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I detected in a codeline usage of a bouncy castle that is vulnerable to the cve CVE-2023-33201.
The CVE seems to come from the guilty class X509LDAPCertStoreSpi.java, and in specific the method search().
In the codeline I am testing, there… Continue reading how to check usages of a class method in open source code
Phoronix’s Michael Larabel reports: Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) is today celebrating its second anniversary for “empowering public digital infrastructure.” In the past two years it has invested more than $24.9 million into sixty open technologi… Continue reading Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund Has Invested Over $24.9M In Open-Source In Two Years
New submitter king*jojo writes: The owners of WinAmp have just deleted their entire repo one month after uploading the source code to GitHub. Lots of source code, and quite possibly, not all of it theirs. The deletion happened soon after The Register e… Continue reading Open-sourcing of WinAmp Goes Badly As Owners Delete Entire Repo
WordPress.org has seized control of WP Engine’s Advanced Custom Fields plugin, renaming it “Secure Custom Fields” and removing commercial elements, according to WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg. The move, justified by alleged security concerns and l… Continue reading ‘Open Source Royalty and Mad Kings’
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and co-founder and chief technology officer of Basecamp-maker 37signals, has criticized Automattic’s demand for 8% of vendor WP Engine’s revenues as a violation of open source principles and the GPL li… Continue reading ‘Automattic is Doing Open Source Dirty,’ Ruby on Rails Creator Says
Boston-based engineer and photographer Wenting Zhang built his own full-frame camera and open-sourced the project on GitLab for anyone else to build upon. The camera, named Sitina S1, features a 10MP CCD sensor, custom electronics, and a 3D-printed bod… Continue reading DIY Photographer Builds Full-Frame Camera, Open-Sources the Project
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Getting open-source and artificial intelligence (AI) on the same page isn’t easy. Just ask the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The OSI, the open-source definition steward organization, has been working on c… Continue reading Open-Source AI Definition Finally Gets Its First Release Candidate
TechCrunch’s Paul Sawers reports: Fledgling fintech startup OpenBB is revealing the next step in its plans to take on the heavyweights of the investment research world. The company is launching a new, free version of a product that will open its arsena… Continue reading Fintech OpenBB Aims To Be More Than an ‘Open Source Bloomberg Terminal’
“For the first time, scientists have created a flexible programmable chip that is not made of silicon…” reports IEEE Spectrum — opening new possibilities for implantable devices, on-skin computers, brain-machine interfaces, and soft robotics.
… Continue reading New Flexible RISC-V Semiconductor Has Great Potential
When it comes to professional certifications, the long-running nonprofit Linux Professional Institute boasts they’ve issued 250,000, making them the world’s largest Linux/Open Source certification body. And last week they announced a “strategic allianc… Continue reading Open Source Initiative Announces Alliance with Nonprofit Certifications Group