Favorite The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is pleased to welcome the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) to the Open Policy Alliance. The Open Policy Alliance (OPA) was started in 2023 to bring together nonprofit Open Source community members to better understand and contribute to the changing landscape of public policy. OSTIF is a nonprofit…
Favorite In October, the OSI hosted the State of the Source Track at All Things Open designed to connect developers with the big policy conversations shaping our ecosystem. Katie Steen-James, Jeremy Stanley, Barry Peddycord III, and Bob Callaway led the panel Policy: Cybersecurity, with updates on SBOMs, the Cyber Resilience Act, and what developers need…
Favorite On 16–17 September 2025, leaders from across the Open Source ecosystem gathered in Brussels for the third annual Open Source Congress (OSC), followed by the companion Stakeholder Day. This convening continues a journey that began in Geneva in 2023 (hosted by the Linux Foundation) and Beijing in 2024 (hosted by the Open Atom Foundation).…
Favorite Just over 20 years ago, the EU (European Union) founded ENISA, (the EU agency for Cybersecurity). Over the years, ENISA’s role has grown significantly, and at this time the EU seeks to revise ENISA’s mandate by updating the Cybersecurity Act. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has provided feedback on what changes can be made…
Favorite In the past six weeks, the Washington Post published two blockbuster stories about the Russian threat that went viral: one on how Russia is behind a massive explosion of “fake news,” the other on how it invaded the U.S. electric grid. Both articles were fundamentally false. Each now bears a humiliating editor’s note grudgingly acknowledging that…
Favorite (updated below) The Washington Post on Friday reported a genuinely alarming event: Russian hackers have penetrated the U.S. power system through an electrical grid in Vermont. The Post headline conveyed the seriousness of the threat: The first sentence of the article directly linked this cyberattack to alleged Russian hacking of the email accounts of the DNC and John…
Favorite Na segunda-feira, um grupo de hackers, ShadowBrokers anunciou um leilão para o que chamaram de “armas cibernéticas” criadas pela NSA (Agência de Segurança Nacional dos EUA). Com base em documentos inéditos, fornecidos por Edward Snowden, o The Intercept confirma que o arsenal contém softwares autênticos da NSA, que são parte de um conjunto de ferramentas…
Favorite (The English version of this article can be read here.) Ativistas brasileiros pela liberdade na internet estão nervosos. Nesta quarta-feira, uma comissão na Câmara dos Deputados vai pôr em votação sete projetos de lei criados ostensivamente para combater crimes cibernéticos. Enquanto isso, críticos alegam que o efeito combinado dessas propostas irá restringir substancialmente o…
Favorite (Para ler a versão desse artigo em Português, clique aqui.) Brazilian internet freedom activists are nervous. On Wednesday, a committee in the lower house of Congress, the Câmera dos Deputados, will vote on seven proposals ostensibly created to combat cybercrime. Critics argue the combined effect will be to substantially restrict open internet in the…
Favorite Apple scored a major legal victory in its ongoing battle against the FBI on Monday when a federal magistrate judge in New York rejected the U.S. government’s request as part of a drug case to force the company to help it extract data from a locked iPhone. The ruling from U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein was issued as…
