Thanks, I deleted my duplicate!

Weekly Echoes #2026W26: IT news, round-up, week 26; from 06/22 to 06/28. ⇒ Commission selects EUROPA consortium as the winner of the Frontier AI Grand Challenge, a project to build European open-source frontier AI model in all 24 EU languages https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116776972203072635 Some unhappy responses. https://mastodon.luca-alloatti.eu/@luca/116777720487706865 about inaccuracy, and so on.

[image: 1782175305024-76e6fcd1-27f9-4871-b6a4-9e6afb51c7e0-image.jpeg] https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-166a-39c2-0b07-20f210082765#gallery-209712756 @scriptkiddie@anonsys.net

hardware corruption?! Sometimes, errors occur when the USB connection is physically disturbed. Other times, there's no obvious explanation. I might be hands-off, with my cat nowhere near, at the time.

Sorry, I omitted a link to the affected post. It's now linked from above. Note the lines in the original. The representation in Mastodon is wrapped, no line endings.

https://thesiliconreview.com/2026/06/cybersecurity-incident-oracle-peoplesoft-shinyhunters-breach It's a sensationalist article, which is not a bad thing in this case. Less sensationally, but critical (9.8/10): Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools... · CVE-2026-35273 · GitHub Advisory Database For the other three vulnerabilities, all moderate, that are mentioned in the article: Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools... · CVE-2026-21934 · GitHub Advisory Database Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Shared... · CVE-2026-22019 · GitHub Advisory Database Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise FIN... · CVE-2026-34299 · GitHub Advisory Database This week's breach is all over the news, I first found it at https://mastodon.opencloud.lu/@BrideOfLinux/116737809000928257 from @BrideOfLinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu Before Oracle responded: Is this true? I have not seen a report yet who is affected. : r/oracle

@grahamperrin That was poorly written. Better said that a whole lot of money is being dumped into marketing these product before they are fully baked.

For the record: I don't use Bitcoin, or anything like it. I learnt of the organisation through Git commit log messages for an open source project – OpenSats Initiative is a sponsor.

https://www.blackduck.com/content/dam/black-duck/en-us/reports/rep-ossra.pdf The “Open Source Security and Risk Analysis” (OSSRA) report has been the industry’s definitive look at the state of open source code for a decade. Each year, we analyze anonymized findings from commercial codebases audited by the Black Duck Audit Services team, and this provides an unmatched, real-world view of how open source is used—and sometimes misused—across every major industry. This year’s findings document a pivotal moment: The explosion of AI-assisted development has fundamentally altered the risk landscape for software and the baseline for compliance with new regulatory initiatives such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). PDF, 44 pages. Context Open source organisations weigh in on age attestation Availability Noted in Reddit: … easily found with Google – without completing Black Duck's form, which requires a business email address: https://www.google.com/search?q="2026+Open+Source+Security+and+Risk+Analysis+Report"+PDF&udm=14 …

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2026-05/msg07614.html Until now QEMU's code provenance policy declined any contribution believed to include or derive from AI-generated content. A blanket ban was easy to maintain while LLM output was rarely usable on its own, but as the tools improved an absolute prohibition has become harder to justify. … Via QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions - Phoronix comments discussion in r/linux – the first comment was popular but confused, I responded mentioned in Policy for AI/LLM contributions (#697) · Issue · alpine/council boosted in BSD Cafe Mastodon. The email was copied to Warner Losh (FreeBSD), Alistair Francis (WD), Alex Bennée and Peter Maydell (Linaro), and three people at Red Hat.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/ This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment. While these technologies promise sophisticated automation and efficiency, they rely on data collection and model training practices that abuse privacy rights, enable discrimination, and threaten freedom of expression and thought. Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems. PDF, 44 pages.

https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/all-stories/future-software-when-ai-writes-code-what-do-humans-do Below the four key takeaways, which I'll not quote here: At Oregon State University’s AI Week in mid-April, a panel of academic and industry experts, … confronted a question increasingly central to computing, education, and industry: If artificial intelligence writes most of the code, what role remains for human software engineers? The conversation blended historical reflection, a realistic outlook on the trajectory of technology, and a candid discussion about jobs, changes to university curricula, and public anxiety surrounding AI’s rapid advance. … Additional tag: #AI (can not be entered in NodeBB).

https://posixcafe.org/blogs/2024/01/05/0/ @moody@hj.9fs.net I recently had a discussion with a friend of mine about some talking points that Jonathan Blow made regarding the "UNIX Philosophy" during his interview on Oxide's On The Metal podcast. I'll place an excerpt of the provided transcript here. … … There is this idea that to be UNIX means you have multiple tiny programs talking to each other over pipes, and some even take it further to implicate that this communication must be plain text. This classification is a deep misunderstanding of the ideas put forward by UNIX, and yet is a position I see many of my peers share. … Also: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@jutty/113028308196028999 @jutty@tilde.zone https://lobste.rs/s/dysrh2 Misconceptions about the UNIX Philosophy – Jacob Moody, Posixcafe : r/unix

Exactly! Its goal is to reduce GAFAM's dominance (particularly: Google) It "launch" another excellente/amazing/terrible initiative named "Les Chatons" (real FR term, translated too in EN) : CHATONS – kittens in french – is the Collective of Hosters Alternative, Transparent, Open, Neutral and Solidarity. This collective aims to bring together structures offering free, ethical and decentralised online services in order to allow users to quickly find alternatives that respect their data and privacy to the services offered by GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft). CHATONS is a collective initiated by the association Framasoft in 2016 following the success of its campaign De-google-ify Internet. See: https://www.chatons.org/en

https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/504 mentioned Framaforms. From the same period in my Firefox history (July 2025): Yakforms. Related: Oubliez Framaforms, faites de la place à Yakforms ! Forget Framaforms, make some room for Yakforms ! I don't have a saved password, I do have this in my Firefox history: Work items · Yakforms Docs · GitLab – which probably means that I was unable to use Yakforms at the time. An intention to report an issue. https://redd.it/1m973go (July 2025) reminds me: I chose to use a CryptPad instance. Specifically: https://pad.envs.net/

Linked from the commentary, the gov.uk domain: Our evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 cyber capabilities | AISI Work

OK, today, we've news about this! Due to hardware failure, the machine hosting undeadly has gone down last week. Thanks to the kind and swift help from OpenBSD.amsterdam, we're now back online. We will source new hardware for the original machine and hopefully move back again soon. https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260511202034 PS : The show must go-in on…

We’re releasing a brand new, open-source mouse design: the Bean, which is a pointing stick mouse (also called a nub mouse). (…) As with all of our other kits, the Bean is 3D-printed and fully open-source. Mechanical files, electrical files, and firmware have all been released, along with documentation on how to make and modify your own. It’s all on Github! https://ploopy.co/bean/ https://blog.ploopy.co/the-bean-is-here-435 https://github.com/ploopyco/bean-pointing-stick/