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1. Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding

   Hacker News · 29 Jun 2026, 22:46 IST

2. Groundcover lets AI agents work in Slack, Linear and GitHub with new connectors

   SiliconANGLE · 29 Jun 2026, 18:30 IST

   Application observability startup groundcover Ltd. today announced a major expansion of Agent Mode that lets artificial intelligence agents act on a team’s observability data across the development tools they already use. The update...

3. DarkMoon: Open-source AI pentesting platform

   Help Net Security · 29 Jun 2026, 11:00 IST

   Penetration testing has long run on expert time, with specialists spending days probing a network or web application by hand. Manual engagements stretch across weeks, expert consultants run into thousands of dollars a day, and results...

4. HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88

   Hacker News · 29 Jun 2026, 07:14 IST · Medium severity

5. GitHub – librepods-org/librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem

   Hacker News · 29 Jun 2026, 00:18 IST

6. EU Open Sources Ten-Year Network Development Planning Tools

   Hacker News · 28 Jun 2026, 19:35 IST

7. Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

   Hacker News · 27 Jun 2026, 20:01 IST

8. Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

   BleepingComputer · 27 Jun 2026, 19:52 IST · Medium severity

   An agentic coding tool tasked with running a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious payload that is invisible to both security agents and human reviewers.

9. DeepSeek open-sources inference optimizations with 60–85% faster generation [pdf]

   Hacker News · 27 Jun 2026, 14:48 IST

10. IBM and Red Hat partner with Deloitte to fix open-source vulnerabilities

    SiliconANGLE · 27 Jun 2026, 06:56 IST

    is joining an initiative that IBM Corp. and its Red Hat unit launched in May to fix open-source software vulnerabilities. The companies announced the move today.

11. Open source maintainership in the age of AI

    Kubernetes Blog · 26 Jun 2026, 23:30 IST

    AI has really changed the game around software development. More people are leveraging AI than ever to contribute patches to projects they use. To me, this is a good thing as more folks will contribute patches rather than fork or not...

12. The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted

    Hacker News · 27 Jun 2026, 03:24 IST

13. Corgi, the buzzy Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup, says it didn’t steal an open source product

    TechCrunch · 27 Jun 2026, 03:30 IST

    Corgi became embroiled in controversy when Papermark accused it of stealing its software. Corgi says it did not, raising new questions about vibe coding.

14. Prediction: A Frontier open-source LLM Will Be Released On 3rd December 2026

    Hacker News · 27 Jun 2026, 02:44 IST

15. New Initiative Tackles Security for End-of-Life Open Source Software

    darkreading · 26 Jun 2026, 22:02 IST

    The Open Source Sustainability Initiative's goal is to help enterprises manage and secure aging open source projects while maintaining regulatory compliance.

16. Linux Association of Canada launches open-source jobs database

    BetaKit · 26 Jun 2026, 22:13 IST

    The Linux Association of Canada is launching two initiatives this month that it believes will strengthen the open-source technology ecosystem in Canada. The news: The newly created group has launched two new initiatives aimed at...

17. Software, AI companies form alliance to tackle open-source security flaws

    Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · 26 Jun 2026, 20:04 IST · Medium severity

    The emergence of frontier AI models has increased the speed and capabilities of malicious hackers.

18. Critical open-source projects get a new security framework

    Help Net Security · 26 Jun 2026, 17:11 IST

    Open source software projects are getting a new framework for handling security vulnerabilities as AI shortens the time between flaw discovery and exploitation. The Linux Foundation has launched Akrites, an industry initiative that...

19. The French commitment to digital sovereignty: an open source platform for 400,000 users at the Ministry of Education

    La santísima trinidad del 'cloud': muchos logos, poco gobierno | CIO · 26 Jun 2026, 17:05 IST

    France is working to reduce its dependence on non-European technology providers in the public sector, and to do so it has opted for open source software, which is acquiring an increasingly prominent role in the region. One of the...

20. Linux Foundation Unveils New Open Source Security Project Akrites

    SecurityWeek · 26 Jun 2026, 16:58 IST

    It will provide the tools and channels to report, patch, and disclose open source software vulnerabilities. The post Linux Foundation Unveils New Open Source Security Project Akrites appeared first on SecurityWeek .

21. Miasma Malware Targets npm Packages and GitHub Actions in Supply Chain Attack

    The Hacker News · 26 Jun 2026, 16:35 IST · Critical severity

    Cybersecurity researchers have flagged yet another evolution of the supply chain attack linked to the Mini Shai-Hulud, Miasma, and Hades malware family that has compromised a new set of npm packages, even as it has propagated to the Go...

22. Challenges designers face in open source (and how to fix them)

    Ubuntu blog · 26 Jun 2026, 16:32 IST

    Open source software (OSS) is a cornerstone of modern technology. According to the Linux Foundation , it powers up to 90% of software tools used today. Unlike proprietary software, OSS is developed collaboratively, meaning its code is...

23. OTX Threat: Mini Shai-Hulud Hits LeoPlatform npm Packages and GitHub Actions, Expands to the Go Ecosystem

    AlienVault OTX · 26 Jun 2026, 09:27 IST · Critical severity

    A sophisticated supply chain attack campaign linked to Mini Shai-Hulud, Miasma, and Hades malware has compromised LeoPlatform npm packages, GitHub Actions workflows, and the Verana Blockchain Go module. The attack employs binding.gyp...

24. We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together

    Hacker News · 26 Jun 2026, 11:10 IST

25. Patch the Planet: a Daybreak initiative to support open source maintainers

    OpenAI News · 22 Jun 2026, 15:30 IST

    OpenAI introduces Patch the Planet, a Daybreak initiative helping open-source maintainers find, validate, and fix vulnerabilities with AI and expert review.

26. Linux Foundation & Others Launch "Akrites" To Defend Open-Source Software From AI-Enabled Exploits

    Phoronix · 26 Jun 2026, 02:39 IST

    The Linux Foundation along with others like Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Red Hat, and others have joined forces to launch Akrites. The Akrites project is aiming to help defend critical open-source software from the...

27. GitHub Actions hardens checkout security to block ‘pwn request’ attacks

    AI coding token costs are on track to rival human payroll | InfoWorld · 23 Jun 2026, 05:13 IST · Medium severity

    Stung by a surge in cyberattacks that have run amok in developer environments, GitHub has strengthened the security of actions/checkout to block ‘pwn request’ attacks that exploit insecure use of the pull_request_target workflow trigger...

28. OpenAI rolls out AI-led push to fix open-source software flaws

    AI coding token costs are on track to rival human payroll | InfoWorld · 23 Jun 2026, 16:05 IST

    OpenAI has launched a program with cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits to use AI to find and fix vulnerabilities in widely used open-source software, as enterprises face growing risks from flaws buried deep in their software supply chains....

29. Open source grapples with agentic coding

    AI coding token costs are on track to rival human payroll | InfoWorld · 24 Jun 2026, 14:30 IST

    Unless you’ve been living under an old woodpile in your backyard, you have certainly seen how agentic coding is rocking the software development world. Things are happening fast and furious, and keeping up is practically a full-time...

30. OTX Threat: Artifact scanner detects npm package 'node-fetch-utils' using external dependency resolution with remote tarball dependency from GitHub

    AlienVault OTX · 23 Jun 2026, 17:41 IST

    A malicious npm package named 'node-fetch-utils' was discovered masquerading as a legitimate fetch helper utility. The package declares a remote tarball dependency from GitHub that executes upon installation. It runs an obfuscated...

31. The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source

    The Pragmatic Engineer · 05 Mar 2026, 23:33 IST

    Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer . This issue is the entire The Pulse issue from the past week, which paying subscribers received seven days ago. This piece generated quite a few comments across...

32. The Pulse: is GitHub still best for AI-native development?

    The Pragmatic Engineer · 03 Apr 2026, 20:33 IST

    Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. Today, we cover one out of four topics from...

33. The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors?

    The Pragmatic Engineer · 07 May 2026, 23:03 IST

    Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. Today, we cover one out of four topics from...

34. Template: Streamlining open source design contributions

    Ubuntu blog · 16 Jun 2026, 18:39 IST

    As designers working at Canonical, we’re always thinking about open source. We believe that encouraging more designers to contribute to open source benefits everyone, from the project maintainers to the end users themselves. In the 2025...

35. Ubuntu Summit 26.04: connected by open source

    Ubuntu blog · 22 Jun 2026, 15:34 IST

    Ubuntu Summit 26.04 has officially drawn to a close, but the energy from our global community is still buzzing – in the comments section, on social media, and in news reports. Whether you joined us in person or tuned in from across the...

36. Modelplane: Open-source control plane for AI inference

    Help Net Security · 26 Jun 2026, 10:00 IST

    Organizations that run open-weight models on hardware they own operate GPU fleets spread across clouds, neoclouds, and on-premise data centers. Each fleet handles model placement, replica scaling, infrastructure provisioning, weight...

37. Linux Foundation Launches Akrites To Coordinate AI-Driven Open Source Security

    Slashdot · 26 Jun 2026, 02:30 IST · Medium severity

    BrianFagioli writes: The Linux Foundation has announced Akrites, a new initiative to coordinate vulnerability disclosure and remediation for critical open source software as AI dramatically speeds up vulnerability discovery. Founding...

38. Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

    Hacker News · 25 Jun 2026, 21:34 IST

39. Italy's Domyn to launch open source frontier AI model within a year

    Tech-Economic Times · 25 Jun 2026, 22:03 IST

    The Italian tech company Domyn plans to unveil an extensive, fully open-source AI model in less than a year, putting it on track to compete with top-tier 'frontier' systems. With the backing of the European Commission, this endeavor is...

40. Apple takes over Swift Package Index, vows to remove GitHub dependency

    The Register · 25 Jun 2026, 19:31 IST

    The Swift Package Index (SPI), a search engine for open source packages for the Swift programming language, is now part of Apple, though it will remain open source. Dave Verwer, who created SPI over six years ago along with Sven A....