Credit: Markus Spiske from Pexels Open source software underpins much of the modern digital world, from mobile phones and automobiles to cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Now, the rapid adoption of AI is creating new opportunities to improve that software while placing growing pressure on the people responsible for maintaining and securing it, according to…
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 — News consumption has reached a turning point: social media now edges television and news websites as the most widely used source of news. This changing mix of traditional and digital news sources is reflected in the 2026 edition of the annual Digital News Report, published by the Reuters Institute for…
Open source AI projects are gaining attention for their ability to address specific challenges across various fields. In a recent overview, Matthew Berman highlights six notable projects, including Unsloth, a framework that simplifies the fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs). Unsloth adopts a local-first approach, making sure that processes like training and deployment remain secure…
Partnership strengthens Taiwan’s participation in one of the world’s leading AI infrastructure projects through local community building, upstream contribution and engineering mentorship Group photo of the Embedded LLM team with Rock Tsai, Chairman of the TAIONE Open Source Foundation Get the latest news delivered to your inbox Sign up for The Manila Times newsletters By…
Cursor Flaw Lets Malicious Cloned Repositories Trigger Windows Code Execution Jul 15, 2026 Endpoint Security / Vulnerability Open a repository in Cursor on Windows and, if a file named git.exe is sitting in the project root, Cursor runs it. No click, no approval dialog, no warning that anything in the folder is about to execute. Whatever that binary…
53% of organizations cite zero license cost as the top reason for adopting open source software, according to the 2025 State of Open Source Report. The DHTMLX Gantt Community Edition team announced an analysis of recent open-source adoption research examining how licensing models influence developer tool adoption and software component selection. The analysis…
53% of organizations cite zero license cost as the top reason for adopting open source software, according to the 2025 State of Open Source Report. WARSAW, Poland, July 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The DHTMLX Gantt Community Edition team today released an analysis of recent open-source adoption research examining…
In brief The Linux Foundation launched Akrites on Thursday with 19 founding members to coordinate the remediation of critical open source vulnerabilities before AI-enabled attackers can exploit them. Fewer than 5% of the thousands of open-source vulnerabilities surfaced by AI in recent months have been patched, according to Endor Labs CEO Varun Badhwar. Akrites is…
The Linux Foundation, together with a broad coalition of technology companies, financial institutions, and open-source organizations, is launching the Akrites initiative . According to the organizers, AI has accelerated the pace at which vulnerabilities in open-source software are discovered to such an extent that the existing process for reporting and fixing security flaws is no…
ASWF’s Open Source Days bring together software engineers, developers and anyone else who touches open source software, for two days of presentations, collaboration and networking. Hosted annually by the Academy Software Foundation, Open Source Days is the leading event dedicated to open source software for visual effects, animation, and digital content creation. This year’s event…
