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The Linux Foundation and tech giants have launched Akrites to protect open-source projects from AI-powered attacks. A coalition of 19 organizations, including major AI labs and Wall Street banks, created a dedicated security team for open-source maintainers.

DNS for AI Discovery (DNS-AID) is an open-source project enabling AI agents to discover each other via DNS, avoiding fragmented configurations. Built on existing infrastructure like SVCB and DNSSEC, it allows agent discovery by name, function, or domain, supported by major DNS providers.

Cisco is expanding support for the open-source SONiC network operating system to its Nexus 9000 series datacenter switches, allowing customers beyond hyperscalers to use it. This move aims to provide flexibility for AI and non-AI clusters while maintaining existing ACI or NX-OS environments on the same hardware.

cURL developer Daniel Stenberg tested Anthropic's Mythos AI model and found it to be primarily a marketing stunt, discovering only one confirmed security vulnerability. The model was expected to find more vulnerabilities, but its findings were mostly false positives or already known issues. Stenberg concludes that Mythos is not a groundbreaking AI model.

Linea Consortium has contributed its ZK rollup stack to the Linux Foundation, providing a neutral home for its technology. This move is governed by a foundation and was announced by Declan Fox, a board director of Linea Consortium. The contribution aims to benefit the open-source community.

Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum, has expressed support for ETH treasury firms and highlighted Ethereum's quantum-safe roadmap. He also confirmed Linea's move to the Linux Foundation. Lubin praised DATs as a 'profound innovation'.

SAP acquired Dremio to expand its data analytics and AI capabilities, aiming to eliminate data fragmentation and improve integration. The acquisition complements SAP's Business Data Cloud and SAP HANA Cloud platforms. Dremio's technology is based on Apache Iceberg, an open table format.

A fake Linux leader impersonated a Linux Foundation official via Slack to target open-source developers, using Google Sites to steal credentials. The attack involved phishing tactics to compromise developers' systems and extract sensitive information.