The open-source education technology landscape has undergone rapid transformation in early 2026, driven by the convergence of large language model capabilities with established pedagogical frameworks. This article surveys emerging open-source repositories created within the past 60 days that address AI-powered tutoring, automated assessment, and multi-agent classroom simulation. We evaluate fiv...
Digital Payment Adoption and Shadow Economy Reduction: Evidence from Ukraine’s Diia Platform
This article examines the relationship between digital payment adoption and shadow economy reduction in Ukraine, with particular focus on the Diia government services platform as a digitalization catalyst. Drawing on National Bank of Ukraine transaction data (2015–2025), cross-country panel evidence, and sector-level informality estimates, we investigate whether cashless payment penetration cau...
The UIB Composite Score: Integrating Eight Intelligence Dimensions into a Unified Benchmark
Current artificial intelligence benchmarks measure isolated capabilities — reasoning, coding, knowledge retrieval — yet no single metric captures the multidimensional nature of machine intelligence. This article presents the Universal Intelligence Benchmark (UIB) Composite Score, integrating eight previously defined intelligence dimensions (reasoning, causal, temporal, social, efficiency, trans...
Quarterly Benchmark: Q1 2026 Open-Source Trust Score Evolution
Open-source software underpins more than 90% of modern application stacks, yet systematic measurement of project trustworthiness remains fragmented across competing frameworks. This article presents the first quarterly benchmark of the Trusted Open Source Index, evaluating 20 high-impact repositories across eight trust dimensions derived from OpenSSF Scorecard, CHAOSS community health metrics, ...
Tax Evasion Mechanisms in Ukraine: A Typology of Shadow Economy Channels
Ukraine's shadow economy remains one of the largest in Europe, with wartime conditions creating both new evasion channels and shifting the composition of existing ones. This article develops a comprehensive typology of tax evasion mechanisms operating in Ukraine, classifying shadow economy channels along three dimensions: mechanism type, sectoral concentration, and detection difficulty. Drawing...
Fresh Repositories Watch: Financial Technology — Open-Source Trading and Risk Engines
The financial technology open-source ecosystem experienced rapid growth in early 2026, driven by the convergence of AI-powered trading agents, prediction market infrastructure, and quantitative research frameworks. This article surveys 89 newly created repositories (January-March 2026) across trading automation, risk management, portfolio optimization, and payment infrastructure. We evaluate re...
Fresh Repositories Watch: Developer Infrastructure — Build Tools and CI/CD Innovations
The developer infrastructure landscape is undergoing a fundamental transformation driven by two converging forces: the rapid adoption of AI-augmented development pipelines and the escalating frequency of software supply chain attacks targeting CI/CD systems. This article surveys open-source repositories created within the past 60 days (January-March 2026) that address build tooling, pipeline au...
GROMUS: A Unified AI Architecture for Pre-Publication Music Virality Prediction
The music industry faces a persistent and costly challenge: determining whether a track will achieve viral reach before it is released to the public. Conventional approaches to music popularity prediction rely on post-publication engagement signals — streams, likes, shares, and historical interaction data — making them structurally incapable of informing pre-release decisions. GROMUS addresses ...
FLAI: An Intelligent System for Social Media Trend Prediction Using Recurrent Neural Networks with Dynamic Exogenous Variable Injection
Social media platforms — foremost TikTok and Instagram — generate billions of interaction events daily, creating stochastic, high-velocity Big Data streams whose trend trajectories prove notoriously difficult to forecast with classical statistical models. This paper presents FLAI, an intelligent information-analytical system for predicting the behaviour of social-network objects, with emphasis ...
ScanLab: Explainable Diagnostic AI — A Local Architecture for Training, Inference, and Visual Explanation of Medical Image Analysis
Medical artificial intelligence has long suffered from a critical epistemic gap: models produce predictions without producing justifications. Clinicians, regulators, and patients cannot evaluate the validity of a decision if they can only see its output. ScanLab addresses this gap through a deliberate architectural choice — making explainability a mandatory, non-negotiable layer of the inferenc...