The Linux Foundation says Anthropic, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI gave $12.5M in grants to help FOSS maintainers handle AI-generated security findings
Reddit appears to be blocking search engines that don't rely on Google's indexing; Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, and others are not showing recent Reddit results
except the ones that pay Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable : Reddit Blocked Bing Search & Others But Not Google Ben Schoon / 9to5Google : Reddit now blocks all search engines other than Google...
Developers say open-source software culture, where users demand constant updates from volunteer coders, is a security issue, as shown by the XZ Utils backdoor
A previously unknown contributor to the popular open-source Android app store F-Droid repeatedly pressured its developers to push … Mastodon: @samleecole@journa.host , @doctormo@floss.social , and @mh...
How social media is forcing writers and artists to build personal brands and become influencers, making many artists uncomfortable and feel like sellouts
So you want to be an artist. Do you have to start a TikTok? — When Rachael Kay Albers was shopping around her book proposal … Threads: @joanwestenberg and @jonathangarelick Mastodon: @lilithsaintcr...
Researchers report critical vulnerabilities in the Exim open-source mail transfer agent that allow for remote code execution; Exim is used by up to 253K servers
Remote code execution requiring no authentication fixed. 2 other RCEs remain unpatched. — https://arstechnica.com/... [image] BrianKrebs / @briankrebs@infosec.exchange : More info, from https://sec...
Meta launches Instagram's text-based Threads app on the App Store and Google Play in 100+ countries; users log in via Instagram and can follow the same accounts
As Twitter has become even less-filtered … Michael Muchmore / PCMag : Hands On With Instagram Threads: Does Meta's Twitter Killer Deliver? John Palmer / Cryptopolitan : Meta's Threads Promises Decentr...
Volunteer staff of Freenode IRC, a key communication channel for FOSS developers, resign in protest over what they describe as a hostile takeover of the service
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Facebook partners with CBSE, an Indian government education body, to launch a certified curriculum on AR and digital safety for students and teachers in India
Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Tweets: @anjakovacs , @mikebutcher , @hackylawyer , @anivar , @chrisinsilico , and @smerrells Tweets: Anja Kovacs / @anjakovacs : Facebook is partnering with CBSE to launc...
Researchers at Linux Foundation and Harvard identify the most commonly used FOSS components within enterprises and potential vulnerabilities related to that use
In its latest study, the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative discovered just how prevalent open-source components …
Oracle v Google trial, which is based on the notion that APIs are copyrightable, hinges on a judge and jurors who don't have a firm grasp of FOSS philosophy
The problem with Oracle v. Google is that everyone actually affected by the case knows what an API is, but the whole affair …