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Cloudflare Demonstrates Moltworker, Bringing Self-Hosted AI Agents to the Edge
Cloudflare has introduced Moltworker, an open-source solution for running Moltbot—a self-hosted personal AI agent—on its Developer Platform, eliminating the need for local hardware, such as Mac minis. Rebranded from Clawdbot, Moltbot serves as a personal assistant in chat applications, integrating with AI models, browsers, and third-party tools while maintaining user control.
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Daggr Introduced as an Open-Source Python Library for Inspectable AI Workflows
The Gradio team has released Daggr, a new open-source Python library designed to simplify the construction and debugging of multi-step AI workflows. Daggr allows developers to define workflows programmatically in Python while automatically generating a visual canvas that exposes intermediate states, inputs, and outputs for each step in the pipeline.
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Chainguard Finds 98% of Container CVEs Lurking outside the Top 20 Images
The latest State of Trusted Open Source report from Chainguard gives details on current industry thinking about vulnerabilities in container images and the long tail of open-source dependencies. The report offers a data-driven view of production environments based on more than 1,800 container image projects and 10,100 vulnerability instances observed between September and November 2025.
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OpenEverest: Open Source Platform for Database Automation
Percona recently announced OpenEverest, an open-source platform for automated database provisioning and management that supports multiple database technologies. Launched initially as Percona Everest, OpenEverest can be hosted on any Kubernetes infrastructure, in the cloud, or on-premises.
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Swift Cross-Platform Framework Skip Now Fully Open Source
After three years of development, the team behind Skip, a solution designed to create iOS and Android apps from a single Swift/SwiftUI codebase, has announced their decision to make the product completely and open source, in order to foster adoption and community contribution.
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Cedar Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project
Cedar, an open-source policy language architected by AWS, has joined the CNCF as a Sandbox project. Designed for fine-grained application permissions, it decouples access control from code using a verifiable, high-performance policy engine. Cedar supports RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC, offering a secure, analyzable alternative to general-purpose tools like OPA.
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Expired Oracle Patent Opens Fast Sorting Algorithm to Open Source Databases
A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows how this 20-year-old approach can speed up sorting similar data and could make database systems faster and more efficient.
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OpenCost Looks Back on 2025 Milestones and Charts a Roadmap for 2026
The OpenCost project, an open-source cost and resource management tool hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), has published a year-in-review reflecting on its progress in 2025 and outlining priorities for 2026.
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European Initiative for Data Sovereignty Released a Trust Framework
The Danube release of the Gaia-X trust framework provides mechanisms for the automation of compliance and supports interoperability across sectors and geographies to ensure trusted data transactions and service interactions. The Gaia-X Summit 2025 hosted facilitated discussions on AI and data sovereignty, and presented data space solutions that support innovation across Europe and beyond.
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350PB, Millions of Events, One System: inside Uber’s Cross-Region Data Lake and Disaster Recovery
Uber’s HiveSync is a sharded, cross-region batch replication system keeping Hive/HDFS data consistent across multiple regions. Handling 5M daily Hive events and 8PB of data replication, it uses event-driven jobs, hybrid RPC and DistCp strategies, DAG-based orchestration, and dynamic sharding, enabling disaster recovery, horizontal scaling, and 99.99% cross-region data accuracy.
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Google Releases Gemma Scope 2 to Deepen Understanding of LLM Behavior
Gemma Scope 2 is a suite of tools designed to interpret the behavior of Gemini 3 models, enabling researchers to analyze emergent model behaviors, audit and debug AI agents, and devise mitigation strategies against security issues like jailbreaks, hallucinations and sycophancy.
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NVIDIA Releases Open Models, Datasets, and Tools across AI, Robotics, and Autonomous Driving
NVIDIA has released a set of open models, datasets, and development tools covering language, agentic systems, robotics, autonomous driving, and biomedical research. The update expands several existing NVIDIA model families and makes accompanying training data and reference implementations available through GitHub, Hugging Face, and NVIDIA’s developer platforms.
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Microsoft Research Develops Novel Approaches to Enforce Privacy in AI Models
A team of AI researchers at Microsoft introduces two novel approaches for enforcing contextual integrity in large language models: PrivacyChecker, an open-source lightweight module that acts as a privacy shield during inference, and CI-CoT + CI-RL, an advanced training method designed to teach models to reason about privacy.
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Open-Source Agent Sandbox Enables Secure Deployment of AI Agents on Kubernetes
The Agent Sandbox is an open-source Kubernetes controller that provides a declarative API for managing a single, stateful pod with stable identity and persistent storage. It is particularly well suited for creating isolated environments to execute untrusted, LLM-generated code, as well as for running other stateful workloads.
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MinIO GitHub Repository in Maintenance Mode: What's Next for the Open Source Object Storage?
After a contentious license change and the removal of administrator functionalities from the console, the company behind the popular open-source object storage server Minio recently announced that the project will now enter maintenance mode. The change has raised discussion in the community about the need for a fork, the challenges of open source projects, and the current alternatives.