Signal Lab
Curated land, resilience, AI, automation, cybersecurity and open-source signals analyzed by Gary for practical FPR relevance.
Signal Lab
Interesting signals from land stewardship, resilient housing, local AI, automation, cybersecurity and the open-source world—filtered through one practical question: could FPR learn from this, test it, or build something useful with it?
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v0.40.5
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super is a vision-language model for coding, reasoning, tool use, and document understanding. It pairs a 120B-parameter hybrid Mamba-2/Transformer mixture-of-experts backbone (12B active per token) with a C-RADIO vision encoder, and supports tool calling, an on/off thinking mode, and context up to 1M tokens. ollama run nemotron-3.5-super A compact sibling, Nemotron 3.5 Bo
Open original source →WordPress 7.1.2 Release
This security release features a fix for a critical severity security vulnerability. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can download WordPress 7.1.2 from WordPress.org, or visit your WordPress Dashboard, click “Updates”, and then click “Update Now”. If you have sites that support automatic background updates, […]
Open original source →Build n8n workflows with Gemini 4 Argon: MCP, the Assistant, and Agents
Gemini 4 Argon just dropped, and n8n is one of the first companies to use and integrate the model. Check out how you can use it with your existing n8n workflows and how to build new ones. Here are the benchmarks Google published: Benchmarks reported by Google. Source: Gemini 4
Open original source →How API Contract Testing Prevents Production Failures
API contract testing helps you catch breaking changes before they disrupt your workflows. See how n8n validates API responses while your automations run.
Open original source →WordPress 7.1.1 Maintenance and Security Release
This security and maintenance release features 17 bug fixes on Core, 19 bug fixes for the Block Editor, and 11 security fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can download WordPress 7.1.1 from WordPress.org, or visit your WordPress Dashboard, click “Updates”, and then click “Update […]
Open original source →WordPress 7.1.3 Maintenance and Security Release
This security and maintenance release features 7 security fixes and 4 bug fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can download WordPress 7.1.3 from WordPress.org, or visit your WordPress Dashboard, click “Updates”, and then click “Update Now”. If you have sites that support automatic background […]
Open original source →Build a morning AI news brief with You.com, Jev, and n8n
Every weekday at 8am, this workflow searches the day's AI news, scores every article for materiality at about $0.00004 apiece, and posts one cited brief per topic to Slack. Topics with no real news get no post.
Open original source →v0.40.6
What's Changed win: prevent orphaned runners by @dhiltgen in #18500 gguf: add the q2_0 tensor and file types by @jmorganca in #18967 Launch clef in Ollama's cloud by @jberg5 in #19036 use identifiers for --ask mode question keys by @jberg5 in #19041 Full Changelog : v0.40.5...v0.40.6-rc0
Open original source →v0.40.6-rc0: Merge pull request #19041 from ollama/jberg/clef-question-ids
use identifiers for --ask mode question keys
Open original source →WordPress Takes Its Turn Leading the Open Website Alliance
I’m happy to announce that I am now serving as president of the Open Website Alliance (OWA), representing the WordPress Foundation. The Alliance brings together the community organizations behind Drupal, Joomla!, TYPO3, and WordPress to advocate for open source and share practices that benefit their projects. I represent the WordPress Foundation in this role, which […]
Open original source →Students Built 108 Websites in Two Weeks in Bangladesh
In July, students at two campuses in Kishoreganj, Bangladesh, built 108 websites. In eastern Uganda, a workshop that arrived to find no electricity at the school ran anyway, for more than 100 learners, because a former student had asked for it. In Costa Rica, three university students taught a three-session WordPress class to 40 high […]
Open original source →WordPress Signs the Open Weights and American AI Leadership Letter
We’re proud to announce that WordPress has signed Open Weights and American AI Leadership, an open letter asking US policymakers to not place early restrictions on open weight AI models. These are artificial intelligence models that anyone can download, inspect, modify, and run on their own infrastructure. The letter was published on July 24, 2026, […]
Open original source →Land & Permaculture
Permaculture magazine in Waterstones
For the first time, Permaculture magazine will be available in Waterstones! 62 shops across the UK will be stocking us from the end of July, with our Autumn issue, PM129. This is an excellent step for permaculture, taking us to new audiences at a critical time, when our practical and radical solutions are so desperately […] The post Permaculture magazine in Waterstones appeared first on Permaculture .
Open original source →The Living Classroom: Reconnecting with Land, Food, and Culture
Nestled in the heart of south Dublin, Airfield Estate is a unique 38-acre working organic urban farm, educational and research centre and heritage attraction. As a living classroom, it enables people of all ages to engage meaningfully with food, farming, and nature through hands-on experiences. Gifted to the Irish people by the philanthropic Overend sisters in […] The post The Living Classroom: Reconnecting with Land
Open original source →Arable Farming and Permaculture
Much of the motivation behind the organic movement and other alternative agricultural movements has been the desire to offer potential solutions to the short and long-term negative consequences of industrial agriculture. Whilst sharing the same fundamental motivation to move away from the industrial model, a crucial distinction between the organic approach and permaculture theory is […] The post Arable Farming and Pe
Open original source →How You Can Support Us
Permaculture magazine makes a tremendous contribution, inspiring personal action as well as its positive impact on global communities and systems worldwide. It has spread hope and celebrated vision since 1992. 10 ways YOU can support us Follow us on social media and engageThe more likes and comments we receive, the more people the algorithms put us […] The post How You Can Support Us appeared first on Permaculture .
Open original source →Spring Herbal Vinegars
In spring we celebrate the dawn of life in the cycle of the year. Fresh, green leaves emerge to offer nourishment and the promise of new life. Outside are the gifts of lush, green, mineral-rich leaves decorating the earth and offering a plentiful herbal harvest. The Earth is emerging from the dark winter months, witnessing […] The post Spring Herbal Vinegars appeared first on Permaculture .
Open original source →Grow Veg in Any Space
Mini vegetables are vegetables that are harvested at a very young age or come from small varieties. They are not a particular species and certainly not genetically modified organisms. GMOs are forbidden in organic agriculture. Mini vegetables look great on a plate – all the more so because their rapid cycle makes them relatively immune […] The post Grow Veg in Any Space appeared first on Permaculture .
Open original source →Virtual Extension
The most essential tool for organic farmers is knowledge. They need to understand the basics of topics ranging from soil science and entomology to cost accounting and marketing strategy, as […] The post Virtual Extension appeared first on Rodale Institute .
Open original source →RODALE INSTITUTE AND ANCIENT NUTRITION PARTNER TO ADVANCE REGENERATIVE ORGANIC FARMER TRANSITION
KUTZTOWN, Penn.—June 2026—Rodale Institute and Ancient Nutrition announced a continued strategic partnership with refinement designed to accelerate the transition of U.S. farmers to organic and regenerative organic practices while deepening […] The post RODALE INSTITUTE AND ANCIENT NUTRITION PARTNER TO ADVANCE REGENERATIVE ORGANIC FARMER TRANSITION appeared first on Rodale Institute .
Open original source →Housing & Community
Poetry Breaks Through Where Planners Cannot
(Photo by Steven CW Taylor) On a passing bus or in a shop window in Philadelphia's Germantown, residents might come across a way to connect with their neighbor — or see themselves — through poetry as public art. In this episode, we hear from Germantown Info Hub reporter and Next City Equitable Cities Reporting Fellow Pryce Jamison about his reporting on how poetry as public art can help process the grief of gun viole
Open original source →The Weekly Wrap: This Mayor Launched A New Group To Help U.S. Small Towns Join Forces
(Photo by Derek Zhang / Unsplash) Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap , our Friday roundup of stories that explain the problems oppressing people in cities and elevate the solutions that bring us closer to economic, environmental, and social justice. If you enjoy this newsletter, share it with a friend or colleague and tell them to subscribe . This Mayor Launched A New Group To Help U.S. Small Towns Lead the Clean Energy
Open original source →These Residences Are Housing At-Risk and Homeless College Students
Nikya Harrell, 24, used Dax Program housing in Chicago before she moved into her own apartment. Harrell stands outside the newest Dax residence on Sept. 24, 2026 in Denver. (Jason Gonzales / Chalkbeat) This story was originally published by Chalkbeat , a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters During her first semester at Chicago’s Malcolm X College,
Open original source →US Communities Are Organizing To End Complicity With Genocide in Their Backyards
Garden Grove residents mobilize to demand accountability from GKN Aerospace on July 28. (Palestinian Youth Movement – LA, OC, IE) This article was originally published on Waging Nonviolence . Dwight Hua’s roommate knocked on his door at 5:30 a.m. on May 22, saying there was a notice for nearly 50,000 people in their city of Garden Grove , California, to evacuate due to the danger of a deadly chemical explosion at a n
Open original source →This Harlem Nonprofit Transformed a Community
Sponsored content from Surdna Foundation . Sponsored content policy In Harlem, transformation is palpable. Where there were once boarded-up storefronts, there is now a cluster of lively businesses that serve as a unique job training program for young people. All of them — a coffee shop, a seafood restaurant, and a multicultural bistro — employ young people and young adults who have been impacted by the criminal legal
Open original source →What If Preservation Was About Repair, Not Freezing a Moment in Time?
Every society runs on stories it mistakes for facts. In America, those stories shape who gets help, who gets blamed, and who is left out. Not My Narrative is a Next City podcast and essay series that debunks the pervasive myths that have been used to justify neglect, inequity, and the status quo — and elevates the people proving those myths wrong. This week, in “Birth of a Nation vs. Truth and Reconciliation,” we dig
Open original source →AI & Local Models
v0.40.5
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super is a vision-language model for coding, reasoning, tool use, and document understanding. It pairs a 120B-parameter hybrid Mamba-2/Transformer mixture-of-experts backbone (12B active per token) with a C-RADIO vision encoder, and supports tool calling, an on/off thinking mode, and context up to 1M tokens. ollama run nemotron-3.5-super A compact sibling, Nemotron 3.5 Bo
Open original source →v0.40.6
What's Changed win: prevent orphaned runners by @dhiltgen in #18500 gguf: add the q2_0 tensor and file types by @jmorganca in #18967 Launch clef in Ollama's cloud by @jberg5 in #19036 use identifiers for --ask mode question keys by @jberg5 in #19041 Full Changelog : v0.40.5...v0.40.6-rc0
Open original source →v0.40.6-rc0: Merge pull request #19041 from ollama/jberg/clef-question-ids
use identifiers for --ask mode question keys
Open original source →Welcome Muse Spark Open: open-weight frontier multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta
Open original source →v0.40.7
What's Changed openai: allow Responses effort on non-thinking models by @hoyyeva in #19010 llama-server: let llama-server infer the draft speculative type by @dhiltgen in #19064 mlx: add PPLX Decider v1.2 support by @dhiltgen in #19072 Full Changelog : v0.40.6...v0.40.7-rc0
Open original source →Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale
Open original source →v0.40.5-rc2
llama.cpp: version bump b11669 ( #19032 )
Open original source →v0.40.6-rc1: transfer: support proxies on registry redirect targets (#19065)
Behind a proxy, defer redirect-target DNS to the proxy; without one, keep the resolve-and-pin path. Trust default-registry/CDN hostnames with no local DNS. Fix a nil CancelFunc crash in blobDownload.release.
Open original source →Automation
Build n8n workflows with Gemini 4 Argon: MCP, the Assistant, and Agents
Gemini 4 Argon just dropped, and n8n is one of the first companies to use and integrate the model. Check out how you can use it with your existing n8n workflows and how to build new ones. Here are the benchmarks Google published: Benchmarks reported by Google. Source: Gemini 4
Open original source →How API Contract Testing Prevents Production Failures
API contract testing helps you catch breaking changes before they disrupt your workflows. See how n8n validates API responses while your automations run.
Open original source →2026.9: There's room on this bus
Home Assistant 2026.9! 🎉 I’ll be honest: Modbus has never been the flashiest part of Home Assistant. It quietly powers solar inverters, heat pumps, and energy meters, but only if you’re comfortable hand-writing your own register map in YAML, a real wall that’s kept a huge category of devices out of reach. This release finally makes room on the bus: integrations that already know how a device talks over Modbus, sharin
Open original source →2026.10: You are here 📍
Home Assistant 2026.10! 🎉 Last week, Nabu Casa dropped: Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we’re renaming ours . Home Assistant Cloud is on its way to becoming Home Assistant Link. Same service, new name. I love that title, by the way. If you haven’t read the story behind it yet, go have a look, and tell us what you think . The change is planned for the December release, so there is still time. 🏎️ Now, I’ll let you in on
Open original source →Build a morning AI news brief with You.com, Jev, and n8n
Every weekday at 8am, this workflow searches the day's AI news, scores every article for materiality at about $0.00004 apiece, and posts one cited brief per topic to Slack. Topics with no real news get no post.
Open original source →Anonymous and open to all: The Home Assistant survey dataset
Our why as an organization is clear: to fight for privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes, and for every person who lives in one. But who does live in them? In December 2024, we launched the first Home Assistant survey to find out. Our goal was simple: to make Home Assistant more inclusive and approachable by listening directly to the diverse community of people who use it. In the spirit of building in th
Open original source →Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we’re renaming ours
From ever-increasing subscription prices to outages and data harvesting: we don’t like what the cloud has come to represent. So we’re redefining what an online service should be: private, optional, and free from lock-in or walled gardens. That’s why today Nabu Casa is renaming Home Assistant Cloud to more accurately describe what the service actually does , and to better reflect our values. Allow us to introduce: Hom
Open original source →LEDVANCE joins Works with Home Assistant
Prepare to be dazzled, because this month LEDVANCE join the Works with Home Assistant program as our newest partners 🎉 And what’s more, they bring a huge lineup of certified devices (116, to be exact!) to our community, which means plenty of new ways to light up your home 💡 A century of bright ideas We love welcoming established brands as much as newer names to the Works with Home Assistant program, and LEDVANCE are…
Open original source →Security
BeyondTrust Remote Support Authentication Bypass by Spoofing Vulnerability
CVE-2026-102764 | BeyondTrust Remote Support. BeyondTrust Remote Support contains an authentication bypass by spoofing vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to perform file operations on the appliance. Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forens
Open original source →Ahsay AhsayCBS Improper Authentication Vulnerability
CVE-2026-105133 | Ahsay AhsayCBS. Ahsay AhsayCBS contains an improper authentication vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication via manipulation of the random parameter in the API component’s checkSysPwd function. This vulnerability can be chained with CVE-2026-105134. Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Pr
Open original source →Fortinet Multiple Products Path Traversal Vulnerability
CVE-2025-61624 | Fortinet Multiple Products. FortiOS, FortiPAM, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager contain a path traversal vulnerability that may allow an authenticated attacker with admin profile and at least read-write permissions to write or delete arbitrary files via specific CLI commands. Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Priorit
Open original source →Atlassian Multiple Products Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties Vulnerability
CVE-2026-21589 | Atlassian Multiple Products. Multiple Atlassian products (Bitbucket Data Center ,Confluence Data Center, Jira Service Management Data Center, Jira Software Data Center, Bamboo Data Center, Crowd Data Center, Crucible and Fisheye) contain a files or directories accessible to external parties vulnerability which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to access specific files within the web application
Open original source →Ahsay AhsayCBS Command Injection Vulnerability
CVE-2026-105134 | Ahsay AhsayCBS. Ahsay AhsayCBS contains a command injection vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to execute operating system commands via manipulation of the random parameter in the Replication Receiver component’s /rps/api/json/UpdateReceivers.do endpoint. This vulnerability can be chained with CVE-2026-105133. Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, e
Open original source →Cisco Secure Email Gateway Relative Path Traversal Vulnerability
CVE-2026-76519 | Cisco Secure Email Gateway. Cisco Secure Email Gateway contains a relative path traversal vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to write arbitrary files on the underlying operating system. Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guida
Open original source →Microsoft Patches More Than 1,400 Security Flaws
Microsoft today issued updates to fix more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. Today's epic patch batch dwarfs September's record of nearly 1,000 fixes, which was already about ten times the normal monthly patch load from Redmond.
Open original source →FBI Arrests Executive at Ransomware Negotiation Firm
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently relieved the FBI of sensitive data on thousands of agents, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity.
Open original source →Infrastructure
Yandex outage: Data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move
When strikes hit Yandex data centers, many assumed Russian bot operations went dark. Cloudflare data reveals that while search crawling stopped, malicious bots simply migrated to other networks.
Open original source →A fully programmable secure web gateway
Cloudflare Gateway and Data Loss Prevention have inherited the flexibility and power of Cloudflare Workers through our full-stack integration with the Cloudflare Developer platform.
Open original source →Deploy with Void
Introducing Void: an open-source SDK, CLI, and self-hosted platform for building full-stack Vite apps and deploying them to Cloudflare.
Open original source →Cloudflare and OpenAI: Making AI discovery better for everyone
How Cloudflare and OpenAI are working together to help AI find useful content, keep up with changes, and make fewer wasted requests — making the experience better for users and website owners alike.
Open original source →Continuous accountability for Verified bots
Identity alone doesn't guarantee a bot will behave responsibly. We are introducing a system to continuously evaluate whether Verified bots honor site preferences, like robots.txt and HTTP 429s, ensuring they remain accountable over time.
Open original source →Inside Hyperdrive: How we solved a rare Hyperdrive MySQL caching bug
While adding MySQL support to Hyperdrive, we found a subtle protocol bug when caching query results. Here is how we tracked down a 0.001% rate error and made Hyperdrive MySQL generally available.
Open original source →Developer Infrastructure
Xcode 27 runner image generally available
You can now use the generally available Xcode 27 runner image to build and test your Apple applications in GitHub Actions. Previously in public preview, this GitHub-hosted image runs on… The post Xcode 27 runner image generally available appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Open original source →Multi-repository support and other improvements for GitHub in Slack and Teams
@GitHub in Slack and Teams now supports working across multiple repositories in a single conversation. Whether you’re creating issues, opening pull requests, or investigating bugs, you can work across repositories… The post Multi-repository support and other improvements for GitHub in Slack and Teams appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Open original source →Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models in mid-November
We will deprecate the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions) on November 16th, 2026: Model Deprecation date… The post Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models in mid-November appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Open original source →Open source license compliance generally available
Enterprises can now manage their dependencies’ licenses at scale with sophisticated, ruleset-based checks that enforce a centralized policy. Open source license compliance is now generally available for GitHub Enterprise Cloud… The post Open source license compliance generally available appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Open original source →Download GitHub Code Quality license usage as a CSV
You can now download a CSV report of your GitHub Code Quality license usage to reconcile your license count with your own records. The report includes: Each active committer who… The post Download GitHub Code Quality license usage as a CSV appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Open original source →AI Scan for pull requests generally available
Code scanning AI Scan for pull requests is now generally available. It complements CodeQL by finding vulnerabilities in pull request changes for languages and frameworks that CodeQL does not currently… The post AI Scan for pull requests generally available appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Open original source →Web & Publishing
WordPress 7.1.2 Release
This security release features a fix for a critical severity security vulnerability. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can download WordPress 7.1.2 from WordPress.org, or visit your WordPress Dashboard, click “Updates”, and then click “Update Now”. If you have sites that support automatic background updates, […]
Open original source →WordPress 7.1.1 Maintenance and Security Release
This security and maintenance release features 17 bug fixes on Core, 19 bug fixes for the Block Editor, and 11 security fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can download WordPress 7.1.1 from WordPress.org, or visit your WordPress Dashboard, click “Updates”, and then click “Update […]
Open original source →WordPress 7.1.3 Maintenance and Security Release
This security and maintenance release features 7 security fixes and 4 bug fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can download WordPress 7.1.3 from WordPress.org, or visit your WordPress Dashboard, click “Updates”, and then click “Update Now”. If you have sites that support automatic background […]
Open original source →WordPress Takes Its Turn Leading the Open Website Alliance
I’m happy to announce that I am now serving as president of the Open Website Alliance (OWA), representing the WordPress Foundation. The Alliance brings together the community organizations behind Drupal, Joomla!, TYPO3, and WordPress to advocate for open source and share practices that benefit their projects. I represent the WordPress Foundation in this role, which […]
Open original source →Students Built 108 Websites in Two Weeks in Bangladesh
In July, students at two campuses in Kishoreganj, Bangladesh, built 108 websites. In eastern Uganda, a workshop that arrived to find no electricity at the school ran anyway, for more than 100 learners, because a former student had asked for it. In Costa Rica, three university students taught a three-session WordPress class to 40 high […]
Open original source →WordPress Signs the Open Weights and American AI Leadership Letter
We’re proud to announce that WordPress has signed Open Weights and American AI Leadership, an open letter asking US policymakers to not place early restrictions on open weight AI models. These are artificial intelligence models that anyone can download, inspect, modify, and run on their own infrastructure. The letter was published on July 24, 2026, […]
Open original source →Updated guidance on using generative AI content
What : Updated the using generative AI content guide with information from the Search Quality Raters guidelines. Why : To get our documentation in sync with our presentations we use at our developer events.
Open original source →Added documentation on adding a Search profile badge to your website
What : Added a new guide on how to add a Search profile badge to your website . Why : To help site owners point their audience to their Search profile.
Open original source →