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The latest developments from the open source community, pulled from other sources — the Open Source Initiative, the GitHub Blog, and Hacker News. Each story is written by, and belongs to, its original source; click through to read it there. The Last Page does not author or edit this content.

GitHub Blog: Open Source

OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.

OpenClaw is the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Peter Steinberger and several maintainers share what they learned in the project's first six months. The post OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building ...
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Open Source Initiative

OSI Governance Survey

We invite the Open Source community to participate in the OSI Governance Survey and help inform the future of OSI’s governance.
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GitHub Blog: Open Source

What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era

See how the open source projects in Session 4 of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund combined AI-assisted workflows, maintainer expertise, GitHub security tools, expert guidance, and funding to improve project security. ...
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Open Source Initiative

Why Openness Matters More Than Ever

Members Newsletter – August 2026: Every model making headlines today, open or closed, sits on top of Open Source code, runs on Open Source infrastructure, and is based on openly shared research. That's not sentiment, it'...
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Open Source Initiative

EU AI Act and CRA: Timelines and Resources

Over the last month, the EU has passed two milestones in implementing its Cyber Resilience (CRA) and AI acts. The OSI has been engaged with European policymakers over the past two years to ensure those laws don’t inadver...
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Open Source Initiative

The AI Era Arcs Toward Openness

A surge of openness in AI has defined 2026. Amid calls for both caution and support, prevailing trends point to a future in which models are built and released openly. Recent research offers new insight into the adoption...
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GitHub Blog: Open Source

Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project?

AI contributors are already in your queue. AutoGPT maintainer Nicholas Tindle shares the repo instructions, gates, and boundaries that keep maintainers in control. The post Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your pro...
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Open Source Initiative

Preliminary agenda announced for the Open Technology Research Symposium 2026

Open Technology Research Symposium 2026 releases preliminary agenda. The event takes place on 26 and 27 October 2026 at the University of Barcelona during Barcelona Open Tech Week
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GitHub Blog: Open Source

Don’t stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed

How a branch-free loop and byte-space arithmetic let GitHub case-fold every byte of code search at >45 GiB/s on a single core. The post Don’t stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed appeared first on T...
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Open Source Initiative

Openness Made All of This Possible

Every AI system in the headlines today, whether proprietary or Open Source, exists because researchers shared their work openly. That openly shared research produced Open Source software: the frameworks used to train the...
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GitHub Blog: Open Source

$100 million for open source: A milestone built by the community

Celebrating $100 million contributed by the community to the people who build and sustain open source every day. The post $100 million for open source: A milestone built by the community appeared first on The GitHub Blog...
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GitHub Blog: Open Source

6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week

These six free settings will not make your project unhackable. Nothing will. What they will do is close the easy doors. Turn these on, and your project will be meaningfully harder to attack than it was before. The post 6...
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