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Bruce Perens: Open source licenses “aren’t working” but we can fix themIn-depth Open source veteran Bruce Perens is pushing his idea of the open source future, while taking aim at the current landscape
By George Fitzmaurice Published
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Open source advocates "cautiously optimistic" about Cyber Resilience Act after industry pushback prompts changesNews Amendments to the Cyber Resilience Act in December curtailed the potential impact on open source developers in the region, an industry body has said
By Solomon Klappholz Published
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Cisco signals open source intentions with Isovalent acquisitionNews Cisco says it will leverage the open source capabilities of Cilium to create a “truly unique” multi-cloud and security platform
By Daniel Todd Published
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Reprieve for open source industry as agreement reached on Cyber Resilience ActNews The Cyber Resilience Act has been maligned by open source advocates across Europe
By Ross Kelly Published
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UK open source ecosystem can bridge growing tech industry skills gapNews The UK open source community is the “the submarine under the digital economy”, according to OpenUK
By Solomon Klappholz Published
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux becomes foundational operating system for Cohesity Data CloudNews New strategic partnership between Red Hat and Cohesity aims to drive innovation in the data security and management space
By Daniel Todd Published
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OpenSSF malicious packages repository launches in bid to counter security threatsNews The launch of the OpenSSF Malicious Packages Repository has been hailed as a positive step in tackling open source threats
By Ross Kelly Published
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Here's what you need to know about the upcoming curl security patchesNews Developers behind the open source library described one Curl vulnerability as one of the worst they've ever encountered
By Rory Bathgate Published
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Open source software attacks: Everything you need to look out forIn-depth Open source software attacks are a growing risk all firms should be aware of, so what can organizations do about them?
By Kate O'Flaherty Published
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LLM gateway aims to take the pain out of managing AI securityNews An open source framework to make generative AI secure by design
By Richard Speed Published
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Analysis: HashiCorp prioritizes its business with BSL license switch, but community upset cannot be ignoredAnalysis HashiCorp’s source code license change has sparked an outcry from the open source community
By Richard Speed Published
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‘AI Cyber Challenge’ shows US gov is already acting on its national security ambitionsNews The $20m challenge will include support from major industry players, such as OpenAI and Google
By Ross Kelly Published
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