Community & Collaboration Social Coworking & Office Hours: Join the SORTEE community for coworking sessions and learn about the organization’s mission to improve transparency in ecology and evolution. Vale & Text Linting Office Hours: Participate in coworking hours focused on Vale, an open-source linter for prose, and text linting best practices. Help Translate Hammer: A … Read more
Security Alerts CVE-2026-14570: Crypt::DSA versions before 1.22 for Perl have a biased random generator that leaks the private key. CVE-2026-12740: Plack::Middleware::OAuth through 0.10 for Perl lacks support for OAuth 2.0 state parameter, making CSRF attacks possible. New Tools & Projects gh-suggest: A GitHub CLI extension that converts staged local fixes into pull request suggestions. BrazilCrime: … Read more
Community & Coworking Social Coworking & Office Hours: Upcoming sessions focus on getting to know SORTEE, Vale and text linting, and debugging in R. Join the community to collaborate and sharpen your skills. Tech & Tools OSMNetFusion: A new tool for topological simplification of multimodal networks while preserving attributes. Ideal for urban planning and complex … Read more
Open Source in Security and Infrastructure This week’s digest highlights how open source projects are tackling critical issues from censorship to embedded system safety. The Tor Snowflake proxy workshop shows how WebRTC can help users bypass restrictive internet filters, while the Zephyr RTOS update marks ten years of progress toward functional safety certification and SBOM … Read more
Collaborative Coding and Learning Social Coworking sessions focus on SORTEE, Vale text linting, and R debugging, offering structured peer support for open-source projects. Wikipedia celebrates 25 years with initiatives to train new editors, ensuring sustained community growth. New Software and Updates COSMIC Desktop introduces a new system monitor, enhancing user experience for Linux enthusiasts. Inkue, … Read more
Community Collaboration & Productivity Social Coworking sessions this week feature SORTEE, Vale and text linting, and debugging in R – great opportunities for open source contributors to connect and improve workflows. Swánga̱lyiatwuki-WikiWoordenboek Wiktionary project continues with Part 3, focusing on Indigenous language preservation through collaborative editing. A Reddit user shares how they gained over 1.7 … Read more
Community & Collaboration Social Coworking & Office Hours: Upcoming sessions include ‘Getting to Know SORTEE’ (organization and transparency), ‘Vale and Text Linting’, and ‘Debugging in R’ – great for skill-building and networking. Petition for Android: A call for open-source community action regarding Android development. Homelab Setup Test: User seeking suggestions for homelab configuration; share your … Read more
Analysis Top Story: AI-Powered Threats and DefensesThe open-source ecosystem is facing a surge in AI-enabled cyber threats, with China’s new open-source model accelerating hacking risks. In response, the Linux Foundation launched Akrites, a project to defend critical open-source software against such threats. A separate initiative also targets vulnerabilities in end-of-life open-source software. This highlights a … Read more
Analysis This week’s top stories highlight a dual-edged sword for open-source: rapid AI model releases from global players like Italy’s Domyn and Chinese firms are democratizing access, but also lowering barriers for cyberattacks, as shown by open-source attack kits and AI tools nearly matching proprietary ones for vulnerability exploitation. Meanwhile, infrastructure initiatives like Akrites (Linux … Read more
Community & Collaboration Social Coworking & Office Hours – Join sessions on getting to know SORTEE, text linting with Vale, and debugging in R. Great for open-source newcomers and R enthusiasts. Commons Quality Images: 20 Years – Celebrate two decades of Wikimedians contributing high-quality, freely-licensed photographs that power Wikipedia and beyond. Developer Tools & Libraries … Read more
