Tootfinder

"Claude found more than 500 previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities in open-source code using just its "out-of-the-box" capabilities, and each one was validated by either a member of Anthropic's team or an outside security researcher."

Exclusive: Anthropic's new model is a pro at finding security flaws
The AI company sees the model's advancements as a major win for cyber defenders in the race against adversarial AI.

from my link log —
Mapping a universe of open source software: the Nixpkgs dependency graph.
https://www.tweag.io/blog/2019-02-06-mapping-open-source/
saved 2020-07-28

Mapping a Universe of Open Source Software
The repositories of distributions such as Debian and Nixpkgs are among the largest collections of open source (and some unfree) software. They are complex systems that connect and organize many interdependent packages. In this blog post I'll try to shed some light on them from the perspective of Nixpkgs, mostly with visualizations of its complete dependency graph.

In what may be close to an impossible job,
the “head of preparedness” at OpenAI
will be directly responsible for defending against risks from ever more powerful AIs to human mental health, cybersecurity and biological weapons.
That is before the successful candidate has to start worrying about the possibility that AIs may soon begin training themselves amid fears from some experts they could “turn against us”.
“This will be a stressful job,
and you’ll jump into …

my definition of "an UI bug" is basically "any design or implementation choice that makes users miserable". i do not think many in open source hardware|software share this definition and i won't be satisfied until it's a new norm

Finally, Dutch parliament (on initiative by D66) may determine that all political parties need to be open to members.
So far, the PVV was allowed to operate with only one member, by definition. Guess who.
https://www.tro…

Serieuze kans dat partijen straks leden móeten hebben, en dat heeft grote gevolgen voor de PVV
Een voorstel om partijen te verplichten leden toe te laten maakt een goede kans op een meerderheid. Dat zou grote impact hebben op de PVV van Geert Wilders.

I just released version 1.2 of mmdb-server.
mmdb-server is an open source fast API server to lookup IP addresses for their geographic location.
Some minor changes in this release including in the API.
🔗 Release notes https://github.com/adulau/mmdb-server/releases/tag/v1…

Release mmdb-server v1.2 released · adulau/mmdb-server
Release Notes - v1.2 (2025-12-22) This release introduces containerization support, modernizes dependency management, and includes several data and stability improvements. 🚀 New Features Docker Su...

t took only a few minutesbefore everyone in the church knew that another person had been shot.
I was sitting with Trygve Olsen, a big man in a wool hat and puffy vest,
who lifted his phone to show me a text with the news.
It was his 50th birthday, and one of the coldest days of the year.
I asked him whether he was doing anything special to celebrate.
“What should I be doing?” he replied.
“Should I sit at home and open presents?
This is where I’m supp…

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

Denmark Begins its Exit from Microsoft — and This is Just the Beginning
https://itsfoss.com/news/denmark-road-traffic-authority-ditches-microsoft/
'The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.'
Microsoft: 'We welcome competition, and there need not be a contradiction between open source and what Microsoft delivers.'
Microsoft could have avoided vendor lock ins for decades and datagrabbing. 😇🙃
(Via @… & @… )

The Færdselsstyrelsen
(Danish Road Traffic Authority)
is becoming the first agency to pilot SIA Open,
a government-wide project by Statens IT
(Danish Governmental IT Agency)
designed to replace Microsoft services with open source alternatives.
With this, they are not stopping at just Office apps.
Færdselsstyrelsen will be replacing both the Windows operating system and Microsoft's suite of applications
(Word, Excel, Teams, and Outlook)

Denmark Begins Its Exit from Microsoft — and This Is Just the Start
The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.