IBM and Red Hat announced Project Lightwell, a $5 billion commitment backed by new frontier AI capabilities and a global force of more than 20,000 engineers to help enterprises secure open source software. Together, these investments establish a new model for enterprise use of open source software, from upstream development through production environments. Project Lightwell…
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NCSC Backs Passkeys, Hailing a New Era of Sign-in
The UK’s NCSC has fully backed passkeys as consumers’ first choice for login, citing progress with FIDO and successful use across the NHS
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More Attack Context for Faster Triage, Response, and Hunting. Now Available to Every SOC
ANY.RUN has expanded access to Threat Intelligence capabilities for SOC and MSSP teams, backed by live attack data from 15,000 organizations. Here’s how your team can test TI’s impact on triage quality, response speed, and threat hunting workflows. See How Threat Intelligence Accelerates Your SOC ANY.RUN now offers 20 premium requests in Threat Intelligence Lookup and YARA Search as part of the Free plan. You can get immediate threat context for over 40 types…
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Major tech companies invest $12.5 million in open source security
The Linux Foundation announced $12.5 million in grant funding backed by Anthropic, AWS, GitHub, Google, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and OpenAI to strengthen open source security. The funding will be directed through the foundation’s Alpha-Omega Project and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). The initiative aims to address long-standing gaps in how open source software is…
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Munro Footwear Group goes live with Fluent Order Management, Supported by Amblique
COMPANY NEWS: The iconic Australian footwear company, backed by enterprise solutions experts Amblique, has implemented a new distributed Order Management System from Fluent Commerce
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Former GitHub CEO launches Entire to rebuild software development for the agentic era
Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has unveiled a new developer platform startup, Entire, backed by a US$60 million seed round – reportedly the largest seed investment ever raised for developer tools – signalling what may be the next major shift in how software is created in an AI-driven world.