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At the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, President Xi Jinping said China would spearhead artificial-intelligence cooperation among the bloc's developing economies, including creating an open-source AI community, sharing large language model development, and running training seminars. He also proposed a digital ecosystem cloud platform, an engineer cultivation alliance, and a youth exchange program focused on scientific innovation.
RevenueOS is a new open-source system that connects to a business's website, ads, leads and email to identify revenue-losing issues and propose fixes. It only executes changes—like site fixes, pausing ad campaigns, or sending emails—after explicit user approval, and only charges once the results are measured and agreed upon. A local demo command lets users test it on any site without creating an account or storing data.
A new open-source project called Algo-Trading-Skills packages 501 reference implementations covering algorithmic trading engineering, spanning 16 technical domains and five regulatory/exchange frameworks. Each skill is backed by unit tests (over 20,000 total) and follows the agentskills.io SKILL.md standard, making it usable by Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex CLI, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and similar tools. It's released under Apache 2.0 and explicitly framed as engineering guidance, not financial or compliance advice.
Switzerland's Federal Chancellery is spending 9 million Swiss francs to move 3,000 government workstations off Microsoft 365 tools like Outlook and Teams, adopting the open-source openDesk suite instead. The decision follows a successful pilot program called PoC BOSS, which tested the software with 172 federal employees who found it workable for standard office tasks, though large-scale video conferencing showed some limitations. The rollout is planned to be complete by the end of 2027, with potential to expand further across the federal workforce.
An open-source maintainer describes receiving an extortion attempt disguised as a bulk vulnerability report—95 claimed flaws, only two or three real—followed by a $100,000 ransom demand threatening public disclosure. He argues this scenario foreshadows a legal reality coming for far more companies: starting September 11, 2026, the EU Cyber Resilience Act requires any manufacturer selling connected products into the EU to notify ENISA within 24 hours of learning that a vulnerability in their product is being actively exploited.
Following a proof-of-concept with 172 employees, Switzerland's Federal Council has expanded testing of the German open-source suite openDesk to 3,000 government workstations, about 7% of the federal workforce. The pilot, running alongside Microsoft 365, aims for full migration by end of 2027, while the country's Cyber Command plans to fully replace Microsoft 365 with openDesk by October 2026.
A Tinybird engineer who has operated ClickHouse clusters since version 18.4 nearly six years ago published a detailed retrospective on running the database at petabyte scale. The post walks through the standard shard-and-replica architecture ClickHouse recommends and highlights the operational pitfalls that only surface once a cluster is running in production. Tinybird notes it is an independent contributor to the open-source project and unaffiliated with ClickHouse, Inc.
The Swiss Federal Chancellery is spending CHF 9 million to test the openDesk open-source suite as a replacement for Microsoft 365 across 3,000 federal employees, roughly 7% of the workforce, with migration targeted for completion by end of 2027. The pilot follows a proof-of-concept with 172 employees that rated document editing and email positively but flagged limitations in large-scale video conferencing, and it will run alongside Microsoft 365 rather than replace it immediately.
D2, previously funded as an open-core project by a for-profit company that developed a closed-source IDE and proprietary layout algorithm, is transitioning to independent non-profit status under Hack Club's fiscal sponsorship as the parent company shuts down. Creator Alex will continue maintaining D2 but with reduced time commitment, and is seeking new maintainers who could be paid through donation-funded contracts.
Nitter and XCancel, alternative front-ends for viewing X (formerly Twitter) content, have resumed operating after briefly going offline. The shutdown followed cease-and-desist letters X Corp. sent on 24 August 2026 demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and its code repository.
A developer released Kadō, a free and open-source (MIT license) habit tracker for iPhone and iPad built entirely with native Apple technologies like SwiftUI and SwiftData. Instead of a binary streak counter, it calculates a non-binary habit score using an exponential moving average, an approach borrowed from Android's Loop Habit Tracker, so a single missed day doesn't erase progress. The app requires no account, has no subscription or telemetry, stores data locally, and offers optional iCloud sync plus lossless JSON/CSV export.
Chrono is a free, open-source Android alarm and clock app that offers more customization than Google's or Samsung's default Clock apps, including dark mode, Material styling, alarm tagging, and time-of-day icons. It isn't listed on the Google Play Store, so users must sideload it manually to install and update it.