Memo: Red Hat Global Engineering plans to lean in to AI
…be much more useful for code review and testing than they are for writing it or documenting it, for instance. Notably, Greg Kroah-Hartman, the manager of the Linux stable series of…
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Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access
…community" will absorb this workload as part of the deal. According to Synopsys's 2025 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report , more than 97 percent of commercial software projects use…
EFF has new boss, Nicole Ozer, to fight privacy-suckers
…EFF's people are my community, and EFF has been my closest partner for more than two decades ....So it feels very right to be taking the torch from the amazing Cindy…
Spark creator Matei Zaharia bags ACM Prize in Computing
…Linux Foundation, and MLflow, an open source platform for machine learning lifecycles. But he is best known for Apache Spark, which was widely adopted by the machine learning and analytics community. It…
Cloudflare previews AI rebuild of Wordpress in TypeScript
…I've also been on the Astro core team for two years, so I do think I understand real open source software and community. As the post implies, I did use a…
Red Hat RHELocates its Chinese engineering team to India
…My access got restricted to various services that we use regularly, and no one told me why. We got a notice from our CTO shortly after to let us know that the…
Documentation can contain malicious instructions for agents
…Two weeks ago, Andrew Ng, an AI entrepreneur and adjunct professor at Stanford, launched Context Hub, a service for supplying coding agents with API documentation. "Coding agents often use outdated APIs and…
DuckDB uses RDBMS to tackle lakehouse 'small changes' issue
…Essentially, it proposed using an RDBMS to manage the metadata in lakehouse implementations based on the common open table formats Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake (introduced by Databricks, governed by the Linux…
North Korea targets macOS users in latest heist
…intruders caught breaking into US healthcare, education orgs Fake Linux leader using Slack to con devs into giving up their secrets Additionally, one of the backdoors used in this campaign - icloudz - is…
Forking frenzy ensues after launch of Euro-Office
…Jos Poortvliet, VP Communications & Product Strategy, gave us the following statement: Under AGPLv3 Section 7, downstream recipients may remove terms that constitute "further restrictions" beyond what Section 7(a)-(f) permits, as…