Valley and the Wall Street firms that fund them.

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Recode by Vox

MAY 31, 2025

And Google DeepMinds decision last year to open source AlphaFold3 , its most advanced model, for non-commercial academic use has greatly expanded the number of researchers who can take advantage of it. AI scribes in medicine raise questions about patient confidentiality and the risk of hacking.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 1, 2025

Most of us are used to using internet chatbots like ChatGPT and DeepSeek in one of two ways: via a web browser or via their dedicated smartphone apps. First, their use requires an internet connection. I chose to run DeepSeeks R1 model, but the apps support myriad open-source LLMs. There are two drawbacks to this.

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Fast Company Tech

JULY 9, 2025

The only way we will get there is by adopting the true spirit of open source and making the underlying code, model parameters, and training data available for anyone to use, study, modify, and distribute. The open-source software movement has always been about more than just its tech ingredients.

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Neon CRM

JULY 8, 2025

How to Register In order to register your nonprofit’s domain, you can contact your Internet service provider, or you can check out the list of accredited registrars maintained by the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

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Medium Technology Section

JUNE 28, 2025

Satellite Internet + Edge AI Satellite-based internet (Starlink, Project Kuiper) is reaching the most remote regions of the world. Open-source AI, audit trails, and regulatory frameworks will shape the future of ethical tech. Security by design will be a default expectation.

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VentureBeat

JUNE 14, 2025

Just a month after DeepSeek arrived on the scene, Altman admitted that OpenAI had been “on the wrong side of history” regarding open-source AI. As major AI labs have now trained their models on much of the available public data on the internet, data scarcity is slowing further improvements in pre-training.

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Medium Technology Section

JUNE 9, 2025

Sitemap Open in app Sign up Sign in Medium Logo Write Sign up Sign in Communication Protocols for Internet of Agents Ruchika Prasad Follow 3 min read · Just now -- Listen Share Let us understand the latest development in the communication protocols that will fast track the adoption of AI agents. What is Internet of Agents?

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Ars Technica

JUNE 18, 2025

With the advent of generative AI models like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion in 2022, it has become far more difficult for researchers to ensure that media found on the Internet was created by humans without using AI tools.

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The AI Alignment Forum

JULY 10, 2025

Detecting Prompted Sandbagging in Simple Tasks We began our investigations into sandbagging early this year by evaluating the ability of small open-source language models to subtly sandbag, when prompted to do so. By contrast, the fourth update focuses on frontier models and real testing run datasets.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 6, 2025

Since 2018, Disneys state-of-the-art denoiser powered by machine learning (ML) has been used in over 100 films, including Toy Story 4, Ralph Breaks the Internet, and Avengers: Endgame. It helps remove noise, sharpens images and speeds up rendering, allowing artists to work faster while achieving higher quality.

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CIO Dive

JULY 1, 2025

June 24, 2025 Editors picks Harald Schmidt via Getty Images How Mondelēz laid the groundwork for a major digital overhaul The snack maker spent 18 months gearing up for transformation, which will include data center exits, workload migrations, generative AI exploration and an ERP upgrade.

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The AI Alignment Forum

JUNE 27, 2025

So the paradigmatic one of this is that sometimes people who are very pro-AI and pro-everyone being able to use AI, I’ve heard people say, “Yeah, AIs, they should just all be open source or open weights. Maybe they have their own version of the internet they interact on, so if things go bad, it doesn’t mess up our internet.

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CIO Dive

JULY 1, 2025

June 24, 2025 Editors picks Harald Schmidt via Getty Images How Mondelēz laid the groundwork for a major digital overhaul The snack maker spent 18 months gearing up for transformation, which will include data center exits, workload migrations, generative AI exploration and an ERP upgrade.

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Wired

JUNE 30, 2025

It doesn't log any of your data, and the open source service has apps for nearly every platform. This is our favorite VPN for most people. 1Password Password Manager for $2 Per Month Look. Julian Chokkattu is a senior reviews editor at WIRED, and has been covering personal technology and reviewing consumer products for a decade.

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Wired

JULY 2, 2025

For years, in-flight internet has been fine for email, not great for Zoom meetings. SpaceX ’s Starlink network of low Earth orbit satellites, for example, can deliver a connection capable of downloading more than 200 megabits per second—twice as fast as most basic home internet plans. That’s all changing fast.

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Wired

JULY 15, 2025

And when nations need to establish internet connectivity in hard-to-reach places, chances are they’ll rely on a constellation of satellites—Starlink—run by a single company with deep ties to the American state, Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Communication systems are, if anything, even more vulnerable to enshittification.

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Fast Company Tech

JUNE 12, 2025

Thanks to its massive ad revenue, Meta can afford to open-source its AI models, effectively giving developers free access in hopes of flooding the ecosystem and becoming dominant through ubiquity. The company’s focused AI efforts began in 2013 after it failed in a bid to acquire DeepMind, which ultimately went to Google.

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Wired

JUNE 15, 2025

However, there are free, open source alternatives like LibreOffice , Darktable (Adobe Lightroom replacement), and GIMP (Adobe Photoshop replacement). This part is hard to test if you're buying over the internet. Try opening it with one hand. See our Best Linux Laptops guide for some of our favorites.

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Wired

JUNE 25, 2025

AI researchers at UC Berkeley tested how well the latest AI models and agents could find vulnerabilities in 188 large open source codebases. Using a new benchmark called CyberGym , the AI models identified 17 new bugs including 15 previously unknown, or “zero-day,” ones. But it’s not something users are likely to encounter.

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Wired

JUNE 12, 2025

Ken Thompson, vice president of engineering at Anaconda, a company that provides open source code for software development, says AI adoption tends to follow a generational divide, with younger developers diving in and older ones showing more caution. But it’s not something users are likely to encounter.

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Wired

JUNE 8, 2025

Simon Hill 12 Ways to Upgrade Your Wi-Fi and Make Your Internet Faster From changing Wi-Fi channels to routing an Ethernet cable, there’s always something you can do to improve your internet at home. Scott Gilbertson Here’s What the ‘Matter’ Smart Home Standard Is All About This open source protocol ensures your devices play nicely.

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Fast Company Tech

JULY 15, 2025

Among its contributions to the field is Qiskit, an open-source software platform for writing algorithms that can be run on quantum computers—not just IBM ones, but others as well. Most internet data is secured via encryption techniques that date to the 1970s—and which remain impervious to decoding by classical computers.

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CIO Dive

JULY 1, 2025

June 24, 2025 Editors picks funky-data via Getty Images After 30 years of code, Java remains an enterprise cornerstone Despite major changes in licensing and costs, the programming language is still a dominant force in software development.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Although established giants like Microsoft have proprietary software and systems, much of today’s internet is built on open source software. Brand stories will shine Open source software not only lowers the… This story continues at The Next Web.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 14, 2011

The browser wars between proprietary and open source browsers have changed in some ways from the days that it was simply Internet Explorer vs. Netscape. On the proprietary side, still, sits Internet Explorer, now about ready to pop with version 9. It has been dropping steadily since.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For years, founders and investors in China had little interest in open source software because it did not seem like the most viable business model. The three-year-old Chinese startup, which builds open source software for processing unstructured data, recently closed a Series B round of $43 million.

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Wired

JULY 2, 2025

I still had my data problem from before, and I was trying to connect to the internet. There, it was like the internet of the ’90s—you know, beep beep beep. A burgeoning open source project called Meshtastic is filling the gap for when you’re in the middle of nowhere—or when disaster strikes.

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The AI Alignment Forum

JULY 6, 2025

They’re very entangled together, and I think this is often described as one of the challenges of an open source approach where if it was the case that such a vulnerability was discovered, the inability to shut down access… there’s an additional challenge. Samuel Albanie (00:52:24): There’s that. Daniel Filan (01:09:57): Sure.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

The internet is powered by open source technology—exciting software that's built collaboratively from the bottom-up. Open source is meant to be free and equal, but then why do men continue to dominate open source sites like Wikipedia? Sarah Mirk. Online Editor. B h Magazine.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Open source code is integral to tech stacks at many large companies, but its authors rarely get recognized — let alone compensated — for their work. . Max Howell claims the package manager software he created, Homebrew, is the most contributed-to open source software program in the world. Image Credits: Tea.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2022

Web3 is a new version of the internet that uses blockchain (IE a secure but transparent record keeping system) to decentralize the management of the internet, thus reducing the control of prominent companies such as Google or Meta. Web3 draws its name as the third iteration of the internet. What is Web3? What is the Metaverse?

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Engadget

JULY 7, 2025

It's called Bitchat and doesn't need the internet to work, as there are no central servers. It's designed to keep working even when the internet is actively being blocked. This kind of technology was used during Hong Kong's 2019 protests to keep communication lines open, though similar apps have been floating around for years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Paul Connolly, who has been a guest blogger on this blog before , covered the session on Open Source Strategic Planning. How do you devise a future strategy for a diffuse Internet-based global movement? Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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