Personally, I miss the days of Free and Open Source when folks debated if NDAs were compatible (at minimum, in spirit) with the conditions of the GPL. Now, I see the slight possibility of a world where folks rush to share fixes for vulnerabilities in a private club. And if that software is GPL?

For folks who are thinking about locally patching open-source software to fix what they think is a bug (_especially_ if they think it's a security vulnerability), I think that's a path to www.xkcd.com/424/

Heads up maintainers of packages, this is a big deal: github.com/orgs/communi...

Y'all, AI models seem to be *really good* at triaging vulnerabilities that are discovered with AI tooling! Try this prompt: > read gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml... and tell me if CVE-2026-6732 applies to github.com/libarchive/l... [...] Conclusion Not affected.

Super curious what folks think about this 🧵. Especially @adamhjk.me

Yesterday the QEMU team released 11.0.0, which features a new special purpose accelerator and machine model for AWS Nitro Enclaves. Check it out! www.qemu.org/docs/master/...

Fun fact: when you have more than 1,000 notices on GitHub, it says you have 1. It should be like tabs in Chrome on mobile devices, where past 100 it shows ":)"

"Dealing with the rate of change in software development" Asked 17 years, 6 months ago. If only I had a time machine to suggest to folks that they try to enjoy the "good 'ole days". stackoverflow.com/questions/10...

The Linux Foundation Announces $12.5 Million in Grant Funding (via Alpha-Omega and OpenSSF) Anthropic, AmazonWebServices (AWS), GitHub, Google, GoogleDeepMind, Microsoft, OpenAI to Invest in Sustainable Security Solutions for #OpenSource openssf.org/press-releas...

Some folks in and around Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) are asking, "does AI change everything?" If you think that FOSS only exists because software is expensive to write, reuse is efficiency, and AI shifts the economics ("we rewrote Next.js in a week with AI!"), you may be worried. I'm not.

I added a sentence to the #curl hackerone submission page: "Please present your case briefly and to the point. Do not use an AI to help you blab hundreds of line that will exhaust us to death instead of making us understand your claim."

China-nexus cyber threat groups rapidly exploit React2Shell vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182) aws.amazon.com/blogs/securi...

Unpopular opinion: a vulnerability that was disclosed privately by researchers and had a coordinated response from vendors and service operators under an (albeit short) embargo is not a “0-day”.

A public service announcement regarding CVEs: one identified vulnerability gets one CVE. Each vendor doesn't get their own CVE that corresponds to their security bulletin. CVE-2025-66478 is REJECTED as duplicate of CVE-2025-55182 www.cve.org/CVERecord?id...

To celebrate #awsreinvent, @redmonk.com has been publishing New Builders conversations w @awscloud.bsky.social leaders every day this week & TODAY IS MY DAY 🎉🎉🎉!! Hear AWS's Ali Maaz & Jessie VanderVeen chat all things #AI & #DevTools w me redmonk.com/videos/insid... www.youtube.com/shorts/Ot0gy...

Unpopular opinion: through an economics lens, the optimal number of CVEs in most software systems is almost never 0.

Culture eats AI adoption strategy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

"Our only modification part is that, if the Software (or any derivative works thereof) is used for any of your commercial products or services that have more than 100 million monthly active users, or more than $20M in monthly revenue, you shall prominently display 'Kimi K2' on the user interface"

#FerryLife #WAWX #Seattle #Sunrise

"As adoption has grown, so has our responsibility to ensure the project remains sustainable and continues to thrive. That’s why, with the release of Liquibase 5.0, we are updating the license for Liquibase Community." www.liquibase.com/blog/liquiba...

PSA: attacks on public infrastructure like software package registries are on the rise. Here’s an active one targeting folks who have crates.io accounts.

It’s really hard for OSS projects too. Imagine a leaked GH access token from a project maintainer who is not responding, and who is not an employee because OSS isn’t a company. How do you the project get that token revoked? You can’t. You have to de-list the maintainer from your GH org.

From my POV, the most important message for everyone who is doing the hazardous work of developing software in public on platforms like GitHub: you have to pay *close attention* to GitHub token permission scoping. It’s not well known outside of security research circles how often GitHub tokens leak.

There's much to agree with in Dan's piece on defending the definition of Open Source. On details, I quibble. "Today, Valkey is maintained by a neutral foundation, ensuring no one company can take it away from open source." Linux Foundation doesn't maintain Valkey. thenewstack.io/open-source-...

Thrilled for the launch of @kiro.dev today! We started with two main ideas that led to Kiro's spec-driven development features: 1) AI can help us build better products through rapid prototyping 2) Devs can declare their app's requirements to get better results from AI, close to production-grade code

It has officially begun. The CRA info request counter is no longer at zero.

OH: "And so, it begins."

This is not an adventure that FOSS maintainers should have to endure, in my opinion. Unfortunately The Rules don't prohibit allocating a CVE for an identified weakness that was never in a released Product... www.cve.org/resourcessup....

I do not like this timeline.

While there is much more that industry can do, and NEEDS to do, we should recognize that in the past Google has directly sponsored libxml2 development. It's not *just* been Project Zero sending vulnerability disclosures to the maintainer. gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml...

The innovation of piped water and sewer systems had an enormous impact on public health and economic growth. It's infrastructure that we generally take for granted in developed industrialized nations.

A dimension of open source software supply chain risk management that we don't discuss enough... ⬇️

#hugops to all that operate, no matter who you work for.

The story of #CVE-2016-1000027 is a tell of woe for Open Source maintainers. A zombie CVE from a CNA long dead, a CVSSv3 base score of 9.8 in the NVD, and a weakness that is intrinsic in the language ecosystem (do not deserialize Java from untrusted sources, people!!!). github.com/spring-proje...

Not all Foundations are the same.

Oh the _feels_ when reading this announcement! I was one of the GNOME project’s first sysadmins, back in the days of a single CVS server running on a machine hosted at Red Hat’s office. It’s amazing to see their journey to the cloud! foundation.gnome.org/2025/06/10/g...

Is an emergent behavior of a system an anomaly if no human notices? 🤔

This is disappointing. The Red Hat I knew understood that its whole existence hinged on the permissions granted to all, indiscriminately, by all Free and Open Source licenses.

📰 New article by Clare Liguori Introducing Strands Agents, an Open Source AI Agents SDK #AWS #OpenSource

AWS today launched a new SDK for building AI agents, with support for LLMs from its own Bedrock service, LiteLLM and Ollama. By @fredericl.bsky.social

Excited to open source Strands Agents today! LLMs have gotten so good at reasoning and tool use that building model-driven agents with Strands is easy AND powerful Models + Tools = 🧬 Read more: aws.amazon.com/blogs/openso...

Fun chat about Strands Agents, I love it when the space station is involved in demos www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ausm...

“AWS-LC looks like a very active project with a strong community. […] Even the recently reported performance issue was quickly fixed and released with the next version. […] This is definitely a library that anyone interested in the topic should monitor.” www.haproxy.com/blog/state-o...

What’s old is new again… (SugarCRM… iykyk) Another “badgeware” license. docs.openwebui.com/license/

This is absolutely the right take. AGPL and SSPL were written with wildly different (and in many ways, completely contradictory) motivations.

“They set out to craft a license that followed in the AGPL’s footsteps by not applying reciprocal provisions to software hosted in a network fashion, but dramatically expanding the scope of these protections beyond the boundaries of the protected software itself and into adjacent software.” Nah.

“The primary purpose of AGPL appears to be creating barriers for public cloud providers, which likely guarantees that major sponsors like Amazon and Google will continue to support Valkey.” - Vadim Tkachenko, @percona.bsky.social co-founder. Respectfully, no. This is not the purpose or the reason.

Unpopular opinion: If you do not perform all the obligations of a license like the AGPLv3 yourself, and would gladly and fearlessly use software produced by someone else exclusively available under that license as part of your software service, you shouln’t offer your software under that license.

We don’t know what works in practice unless some tries.

The situation we have now: AGPLv3 is not seen as a reliable instrument for giving permission to offer a program as a networked service. It depends on the whims of the licensor. Do they intend to gladly empower others to fearlessly offer the software as a service, or intend to chill that act.