PRESS RELEASE
Open Source Initiative Appoints Duane O’Brien as Executive Director
Veteran Open Source leader brings decades of experience advancing sustainability, collaboration and responsible participation across the Open Source ecosystem.
OPEN-SOURCE
OPEN-SOURCE
Hermes Agent Just Became the Fastest-Growing AI Agent in GitHub History
50,782 stars. 366 contributors. 46 days. Here's what's driving the numbers and why it matters.
AI
CURSOR SHIPPED KIMI K2.5 AS THEIR OWN MODEL. HERE'S HOW IT UNRAVELED
Within 24 hours of Cursor announcing Composer 2 as their "in-house" frontier model, a developer intercepting API traffic found the real model ID. Moonshot AI's head of pretraining confirmed the tokenizer match and publicly asked why their license wasn't respected and no fees were paid.
AI
Venice AI Launches Verifiable End-to-End Encryption
Venice AI introduces TEE and E2EE modes that make AI privacy cryptographically verifiable — turning trust into math and giving users proof, not promises.
AI
Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw: Why Developers Are Switching
A wave of developers on X are publicly switching from OpenClaw to Hermes Agent by Nous Research. Here's what's driving it — and whether it's the right move for you.
OPEN-SOURCE
Cake Wallet Adds Self-Custodial Lightning Support Designed for Everyday Users
Cake Wallet adds self-custodial Lightning support, enabling fast, private Bitcoin payments without channel management or losing control of funds.
DECENTRALIZATION
Why Half of New Darknet Markets Only Accept This Crypto
Monero’s rise isn’t a scandal; it’s proof that privacy-focused crypto works as intended. As darknet markets increasingly go XMR-only, the chain’s future promises near-perfect opacity, complicating investigations and challenging regulators.
OPEN-SOURCE
NASA’s ExoMiner++ Expands Search for New Worlds
In January NASA published a new open-source artificial intelligence tool that they developed and says it is helping scientists around the world accelerate the search for planets beyond our solar system, a field known as exoplanet discovery.
OPEN-SOURCE
A Microservice Architecture for Real-Time Data Collection
This article champions an event-driven microservice architecture to overcome the data lag of traditional monolithic, batch-processing systems in retail and finance.
OPEN-SOURCE
Open-Source Bio-Logger Offers New Window into Whale Communication
Open-source bio-logger from Harvard SEAS captures rich acoustic and behavioral data from free-swimming sperm whales, enabling ML-driven marine bioacoustics research and democratizing access for scientists worldwide.
PRIVACY
Cake Wallet Adds Zcash With Shielded Transactions by Default
Cake Wallet has integrated Zcash (ZEC) with shielded transactions enabled by default. This ensures all outgoing transactions originate from shielded addresses, concealing sender, receiver, and amounts for maximum privacy.
DECENTRALIZATION
Session: The Messenger Regimes Fear Most
Iran's regime blacked out the internet for 90M on Jan 8, 2026, targeting Session messenger with DNS spoofing. Decentralized, no-phone-number chats evaded control, proving why tyrants fear it.