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Bambu Lab 3D printer printing a part on its bed
Hardware·

Bambu Lab killed an OrcaSlicer fork by lawyer letter. The fork was based on Bambu's own AGPL code.

Pawel Jarczak pulled OrcaSlicer-bambulab off GitHub on May 1 after Bambu Lab's legal team accused him of impersonating Bambu Studio and bypassing authorization.

A page of the original 86-DOS 1.00 assembler listing showing handwritten changelist annotations
Open Source·

Microsoft open-sourced the earliest known DOS code, transcribed from a stack of Tim Paterson's printouts.

MIT-licensed at GitHub on April 28, the 86-DOS 1.00 kernel and PC-DOS development snapshots were OCR'd from 45-year-old assembler listings.

Notepad++ for Mac project page hero showing the ported macOS code editor
Open Source·

An unofficial Notepad++ port finally landed on Mac. Don Ho didn't write it.

Andrey Letov shipped a native macOS Notepad++ port as a universal binary with the original Scintilla engine and a new Cocoa UI. It's GPL, free, and unaffiliated with Don Ho.

The Zed 1.0 launch graphic in dark mode with the Zed wordmark and a stylized cursor.
Open Source·

Zed 1.0 ships its agentic editor. The Atom team's Rust rewrite finally has a stable label.

Zed Industries shipped 1.0 on April 29 after five years of Rust and GPU work. Free forever for humans, with $10/month hosted AI and an open Agent Client Protocol.

Open-source illustration showing a stylized icon for collaborative software development.
Open Source·

Mitchell Hashimoto is pulling Ghostty off GitHub. The reason is daily outages.

Ghostty's creator has tracked GitHub outages every workday for months. After 18 years on the platform, he's moving the project. A read-only mirror stays.

Warp terminal product screenshot from the company's website.
Open Source·

Warp's terminal is now open source. The cloud agent platform Oz is the actual product.

Warp released its 36k-star Rust client on GitHub under AGPLv3 on April 28. OpenAI is the founding sponsor and Oz keeps the bills paid.

MinIO project logo over a server-room background.
Open Source·

MinIO archived its repo on April 25. The community fork already has the admin console back.

MinIO's GitHub repo went read-only with a 'NO LONGER MAINTAINED' banner pointing users at AIStor. Pigsty's Ruohang Feng forked it and restored the binaries.

DeepSeek social card from the V4 API documentation release post.
AI·

DeepSeek V4 lands: 1.6T-param open MoE, 1M-token context, and SWE-bench within 0.2 of Opus 4.6

DeepSeek shipped V4-Pro and V4-Flash under MIT on April 24. V4-Pro hits 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified. V4-Flash is $0.14 in / $0.28 out.

Illustration accompanying Tom's Hardware coverage of the Linux kernel driver removal.
Open Source·

Linux 7.1 is yanking ham radio, ISDN, and ATM. The reason: AI bug-report spam.

Jakub Kicinski's networking pull request removes 138,161 lines of decades-old code. Kernel maintainers say LLM-generated bug reports made the old subsystems un-maintainable.

GitHub OG card for the StarScout research repository from Carnegie Mellon
Open Source·

Inside GitHub's fake star economy: 6 million bought stars and how to spot them

A Carnegie Mellon study counted 6 million suspected fake stars across 18,617 GitHub repos. Here's what the StarScout research actually found and how to read a star count now.

Cloudflare Unweight tensor compression announcement social graphic
Open Source·

Cloudflare open-sourced a lossless LLM compressor that shaves 22% off model weights

Unweight is Cloudflare Research's new BF16 weight compressor. 22% smaller bundles, 13% smaller inference footprint, 30-40% throughput overhead, BSD license.

Header card from Simon Willison's 'Qwen3.6 beats Opus' post comparing pelican SVGs
AI·

Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B: the open MoE beating Opus 4.7 on Simon Willison's laptop

Alibaba's Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B is a 35B-param mixture-of-experts with only 3B active. Apache 2.0, runs on consumer GPUs, and it's already winning real tasks.