Tag: ai
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HacktoberFest 2025!
Hacktoberfest 2025: Contribute to Open Source! October means Hacktoberfest—the global celebration of open source. Organized by DigitalOcean and partners, this event encourages developers to contribute to projects they use and support. (VanLUG thanks our Event Sponsor, Z-Space Vancouver! Co-working spaces where Art and Technology meet. Follow them here.) Open source thrives on collaboration. In 2024,…
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‘Apertus’ AI from the Swiss
Switzerland Launches Apertus: One of Europe’s Largest Open Source AI Models European alternative to Big Tech AI developed by Swiss organizations Over the past year, Big Tech’s control over AI development has tightened significantly. OpenAI has restricted API access for researchers, Google has limited model customization, and Meta has imposed stricter usage terms on its…
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Finding a Linux Vulnerability with ChatGPT
How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation by Sean Heelan In this post I’ll show you how I found a zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel using OpenAI’s o3 model. I found the vulnerability with nothing more complicated than the o3 API – no scaffolding, no…
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IBM contributes projects to Linux Foundation for AI
IBM is contributing 3 open-source projects—Docling, Data Prep Kit and BeeAI—to the Linux Foundation. This move signals not only the potential growth of these projects but also IBM’s ongoing commitment to open-source AI. “We’re continuing our long history of contributing open-source projects to ensure that they’re easy to consume and that it’s easy for others—not…
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Alt version to ‘DeepResearch’
In a testament to the rapid advancements in the AI market, a team at Hugging Face has successfully replicated OpenAI’s Deep Research agent, which was released earlier this week. The new open-source initiative, named Open DeepResearch, has already matched the performance benchmarks of OpenAI’s product at a significantly lower cost. What is Deep Research? Deep…
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StackOverflow Traffic Slows
Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant?Fresh data shows that the number of questions asked on StackOverflow are as low as they were back in 2009 – which was when StackOverflow was one years old. The volume of questions asked on StackOverflow started to fall quickly after ChatGPT was released in November 2022, and the drop continues…
