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  1. GitHub Cuts Public Bug Bounty Payouts, Moves Top Rewards to VIP Tier

    The Hacker News · · Low severity

    Beginning July 27, 2026, GitHub will cut public bug bounty payouts by at least half at every severity level. Critical findings will drop from $20,000-$30,000+ to a fixed $10,000, while its permanent invite-only VIP tier will pay $30,000...

  2. Snowpick: Open-source ServiceNow exposure scanner

    Help Net Security · · Medium severity

    An employee opens a company service portal, searches the knowledge base, and drops a file onto a ticket. Someone who never signed in can send a request to that same portal and get records back. Bishop Fox ran that test across 166...

  3. Open Source Vacuum Avoids Cloud

    Hackaday ·

    As more and more of the technology that we paid for turns becomes a subscription, there’s slowly been a momentum shift in the open source world of building replacements for these intrusive rent-seekers. We see this all of the time for...

  4. Microsoft just open-sourced the app that made Comic Sans famous

    TechSpot ·

    Microsoft has open-sourced Comic Chat, its quirky 1996 IRC client that turned text conversations into comic strips with cartoon avatars, speech bubbles, and dynamic panel layouts. Now released under the MIT License, the project can be...

  5. AI agents tricked into recommending malicious GitHub repositories

    Help Net Security ·

    Roughly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories were uncovered, more than 800 of them posing as AI Skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, in a wave that peaked in April 2026, according to Island. The scale of the FakeGit operation...

  6. Capital One Open Sources AI-Powered ‘VulnHunter’ Security Tool

    SecurityWeek ·

    The agentic security tool identifies potentially exploitable code flaws, traces attack paths, and recommends targeted remediations. The post Capital One Open Sources AI-Powered ‘VulnHunter’ Security Tool appeared first on SecurityWeek .

  7. Nearly half of open-source AI projects never reach production

    Help Net Security ·

    Open models are moving into production across more organizations, and the work of securing those deployments increasingly extends beyond the model weights. Mozilla’s The State of Open Source AI 2026 identifies deployment, governance and...

  8. Moonshot AI Launches World’s Largest Open-Source Model

    TechRepublic ·

    Moonshot AI’s 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 raises China’s open-model ambitions while posing major infrastructure and cost questio The post Moonshot AI Launches World’s Largest Open-Source Model appeared first on TechRepublic .

  9. FastFlowLM Developers Join AMD To Help Push Open-Source NPU Software

    Phoronix ·

    On top of releasing ROCm 7.14 as the new production release of ROCm now built offTheRock, rolling out the Lemonade 11.0 local AI server, and GAIA 0.22, AMD has some more open-source news in the lead up to next week's AMD Advancing AI...

  10. Microsoft open-sources Comic Chat, its cartoon IRC curiosity

    The Register ·

    Microsoft has open-sourced Comic Chat, its short-lived 1990s experiment in turning Internet Relay Chat (IRC) conversations into comic strips – and, for many users, their first encounter with Comic Sans. Microsoft Comic Chat was released...

  11. How to use GitHub safely

    Malwarebytes Labs ·

    GitHub is rapidly becoming the go-to platform for sharing software. Originally built for developers to collaborate on code, it now hosts millions of projects ranging from hobby scripts to widely used applications. That popularity,...

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