#open source

• Apple TV 4K Finally Plays TrueHD Atmos, With a Big Catch

  A clever open-source pipeline brings Blu-ray Dolby Atmos audio to Apple TV 4K by rerouting TrueHD metadata through Apple's spatial engine.

• UCLA's $400 PhoneBot Uses a $50 Android Phone as Its Brain

  UCLA researchers built PhoneBot, a $400 open-source humanoid that offloads vision, sensing and walking control to a cheap Android phone. An old Honor 9 works fine.

• Meta and Apple Drop Muse Spark Open, a 42B Open Model

  Meta and Apple co-developed Muse Spark Open, a 42-billion-parameter open-weights AI model that needs two M5 Mac Studio Ultras to run locally.

• Eric S. Raymond: AI Decompiled AAA Games, Software Secrecy Is Over

  Open source pioneer Eric S. Raymond warns that AI-powered decompilation of AAA games proves no binary is safe, signaling the end of software secrecy.

• LiteLLM Flaw Hits 90M Downloads: Patch Now to 1.83.9

  Two LiteLLM flaws let low-privilege users seize admin control and steal AI provider API keys. All versions before 1.83.9 are affected — patch and rotate keys now.