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Licenses, foundations, maintainers and the economics of shared code, reported by The Silicon Ledger.
An anonymous security researcher has made available a complete source code reconstruction of Stuxnet, the notorious malware that targeted Iranian nuclear facilities and became the first software worm known to inflict direct physical damage.
A dedicated team has completed the full decompilation of Nintendo's 2001 GameCube fighting game into C code, marking a major milestone for game preservation and opening doors to future modding efforts.
Autodafe's new plugin harnesses MAME's component-level emulation to recreate legendary drum machines and synthesizers—no commercial license required, though you'll need to supply your own ROM files.
The creator of Solus is emerging from retirement to build Barney, a Rust-based framework for constructing Linux distributions from source, in direct response to what he views as excessive funding behind David Heinemeier Hansson's Omarchy project.
The open-source Twitter alternative announced it will continue following legal counsel, weeks after X Corp demanded its shutdown with a cease-and-desist letter.
The Open Source Security Foundation is mobilizing its community around European regulatory deadlines while launching new projects and expanding its reach into agentic AI security.
The Kubernetes-native platform, formerly SeeBom, now operates under OpenSSF governance to help security teams manage thousands of software bill-of-materials documents across microservice architectures.
Ericsson Software Technology overhauled its engineering practices to comply with the EU Cyber Resilience Act, shifting from private code forks to direct upstream collaboration. The effort yielded 214 security fixes and over 1,400 dependency updates across the open source ecosystem.
