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Reflex’s Newly Open-Sourced XY Library Offers Faster Python Charting
A newly open-sourced Python charting library, called XY, from Reflex offers an advantage few other charting tools provide: massive scalability. The library rethinks how to render a set of points on the computer screen, and opens new possibilities for using charts in daily workflows. Most Python charting libraries today, such as Plotly, Bokeh, or Matplotlib, […]
Aug 13, 2026 · 3 minAll articles by Joab Jackson
Showing 1–9Open Source Code Just as Secure as Proprietary Software—If You Manage It Right, Says CISA
Open source can be just as safe as proprietary software, though government agencies (and private enterprises) should take additional measures to secure it properly, according to a new guide published by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The report, “Open Source Software: Security Principles and Practices,” provides with guidance to help agencies comply […]
Ornith Models Automate Agentic Coding With Self-Scaffolding
Ornith, a new family of open source LLM models from the DeepReinforce research collective, takes a novel approach to executing coding and debugging tasks: It generates an architectural framework to give the user’s harness a structured instruction set – a scaffold – to create an agent to complete the job. Available in a set of […]
Homebrew to Packages: No ID, No Service
Homebrew, the unofficial but default package manager for many Apple Mac users, now has safeguards to prevent supply-chain attacks. The approach mimics how GitHub just fortified npm against attacks by establishing a set of trusted repositories to download from. “The Homebrew team is aware of the supply-side security issues with other package managers. We’ve taken […]
MiMo Code Is the Open Source Answer to Claude Code
Terminal-based coding assistants for AI-curious developers are hot these days, and the most popular choice appears to be Claude Code. But Anthropic’s commercial offering has a new open source rival: MiMo Code, released under an MIT license by Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi. Unlike Claude Code, MiMo Code is not restricted to a specific LLM provider. […]
Cohere’s North Mini Code Lets Devs Stack Their Own AI
Toronto startup Cohere has released an open-weight model designed for developers to use to build their own AI stack. The open-weight North Mini Code is a 30-billion-parameter “mixture-of-experts” (MoE) model. MoE equips a model with specialized neural nets for individual tasks, such as mathematics and code generation. Mistral pioneered this approach to compete with larger […]
Perplexity Bumblebee Shakes Loose Hidden Threats on Dev Desktops
The fight to maintain security has moved to the engineer’s messy desktop. Last week, AI search provider Perplexity open-sourced an internal tool, Bumblebee, for checking developer machines, either Linux or macOS, for vulnerable software. Continuous integration pipelines have baked security checks into them, with Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) ensuring that the correct version of […]
OWASP Adopts CVE Lite CLI to Boost Dependency Scanning
Checking for dependency vulnerabilities in freshly developed software is usually done near the end of the build process. Remediation at that point can be tricky. Now, JavaScript and TypeScript developers can check for vulnerabilities themselves as they – or their agents – write their source code, using an open source project called CVE Lite CLI. […]
Spacelift Intelligence Vibe-Codes Infrastructure
Whether the DevOps shops like it or not, they are feeling the pressure from AI. They’re expected to move more quickly, alongside their dev counterparts. The gruntwork that used to take weeks can be automated away, leaving time for fast prototyping, so the managers think. According to Google Cloud’s 2025 DORA State of AI-assisted Software […]