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  2. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang debuts on X with call to defend open-sourced AI

    Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·

    Jensen Huang , Chief Executive Officer of Nvidia, officially made his debut on social media platform X , using his first public post to wade directly into one of the most fierce debates in modern technology policy: the regulatory status...

  3. Cohere joins Silicon Valley heavyweights in call for open-source AI

    BetaKit ·

    Canadian AI scaleup Cohere is joining the chorus of tech companies calling for AI models to be more transparent. The news: In his very first post on X last week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared an open letter in support of releasing...

  5. New GitHub, PyPI Policies Boost Supply Chain Security

    SecurityWeek · · Medium severity

    Dependabot gets a three-day cooldown window before opening pull requests, and PyPI rejects file uploads to releases older than 14 days. The post New GitHub, PyPI Policies Boost Supply Chain Security appeared first on SecurityWeek .

  6. GitHub Adds 3-Day Dependabot Cooldown to Limit Poisoned Package Adoption

    The Hacker News · · Medium severity

    GitHub has announced a new cooldown mechanism in Dependabot, allowing the tool to wait at least three days after a release is published before opening a pull request. "The cooldown configuration option in the dependabot.yml still...

  7. Nono: Open-source sandbox for AI agents

    Help Net Security ·

    An AI coding agent opens a terminal, reads a config file, and finds a live cloud key sitting in plaintext. It runs with the permissions of the person who launched it. Every file that person can read, the agent reads.

  8. GitHub delays version updates so malware gets caught first

    Help Net Security · · Medium severity

    An automated update tool watches a package registry, catches a new release the moment it publishes, and opens a pull request for your team. That is the job it was built to do. In September 2025, that speed cut the wrong way.

  14. Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else

    The Register ·

    OPINION Linux now being officially not anti-AI might be good news for projects that are explicitly anti-AI, but we foresee problems with conflict over where the money and development effort come from. A couple of weeks ago, reluctant...

  15. Elon Musk to make X's entire codebase open source in August

    Tech-Economic Times ·

    Elon Musk had first revealed the plan last week, saying the company was identifying and fixing security vulnerabilities before the release. He had also assured that independent reviewers would be invited to verify that the software...

  18. Microsoft and Nvidia Lead Push Against US Open-Source AI Restrictions

    PYMNTS.com ·

    Microsoft , Meta and Nvidia are among 25 tech organizations calling on U.S. policymakers to avoid placing “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models or “sweeping restrictions” on distillation. In an open letter dated Friday (July...

  22. AMD Advancing AI 2026: Open, Open-Source & More Open-Source

    Phoronix ·

    At this week's AMD Advancing AI 2026 event, "AI" was mentioned thousands of times in talks and in demos. Beyond that, the other term likely most heard during the event was "open"... Not particularly new for AMD with their long history...

  23. GitHub takes down BitChat after Home Ministry order

    MEDIANAMA ·

    Access the Bitchat order here: Images | Markdown file (parsed from Images) At midnight 11:16 pm on July 23, Ministry of Home Affairs’ Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) issued a takedown order to GitHub directing it to remove...

  27. OTX Threat: Intercom-client@7.0.4 Harvesting Github Credentials

    AlienVault OTX · · Medium severity

    The Intercom TypeScript Library version 7.0.4 has been compromised with malicious code that harvests GitHub credentials. Upon installation, the package executes a preinstall hook that downloads the Bun runtime, then runs a payload to...

  29. Capital One Debuts Open-Source Agentic Security Tool VulnHunter

    PYMNTS.com ·

    Capital One has announced the open-source release of its in-house agentic AI security tool. The banking giant’s VulnHunter is designed “to apply proactive, attacker-perspective analysis directly to the source code,” Capital One said in...

  37. GitHub revamps bug bounty program with new VIP tier, payout changes

    Help Net Security · · Medium severity

    GitHub is changing its bug bounty program to reward higher-quality vulnerability reports and reduce low-effort submissions, including AI-generated reports. The changes will take effect on July 27, 2026. Reports submitted before that...

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