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1. Show HN: We beat Cloudflare's bot detection (open-source stealth browser)

   Hacker News · 11 Jul 2026, 05:56 IST

2. Open-source AI model developer MiniMax raises $2B in funding

   SiliconANGLE · 11 Jul 2026, 01:58 IST

   MiniMax Group Inc., a Shanghai-based artificial intelligence developer, is raising $2 billion in funding. Bloomberg reported on Thursday that more than half the funds are expected to come from the sale of newly issued shares. According...

3. Injective Labs GitHub Compromise Pushes Wallet-Key-Stealing npm Packages

   The Hacker News · 10 Jul 2026, 22:59 IST · Medium severity

   Unknown threat actors compromised the Injective Labs SDK project's GitHub repository and leveraged it to publish a malicious package on the npm registry to steal cryptocurrency wallet private keys and mnemonic seed phrases. The...

4. Anyone else get a vague GitHub shakedown notice?

   Hacker News · 10 Jul 2026, 22:27 IST

5. CISA details security lapses that led to GitHub leak of passwords, cloud access keys

   Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · 10 Jul 2026, 20:19 IST · Medium severity

   The agency’s blog post came as lawmakers pressed the agency for answers.

6. Trump AI Restrictions Spur Shift Toward Open-Source Models

   PYMNTS.com · 10 Jul 2026, 21:04 IST

   The Trump administration’s recent restrictions on access to the most advanced U.S. artificial intelligence models are accelerating enterprise interest in open-source alternatives, including rapidly improving models developed in China....

7. Network of 200 GitHub Repositories Used for Malware Infection

   SecurityWeek · 10 Jul 2026, 13:30 IST · Medium severity

   A Go module is used to load PowerShell code that fetches a resolver from public dead drops to execute Windows malware. The post Network of 200 GitHub Repositories Used for Malware Infection appeared first on SecurityWeek .

8. The open source library holding up your stack might have one maintainer

   Help Net Security · 10 Jul 2026, 12:30 IST

   Every serious software product runs on code that someone else wrote and released for free. A web service leans on a cryptography library, a data pipeline pulls in a parser, and a mobile app ships a handful of small utilities that one...

9. This open-source Mac app finds the leftovers your deleted apps leave behind

   Digital Trends · 10 Jul 2026, 05:24 IST

   This native macOS app can scan for leftovers from removed apps and move user-domain files to the Trash for safer cleanup.

10. Dormant GitHub Accounts Help Attackers Blend In While Mapping Corporate Orgs

    The Hacker News · 10 Jul 2026, 00:08 IST · Medium severity

    Datadog Security Labs is warning of "several overlapping campaigns" that are systematically enumerating corporate GitHub organizations, repositories, and user accounts through the GitHub API. "Operators rely on automated scraping...

11. Show HN: Devthropology – Better Insights for GitHub Repos

    Hacker News · 09 Jul 2026, 22:17 IST

12. Alipay’s owner just open-sourced an entire robot brain in a single week

    TNW · 09 Jul 2026, 22:50 IST

    The company behind China’s Alipay just gave away an AI that builds a playable video game world and keeps it running for a full hour. Robbyant, the robotics arm of fintech giant Ant Group, open-sourced its LingBot-World 2.0 world model...

13. Open-source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M to grow its platform

    SiliconANGLE · 09 Jul 2026, 21:30 IST

    Ollama Inc., the largest artificial intelligence platform connecting developers to open models, today announced it raised $65 million in Series B funding led by Theory Ventures. Benchmark, 8VC, Y Combinator, Pace Capital, 49 Palms,...

14. PostHog Open Sourced

    Hacker News · 09 Jul 2026, 19:47 IST

15. Researchers broke GitHub Copilot’s safety by hiding harm in a workflow

    TNW · 09 Jul 2026, 19:13 IST

    Researchers at the Alan Turing Institute have shown that GitHub Copilot will produce harmful content it would normally refuse. The trick is to spread the request across an ordinary coding workflow. They call it a workflow-level...

16. OTX Threat: Malicious Go Module Exposes GitHub Malware Lure Network Spanning 222 Repositories

    AlienVault OTX · 09 Jul 2026, 13:54 IST · Medium severity

    A malicious Go module posing as a DNS/subdomain scanner exposed a sophisticated Windows malware staging operation utilizing commit-farming workflows, public dead drops, and protected archives to deploy RAT and infostealer malware. The...

17. This open-source app fixed my notification chaos when Android couldn’t

    Android Authority · 09 Jul 2026, 15:00 IST

    When it comes to using my phone daily, a few things are certain. I will spend far too much time playing Pokémon Go. I will misplace it and have to wander around my house to find it.

18. Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives

    Hacker News · 09 Jul 2026, 13:52 IST

19. Cybercriminals Plant Malicious AI Agents in Open Source Tool Repositories

    Infosecurity Magazine · 09 Jul 2026, 13:00 IST

    Cybersecurity researchers at ESET identify big rise in suspicious and malicious toolsets which put users at risk from cyber-attacks

20. Will AI ring the death knell for open source?

    IT Pro · 09 Jul 2026, 12:30 IST

    Will AI ring the death knell for open source?

21. Building production agents using AWS’s open source Strands Agents SDK

    YourStory RSS Feed · 09 Jul 2026, 11:14 IST

    Most developers working with AI today can get a model to respond to a prompt. A surprising few have shipped an agent that holds up in production. The distance between those two points is where most agentic projects stall: frameworks...

22. Open-source collaboration is growing worldwide and putting pressure on maintainers

    Help Net Security · 09 Jul 2026, 10:40 IST · Medium severity

    Developers are pushing code and opening pull requests across economy borders at a rate GitHub has rarely seen. Outbound collaboration, the sum of git pushes and pull requests sent from developers in one economy to public repositories in...

23. US crackdown on top AI fuels open-source surge

    Tech-Economic Times · 09 Jul 2026, 08:45 IST

    The US government's shock moves to restrict access to top artificial intelligence systems from Anthropic and OpenAI have sparked growing interest in open-source models -- especially ones from China. Around the same time, China's Zhipu...

24. GitHub’s public APIs are becoming an enterprise reconnaissance tool

    AI coding token costs are on track to rival human payroll | InfoWorld · 09 Jul 2026, 04:33 IST · Medium severity

    GitHub continues to be a scintillating target for attackers because it sits in the middle of the software supply chain and gives threat actors three things they crave: source code, secrets, and automated pipelines to run amok in....

25. Open Source Barware: free, local-first bar inventory software (GPLv3)

    Hacker News · 09 Jul 2026, 03:13 IST

26. Automating cross-repo documentation with GitHub Agentic Workflows

    GitHub Engineering Blog · 09 Jul 2026, 02:41 IST · Medium severity

    “Where are the docs?” It’s a question nobody on a product team enjoys answering. The honest reply is usually some variant of “behind.” A writer is staring at a closed pull request, trying to reverse-engineer what changed. The pull...

27. GitHub Copilot: Sorry Dave, I can't do that harmful thing - unless you ask me in code

    The Register · 09 Jul 2026, 00:49 IST

    It's the latest example of AI safety guardrails being bypassed. GitHub Copilot refuses harmful prompts almost always if asked in chat - like, "how to fool a breathalyzer test" or "smuggle bulk cash out of the US" - but then will write...

28. Former GitHub CEO launches competitor designed for the age of vibe coding

    The Register · 09 Jul 2026, 01:25 IST

    In the era of vibe coding, even GitHub is having trouble keeping up with all the traffic. Now, Thomas Dohmke, the service's former CEO, has launched his own Git hosting network to meet the needs of AI agents and those minding them. His...

29. OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push In Sabotage Attempt

    Phoronix · 08 Jul 2026, 21:35 IST

    The OpenMandriva project put out a statement today concerning an attempted distribution sabotage effort. Part of the OpenMandriva GitHub repository was deleted and there was an empty package push made to OpenMandriva's Cooker repository...

30. Chatto is now Open Source

    Hacker News · 08 Jul 2026, 20:49 IST

31. Intel Sunsets Quantum Intrinsics & Other Open-Source Projects This Week

    Phoronix · 08 Jul 2026, 19:07 IST

    Intel has formally archived some more of their now-unmaintained open-source projects this week...

32. Former GitHub CEO’s startup Entire unveils its answer to the crush of AI coding agents

    GeekWire · 08 Jul 2026, 18:30 IST

    Thomas Dohmke’s startup Entire is offering a solution to what he calls “the strain of billions of agents and developers hammering a central server.” ( Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Web Summit Rio , May 2023, via Sportsfile, CC BY 2.0 ) Former...

33. Ex-GitHub chief’s Entire opens distributed Git network for the AI agent era

    SiliconANGLE · 08 Jul 2026, 18:30 IST

    Entire Inc., the developer-platform startup founded by former GitHub Chief Executive Thomas Dohmke, today launched a preview of a distributed Git network built to let artificial intelligence coding agents clone and push code without...

34. MiniMax is building China’s biggest AI model yet, and plans to open-source it

    TNW · 08 Jul 2026, 17:21 IST

    MiniMax plans its biggest model yet, a 2.7-trillion-parameter system it intends to open-source, The Information reports. It would be the largest Chinese model on the market, and another squeeze on US labs’ margins. China’s open-model...

35. ‘GitLost’: researchers tricked GitHub’s AI agent into leaking private repos

    TNW · 08 Jul 2026, 17:33 IST

    Researchers tricked GitHub’s AI coding agent into leaking private repositories with nothing but a politely worded issue. The flaw, named GitLost, has no code fix, and GitHub has yet to even document it. GitHub’s new AI agent can be...

36. Tired of low-quality, no-name brands on Amazon? This open-source tool hides them

    Android Authority · 08 Jul 2026, 18:13 IST

    Credit: Josh Pigford / X TL;DR Amazon’s shopping experience has heavily degraded due to an influx of sponsored ads and low-quality, white-label commodity products sold under gibberish, all-caps brand names. A free, open-source browser...

37. GitHub AI agent leaks private repositories via prompt injection attack

    AI coding token costs are on track to rival human payroll | InfoWorld · 08 Jul 2026, 17:47 IST

    A prompt injection attack can trick GitHub’s preview Agentic Workflows into retrieving content from private repositories and publishing it publicly, exposing a broader risk as enterprises deploy AI agents with privileged access to...

38. GitHub AI agent leaks private repositories via prompt injection attack

    CSO Online Security · 08 Jul 2026, 17:44 IST

    A prompt injection attack can trick GitHub’s preview Agentic Workflows into retrieving content from private repositories and publishing it publicly, exposing a broader risk as enterprises deploy AI agents with privileged access to...

39. GitHub Copilot Refuses Harmful Requests in Chat, Then Writes Them in Code

    The Hacker News · 08 Jul 2026, 16:51 IST

    An AI coding assistant that refuses to answer a dangerous request in its chat box can answer it anyway if the same request is broken into small, ordinary-looking steps inside a code editor. That is the finding of a new study of GitHub...

40. GitHub 'Verified' Commits Can Be Rewritten Into New Hashes Without Breaking Signatures

    The Hacker News · 08 Jul 2026, 17:21 IST · Medium severity

    New research shows that a signed Git commit's hash is not the one-of-a-kind name that much of the software world assumes it to be. Given any signed commit, someone without the signing key can mint a second commit with the same files,...