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2026-10-11 Sun

评论普遍担忧Bitwarden转向商业许可,认为这是开源项目被风投裹挟的“恶化”信号,但也有人认为只要源码仍开放、自托管可行,影响有限。

Bitwarden is introducing a dual-licensing model. Starting with the next release, official app store builds will use a commercial license, while GPLv3 versions remain available on GitHub. According to Bitwarden: Existing features remain available in both versions. Self-hosting and forking remain supported. Future features may be exclusive to commercially licensed builds. The free plan remains unchanged. The main concern for me (and probably others in this community) is the potential divergence be

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An 11MB local model for typed decisions in one pass Discussion | Link

I remember hearing a while ago that Dwarf Fortress didn't use version control. That fact has been lodged in my head, because given its inherent complexity I have trouble imagining a codebase that would benefit from version control more . That's art. I went looking and I'm sad to report that the days without version control appear to have ended. Quoting Tarn Adams over time: March 2013: "I don't use version control -- I didn't like the feeling of having the code get committed into a black box thi

2026-10-10 Sat

Blog Post : ML Drift: Next-Gen GPU AI/ML Inference at the Edge - Google Developers Blog The Google AI Edge Team is excited to announce the open-source release of ML Drift , our high-performance, cross-platform, on-device GPU compute engine specifically built for on-device AI/ML inference, under the Apache 2.0 license. By abstracting hardware and low-level API complexities of on-device GPUs across OpenGL ES, OpenCL, Metal, and WebGPU, ML Drift empowers developers to build real-time, interactive M

Demo: Link: So after 4 or 5 months of pretty heavy development - I'm barely going back to Gmail, so I think it's time to get some users and with that some feature requests and bugreports 😄 AI First things first: I am Symfony/Webdev for over 10 years. I've started this project with a selfcoded base but fairly quickly leaned more and more into claude code. If you dont feel comfortable with that, I understand, but really cant help you. Motivation Gmail crippled "gmailify" a while ago - external ema

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Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, create and edit images in just 8 denoising steps! Open weights now available! Built on Qwen-Image-2.1, Turbo is an accelerated checkpoint on the same 7B visual generation architecture. Fewer steps does not mean lower quality: it still generates strong 2K images from text, and supports continued creation through natural-language edits, from adding accessories to changing a scene. Start directly with Diffusers: load QwenImage21Pipeline and the checkpoint’s recommended 8-step

Youtu-Parsing-Omni is a compact (5B) omni-modal parsing model. Given a single input — a document page, a natural image, a chart / flowchart, a geometry figure, an audio clip or an audio-visual video — it produces one structured JSON envelope that covers both perception (layout elements, text, tables, formulas, bounding boxes, timestamps, ASR, OCR, acoustic events, camera motion) and cognition (captions, narratives, reports). The output family is selected by the task prompt ( --task in the exampl

Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an accelerated checkpoint of its open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 model. It generates and edits images in 8 denoising steps instead of the base model’s 40-step default. For developers, that means 5x fewer denoising steps on the same 7B architecture, plus a hosted API option. TL;DR What is Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo? Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo is an […] The post Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an 8-Step 7B Image Model appeared first on MarkTechPost

2026-10-09 Fri

Anthropic's offering to help open-source projects track down security vulnerabilities with a new service called OSS Scanner. It says open-source projects that opt-in will get "thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost." That could mean open-source projects get alerted about possible security issues sooner, but the trade-off is that OSS Scanner's […]

Perplexity's pplx-embed-v2-late comes in 2 sizes: a 0.6B model built to run on edge devices, and a 9B model for building high-quality indexes. Its best score is 92.4% on MADQA, and its weakest is 61.2% on ViDoRe v3 Markdown. Both are MIT-licensed and ready to self-host. The post Perplexity AI Releases pplx-embed-v2-late: A 0.6B Edge Model and a 9B Model Scoring 92.4% on MADQA appeared first on MarkTechPost .

Hi all, a bunch of performance improvements have been landed in audio.cpp. The biggest highlight is Higgs Audio TTS, which now runs with around 6 GB VRAM , a 48% reduction in peak memory usage compared to the previous implementation. Thanks to We also made some models significantly faster, especially HTDemucs on GPU and PocketTTS on CPU. No compromises in parity and correctness. Here's a summary of the improvements: Model Peak memory reduction Speedup Higgs Audio TTS 48% VRAM 1.01–1.09× CUDA ACE

Hey everyone, Jovan from UkisAI (Swift Qwen) here! For those who don't know us, UkisAI is a small lab making tiny frontier LLMs, tools and datasets (+doing it open-source!). I'm one of the guys running it aka I train the models and post on Reddit. Our first open-source release is Swift, a series of reasoning-efficient LLMs. It is proof of how penalizing pathological overthinking patterns inside of various LLMs can bring their token usage down -58.3% and speed x1.95 without losing accuracy if RL-

2026-10-08 Thu

Liquid AI has released Open d1, two open-weight multimodal models in its d1 decision model family. d1-3B reads text and images. d1-omni-600M reads text with an image, or text with audio. Neither model writes text. Each returns calibrated, typed answers in one forward pass with zero output tokens. The target is real-time decisions on the […] The post Liquid AI Releases Open-Weight d1-3B and d1-omni-600M: Multimodal Decision Models With Zero Output Tokens appeared first on MarkTechPost .

Hi HN, we're Thomas and Olivier from Terse ( ) We've built Durable Actors, an open-source alternative to Cloudflare's Durable Objects. A Durable Object/Actor is a tiny server that handles one request at a time and has its own SQLite database. There's exactly one of each in the world and it is addressed by name. This is the perfect primitive for deploying multiplayer agents. Each agent can have its own Durable Actor, and each user can connect to that Actor via websocket. This is fully horizontall

Explore a comprehensive coding guide to Laya, the open-source zero-shot decision engine. Learn how to implement typed decisions, fit custom temperatures, and build reliable abstention gates using real-world CLINC150 banking data. The post A Developer’s Guide to Laya: Zero-Shot Decisions and Calibration appeared first on MarkTechPost .

Hey Pocket-ID Dev-Team, Hey stonith404 , I just wanted to say thank you for your work. After a couple of months of intensive use, I have to say: Pocket ID is the service that makes using my self-hosted apps so much easier and more comfortable. I came across Pocket ID while searching for an encrypted file transfer service, and I've been following its development ever since. In the beginning, I didn't have much trust that a young developer could build secure and reliable software. Back then, I did

I’ve been pushing TinyStories-style models downward in size, and this is the smallest one so far: MacroStories — 19,969 parameters, 81 KB FP32 For scale: → ~50× smaller than the 1M TinyStories model → ~3,000× smaller than AlexNet → 32-dim hidden state → 378-token vocabulary → one decoder block, recurrently applied 4 times with shared weights It’s obviously not a general-purpose LM, but within its constrained story distribution it can maintain a 100–300 word narrative with a goal, problem, releva

2026-10-07 Wed

EmbeddingGemma 2 is an open multimodal embedding model built by Google DeepMind which maps text (incl. code), images, video, and audio inputs—and combinations thereof—into a single, unified 768-dimensional vector space. The model has 740M total parameters, combining a 270M parameter text model with modular vision (170M) and audio (300M) encoders. Designed to run on consumer hardware such as mobile devices and laptops, EmbeddingGemma 2 delivers low-latency semantic representations for on-device a

My comment on EmbeddingGemma 2 — Hacker News. I really appreciate that EmbeddingGemma 2 is under the Apache 2.0 license. For embedding models in particular, I don't think it makes sense to use a closed, proprietary, hosted-only model. Most applications of embedding models involve calculating thousands or even millions of embedding vectors and storing them for later comparison. If your model is proprietary, the vendor is likely someday going to decide to stop offering that model. They'll have a b

Octop is an open-source, self-hosted AI assistant. Through its multi-agent architecture, it builds an intelligent environment that is both independent and collaborative for teams, families, and individuals. Best of all, it runs entirely on your machine, the fully self-hosted design means privacy is never a compromise, while single-process startup makes the powerful web console, CLI, and IM integrations readily accessible. Surfaces: - Web dashboard — chat, experts / teams, connectors, channels, c

EmbeddingGemma 2 is an open multimodal embedding model built by Google DeepMind which maps text (incl. code), images, video, and audio inputs—and combinations thereof—into a single, unified 768-dimensional vector space. The model has 740M total parameters, combining a 270M parameter text model with modular vision (170M) and audio (300M) encoders. Designed to run on consumer hardware such as mobile devices and laptops, EmbeddingGemma 2 delivers low-latency semantic representations for on-device a

I spent the last few weeks on a hobby research project and just made it public. The idea isn't new (product-key memory, Lample et al. 2019, and Meta's "Memory Layers at Scale"): give a model a huge table of learned vectors and let it read only a few hundred of them per token. I wanted to know what that's actually worth on a small model, what it costs, and whether the table even has to sit in VRAM. What came out: - A 21M model with a 16.8M-row table (6.4B parameters in the table, 33M used per tok

I am a developer of a popular photo editor that runs in a web browser. Many people are asking AI models to take the Javascript code from my website, remove all ads from it, and they publish such a "new product" on Github for everyone to download. There exist tens of such repositories on Github. I want my website to be the only source of a stable version of my program Photopea. I even received emails from people complaining about something in Photopea, and it took several emails to figure out tha

Im a security engineer and i built mailaccess. When i started learning pentesting, i came across multiple lectures and notes of people listing out tools and websites, which gives the emails for a particular domain, and almost all of them mentioned that the tool might not stick, so its better to learn the methodology, rather than learning a tool- that stuck with me. As i was beginning to really get into pentesting i noticed a clear lack of email osint methodology through the tool itself - so i th

Release: datasette-atom 0.11a0 A minor fix for compatibility with the latest Datasette alphas. This meant we could upgrade the datasette.io site to Datasette 1.0a41. Tags: atom , datasette

I want to selfhost a password manager. I wanted to go with vaultwarden. But now i read about bitwarden lite, which is the official lite version. How likely/how often did in the past happend that bitwarden released a breaking change to the app/clients so that vaultwarden needed first an update? Did you swap to bitwarden lite after the release? Im using pangolin to tunnel to my local machine. If this matters in anyway or form

2026-10-06 Tue

Reflection AI has introduced Beam, its first open-weight model. It is a 501B sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 23B active parameters, built for coding and agentic work. Reflection says it matches GLM-5.2 on reasoning with 3 to 4x less inference compute. Apache 2.0 weights are due later in October 2026. The post Reflection AI Introduces Beam: A 501B Open-Weight MoE Model With 23B Active Parameters for Coding and Agentic Workloads appeared first on MarkTechPost .

Hey all. We've spent the last weeks getting Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B MoE, 6B active) to run properly on one AMD Strix Halo box (Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128 GB). Tonight we're releasing both the 95 GB EXL3 weights and a new version of Kyojin, our inference engine (built on ExLlamaV3, open). This is a first version, same as our GLM-5.3-Flash and MiMo-V2.6-Flash builds. We'd rather ship it and improve it in the open: speed and quality updates are coming for all three. Numbers, all from a fresh clone and

Hi r/LocalLLaMA . I'm on the team at Blockway, a small team in Hong Kong (disclosure: this is our model). Today we released Agens Volundr 32B Preview, the first model built on our own hybrid architecture. We trained it on limited compute, it isn't perfect, and we'd rather tell you where it falls short up front. WHY WE BUILT IT Our customers run models on their own machines. At long context, the KV cache, not the weights, decides what fits. So we designed a model where most layers don't keep one.

Hey all, we designed Cactus Whistle, an ASR model for ultra-small devices. It's not perfect, but mostly beats Whisper base with 9x less file size and 6x speed. Whistle supports English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Polish. Remember, the goal at Cactus Compute isn't to achieve SOTA with scale, but to compress intelligence and bring them to smaller under-looked devices like budget phones, wearables, smart home and microcontrollers. Whistle is 55m params (36m active) and CQ2bit quant

Alibaba's Qwen went from an invite-only chatbot in April 2023 to a 2.4-trillion-parameter open-weight model in August 2026. This is the full story, release by release: every major model, its key feature, and how its license changed. Each claim links to its source. The post The Story of Qwen: Alibaba’s AI Models From 7B to 2.4T appeared first on MarkTechPost .

TinyDecide is 10M Jev-like mode with 10M parameters and fits in just ~6MB. Smaller than every model on the Decision Index leaderboard and it punches way above its size . It runs almost anywhere: in the browser, Node.js, Python, Rust, and even on an ESP32.

2026-10-05 Mon

Index-Translate is a family of multilingual translation models built on Qwen3.5. The text models cover 150 languages and follow translation instructions such as terminology, formatting, and content-preservation requirements. The family extends this foundation to speech, syllable-controlled translation, and full-document translation. -Index-Translate translates text, structured content, and community expressions. -Index-Echo produces translated subtitles or speech conditioned on the source speake

Been playing around with local TTS with Breeze combined with STT, and the results are amazing. Using Opus 5.5, I can hear the first sound after 500ms if there is no thinking involved, and with thinking on low mode, can be 1-1.5s. I'm using a BLE remote (the kind that are used for taking pics with phones) combined with a wireless microphone. So I can just sit on the couch, and just talk to her. She watches for any claude session that finishes, and sends me the results in a very short, spoken styl

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