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Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects

The Verge

A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “ faker.js ” and “ colors.js ” — that thousands of users depend on, rendering any project that contains these libraries useless, as reported by Bleeping Computer. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Desktop Productivity

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using this tool since it actually was StarOffice, more than 10 years ago, when it was first open sourced by Sun in 2000. It reads and writes all MS Office formats (except for Access files.) (funnily enough, for both packages, the executable is still called ‘soffice’ – for ‘Star Office.’).

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Kestra is an open-source data orchestration platform for complex workflows

TechCrunch

Meet Kestra, a startup that has been working on an open-source project focused on data orchestration across several services, databases, files, repositories and warehouses. But first, why would you need a […]

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DeepSeek open-sources file system, claims it runs AI models faster and more efficiently

TechSpot

Last week, DeepSeek released five of its most advanced software repositories during its "Open Source Week" event. The Chinese AI firm unveiled a Linux-based file system it.

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PDFsam lets you perform all types of PDF file manipulation for free

TechSpot

With PDFsam Basic you can convert, merge, split or extract pages from PDF files and more. It is open source and available for Windows, macOS and Linux.

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Speckle snags $5.5M seed to build open source platform for 3D drawings

TechCrunch

It enabled them to see and understand firsthand the issues associated with exchanging large proprietary 3D files from vendors like Autodesk and Trimble. They wanted to make it easier by building an open source platform to exchange and collaborate on these files.

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Free and open source tool #3: Dokuwiki

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #3: Dokuwiki January 15, 2008 I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. It’s a great replacement for text or word processing files. Be Helpful.