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Haven’t written about open-source software here in a long time. I want to do that more regularly again. Kicking things off is the graphics editor “Graphite”. Graphite is free software for graphics editing. It supports both vector and raster graphics and is also suitable for creating animations. What sets Graphite apart is its non-destructive workflow: changes can be adjusted at any time without altering the original. Editing is done via a node-based system in which graphical elements are controlled and combined through connections. The project aims to be more than a traditional graphics editor, bringing tools for design, painting, animation, and effects together on one platform. ...

Cisco’s study “Death by a Thousand Prompts: Open Model Vulnerability Analysis” shows that so‑called multi‑turn jailbreaks against open AI models (Open-Weight-LLMs) succeed in up to 92% of cases, revealing serious security vulnerabilities in their architecture. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

IONOS advertises on theregister.com for itself, Dataport and the now discontinued dPhoenixSuite. Still a nice call for more digital sovereignty. IONOS writes in »Why digital sovereignty is key public sector transformation« for theregister.com If administrative IT infrastructure comes under the control of other countries or depends on opaque technology stacks, then sovereignty is nothing more than a facade. Only when both the infrastructure and IT operations remain fully under European control can public institutions guarantee genuine digital sovereignty. ...

The photo shows a transparent Game Boy resting on a backlit mechanical keyboard. The screen displays a bright orange background with the word “Game Boy”. The warm lighting enhances the retro gaming atmosphere. You can download this and other photos for free and in full resolution from unsplash.com. Hier geht es zum Foto The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...

Richard Speed writes in »OpenStack community finds new strength in resilience« for theregister.com “Europe has a very strong dependency on US hyperscale providers, services… and they realize now that that dependency is potentially going to be leveraged against them, and so they want more local capacity.” “We spent a decade telling developers to ignore infrastructure because ’those hyperscalers are going to solve that for us,’ and now we realize that makes us very vulnerable to a lot of non-desirable outcomes.” ...