Open security and OffSec projects - Negative PID

Security research is one of the areas where open source has had the deepest and most complex impact. Tools built openly are used to defend critical

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The origins of open source culture - Negative PID

Today, open source spans every continent and underpins most of the world’s online infrastructure. What began as a small academic and hobbyist practice grew

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Open security and OffSec projects - Negative PID

Security research is one of the areas where open source has had the deepest and most complex impact. Tools built openly are used to defend critical

Negative PID
The origins of open source culture - Negative PID

Today, open source spans every continent and underpins most of the world’s online infrastructure. What began as a small academic and hobbyist practice grew

Negative PID

We have wrapped up the two successful days of #fossbackstage -
#EOSAwards consortium with Nicholas Gates(@OpenForumEurope ) leading two talks on #opensource in #localgovernment and #european sovereign tech fund.

#foss #opensource #fossbackstage #beyondcode #opensourceprojects #networking #opensourcecommunity #sovereigntechfund #governance

🚀💩 Just in: a groundbreaking study reveals that Cursor AI boosts short-term speed but also breeds "long-term complexity" in open source projects. In other words, it's like turbo-charging your car with a blender... sure, it moves fast, but good luck making any sense of it! 🍹🔧
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04427 #CursorAI #ShortTermSpeed #LongTermComplexity #OpenSourceProjects #TechInnovation #HackerNews #ngated
Speed at the Cost of Quality: How Cursor AI Increases Short-Term Velocity and Long-Term Complexity in Open-Source Projects

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the promise to revolutionize the field of software engineering. Among other things, LLM agents are rapidly gaining momentum in software development, with practitioners reporting a multifold increase in productivity after adoption. Yet, empirical evidence is lacking around these claims. In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of adopting a widely popular LLM agent assistant, namely Cursor, on development velocity and software quality. The estimation is enabled by a state-of-the-art difference-in-differences design comparing Cursor-adopting GitHub projects with a matched control group of similar GitHub projects that do not use Cursor. We find that the adoption of Cursor leads to a statistically significant, large, but transient increase in project-level development velocity, along with a substantial and persistent increase in static analysis warnings and code complexity. Further panel generalized-method-of-moments estimation reveals that increases in static analysis warnings and code complexity are major factors driving long-term velocity slowdown. Our study identifies quality assurance as a major bottleneck for early Cursor adopters and calls for it to be a first-class citizen in the design of agentic AI coding tools and AI-driven workflows.

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Top 50 Open Source Conferences in 2026 - Open Source Initiative

The top 50+ Open Source conferences of 2026 that the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is tracking, including events that intersect with AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and policy.

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Design & Documentation Clinics at FOSDEM Fringe 2026

Is your project:
- Hard for newcomers to understand?
- Struggling with inconsistent UI/UX?
- Lacking visual identity?

Good design and documentation are vital for project growth. We'll review your UX, provide feedback, and connect you with collaborators.

Register: https://luma.com/et4k9ivw

#OpenSource #FOSDEM #ProjectMaintenance #OpenSourceProjects
#OpenDesign #FOSDEMFringe
#OpenCollaboration

FOSS Design & Documentation Clinic · Luma

We are planning to go through Best Practices for Documentation and Design for Open Source projects, have an introduction to projects that are interested in…

@SuperDicq @Vivaldi
“I really hope they change this policy and publish the full source code at some point. Because if they do Vivaldi can actually start hanging out with the big boys like Firefox or Chromium.”

#Vivaldi's answer on this: “But, the way we see it, Vivaldi is more than just its code. It is our brand, with associated trademarks we have to protect. This means any fork needs to be branded as a different product.

And this new product then would become an immediate competitor without putting any significant technical work to reach that status.”
https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/#:~:text=But%2C%20the%20way,reach%20that%20status.

“a very small, but important part of the codebase.”
That's the whole point of it

And yes, this can be done very easily, but, as they said, there's no coming-back. They don't only have to think about the ease of doing something, but also about it's (long-term) consequences.

#VivaldiBrowser #VivaldiTechnologies #Vivaldi #VivaldiBrowser #VivaldiTechnologies #Vivaldi #browser #browsers #mobileApp #AndroidApp #dataCollection #identification #browser_identification #privacy #dataPrivacy #privacyMatters #FOSS #openSource #openSourceProject #openSourceProjects #checkYourself #codeSource #software

Why isn’t Vivaldi browser open-source? | Vivaldi Browser

People involved in the open-source community often ask us why Vivaldi browser isn’t fully open-source. In this post, we’ll explore and explain our position.

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Source | Vivaldi Browser

View the source code for past versions of the Vivaldi browser.

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