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OpenSSF warns of Open Source Social Engineering Threats

DevOps.com

The Open Source Security […] If the XZ exploit had gone undiscovered for only a few more weeks, millions of Linux systems would have been compromised with a backdoor. We were lucky. But, can we stay lucky?

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The Commonhaus Way to Manage Open Source Projects

DevOps.com

Commonhaus is taking a laissez-faire approach to open source group management.

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NetApp acquires Instaclustr to deliver open source databases as a service

TechCrunch

Companies producing software are becoming ever more reliant on open source databases to build their programs, but it’s complex working with all these different products. Instaclustr , a California startup, wanted to change that by offering popular open source databases delivered as a service.

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The Practicalities of Open Sourcing

DevOps.com

If you're contemplating the daring act of open sourcing your projects, here are some things to know before you set out.

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What’s Driving Changes in Open Source Licensing?

DevOps.com

Years of SaaS innovation and disruption threaten the profitability of vendor-driven open source projects, forcing licensing changes.

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Eclipse joins with industry groups to secure open source

InfoWorld

The Eclipse Foundation announced that it is partnering with the Apache Software Foundation and other open source foundations to establish common specifications for secure software development based on existing open source best practices.

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Hugging Face and ServiceNow launch BigCode, a project to open source code-generating AI systems

TechCrunch

But so far, only a handful of such AI systems have been made freely available to the public and open sourced — reflecting the commercial incentives of the companies building them. Hugging Face and ServiceNow launch BigCode, a project to open source code-generating AI systems by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.