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News Daily AI & Automation Tech News - Oct 18, 2025

Today’s roundup spotlights practical AI agents, stronger RAG pipelines, and privacy-first local models. We cover the real debates (usefulness vs. hype) and highlight tools you can deploy right away.

Key highlights:
- Despite skepticism about AI agent reliability, the potential for autonomous workflows remains high; focus on verifiable, transparent systems.
- Leverage advanced RAG and vector search tooling to enhance LLM accuracy and reduce hallucinations.

Full post: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/W3JDev/v0-w3-j-llc-website/main/content/blog/daily/2025-10-18-ai-automation-news.md

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What do you think the future of open source will be like?

This is something I always think about, how will the future of open source be? With surveillance and ai and all that, what do you think the state of open source will be like in these years? 2030 and 2050

I honestly am not that bothered with all the scare talk about governments and ai, just as long as I have the tools to not be part of it, which is why I think it’s so important that open source persists

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Daily AI & Automation Tech News – LLMs in 2 hours, real‑time pipelines, and the energy shift (Oct 18, 2025)

Today’s briefing covers Minimind’s 26M‑parameter GPT trained in ~2 hours, Pathway for real‑time RAG pipelines, and why AI’s energy demand is making power a first‑class constraint. We also track data‑provenance moves shaping responsible model training. Full post below.

Full post: https://github.com/W3JDev/v0-w3-j-llc-website/blob/main/content/blog/daily/2025-10-18-ai-automation-news.md

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I built a free, open-source web app that turns any old device into a 100% private security camera. No uploads, no installation.



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Launch: Astrologer - High-Precision Astrological Library (TS, Swiss Ephemeris, 99.4 kB) with API & NPM options.

Hey r/opensource! I'm thrilled to finally launch Astrologer, a new comprehensive, open-source TypeScript library for all high-precision astrological calculations

.We built this specifically to solve the problem of dealing with raw astronomical data. $\text{Astrologer}$ abstracts the complexity of the gold-standard Swiss Ephemeris into a clean, typed JSON object, giving you planetary positions, house cusps, and aspects instantly.Why use Astrologer?Precision: Uses the Swiss Ephemeris for world-class, accurate calculations.Dual System Support: Easily calculate charts for both Tropical (Western) and Sidereal (Vedic/Indian) systems.Developer-Friendly: Fully written in TypeScript with complete type definitions—it's fast, safe, and easily integrated.Lightweight: The entire library is just 99.4kB—it won't bloat your project!

NPM : https://www.npmjs.com/package/astrologer
GitHub: https://github.com/PaulSpaurgen/astrologer
Live Demo: https://www.cosmodestiny.co.in/

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Open hardware initiative at public university

Hello, everyone, how are you?

I would appreciate your opinion on an open hardware initiative that my colleagues and I are considering organizing at a Brazilian public university.

A professor, who is also a course coordinator, said he was interested in doing something related to this, especially after participating in a very important hardware event a few months ago (by the way, there was a RISC-V stand there, haha).

I've been researching what open hardware is, what kinds of initiatives exist, etc. I found some cool links and materials, like openhardware.io, . However, I'd like to hear from you. What do you think of the idea? What would be interesting for us to do in this initiative?

Thanks for any advice you can give.

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I just released NETworkManager 2025.10.18.0 for Windows

Hello r/opensource,

I'm excited to announce the release of NETworkManager 2025.10.18.0, a powerful open-source tool for network management and troubleshooting! This update brings improved profile management with new Tags and Filter options, making it easier to organize hosts and networks. You can now also collapse/expand all profile groups via a right-click context menu and enjoy enhanced readability in the light theme.

What is NETworkManager?
NETworkManager is a comprehensive tool for network admins and IT enthusiasts. It offers:

Network Analysis: Tools like WiFi Analyzer, IP Scanner, Port Scanner, Ping Monitor, Traceroute, DNS Lookup, and LLDP/CDP Capture.
Remote System Management: Connect via Remote Desktop (RDP), PuTTY (SSH, Telnet, Serial), PowerShell (WinRM), TigerVNC (VNC), or AWS SSM.
Profile Management: Save hosts/networks in encrypted profiles for seamless use across features.
Effortless Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve network issues with a unified interface.

Download: Grab the latest version (setup, portable, or archive) from the GitHub Releases page or Download page
Source Code: Explore or contribute on GitHub.

NETworkManager is free, open-source, and ad-free, developed in my spare time. If you find it useful, consider starring the repo and sharing it!

Feedback, bug reports, or feature requests are welcome. Let me know what you think! 🚀

\#opensource #networking #sysadmin

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Flowgramming – Programs that read like sentences

Most programming languages were built for machines first and humans second.
Flowgramming flips that.

It’s an open-source project to design a modular, flow-based programming environment where logic reads like natural language.
Instead of writing syntax, you describe what should happen — and FlowOS builds the logic through modular, auditable components called FlowBlocks.

For example, this is valid FlowScript:

action:
intent: "sortlist"
input: "DataBlock: numbers.raw"
output: "DataBlock: numbers.sorted"
tags: [low
memory, auditable]


That line means:

>

Flowgramming handles the rest — picking the best ActionBlock, enforcing memory and security rules, and logging the entire process for audit.

The full system includes:

FlowDirector — the runtime and scheduler
ActionSystem — modular, self-contained logic units
CommSystem — controlled communication blocks
DataSystem — trusted data handling and versioning
FlowGuard — built-in trust and security enforcement
FlowLog — transparent observability and audit trail

It’s licensed under MPL 2.0, so it stays open but flexible for research or enterprise use.
The documentation is being expanded weekly — early contributors are very welcome.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/donsauber/FlowOS

If you’re interested in:

Declarative systems design
Flow-based programming
Modular runtime architectures
Or making code genuinely human-readable

…come take a look, leave a star, or join the Discussions tab.

Flowgramming is still early — but the goal is simple:
make programming something you can read, explain, and trust.

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Rivet.dev

In looking for durable object's open source alternatives. After search for a while, I found rivet.dev.

Did someone ever use this project, it's quite an interesting project with tons of stars. But looking at the npm download, it's like no one using them.

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How do you manage bad code reviews on your open source project?

So I have a small project which has picked up some users and a small GitHub following.
Every few months I get the odd PR.

The most recent one was to add config to determine which columns to show in a table in the application.
The application already has a config file, which is in yaml. The PR proposes using a single string with template syntax to determine which columns to show; my preference would be to just use a list of booleans as it's more clear.

I suggested this, and the person who raised the PR replied with a GenAI generated comment weighing up the pros and cons of each, then updated the PR to do both which I feel is unnecessary and makes it more messy and sufficient to understand.

How do people go about dealing with stuff like this? If this was at work, and the PR came from someone who works for me, I would just have a chat and ultimately would have the power to make a final decision. Ultimately I can decide whether or not to merge this, but it feels different with volunteers. I don't want to seem a dick, but I also don't want to merge some garbage, and then have this in my name on my public GitHub.

Any thoughts/advice? Both about this, but also in the general case?

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Meet Journiv — A self-hosted private journaling & mood tracker (Day One / Apple Journal alternative)

Hey folks!

I got into self-hosting last year. While exploring, I noticed there’s no real self-hosted open source equivalent to **Day One** or **Apple Journal**. Most suggestions were note-taking apps or older abandoned projects — not quite what I wanted. I specifically wanted "On this day" and prompt based journaling experience with a clean and minimal writing interface.

So I built my own: **Journiv** — a private, self-hosted journal and mood-tracking app.

Demo video: [https://imgur.com/a/Z5oBMgU](https://imgur.com/a/Z5oBMgU) (subreddit does not allow video attachment)

**Stack**

* **Backend:** Python + FastAPI + PostgreSQL (Dockerized)
* **Frontend:** Flutter (cross-platform web + mobile)

**Features**

* Clean, minimal, distraction-free writing
* “On this day” view
* Prompt-based journaling
* Mood tracking
* Multiple journals + tags
* Full-text search
* Insights & analytics
* Light/dark mode
* Media gallery view

**Coming soon**

* Quick audio notes
* Apple Journaling Suggestions integration
* Weather & health metadata
* Location tagging (map view for travel entries)

I’m planning to open-source this soon and would love some early feedback first. Curious if folks here would find a self-hosted journaling app like this useful — and what features you’d want to see. It’s my first real project in Python + Flutter, so there are definitely a few rough spots. Early testers and feedback would mean a lot!

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Trained the first foundation model for a low-resource language

Hi everybody! I just wanted to share a project that I have been working on for the last few months called BULaMU, the first large language model that has been trained from scratch in Luganda. It is an open-weight model and is available to download for free from my Huggingface repo. I am continually working to improve BULaMU because I believe that tiny language models like this have the ability to greatly broaden access to AI in Uganda and possibly even enable more community-driven solutions.

Details on how I trained BULaMU: https://zenodo.org/records/17271688
Link to my Huggingface: https://huggingface.co/datasets/mwebazarick/BULaMU


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Visualizing Your Service Architecture with OtelMap

Hey everyone!

I recently built **OtelMap** — a small open-source project that helps you visualize OpenTelemetry traces on an interactive map.


Live product already deployed to https://otelmap.com


👉 Repo: https://github.com/jack5341/otelmap
If you like it, drop a star or open an issue — every bit helps!

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