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The open source library holding up your stack might have one maintainer

The open source library holding up your stack might have one maintainer 2026-07-10 at 10:00 By Sinisa Markovic Every serious software product runs on code that someone else wrote and released for free. A web service leans on a cryptography library, a data pipeline pulls in a parser, and a mobile app ships a handful […]

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Open-source collaboration is growing worldwide and putting pressure on maintainers

Open-source collaboration is growing worldwide and putting pressure on maintainers 2026-07-09 at 08:10 By Sinisa Markovic Developers are pushing code and opening pull requests across economy borders at a rate GitHub has rarely seen. Outbound collaboration, the sum of git pushes and pull requests sent from developers in one economy to public repositories in another,

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Wireshark 4.6.7 patches a dozen security flaws

Wireshark 4.6.7 patches a dozen security flaws 2026-07-09 at 07:45 By Anamarija Pogorelec Network analysts who open packet captures in Wireshark push untrusted data through a large set of protocol dissectors, and each parser is a spot where a malformed frame can trip up the software. The 4.6.7 maintenance release closes twelve of those weak

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20 open-source cybersecurity tools to keep your team ready for anything

20 open-source cybersecurity tools to keep your team ready for anything 2026-07-08 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec AI is changing how security teams find vulnerabilities, analyze code, test applications, and protect infrastructure. Developers are building tools to secure AI systems themselves, from coding agents and memory protection to model exposure discovery. This roundup covers recent

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Apple Container: Open-source tool for Linux containers on the Mac

Apple Container: Open-source tool for Linux containers on the Mac 2026-07-07 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Developers on Apple silicon Macs have run Linux containers through software built around a single shared virtual machine for years. Apple’s open-source Container project gives each Linux workload its own lightweight virtual machine. Container is written in Swift and

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OpenSSH 10.4 arrives with security fixes and a post-quantum signature option

OpenSSH 10.4 arrives with security fixes and a post-quantum signature option 2026-07-06 at 16:05 By Anamarija Pogorelec Operators who manage remote access to Unix and Linux systems keep a close watch on OpenSSH, the software that carries most SSH traffic across the internet. The project released version 10.4 with eight security fixes, a set of

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Omnigent: Open-source AI agent framework and meta-harness

Omnigent: Open-source AI agent framework and meta-harness 2026-07-06 at 08:30 By Sinisa Markovic Plenty of developers now keep several coding agents close at hand, reaching for Claude Code on one task and Codex or Cursor on the next. Each tool arrives with its own command line, its own handling of credentials, and its own way

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New ClamAV security patch closes seven scanner bugs dating back two decades

New ClamAV security patch closes seven scanner bugs dating back two decades 2026-07-06 at 01:30 By Sinisa Markovic Open source antivirus scanning sits inside mail gateways, file upload checks, and endpoint tooling at organizations of every size. Much of that work runs through ClamAV, the scanning engine maintained by Cisco’s Talos group. The project released

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What the AI patch gap means for enterprise security

What the AI patch gap means for enterprise security 2026-07-02 at 07:30 By Sinisa Markovic Open-source maintainers are receiving more vulnerability reports than they can act on, and a rising share now comes from an AI system working at machine speed. Over roughly two months this spring, Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview combed through more than

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GitHub’s new tool helps prevent costly open-source license violations

GitHub’s new tool helps prevent costly open-source license violations 2026-07-02 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec GitHub’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO) uses the new GitHub License Compliance feature, now in public preview, to manage thousands of open-source dependencies and identify dependencies whose licenses require review. The feature is available to GitHub Advanced Security customers and

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Nika: Open-source code analysis tool

Nika: Open-source code analysis tool 2026-07-01 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz Many serious security bugs in web applications sit across several files at once. Request data enters through a controller, moves through data objects and service layers, and turns dangerous only when it reaches a sensitive operation such as a database query or a file

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Kali Linux 2026.2 trims VM boot times, refreshes its desktops

Kali Linux 2026.2 trims VM boot times, refreshes its desktops 2026-06-30 at 11:16 By Sinisa Markovic Penetration testers who run Kali Linux inside virtual machines boot their systems faster after the 2026.2 release. The change comes from a decision about graphics firmware, the code that drives NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPUs. That firmware has grown

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Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: June 2026

Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: June 2026 2026-06-30 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Presented here is a curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity solutions that have drawn recognition for their ability to enhance security postures across diverse settings. OWASP Agent Memory Guard: Stop AI agents from being weaponized through their own memory AI

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DarkMoon: Open-source AI pentesting platform

DarkMoon: Open-source AI pentesting platform 2026-06-29 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Penetration testing has long run on expert time, with specialists spending days probing a network or web application by hand. Manual engagements stretch across weeks, expert consultants run into thousands of dollars a day, and results vary with the tester. Automation promises to narrow

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Critical open-source projects get a new security framework

Critical open-source projects get a new security framework 2026-06-26 at 14:41 By Anamarija Pogorelec Open source software projects are getting a new framework for handling security vulnerabilities as AI shortens the time between flaw discovery and exploitation. The Linux Foundation has launched Akrites, an industry initiative that brings together technology companies, financial institutions, security vendors,

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Linux Foundation Unveils New Open Source Security Project Akrites

Linux Foundation Unveils New Open Source Security Project Akrites 2026-06-26 at 14:28 By Ionut Arghire It will provide the tools and channels to report, patch, and disclose open source software vulnerabilities. The post Linux Foundation Unveils New Open Source Security Project Akrites appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original

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Modelplane: Open-source control plane for AI inference

Modelplane: Open-source control plane for AI inference 2026-06-26 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Organizations that run open-weight models on hardware they own operate GPU fleets spread across clouds, neoclouds, and on-premise data centers. Each fleet handles model placement, replica scaling, infrastructure provisioning, weight distribution, and traffic routing. Teams have built this coordination layer by hand,

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Best practices for AI in open-source work

Best practices for AI in open-source work 2026-06-25 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Free and open source software developers us AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Copilot CLI, Antigravity, and OpenCode in their daily work. The Software Freedom Conservancy responded to that trend with a set of recommendations for contributors who use these tools,

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A $1,400 experiment in AI security auditing outperformed OpenAI’s Codex Security

A $1,400 experiment in AI security auditing outperformed OpenAI’s Codex Security 2026-06-23 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz A research team has built a system that teaches AI agents to hunt for software bugs by writing the audit method down as plain text. The system, called EVOHUNT, keeps the underlying AI model fixed and improves only

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Agent Beacon: Open-source telemetry layer for AI agents

Agent Beacon: Open-source telemetry layer for AI agents 2026-06-22 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, and Claude Cowork run on developer laptops, CI jobs, cloud environments, where they edit files, run commands, and call outside tools. Beacon, an open-source project from Asymptote Labs, configures telemetry for

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