Every time a developer types npm install, they are placing a bet that the package they are pulling into their project is not ...

Open source software with more than 1 million monthly downloads was compromised after a threat actor exploited a ...

The Office of the National Cyber Director wants software providers to "contribute back to the security of the open source software they depend upon." The federal government wants public input on how ...

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The danger in the code came from characters that are invisible to the human eye. In early March researchers at several security firms examined what looked like empty space and found hidden Unicode ...

Malware in open source software is no longer a fringe threat–it’s accelerating at an unprecedented rate. In 2025 alone, more than 90% of open source vulnerability (OSV) malware advisories were ...

AI is burying open source maintainers under a flood of automated security reports they don't have the time or tools to process. The Linux Foundation's $12.5 million coalition funding aims to fix that ...

'Like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault': Why AI led one company to abandon open source ...

Opinion Cal.com has closed its commercial codebase, abandoning years of AGPL-3.0 licensing in a move that has alarmed the ...