Accessible Math Comes to PDF: PDF 2.0 enables fully-accessible STEM content

PDFs with accessible mathematics have reached a practical turning point. For the first time, complex equations embedded in PDF documents can be navigated, spoken, and rendered in braille by assistive ...
MIT Technology Review

What’s next for Chinese open-source AI

Chinese open models are spreading fast, from Hugging Face to Silicon Valley. Here’s why that matters. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to ...
Engadget

X's 'open source' algorithm isn't a win for transparency, researchers say

The X logo appears on a smartphone screen. (Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (NurPhoto via Getty Images) When X's engineering team published the code that powers the platform's ...
Nature

Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right

Researchers have published the recipe for an artificial-intelligence model that reviews the scientific literature better than some major large language models (LLMs) are able to, and gets the ...
CoinDesk

Bitcoin miners get an open-source alternative as Tether launches MiningOS

Tether has released an open-source operating system for bitcoin mining, pitching it as a way to make running mining infrastructure simpler while reducing reliance on closed, vendor-controlled software ...
Bitcoin Magazine

Tether Launches Open-Source Bitcoin Mining Operating System

Tether has unveiled MiningOS (MOS) as part of a broader push to reduce the industry’s reliance on proprietary, vendor-controlled software. Tether has open-sourced a new operating system for bitcoin ...
LinuxInsider

Weaponized Python and Linux Malware Target Executives and Cloud Systems

Two newly uncovered malware campaigns are exploiting open-source software across Windows and Linux environments to target enterprise executives and cloud systems, signaling a sharp escalation in both ...
Reuters

Open-source AI models vulnerable to criminal misuse, researchers warn

Thousands of servers run open-source LLMs outside major AI platforms security controls, researchers say Researchers identify removed guardrails in hundreds of open-source LLM instances LLMs can be ...
Computerworld

New PDF compression filter will save space, need software updates

PDF readers and open-source libraries used in document processing will all need updating to handle the Brotli compression filter. Brotli is one of the most widely used but least-known compression ...
Yahoo

Hackers are now exploiting the safety of open-source apps to sideload malware, and on LinkedIn of all places

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Infosecurity-magazine.com

LinkedIn Phishing Campaign Exploits Open-Source Pen Testing Tool to Compromise Business Execs

A phishing link delivered via private messages on LinkedIn is exploiting a legitimate, open-source penetration testing tool in what cybersecurity analysts say is a campaign designed to distribute a ...