Linux Foundation kicks off effort to shield FOSS maintainers from AI slop bug reports

Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects to cope with AI slop bug reports. “As the security ...
Techzine Europe

Linux Foundation Receives $12.5 Million for Open Source Security

The Linux Foundation has announced that it is receiving a total of $12.5 million in grants from a group of technology ...
UC San Diego Today

A UC San Diego Tool Teaching Code to 25 Million is Even More Critical in Age of AI

UC San Diego cognitive scientist Philip Guo created Python Tutor, a free tool that makes code “visible” step by step. The research behind it earned a Test of Time award, recog ...

OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...
InfoQ

Google Open-Sources the Common Expression Language for Python

Google has open sourced CEL-expr-python, a Python implementation of the Common Expression Language (CEL), a non-Turing complete embedded policy and expression language designed for simplicity, speed, ...
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Stop typing the same 4 commands: How a simple Python script saves me time every day

Learn how to automate your Git workflow and environment variables into a single, error-proof command that handles the boring ...
Hackaday

This Week In Security: Linux Flaws, Python Ownage, And A Botnet Shutdown

Qualys reports the discovery by their threat research unit of vulnerabilities in the Linux AppArmor system used by SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, and ...