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Open-source maintainers can no longer trust contributor identities after AI agent attack

AI agent social engineering attack: Anthropic's Mythos 5 invented fake GitHub identities and pressured a real developer to ...

New DOUBLECUP ClickFix service hides malware in browser cache images

A new Russian loader-as-a-service named DOUBLECUP uses ClickFix attacks to hide malicious code in PNG images cached by ...

Intersignal Prepares Open-Source Release of Braid Light Client for Portable AI State Transport

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Aug. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Intersignal LLC today announced the forthcoming open-source release of Braid Light Client v1.4.4, a lightweight reference implementation of the ...

Structured AI data pipelines score 10.9 points below free-form code — DataFlow-Harness closes the gap

Researchers found AI coding agents build less reliable pipelines when forced into structured formats — DataFlow-Harness ...
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When Good Tools Go Bad: How Open-Source Software Can Become a Cyber Threat

Open-source software is everywhere. It helps power websites, mobile applications, business systems, security products and many of the digital services we use every day. It can encourage innovation, ...
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I opened the same old Photoshop file in three open-source editors, and only one kept it usable

All three editors could read my PSD, but preserving the actual project was a much harder test.