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Much better than age verification.

Standards Update: The GAIA group (Global Access to the Internet for All) of the IRTF (Internet Research Task Force) has released an updated draft for approval by the group chairs entitled Operational Practices for Digital Autonomy and Meaningful Connectivity through Circular Management of User and Network Devices.

Come on 2026 - we should be able to do Möbius strip in the terminal

What happens when you ask coding agents to write a chess engine from scratch, with minimal guidance and you replicate the experiment across 12 programming languages: Rust? C++? COBOL?! Rocq!? LaTeX!!?? or even Brainfuck??!! Over the past weeks, I have been running exactly this experiment. The short take-away: coding agents can now generate functional, UCI-compliant chess engines from scratch across a wide range of languages, some reaching over 2000 Elo. To my knowledge, this is the first time coding agents have been shown to produce non-trivial, end-to-end software of this complexity (with no architecture document, no step-by-step guidance) and across languages as diverse as Rust, COBOL, and LaTeX. I couldn’t find prior art for a full playing engine in LaTeX, Brainfuck, or Rocq (formerly Coq; renamed with Rocq 9.0), yet coding agents produced playable engines in all three. This is a research preview but the diversity of features, architectures, and performance is striking and raises many questions about coding agents’ capabilities and programming languages.

Planet dyne makes a point in being everywhere: New social media thingy? You’ll find us there, puncturing the silo!

(spoiler: only works on a very small number of devices. Still cool)

We are preparing a big conference on March 19–22 2026 in Berlin.

Google has criticized the European Union’s intentions to achieve digital sovereignty through open-source software. The company warned that Brussels’ policies aimed at reducing dependence on American tech companies could harm competitiveness. According to Google, the idea of replacing current tools with open-source programs would not contribute to economic growth.

Some things change, others evolve. It’s all a matter of perspective in Space and Time: there are many different ways to keep a calendar. Hopefully, the constant is you feeling comfort in this newsletter finding you. Ideally, somewhere in the new social: the Local.

View and subscribe to events from Open Source Village on Luma. Pop-up village around Fosdem 2026. Expect a rich program of meetups & workshops + access to coworking space. Cocreated by Open Collective, CHAOSS, EuropeMediaLab, Altinity and many others …

There is a widening consensus that research and innovation (R&I) funding in Europe is not working the way it is supposed to. The growing competition for R&I project grants overburdens the R&I system, generates bursts of activity leading to unsustainable results, and fuels the much-maligned growth of precarious labour.

ESP32 based antenna array hardware with OS rendering software & ML engine gives real time WiFi RF visualisation.