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  1. Critical Vulnerability Exposes GitHub Agentic Workflows to Prompt Injection

    SecurityWeek · · Critical severity

    Researchers show how attackers can use a crafted public GitHub Issue to trick AI-powered workflows into exposing data from private repositories without authentication. The post Critical Vulnerability Exposes GitHub Agentic Workflows to...

  2. Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road

    The Register ·

    Other regions of Germany are starting to move away from proprietary tools and cloud services from the US in favor of FOSS. The state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in the northeast of Germany, has confirmed it is on the road to digital...

  3. The quiet architect of Open Source: Kailash Nadh

    ETCIO ·

    Zerodha CTO Kailash Nadh still introduces himself first as an engineer. That identity shapes everything: from hiring and infrastructure to open source and artificial intelligence.

  4. Visual Studio update rejiggers GitHub Copilot usage tracking

    AI coding token costs are on track to rival human payroll | InfoWorld ·

    Microsoft has fitted the June 2026 update to Visual Studio IDE with a GitHub Copilot usage window that gives a clearer view of where a user stands against the GitHub’s new usage-based model. The update also adds trust validation for...

  5. GitHub AI agent leaks private repos when asked nicely

    The Register ·

    Malicious prompters could easily trick GitHub agents into pulling data from private repositories and then leaking the information as a public comment for anyone to access, according to Noma Labs researchers who named the vulnerability...

  6. The GitHub Actions Attack Pattern Your CI Security Scanners Miss

    BleepingComputer ·

    ActiveState explains how GitHub Actions attack chains can evade traditional CI security scanners, why passing a scan doesn't guarantee a secure pipeline, and how organizations can better govern their CI/CD workflows.

  7. Apple Container: Open-source tool for Linux containers on the Mac

    Help Net Security · · Medium severity

    Developers on Apple silicon Macs have run Linux containers through software built around a single shared virtual machine for years. Apple’s open-source Container project gives each Linux workload its own lightweight virtual machine....

  8. Performance Improvements For Open-Source 80386

    Hackaday ·

    The Intel 80386 is a rather fascinating slice of computer history. It marked the first 32 bit X86 processor, and was a staple of early desktop computing. Like all chips, it has a number of quirks, one of which being the fact that all...

  9. GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues

    The Register ·

    Monday was the last day to score your own free CD of your GitHub repository, which the Microsoft-owned subsidiary offered to mail to the first 1,000 people who asked. But as of noon eastern time, that offer has been withdrawn (if it was...

  10. A New Challenger Approaches the Open Source Vehicle

    Hackaday ·

    Cheap vehicles are thin on the ground in 2026, but [Andy Didorosi] thinks he has the answer for low-speed applications with an open source kei truck . Still in the early design phase, [Didorosi] has an old factory in Detroit that has...

  11. North Korean Hackers Target Open Source Developers in Supply Chain Attacks

    SecurityWeek · · Critical severity

    The PolinRider campaign has compromised more than 100 legitimate open source packages and repositories to deliver a backdoor and information stealer to developers. The post North Korean Hackers Target Open Source Developers in Supply...

  12. How GitHub engineers tackle platform problems

    GitHub Engineering Blog ·

    In my spare time I enjoy building Gundam models, which are model kits to build iconic mechas from the Gundam universe. You might be wondering what this has to do with software engineering. Product engineers can be seen as the engineers...

  13. Post-quantum security for SSH access on GitHub

    GitHub Engineering Blog ·

    Today, we’re announcing some changes that will improve the security of accessing Git data over SSH. We’re adding a new post-quantum secure SSH key exchange algorithm, known alternately as sntrup761x25519-sha512 and...

  14. How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety

    GitHub Engineering Blog · · Medium severity

    Did you know that, at GitHub, we host all of our own source code on github.com ? We do this because we’re our own biggest customer—testing out changes internally before they go to users. However, there’s one downside: If github.com were...

  15. From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance

    GitHub Engineering Blog · · Medium severity

    When you’re working through a backlog—opening an issue, jumping to a linked thread, then back to the list—latency isn’t just a metric. Even small delays add up, and they hit hardest at the exact moments developers are trying to stay in...

  16. Omnigent: Open-source AI agent framework and meta-harness

    Help Net Security ·

    Plenty of developers now keep several coding agents close at hand, reaching for Claude Code on one task and Codex or Cursor on the next. Each tool arrives with its own command line, its own handling of credentials, and its own way of...

  17. Disk Polishing Goes Open Source

    Hackaday ·

    Optical media is great — it’s pretty high density, relatively durable, and decently long-lasting if “That’ll buff out” is very often true when it comes to disks. If not well cared for, well, it’s only relatively durable, and we’ve...

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