DATA CENTERS
Half the Internet Just Broke
Half the internet just broke because one company had a DNS problem in one datacenter. That's not acceptable for systems billions of people depend on daily.
Philip Gjørup
Philip Gjørup is Co-Founder and Editor-In-Chief of Open Source Press, covering the intersection of open technology and decentralization. Send tips through Signal to philip.353 or Session ID: phil.
PREDICTION MARKETS
Polymarket Isn’t Predicting the Future. It’s Liquidating Uncertainty.
Polymarket hit 95.2% accuracy in the last four hours. Not over a week. Not over cherry-picked markets. Four hours. Across all resolved prediction markets. "World record," tweeted Atlantislq. "No media in history ever hit that accuracy. 91.1% accuracy over a month, do you realize how
MESSAGING APPS
Jack Dorsey Says Signal Should Adopt Bitcoin. He’s Half Right.
Signal should use Bitcoin and or Monero
OPEN-SOURCE
The Evolutionary Arms Race Against Deepfakes
Deepfake fraud has hit nearly $900M in 2025, with AI tools like Sora 2 fueling the chaos. BitMind's GAS fights back using decentralized AI that evolves through open competition. Achieving 98% accuracy on some models, it's a scalable solution to restore trust in digital media.
AI
Gatekeeping Is Bad
"Winning was never in the set of possible outcomes for Anthropic." - Elon Musk
AI
One Does Not Simply... Wait, Templar Just Did: 70B AI Storms Big Tech's Mordor
The banners are raised, as Templar put it. The campaign has begun. And Big Tech's monopoly on frontier AI development just became a lot less certain.
CULTURE
When Governments Cut the Wires, Freedom Tech Becomes a Lifeline
The pattern is becoming impossible to ignore. When governments face protests, their first instinct is to cut communication channels. Ban social media. Shut down the internet. Control the narrative by controlling the pipes. But protesters are adapting faster than authoritarian playbooks can keep up.
AI
How a 21-Year-Old Just Fucking Destroyed Silicon Valley's $100 Billion AI Empire
Silicon Valley's $100 billion AI bluff just got called by a $650,000 decentralized network. And that's only the beginning of what's coming.
OPEN-SOURCE
Microsoft Just Killed GitHub's Independence as Open Source AI Is Pulling Away
Microsoft is essentially playing chess while everyone else plays checkers. They've created a situation where they profit from open source AI development through GitHub while simultaneously controlling the platform that development depends on.
BLOCKCHAIN
They Convicted Roman Storm for Code They Don't Understand
Technology should be judged by its capabilities and legitimate uses, not by its worst-case applications. We don't ban cars because bank robbers use getaway vehicles. We don't criminalize mathematics because cryptography can hide criminal communications.
OPEN-SOURCE
The App That Works When Everything Else Fails
Bitchat works when everything else fails. No internet, no cell towers, no servers just Bluetooth mesh networks that get stronger as more people join. What started as Jack Dorsey's weekend coding session became the communication tool refugees and disaster victims need.
AI
Kimi K2 Just Dropped and It's Already Breaking the AI Market
Kimi K2 is the commoditization of AI happening in real-time. When trillion-parameter agentic intelligence becomes available at commodity prices, the game changes overnight.