OpenOrigins has announced that its Human-Oriented Proof System (HOPrS) has been accepted by the Linux Foundation’s Decentralized Trust as a new Lab. HOPrS is an open-source framework that can be used to figure out if an image has been altered. “If we’re doing things like rotating images, or cropping them, or changing the saturation, turning … continue reading
Sonatype finds 188% increase in open source malware since last year The company published its Open Source Malware Index for Q2 2025, finding 16,279 new malicious open source packages. Compared to the same quarter last year, there was a 188% increase in the number of malicious packages discovered. 4,400 of the packages were designed to … continue reading
Anthropic is calling for the creation of an AI transparency framework that can be applied to large AI developers to ensure accountability and safety. “As models advance, we have an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate scientific discovery, healthcare, and economic growth. Without safe and responsible development, a single catastrophic failure could halt progress for decades. Our … continue reading
Cloudflare now blocks AI crawlers by default, introduces pay per crawl model Last year, Cloudflare introduced a setting that allowed website owners to block AI crawlers. Now, the company is announcing that this setting will now be the default rather than a user needing to switch it on. The company explained that by switching to … continue reading
In the grand scheme of software development, platform engineering is a relatively new discipline. As such, platform engineering teams are still figuring out best practices and messing up along the way. In a talk at PlatformCon 2025 last week, Camille Fournier, CTO of Open Athena and co-author (alongside Ian Nowland) of the book “Platform Engineering: … continue reading
Mirantis is introducing an AI-powered copilot into its Kubernetes IDE Lens. With Lens Prism, developers will be able to use natural language to troubleshoot and operate their Kubernetes clusters. Developers can ask questions like “What’s wrong with my pod?”, “How much CPU is this namespace using?” or “Is anything failing in my cluster?” Lens Prism … continue reading
Software development teams have been on a journey over the last several years to improve productivity. Whether that’s by cutting down on the time spent coding by introducing AI-powered coding assistants or implementing collaboration tools, it’s clear that teams are on a mission to be more productive. However, that drive for productivity may actually be … continue reading
CompTIA has released its State of the Tech Workforce 2025, which shows tech employment metrics at the nation, state, and metropolitan level. It found that despite economic uncertainty, the tech workforce in the US grew 1.2% in 2024, reaching 5.9 million. This sector of the workforce is projected to grow to 6.1 million in 2025. … continue reading
Gartner recently revealed a new report where it predicted that by the end of 2027, over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled. Factors contributing to this decline include escalating costs, unclear business value, and inadequate risk controls. According to the analyst firm, one trend it is seeing is that vendors are hyping up … continue reading
Platform engineering can be a valuable asset to an organization, but there are a number of strategies teams need to implement in order to drive success. In a talk at PlatformCon 2025 in NYC last week, Preeti Somal, senior VP of engineering at Temporal, gave a talk about the human side of platform engineering. She … continue reading
Google’s Agent2Agent protocol finds new home at the Linux Foundation At the Open Source Summit North America, it was announced that Google donated its Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Foundation. The A2A protocol offers a standard way for connecting agents to each other. In this way, it complements Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), which … continue reading
Google’s Agent2Agent protocol finds new home at the Linux Foundation At the Open Source Summit North America, it was announced that Google donated its Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Foundation. The A2A protocol offers a standard way for connecting agents to each other. In this way, it complements Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), which … continue reading
