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Snowpick
Snowpick: Open-source ServiceNow exposure scanner

An employee opens a company service portal, searches the knowledge base, and drops a file onto a ticket. Someone who never signed in can send a request to that same portal and …

GitHub
AI agents tricked into recommending malicious GitHub repositories

Roughly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories were uncovered, more than 800 of them posing as AI Skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, in a wave that peaked in April …

open source
Open-source maintainers still work underfunded as sponsorship crosses $100 million

A maintainer patches a library late at night that ships inside thousands of products, and no invoice follows. Sebastián Ramírez and Caleb Porzio spent years in that position. …

Microsoft Dusseldorf
Meet Dusseldorf, Microsoft’s open-source out-of-band security platform

Out-of-band vulnerabilities surface when an application quietly reaches out to an external system during an attack, and capturing that traffic calls for infrastructure that …

Visual Studio Code
VS Code agent host runs Copilot, Claude, and Codex in a dedicated process

Developers who lean on AI coding agents often keep several editor windows open at once, each tied to its own session. The 1.129 release of Visual Studio Code reworks that …

Threat actor impersonated hundreds of brands on GitHub to push infostealer malware

A financially motivated threat actor is impersonating hundreds of brands on GitHub and pushing a smash-and-grab infostealer masquerading as legitimate downloads of popular …

SingGuard-NSFA
SingGuard-NSFA: Open-source guardrails for agentic AI

SingGuard-NSFA is an open-source guardrail framework aimed at operational threats in agent workflows. Four models ship at 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B parameters, all built on Qwen3.5 …

Cynative
Cynative: Open-source deep research agent

Running a large language model against a live cloud account to hunt for security holes comes with an obvious hazard. An agent that holds real credentials and a mandate to poke …

yes no
Your coding agent says no in chat and yes in the code

Millions of developers share their keyboard with GitHub Copilot. Inside Visual Studio Code, it opens their files, writes and edits code, runs scripts, and reworks its own …

GitHub
Open-source collaboration is growing worldwide and putting pressure on maintainers

Developers are pushing code and opening pull requests across economy borders at a rate GitHub has rarely seen. Outbound collaboration, the sum of git pushes and pull requests …

open-source cybersecurity tools
20 open-source cybersecurity tools to keep your team ready for anything

AI is changing how security teams find vulnerabilities, analyze code, test applications, and protect infrastructure. Developers are building tools to secure AI systems …

Apple Container
Apple Container: Open-source tool for Linux containers on the Mac

Developers on Apple silicon Macs have run Linux containers through software built around a single shared virtual machine for years. Apple’s open-source Container project …

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