Cake Wallet has integrated Zcash with shielded transactions enabled by default. This ensures all outgoing transactions originate from shielded addresses, concealing sender, receiver, and amounts for maximum privacy.
https://www.theopensourcepress.com/cake-wallet-adds-zcash-with-shielded-transactions-by-default/
The Iranian regime's specific targeting of Session proves the technology works. Authoritarian governments don't waste resources blocking tools that don't threaten them. They target the technologies that actually protect dissent, enable organization, and document atrocities they want hidden.
https://www.theopensourcepress.com/session-the-messenger-regimes-fear-most/
Uganda's gearing up for Jan 15 elections: 1.6M+ (1% of pop!) just downloaded Bitchat to dodge Museveni's potential internet blackout. Bluetooth mesh FTW, gov can't jam what they can't control. Nepal & Indonesia already proved it. Freedom tech rising!
https://www.theopensourcepress.com/ugandas-youth-embrace-bitchat-as-election-approaches/
Juniper Research's Top 10 Tech Trends Set to Transform 2026!
Quantum-safe crypto, brain-inspired neuromorphic chips, humanoid robots in action, multi-agent AI automating workflows, wireless EV charging everywhere, plus counter-drones, SMRs for clean power, & open-source smart buildings!
Which one excites you most for 2026?
Do you agree these will reshape industries?
Drop your thoughts below! 👇
https://www.theopensourcepress.com/top-10-emerging-technology-trends-set-to-shape-2026/
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has made a significant donation of 256 ETH to support Session and SimpleX Chat, two pioneering encrypted messaging platforms focused on enhancing metadata privacy and decentralized user accounts. Unlike traditional encrypted apps, these platforms tackle critical gaps left by existing solutions like Signal, addressing permissionless account creation and metadata protection. Vitalik’s funding highlights the importance of advancing secure communication technologies amidst increasing legislative pressures that threaten encryption standards. This is a call to developers and privacy advocates to engage, improve, and help build the future of digital privacy.
https://www.theopensourcepress.com/vitalik-buterin-backs-privacy-messaging-with-500k-donation/
The new update to the International AI Safety Report, chaired by Turing Award-winner Yoshua Bengio and backed by 30+ countries & major institutions, offers crucial insights into AI risks and defenses. While defensive measures improve, sophisticated attacks still succeed frequently, and data poisoning remains a serious threat. The report stresses the narrowing gap between closed and open-source models, raising misuse concerns. Despite doubled adoption of AI risk management, consistent effectiveness is still lacking. This update serves as a key guide for policymakers and industry leaders preparing for comprehensive AI governance ahead of the full report in early 2026.
Read the full update here: https://www.theopensourcepress.com/second-key-update-of-the-international-ai-safety-report-released/
The world records 500 billion hours of video daily, yet most goes unlabeled. Score is changing that with Vision AutoML, 94% accurate, 10x cheaper, and lightning fast. From football to petrol stations, AI vision is finally accessible and cheap.
Learn more about what Co-founder and CEO Maxime Sebti of Score are building in the link below 👇
https://www.theopensourcepress.com/scores-vision-making-every-camera-intelligent/
New Acquia x TeenVoice survey shows what Gen Z & Alpha expect online:
44% say privacy is top priority
39% spend most time watching short videos
71% want to co-design websites
Learn more about what Gen Z and Alpha want in the link below
Zurich-based AI startup Albatross raises $12.5M to reinvent real-time product discovery. Founded by ex-Amazon AI leaders, its adaptive platform learns from every interaction to make search and recommendations instant, intelligent, and personal.
The Mobile Voting Foundation and Free & Fair have launched VoteSecure, the first open-source SDK for secure and verifiable mobile voting.
VoteSecure offers advanced cryptography, independent audits, and robust identity verification, including biometrics, making it a game-changer for election systems. Early adopters like Sequent and Democracy Live are already integrating the SDK. Explore the future of transparent, high-assurance mobile voting.
https://www.theopensourcepress.com/votesecure-first-open-source-sdk-for-mobile-voting/
Smashtoshi nostr:nprofile1qyr8wumn8ghj7qgvwaehxw309a38yc3wd9hsqgrvgp7j3a6mx273la0q3wvlf42amfqc5qy5fxxjka38jezmyru7lc5c4fxd recently launched the “History of Bitcoin” global tour — a celebration of Bitcoin’s cultural legacy through art, innovation, and craftsmanship.
Eddy Xu (@eddybuild), CEO of Build AI, didn't just release a dataset. He released the largest egocentric video dataset in history: 10,000 hours of first-person footage from 2,153 factory workers performing real manufacturing jobs. One billion frames of humans doing skilled manual labor, all open-sourced under Apache 2.0, the most permissive license available.
https://www.theopensourcepress.com/how-eddy-xu-open-sourced-the-future-of-robotics/
The AI community spent years debating whether scaling laws applied to language models. Turns out they did: more data, more compute, more parameters led to reliably better performance. GPT-4 exists because OpenAI believed in scaling before it was obvious.
We're at the beginning of discovering whether similar scaling laws apply to physical AI. If they do, datasets like Egocentric-10K become the foundation for the next generation of robotics models. Just as ImageNet catalyzed computer vision research, massive egocentric datasets could catalyze embodied AI.
https://www.theopensourcepress.com/how-eddy-xu-open-sourced-the-future-of-robotics/
USRA Contributes to the Development of Surya: A Foundation Model for Space Weather
Spring Health and Expert Council Release VERA-MH, the First Open-Source Evaluation for Validating AI in Mental Health
The data infrastructure company Encord recently announced that it has released the largest open source multimodal dataset in the world empowering AI developers to build and deploy sophisticated multimodal AI systems.
Researchers at Astrix Security, recently released the State of MCP Server Security 2025 research, highlighting a foundational security flaw in the adoption of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, the technology that enables AI agents to access tools, data, and systems. The research, which analyzed over 5,200 public repositories, reveals that while MCP server adoption is exploding to an estimated 20,000 implementations on GitHub, the ecosystem is being built on a dangerously insecure foundation: the widespread use of hardcoded, long-lived credentials.
Today, Extropic did something most AI hardware companies won't: they open-sourced the foundation of their entire technological approach.
THRML is a Python library for simulating and accelerating generative AI models through thermodynamic computing. At first, that might sound like word salad, but it makes sense once you understand the problem they’re addressing: the AI industry is running into an energy wall.
Everyone's focused on scaling energy production. Build more data-centers. Secure more power contracts. Get nuclear reactors online. But that's only half the equation. The other half is energy efficiency, how much intelligence you can extract per watt.
Yandex B2B Tech, together with the Yandex School of Data Analysis and St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, has developed the world’s first AI tool to assess brain development in infants under 12 months. It cuts MRI analysis from days to minutes, helping detect cerebral palsy earlier and guide treatment.
According to WHO, CP affects 2–3 of every 1,000 newborns.
https://www.theopensourcepress.com/open-source-ai-tool-by-yandex-detects-signs-of-infant-cerebral/
Half the internet just broke because one company had a DNS problem in one datacenter. That's not acceptable for systems billions of people depend on daily.
https://www.theopensourcepress.com/half-the-internet-just-broke/
The election was the catalyst, not the product. What @Polymarket built is infrastructure for pricing uncertainty across any domain.
Traditional sports betting sees only about 3% of bettors profitable by year-end. Polymarket's 14.8% profitable users is nearly 5x better. That gap represents the difference between betting against a house edge and trading on an information market where skill compounds.