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Dub.co is an open-source URL shortener and link attribution engine packed into one

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In the last few weeks, PayPal-owned Honey, which claims to find you the best coupon codes for a deal, has been at the center of controversy. Allegedly, the tool sneakily earned affiliate money by changing attributes of product links creators posted on their videos. At the center of it, the problem was how affiliate links […]

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Open source licenses: Everything you need to know

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Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless standalone applications. The benefits of open source software are well understood, promising greater control and transparency. However, there’s a perennial struggle between the open source and proprietary realms, leading

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Researchers open source Sky-T1, a ‘reasoning’ AI model that can be trained for less than $450

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So-called reasoning AI models are becoming easier — and cheaper — to develop. On Friday, NovaSky, a team of researchers based out of UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab, released Sky-T1-32B-Preview, a reasoning model that’s competitive with an earlier version of OpenAI’s o1 on a number of key benchmarks. Sky-T1 appears to be the first truly

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DeepSeek’s new AI model appears to be one of the best ‘open’ challengers yet

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A Chinese lab has created what appears to be one of the most powerful “open” AI models to date. The model, DeepSeek V3, was developed by the AI firm DeepSeek, and was released on Wednesday under a permissive license that allows developers to download and modify it for most applications, including commercial ones. DeepSeek V3

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Open source companies that go proprietary: A timeline

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Open source might be the building blocks of the modern software stack, but companies building businesses off the back of open source software face a perennial struggle between keeping their community happy and ensuring that third parties don’t abuse the permissions afforded by the license. Many companies have launched with lofty open source ambitions, only

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Microsoft debuts Phi-4, a new generative AI model, in research preview

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Microsoft has announced the newest addition to its Phi family of generative AI models. Called Phi-4, the model is improved in several areas over its predecessors, Microsoft claims — in particular math problem solving. That’s partly the result of improved training data quality. Phi-4 is available in very limited access as of Thursday night: only

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Linux Foundation sets up India entity to boost open source collaboration

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The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization promoting open source adoption, has announced the launch of its India entity. The organization is looking to promote open source contributions across the South Asian nation’s ecosystem of enterprises, startups, and the government. India already has 13.2 million developers using GitHub for their projects, per Microsoft. The country is

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Linux Foundation report highlights the true state of open-source libraries in production apps

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There are many metrics to track the prevalence of open-source components, such as GitHub stars and downloads, but they don’t paint the full picture of how they’re being used in production codebases. Census III of Free and Open Source Software: Application Libraries leans on more than 12 million data points from software composition analysis (SCA)

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