6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (562+ words) Token optimization is critical for designing precise prompts. A Python framework can be designed to accept an English prompt as input, analyse it, remove duplicate or low-value content, and return a compact prompt that behaves like the original. Prompt optimization…...

15+ hour, 11+ min ago   (322+ words) Open Source For You A fully open-source and 3D-printable soft robotic gripper combines the Fin-Ray effect with force sensing and low-cost electronics for cooperative object manipulation. Researchers have developed a fully open-source, 3D-printable soft robotic gripper designed for cooperative manipulation…...

16+ hour, 54+ min ago   (261+ words) NVIDIA has posted patches introducing a vGPU manager and a VFIO variant driver for its developing open-source Nova graphics driver, targeting virtualised GPU workloads. NVIDIA continues to expand the capabilities of its open-source Nova kernel graphics driver for Linux. The…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1517+ words) The three pillars of observability — metrics, logs and traces – help you find out what went wrong where and why in an AI-based system. You can’t do without them. Three a.m. on a Tuesday and an error shows up. The…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (311+ words) OpenAI’s new Astra model pushes AI agents further into computer and browser automation, but its advanced capabilities have also intensified concerns around cybersecurity, transparency and human oversight. OpenAI has launched Astra, its latest and most powerful AI model, designed to…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (270+ words) Open Source For You Qdrant-FineWeb-10B is a public dataset containing 10 billion records and nearly 120,000 ground-truth queries, designed to benchmark vector retrieval systems at production-scale workloads. Qdrant has released Qdrant-FineWeb-10B, a large-scale dataset designed for benchmarking vector retrieval systems. Built from…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (205+ words) Israeli startup DataAgent has raised $10 million to expand an open-source AI agent to automate repairs of production faults inside customers’ Kubernetes environments. The agent analyses live system state, topology and configuration drift where the data already resides, determines the likely…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (179+ words) FreeDesktop SDK 26.08 updates the software stack used for Flatpak runtimes and container-based development while introducing bootstrap changes and removing unused Snap support. The FreeDesktop SDK project has released FreeDesktop SDK 26.08, bringing updated software packages and several changes to its underlying…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (239+ words) GigaDevice has joined the open-source Zephyr Project as a Silver Member and is contributing GD32 MCU support, code and development resources to broaden embedded software options for developers. GigaDevice has joined the Zephyr Project as a Silver Member, bringing its GD32 microcontroller…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (347+ words) Open Source For You An AI-native humanoid robot, alongside OpenBridge, an open-source ecosystem designed to let developers build, share and develop new robot capabilities. Zeroth has launched Bridge, a compact AI-native embodied robot designed for real-world development and experimentation. Alongside…...