OpenAI ‘open-sourced’ its AI security scanner. The scanner is still locked up.

OpenAI has open-sourced an AI tool that hunts for security holes in your code. There is a catch: the part that does the hunting is still locked behind its approval. The company quietly released the Co [...]

In a twist of irony, a Chinese open source GLM 5.2 AI model contained 'rogue' OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol in a Hugging Face hack just as the US mulls banning open-weight AI

The Hugging Face cybersecurity breach unexpectedly strengthened China's GLM-5.2 while fuelling Washington's debate over restricting Chinese open-weight AI models. [...]

Linux Foundation's trust scorecards aim to battle rising open-source security threats

How do you tell the difference between trustworthy open-source developers and hackers? Here's one idea. [...]

Nord VPN ups its game in open-source, with Linux-based package for OpenWrt routers

The headless package is available on GitHub, promoting transparency across the open-source community. Here's all you need to know. [...]

Meta's 'open source' Muse Glimmer model can run on a single computer

Meta has released a new slimmed down 'open source' AI model that's light enough to run on a single computer. [...]

OpenCUA’s open source computer-use agents rival proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic

The open source framework provides the data and training recipe for building powerful computer-use agents that challenge proprietary systems. [...]

‘Stop calling it a hobby and start treating it as infrastructure’: EXANTE calls out the underfunding of widely used open source projects

Despite the growing importance of open source software, most widely used projects are underfunded because they’re not glamorous enough. [...]

The agent builder arms race continues as Google Cloud pushes deeper into orchestration and ops

The march towards agentic enterprises continues as companies battle to keep developers on their platforms throughout the entire agent lifecycle. Google Cloud has updated its Agent Builder on Vertex A [...]

My top 6 open-source Android apps from the Google Play Store - and why that's important

If you're a fan of open-source software, you'll be glad to know that there's plenty of FOSS software available for Android. Here are my favorite six apps. [...]