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.
OPEN-SOURCE
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 is the commoditization of AI happening in real-time. When trillion-parameter agentic intelligence becomes available at commodity prices, the game changes overnight.
ROBOT
The democratization of robotics just hit a price point that changes everything.
OPEN-SOURCE
PewDiePie, the Swedish creator who built YouTube's biggest individual following by screaming at video games, just delivered one of the most impactful privacy tutorials of 2025. And he did it while wearing a tinfoil hat.
BLOCKCHAIN
The crypto community rallies behind Roman Storm as the US government escalates its war on financial privacy
OPEN-SOURCE
The most important mobile security project you've likely never heard of is under attack not from hackers or governments, but from Google itself. GrapheneOS just revealed how Big Tech is systematically dismantling open source Android while their lead developer fights a war.
AI
An investigation into the Trump administration's partnership with Peter Thiel's Palantir to create unprecedented surveillance infrastructure and how decentralized AI could be our last defense against digital authoritarianism
CULTURE
Ross Ulbricht walked out of prison after 11 years with nothing but the clothes on his back. Within months, he'd become a Bitcoin millionaire again not from government compensation, but from the crypto community rallying around him like he was their prodigal son returning home.
DECENTRALIZATION
While OpenAI and Anthropic fight over who can build the most restrictive walled garden, a team of AI rebels has quietly assembled the digital equivalent of a nuclear arsenal in plain sight.
DECENTRALIZATION
While Silicon Valley mega-corps and secretive government labs fight for AI supremacy, Prime Intellect just dropped a reality check: a 32B parameter language model trained entirely through globally distributed reinforcement learning. No massive data centers required. Their newly released INTELLECT-2 isn't just another large language model – it'
OPEN-SOURCE
Has NASA been OSS pilled?
OPEN-SOURCE
The corporate-political machine thrives on information asymmetry. They know what they're pumping into the air; you don't. They have access to internal emissions data; you don't. They can afford teams of lawyers and PR specialists to obfuscate responsibility; you can't.