OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...

Microsoft promises all-in-one database wrangling hub on Fabric

With the vendor's Fabric data platform, Database Hub promises a single location for engineers to manage a range of common database services, including Azure SQL Server, multi-model system Azure Cosmos ...

APT28 hackers deploy customized variant of Covenant open-source tool

The Russian state-sponsored APT28 threat group is using a custom variant of the open-source Covenant post-exploitation ...
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Johns Hopkins Investigators Create Open Source Database to More Easily Study Cancer

Open source AstroID database from @hopkinskimmel, @JohnsHopkins allows researchers anywhere to study multiple types of cancer data in one setting. › Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer ...
GitHub

Accomplish – open-source Al coworker that lives on your desktop

Accomplish is an open source AI desktop agent that automates file management, document creation, and browser tasks locally on your machine. Bring your own API keys (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI) or ...
The Conversation

How Homeland Security’s subpoenas and databases of protesters threaten the ‘uninhibited, robust, and wide‑open’ free speech protected by Supreme Court precedent

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