The latest Linux kernel, 6.10, is out. Linus Torvalds wasn’t happy about how the last days running up the Linux 6.10 release went. In the end, though, “it also wasn’t noisy enough to warrant an extra rc [release candidate].” So, … Continue reading →

In its latest State of Application Security Report, Cloudflare paints a sobering picture of the internet’s threat landscape in 2024. How sobering? Try 6.8% of internet traffic is malicious, up a percentage point from last year’s study. What’s driving…Read More

Opinion A “Youth and Open Source” panel was held at the United Nations (UN) Open Source Program Office (OSPO) for Good conference in the UN building in Manhattan. There was only one little problem with it. To quote Ruth Ikegah, … Continue reading →

How big a deal is open source? According to a January 2024 Harvard Business School study, rebuilding open-source software (OSS) would cost $8.8 trillion if companies had to develop equivalent technology. Of that cost, “96% of the demand-side value is…Read … Continue reading →

NEW YORK — At the United Nations OSPOs for Good Conference, we were once more reminded of the curious situation of AI and open source programs: While the foundations of AI are built on open source tools and libraries, almost … Continue reading →

SEATTLE — At the Linux Foundation‘s CloudNativeSecurity Conference last month, security experts Stav Ochakovski and Ariel Szarf from Mitga, a cloud and software as a service (SaaS) security company, discussed how they use logs to track down threat…Read More