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Open-source maintainers still work underfunded as sponsorship crosses $100 million

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Open-source maintainers still work underfunded as sponsorship crosses $100 million 2026-07-21 at 11:37 By Anamarija Pogorelec A maintainer patches a library late at night that ships inside thousands of products, and no invoice follows. Sebastián Ramírez and Caleb Porzio spent years in that position. Ramírez, known as tiangolo, builds tools that other Python projects depend […]

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AI-generated reports push GNOME to shorten its disclosure window

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AI-generated reports push GNOME to shorten its disclosure window 2026-07-21 at 06:53 By Anamarija Pogorelec Volunteer maintainers of open source projects now receive a steady flow of security vulnerability reports produced with AI tools. Many arrive with no mention that a language model helped write them. The volume has grown enough that GNOME is revising

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Meet Dusseldorf, Microsoft’s open-source out-of-band security platform

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Meet Dusseldorf, Microsoft’s open-source out-of-band security platform 2026-07-20 at 09:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Out-of-band vulnerabilities surface when an application quietly reaches out to an external system during an attack, and capturing that traffic calls for infrastructure that many researchers assemble on their own. A new open-source project from Microsoft supplies that infrastructure in a package

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Nearly half of open-source AI projects never reach production

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Nearly half of open-source AI projects never reach production 2026-07-20 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Open models are moving into production across more organizations, and the work of securing those deployments increasingly extends beyond the model weights. Mozilla’s The State of Open Source AI 2026 identifies deployment, governance and operational tooling as persistent obstacles as

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What public money does to open-source projects

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What public money does to open-source projects 2026-07-16 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Most of the software running inside a typical company was written by volunteers the company never paid. Open-source code sits under web apps, build pipelines, and the machine learning stacks getting so much attention right now. Roughly 96 percent of codebases carry

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FreeRDP 3.29.0 security update resolves 22 advisories

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FreeRDP 3.29.0 security update resolves 22 advisories 2026-07-15 at 11:42 By Anamarija Pogorelec FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol, released under the Apache license, and it runs on a large share of workstations and servers through the many tools built on it. The 3.29.0 version is a security, bugfix, and maintenance

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SingGuard-NSFA: Open-source guardrails for agentic AI

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SingGuard-NSFA: Open-source guardrails for agentic AI 2026-07-15 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec SingGuard-NSFA is an open-source guardrail framework aimed at operational threats in agent workflows. Four models ship at 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B parameters, all built on Qwen3.5 base backbones. Risk taxonomy The NSFA risk taxonomy organizes threats along the CIA triad of confidentiality,

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Chatto: Open-source team messenger with privacy at its core

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Chatto: Open-source team messenger with privacy at its core 2026-07-14 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Teams that want their group chats off commercial platforms have a growing menu of self-hosted options. Chatto joined that group when its developer released the code under an open-source license and posted binaries for anyone to run on their own

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Cynative: Open-source deep research agent

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Cynative: Open-source deep research agent 2026-07-13 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz Running a large language model against a live cloud account to hunt for security holes comes with an obvious hazard. An agent that holds real credentials and a mandate to poke around can delete a bucket, flip a permission, or leak a secret on

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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