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...
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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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 …
Obama unveils $19B Cybersecurity National Action Plan, asking Congress for 35% increase in cybersecurity funding
Dead on Arrival Christian de Looper / Tech Times : White House Proposes $19 Billion Plan To Strengthen Cybersecurity Bryan Clark / The Next Web : Obama plans to spend $19bn to ramp up cybersecurity ef...