Munich's Open Source Comeback: After the end of LiMux, Munich is once again relying on open source. New projects and an OSPO demonstrate the city's ...
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Switzerland is building an alternative to Microsoft 365: The Swiss Federal Chancellery is launching a program for sovereign workplace software. Around 3 ...
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Nvidia Agrees to Buy Open Source Platform Hugging Face For $12.9 Billion: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, a company known for its GitHub-like repository ...
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Paid articlePaywallOpenLogi: Unofficial open-source tool for Logitech mice with new features: Anyone looking for an alternative to Logitech's mouse software has surely already ...
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Release 1.4.9 · rustdesk/rustdesk: An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer. - | Release 1.4 ...
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US may sanction China’s Moonshot for distilling Anthropic’s Fable: US is threatening to impose sanctions on Chinese AI companies for building their models by ...
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Key FactsMoonshot Unveils Largest Open-Weight AI Model
Jul 20, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: cybernews.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: cybernews.com
- Moonshot launched Kimi K3, an open-weight AI model with 2.8 trillion parameters, the largest globally.
- It achieved leading rankings in third-party tests for advanced reasoning and web interface creation.
- The release caused significant share declines for Chinese competitors Zhipu and Minimax on the Hong Kong market.
- High operational expenses make hosting Kimi K3 impractical for most users despite its open availability.
Kimi K3 performs competitively with Fable 5 (with fallback) and substantially outperformed Anthropic's Opus 4.8, GPT 5.6 Sol, and GPT 5.5.— Moonshot (the company) said at the launch of Kimi K3.
Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever: Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on ...
techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/microsoft-is-openly-competing-with-openai-anthropic-more-than-ever/

OpenAI hack more extensive than previously known: The US company OpenAI stated that four other publicly accessible services were hacked in the attack ...
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Mozilla: Open-source AI almost as good as ChatGPT & Co.: According to a Mozilla report, open-source AI has reached a tipping point. The performance gap to ...
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Open Source: New Firefox Add-on Bypasses Age Verification - | Golem.de: Due to mandatory age verification, more and more users have to prove their identity to ...
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Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania bids farewell to Microsoft: The state aims to secure its digital independence with open-source software. In the long term, over 50 ...
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Key FactsMecklenburg-Western Pomerania Embraces Open-Source Software
Jul 5, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: heise.de
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: heise.de
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is gradually moving away from Microsoft software toward a statewide open-source platform.
- The newly adopted Nextcloud system offers secure file sharing and collaboration while maintaining full data sovereignty.
- More than 50,000 public employees will use the software by 2026, managed by the state-owned IT provider DVZ M-V GmbH.
- A partnership with Schleswig-Holstein improves IT security and coordinates mutual contingency plans.
Instead, we want to rely on European language models such as Mistral from France or Tilde from Latvia.— Marco Anschütz, Chief Information Officer (CIO) for IT and Digitalisierung in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, explained this in the context of avoiding dependency on US tech giants.
Promoting open-source alternatives: EU unveils open-source strategy - Golem.de: As part of its digital sovereignty package, the EU is committed to promoting ...
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Microsoft debuts Surface RTX Spark Dev Box to run large AI models without cloud costs
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DoS | and malware attacks on NGINX web servers conceivable: In current versions of NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus, the developers have closed a security ...
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Munich's IT Turnaround: Open Source is the Norm for the New Coalition: After years of infighting, Munich's "Mango Coalition" is focusing on digital ...
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OpenReception 1.0: Open-source appointment management for medical practices is ready
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Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt: : Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming ...
theregister.com/2026/05/02/ncsc_brace_for_patch_tsunami/

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it.
politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-launched-age-checking-app-hackers-say-took-them-2-minutes-break-it/

Brazil: AI developer (20) builds anti-corruption tool & finds ghost officials: Brazilian developer builds open-source tool that networks 45 government databases ...
business-punk.com/business/brasilien-ki-entwickler-20-baut-korruptionstool-findet-geisterbeamte/

AI agents for businesses: Nvidia’s response to Openclaw’s security issues: Massive security concerns have so far slowed the adoption of Openclaw in a business ...
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Port of Context: The open source code mode: The “better way to use MCP” just got open sourced.
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OpenAI snags Austrian OpenClaw inventor Peter Steinberger: Sam Altman is enthusiastic, Steinberger prefers to join OpenAI rather than run his own company ...
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Open Source: Github gets a kill switch and filter against AI Slop - | Golem.de: AI-generated pull requests are spamming maintainers on GitHub - | after an ...
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Schluss damit: So viel zahlt die Bundesregierung für Microsoft-Lizenzen: Die Ausgaben des Bundes für Microsoft-Lizenzen sind explodiert: 481 Millionen Euro ...
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Petition demands: Open-source work should be considered voluntary work: Those who coach children on a voluntary basis receive tax breaks. Those who maintain ...
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Digital Sovereignty: Bundestag Discusses IT Transformation Without Microsoft: A cross-party commission in the Bundestag aims to end dependence on Microsoft and ...
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France declares war on Microsoft Teams and Zoom: With Visio, France is introducing its open-source video conferencing system for government agencies. By 2027 ...
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‘We’re Not That Far Behind.’ Baidu’s Robin Li on China’s Push to Diffuse AI Throughout Society
time.com/7357630/robin-li-baidu-interview/

Digital Independence: Berlin wants to introduce the European payment service Wero
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WEF 2026 in Davos: Google legend Eric Schmidt warns Europe of AI revolution: From the perspective of Google's former CEO, only one project should be ...
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Paid articlePaywallDigital Independence: Berlin's cautious departure from Microsoft & Co.: A new open-source strategy is intended to free the capital from the shackles of tech ...
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Dependence on the USA: Schleswig-Holstein relies on open-source software: In Schleswig-Holstein, the state administration is relying on open-source solutions ...
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The Power of Magnets: How China is setting the pace of the energy transition: While Germany depends on China for the expansion of green technologies ...
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Bug bounty program: Curl developer turns off the money tap for "AI junk" - | Golem.de
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Plezy: Open-source Plex client with offline downloads and HDR support: Anyone looking for an alternative client for the Plex media server might find what ...
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Open-source model more accurately measures greenhouse gas emissions from natural gas
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Because of Copilot: Linux distribution Gentoo wants to move away from Github - | Golem.de
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Bose products losing features: Open-source community wants to save SoundTouch speakers - | Golem.de
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Mixture of Experts Powers the Most Intelligent Frontier AI Models, Runs 10x Faster to Deliver 1/10 the Token Cost on NVIDIA Blackwell NVL72
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Soofi: Germany to develop a sovereign AI language model: With 20 million euros in funding, German research institutions are developing an open Large Language ...
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Unix: Only known copy of Unix V4 has surfaced - | Golem.de: The University of Utah has been tidying up - | and made a spectacular discovery in a storage room: a ...
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Nothing is given: China’s open-source AI tsunami: Innovation never follows a script. It accelerates, stumbles and surprises. Two years ago ...
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Completely crazy: This hobbyist runs Minecraft on an LED lamp: A hobbyist shows what's possible: An inexpensive smart home LED lamp from AliExpress has been ...
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Those who delegate tasks to chatbots like ChatGPT and others often have to entrust sensitive data to the operators. The open-source project Ollama allows this ... Show more
Mac as a local AI system: Here's how
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Mushroom science for the Hitler Youth: The National Socialists' appropriation of the forest
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Why new model of China’s Moonshot AI stirs ‘DeepSeek moment’ debate: Kimi K2 Thinking outperforms OpenAI's GPT-5 and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 ...
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Bavaria and Microsoft seal billion-dollar deal - | The Hague switches providers.: The Bavarian state government intends to finalize a billion-dollar deal with ...
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Umami v3: Google Analytics alternative with new tracking features: The open-source web analytics tool Umami v3 offers a new interface, cohort analysis ...
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Interview with Frank Schätzing: “David Bowie was of almost inestimable importance to me.”
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Gnome finally removes the X11 backend: It had been hinted at, and now the developers have gone through with it: They have removed the X11 backend code from Gnome ...
heise.de/news/X11-in-Gnome-ist-Geschichte-Backend-entfernt-11066916.html

Contract to be finalized by the end of the year: Bavaria wants to move to the Microsoft cloud
heise.de/news/Vertrag-soll-bis-Jahresende-stehen-Bayern-will-in-die-Microsoft-Cloud-11066618.html

Runs in the browser: Developer ports Linux for WebAssembly - | Golem.de: After microcontrollers and PDFs, Linux now also runs natively in the browser. However ...
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The path to a FreeBSD desktop doesn't necessarily lead through the text-mode terminal. Various FreeBSD distributions offer ready-made desktop environments ... Show more
FreeBSD Beyond the Command Line: Five Turnkey Systems for the Desktop
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Grokipedia reviewed: Elon Musk makes history – on Golem.de: The online encyclopedia Grokipedia, launched by Elon Musk, is anything but factually accurate or ...
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IONOS and Nextcloud launch sovereign Office alternative: Berlin (ots) - | IONOS, Europe's leading digitalization partner and reliable cloud enabler ...
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Plezy: New open-source client for Plex without subscription requirements: Plezy, an alternative Plex client, has been released that runs on all common platforms ...
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Mobile networks must be made more secure. Stefan Valentin discusses how this can be achieved and how data gets into mobile networks in this episode of the ... Show more
SPRIND: Stefan Valentin
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Born in Gera, celebrated in England: An exhibition in honor of the artist Karl Weschke
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Another European agency shifts off Big Tech, as digital sovereignty movement gains steam
zdnet.com/article/another-european-agency-ditches-big-tech-as-digital-sovereignty-movement-gains-steam/

This is how the first school enrollment after the Second World War went in Berlin-Neukölln
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Harden Windows 11 25H2 for more performance and privacy: Users who want more performance and privacy for Windows 11 25H2 should take a closer look at NoID ...
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Jefferies, a US-based investment company, said in its latest report that it favours the Chinese approachto artificialintelligence rather than the US approach ... Show more
AI revolution: Is China at an advantage against the US? Report makes big claims
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International Criminal Court replaces Microsoft software - | what's behind it
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International Criminal Court to Opt for Open Source Instead of Microsoft: The International Criminal Court (ICC) will apparently rely on a German open-source ...
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“Problem in the cityscape”: Germany's identity crisis began long before 2015: The problems Chancellor Merz addresses are real, says our author ...
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Software: How Zendis wants to develop an alternative to Microsoft: Zendis is supposed to help the government reduce its dependence on software companies like ...
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November 9, 1989: Why I am eternally grateful to Erich: Our author travels from Leipzig to Munich on the day the Berlin Wall fell. During this journey ...
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Decolonization of AI: Bots to learn indigenous languages: Chile has developed an AI language model that takes local languages and cultures into account ...
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ServiceNow and Nvidia say their new open-source model is built for security - here's why
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Enterprise Software: The Erosion of Open Source Principles - | Golem.de: Open source is increasingly degenerating into a marketing buzzword, and licenses are ...
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Paid articlePaywallEight steps to digital sovereignty: We show how companies can get started with digital sovereignty. In doing so, they lay the foundation for secure and ...
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Berlin Cathedral Provost Bernhard Lichtenberg: "I only have one leader, Jesus Christ"
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Between two worlds: Who am I if I have lost everything while fleeing?: As a child, our author survived two wars. After fleeing to a foreign country ...
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Workflow Automation: What AI Agents Bring to n8n - | Golem.de: The n8n platform is currently receiving a lot of attention - | because of AI agents ...
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Life in Gaza: First we lost the mirrors, then the connection to ourselves: The fighting in the Gaza Strip has robbed Rami Abu Reda not only of his home ...
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China impresses with rapid AI adoption and open models: In the global AI race, China is focusing on openness rather than isolation, thus bringing movement into a ...
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Google Japan builds keyboard with rotary dials - | and makes the blueprints available free of charge
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Testkube: Test orchestration on Kubernetes - | Golem.de: If you want to test your container applications or your Kubernetes | or Openshift cluster ...
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Paid articlePaywallAI shock from China! Ant Group attacks OpenAI and DeepSeek - | but Alibaba shares are still under pressure
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