Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made billions by collecting, sharing, and using your personal data. In turn, Meta uses your data to help create its large language model (LLM) Llama 2. Yes, your data is the ore from which the metal … Continue reading →

If you give a hoot about code security, you already know that popular code-package managers and repertories, such as Node Package Manager (npm) and Python Package Index (PyPI), are overstuffed with vulnerabilities and the malware that goes with them.…Read More

When is a 9.8 CVSS critical security violation not that big a deal? When its rating doesn’t make a lick of sense. I don’t know about you, but I pay attention when I hear about a software program getting a … Continue reading →

Back in July, Linus Torvalds was worried the next update of the Linux kernel might be “one of those releases that may drag out” because most of Europe goes on vacation during August. It turns out that his worries were … Continue reading →

No one would have guessed in October 2022 that artificial intelligence (AI) would shortly revolutionize the world. Then, on November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT and everything changed. Now, AI is everywhere. The next major step was when ChatGPT…Read More

Decades ago, Eric S. Raymond, one of open-source’s founders, famously coined Linus’s Law: “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.” Makes you feel warm and fuzzy about open-source security, doesn’t it? There’s a corollary, though. For Linus’s…Read More