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13 Aug 2026 edition
Open Source

What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era

See how the open source projects in Session 4 of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund combined AI-assisted workflows, maintainer expertise, GitHub security tools, expert guidance, and funding to improve project security.…

Source: GitHub Blog Gregg Cochran
Open Source

Why Openness Matters More Than Ever

Members Newsletter – August 2026: Every model making headlines today, open or closed, sits on top of Open Source code, runs on Open Source infrastructure, and is based on openly shared research. That's not sentiment,…

Source: OSI Blog Nick Vidal
Open Source

EU AI Act and CRA: Timelines and Resources

Over the last month, the EU has passed two milestones in implementing its Cyber Resilience (CRA) and AI acts. The OSI has been engaged with European policymakers over the past two years to ensure those laws don’t…

Source: OSI Blog Jordan Maris
Open Source

Domas: Bypassing memory protection with AMD's memory controllers

Christopher Domas has published a proof of concept with a description showing how to use AMD memory controllers' bank swizzle mode to bypass memory protection and read or write arbitrary data, including CPU microcode…

Source: LWN.net daroc
Open Source

rsync 3.5.0 released

Version 3.5.0 of rsync has been released with a huge number of security fixes: This release fixes 33 security issues found during a focused audit of rsync's path handling and daemon protocol, a companion daemon-protocol…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source

[$] 128-Bit page tables for Arm

The size of a processor's page-table entries directly limits how much physical memory that processor is able to access. Back in the 32-bit days, that limit was 4GB, an amount of memory that once seemed nearly infinite,…

Source: LWN.net corbet
Open Source

Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (abrt, dhcpcd, edk2, freerdp, gegl04, grafana, gstreamer1-plugins-good, iscsi-initiator-utils, isns-utils, kernel, kernel-rt, keylime, libarchive, libyang, nodejs-nodemon,…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Web

New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling

New EU guidelines, why AI sparkles aren’t enough, when AI labels are required, and what the rules mean for AI-powered features and products. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces, **friendly video courses…

Source: Smashing Magazine hello@smashingmagazine.com (Vitaly Friedman)
Open Source

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 13, 2026

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: BPF and binfmt_misc; CrossPoint ebook firmware; KVM planes; BPF formal verification; shadow-utils; new storage-code testing features. Briefs: Django releases; GNOME…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source General

We don't need better AI models right now

Many people think we need better models, but the real bottleneck in AI is human imagination. In this clip from the OpenClaw fireside chat, Peter Steinberger explains why we already have the technology to change the…

Source: GitHub GitHub