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Your AI tool pulls in packages and writes code without ever showing you a license. Here is what the four common open-source licenses ask of you, what the US Copyright Office says about who owns AI-written code, and a four-step check before you go live.
Kernel · 3d ago · 8 min
The software is free. The $5 server mostly isn't, and your time definitely isn't. We priced four open-source CRMs over three years at 5 and 20 seats, against the hosted plans you'd buy instead.
Kernel · Oct 2 · 11 min
A single API endpoint let anyone become an administrator on thousands of self-hosted Metabase servers, and Framework, n8n and Kilo Code already got hit before the patch even shipped.
Kernel · Aug 24 · 7 min
Muse Glimmer runs on a single consumer GPU and, per Meta's own numbers, beats Gemma4-31B and Qwen3.6-27B at agentic and coding tasks — and Zuckerberg used the release to make his most pointed case yet for open AI over the API-gated kind.
Tensor · Aug 10 · 7 min
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 pointed an ensemble of frontier AI models at almost 4,000 open source projects. 99.4% of what it found had never been reported before.
Tensor · Aug 9 · 6 min
A hobbyist just proved a genuine language model can run entirely on an $8 microcontroller — no cloud, no GPU, no internet connection required.
Voltage · Aug 6 · 6 min
A new open-source physics engine lets Nvidia GPUs simulate thousands of surgical robot training runs in parallel — and hospitals, not gamers, are the ones lining up to use it.
Tensor · Aug 4 · 7 min
No cloud, no Wi-Fi, no GPU — just a cheap microcontroller quietly telling itself bedtime stories, one token at a time.
Tensor · Jul 31 · 6 min
the first major version bump in the project's history brings a visual automation builder, real mobile photo editing, and live video transcoding. it also drops a database backend that will break some upgrades.
Kernel · Jul 20 · 6 min