Open Source

The WordPress/WP Engine feud has escalated into a full-blown crisis, raising fundamental questions about open source governance and commercial ecosystems.

The escalating conflict between Automattic and WP Engine raises fundamental questions about open source trademarks, governance, and what happens when a project’s founder picks a fight.

A chain of vulnerabilities in CUPS, the Linux printing system, enables remote code execution — and highlights how forgotten infrastructure becomes a security liability.

Linux kernel 6.11 ships with expanding Rust support, signaling a real shift in systems programming’s most conservative codebase.

Rust 1.81 brings the Error trait into core, stabilizes new lint sorting, and continues the language’s steady march toward broader adoption.

Meta releases Llama 3.1 with a 405 billion parameter model under a permissive license, making frontier-class AI genuinely open for the first time.

The polyfill.io domain was acquired by a Chinese company and began injecting malware into over 100,000 websites, exposing fundamental weaknesses in how we trust third-party CDN dependencies.

Meta’s Llama 3 arrives with 8B and 70B parameter models that rival closed-source competitors, reshaping the open-weight AI landscape.

Redis Labs switches from BSD to a dual SSPL/RSALv2 license, and the Linux Foundation responds by backing the Valkey fork.

A sophisticated supply chain attack via the xz Utils compression library was caught just days before reaching stable Linux distributions.

With Bun 1.0 maturing, Deno pushing Node compatibility, and Node.js evolving faster than ever, the JavaScript runtime landscape is more interesting than it’s been in years.

OpenTofu hits its first GA release, proving that the open-source fork of Terraform is more than a protest — it’s a viable alternative.