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Security2026-06-27 · source-backed
Founding signatories include AWS, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft and GitHub, IBM, Red Hat, Cisco, JPMorganChase, Citi, the Rust Foundation, Zscaler, and Sonatype, with OpenSSF, CNCF, and OpenInfra participating. The open letter drew 455 points on HN. (Akrites / Linux Foundation) What's notable is the roster. Rival frontier labs that compete on everything else co-signed a defensive coalition, which tells you the threat model (AI-accelerated vuln discovery against critical OSS) is real enough to override competition. The same day, a popular open-source DOCX editor got deleted by its burned-out maintainer. Critical OSS is being rallied around and quietly abandoned in the same news cycle. If you depend on single-maintainer packages, that tension is your supply-chain risk.
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Huang used his inaugural X post on July 24 to publish "Open Weights and American AI Leadership," a three-page letter on Nvidia's own servers signed by 25 companies including Meta, Microsoft, IBM, Mistral, Mozilla, Hugging Face, a16z, Palantir and the Linux Foundation. Within a...
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A spec is a press release until someone who didn't write it implements it. GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available on August 12 across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app on all plans. The spec, published August 6, was co-authored by AWS, Anysp...
OpenAI published "A call for collective action on cyber defense" on August 27, co-signed by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Oracle, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks, plus non-tech signatories including Capital One, Mastercard, Visa, General Motors an...
If you wrote an MCP server before July, it's on a protocol shape the maintainers have already removed. Not deprecated-with-a-migration-window. Removed from the spec. MCP lead maintainers David Soria Parra and Den Delimarsky published an updated roadmap on August 22, and the re...
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