Mike Dolan

A U.S. startup is selling your hacked, stolen data to anyone with $50 | PCWorld An exposé details how anyone with a credit card can get easy access to a huge database of stolen personal information, sold in the open.

The US really needs national data privacy regulation.

www.pcworld.com/article/2854...

Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how It's not a typo. Linux's desktop share is growing, according to the US government's records.

SJVN's original article leading me down this path is at www.zdnet.com/article/linu...

What is the #Linux -based client operating system market share? I was reading SJVN's write up on ZDNET and noticed that if you look beyond "desktop" in the US data at analytics.usa.gov, Linux-based operating sytems are actually over 25% of the clients accessing US federal websites.

Jane Street Blog - A Higgs-bugson in the Linux Kernel We recently ran across a strange higgs-bugson that manifested itself in a critical system that stores and distributes the firm’s trading activity data, calle...

A Higgs-bugson in the #Linux Kernel #NFS implementation.

blog.janestreet.com/a-higgs-bugs... #opensource

Google Cloud donates A2A to Linux Foundation - Google Developers Blog Explore how Google, Amazon, and Cisco form the Agent2Agent Foundation under the Linux Foundation to drive AI innovation via interoperability as an industry standard.

A big welcome to Agent2Agent as the community shifts to open governance.

developers.googleblog.com/en/google-cl...

Google Cloud donates A2A to Linux Foundation - Google Developers Blog Explore how Google, Amazon, and Cisco form the Agent2Agent Foundation under the Linux Foundation to drive AI innovation via interoperability as an industry standard.

A big welcome to Agent2Agent as the community shifts to open governance.

developers.googleblog.com/en/google-cl...

Mikeal was an expert collaborator. When we would discuss something, he'd throw out an "impossible idea" and then talk himself into a path by working with a few of the right people. And then he'd set off and do it. Mikeal was a force that defied Newton's 3rd law. He will be missed by many.

fairpm fairpm has 8 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

"The #opensource community" demands contributors step up and lead through tough times and chart a path forward. I'm so excited to see the #WordPress community has passionate leadership who today unveiled the FAIR.pm package manager. Watch the exciting announce here:

www.youtube.com/live/IOsOAsb...

"The #opensource community" demands contributors step up and lead through tough times and chart a path forward. I'm so excited to see the #WordPress community has passionate leadership who today unveiled the FAIR.pm package manager. Watch the exciting announce here:

www.youtube.com/live/IOsOAsb...

Secure Minions: private collaboration between Ollama and frontier models · Ollama Blog Secure Minions is a secure protocol built by Stanford's Hazy Research lab to allow encrypted local-remote communication.

This is very impressive, and disruptive of current #AI architectures. It feels like the disruption timescale is not years, but weeks. Secure enclaves on a cloud hosted GPU system with local LLM processing is a huge opportunity. I'm also a huge user+fan of Ollama

ollama.com/blog/securem...

YouTube video by My Open Source Experience Greg Kroah-Hartman - Corporate Involvement in the Linux Kernel | My Open Source Experience Podcast

This is a great interview with GregKH on corporate involvement in the #Linux kernel and #opensource. He goes in depth on justifying working upstream and how it made him a better engineer.

youtu.be/DZzFG_zhFnY?...

A year on, Valkey charts path to v9 after break from Redis Interview: Fork focuses on stability and inclusion as it preps for more ambitious changes

Redis relicensed (under AGPL, which many cannot use). Valkey project, a Redis fork and still under an #opensource BSD license, continues to thrive in adoption and community at @linuxfoundation.org. Read more about what's next for Valkey:

www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/a... @valkeyio.bsky.social

GitHub - microsoft/sbom-tool: The SBOM tool is a highly scalable and… | Adrian Diglio The #Microsoft #opensource #SBOM Tool now supports #SPDX 3.0! Huge kudos to John Wade and team for the work they've done to make this possible. Today, the tool still produces SPDX 2.2 by default ...

"The Microsoft #opensource #SBOM Tool now supports hashtag #SPDX 3.0!"

www.linkedin.com/posts/adrian... #cybersecurity

Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds To celebrate two decades of Git, we sat down with Linus Torvalds—the creator of Git and Linux—to discuss how it forever changed software development.

Great interview with Linus by Taylor Blau at @github@birdsite.monster on the history of #opensource git.

github.blog/open-source/...

Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years | ZDNET Git is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Here's why Torvalds never intended for it to stick around.

www.zdnet.com/article/linu... #opensource

The penguins of the uninhabited (by humans) Heard and McDonald Islands have issued a short statement denouncing tariffs imposed on them today and advocating for #opensource software and open markets.

Valkey's #opensource community continues innovating with Rust for memory safety, Swiss Tables, performance gains, and many more features users wanted for years.

https://thenewstack.io/valkey-8-1s-performance-gains-disrupt-in-memory-databases/

Congratulations to McCoy and Ruth! For a decade+ I've said OSI should stop its popularity contest election. I don't agree with the OSAID, but populism is not the answer. The OSD needs long-term, sustainability and a process that brings the best people into the Board.

opensource.org/blog/announc...

"The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just made a move that will protect bad patents at the expense of everyone else." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/new-uspto-memo-makes-fighting-patent-trolls-even-harder #opensource

Google releases OSV-SCALIBR v2 adding broad support for formats and ecosystems,”

https://www.securityweek.com/google-releases-major-update-for-open-source-vulnerability-scanner/ #opensource

@beeaiagents.bsky.social is also online if you want to follow their progress.

Today we welcome Docling, BeeAI and Data Prep Kit into the Linux Foundation community to help with #AI and #agent development.

GitHub - t0sche/cvss-bt: Enriching the NVD CVSS scores to include Temporal & Threat Metrics Enriching the NVD CVSS scores to include Temporal & Threat Metrics - t0sche/cvss-bt

"This #opensource repository continuously enriches and publishes CVSS Temporal Scores based on the following threat intelligence:

CISA KEV
VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
Metasploit
Nuclei
ExploitDB
PoC-in-GitHub"

github.com/t0sche/cvss-bt

OpenSSF Announces Initial Release of the Open Source Project Security Baseline – Open Source Security Foundation

https://openssf.org/press-release/2025/02/25/openssf-announces-initial-release-of-the-open-source-project-security-baseline/

How's that open source licensing coming along? • The Register When a vendor and a community stop loving each other, things can get very forked up

#opensource "Projects with greater organizational diversity tend to be more sustainable over time," Foster said

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/24/open_source_licensing/

Kunai: Open-source threat hunting tool for Linux - Help Net Security Kunai is an open-source tool that provides deep and precise event monitoring specifically for Linux environments.

Very interesting new #opensource project for #Linux event management (plus containers)

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/02/19/kunai-open-source-threat-hunting-tool-for-linux/

A CISA secure-by-design guru makes the case for the future of the initiative The initiative had led to tangible changes, Jack Cable said upon his exit from the agency as senior technical adviser.

CISA's @jackhcable.bsky.social talks about the need and future of Secure by Design. Sad to see Jack is also leaving CISA. We could use more people who understand #cybersecurity and #opensource in government.

cyberscoop.com/jack-cable-c...

DeepSeek Shows Meta’s A.I. Strategy Is Working The Silicon Valley giant was criticized for giving away its core A.I. technology two years ago for anyone to use. Now that bet is having an impact.

Meta Gave Away Its A.I. Crown Jewels. DeepSeek Vindicated Its Strategy. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/t...

Look at what showed up today. @arungupta@sfba.social wrote a book on #opensource culture. You can order yours here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DFGB42S...

2025 Cybersecurity Resiliency Survey Welcome to this survey!

Update: Fixed the link. LF is evaluating organizational awareness of the Cyber Resilience Act #cybersecurity reqs, timelines, penalties, and related security practices. It takes ~6 minutes to finish. The survey closes Monday at 6am CET (12am US ET). Please use this link: www.research.net/r/Y3FCGXX