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The operators of leading open source software (OSS) package repositories, including the Python Software Foundation and the Rust Foundation, have set out the actions they are taking to help better secure and protect the open source software (OSS) ecosystem, underscored by a series of high-profile OSS flaws in the past few years, most notably Log4Shell.

TikTok users inundated congressional offices with calls Thursday after the company sent pop-up messages urging people to “speak up” against a rapidly moving House proposal that could lead to the China-linked app being banned in the U.S. The app displayed messages asking people to contact their congressional representatives to “stop a TikTok shutdown” ahead of

The head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) told a policing watchdog today that there had been “no industrial application” of surveillance powers to monitor NGOs, journalists or lawyers. Chief constable of the PSNI, Jon Boutcher, was speaking after human rights groups wrote to Northern Ireland’s Policing Board to ask it to open

If you use Google Maps every day, you probably also use its Street View feature. Street View uses recent street photos, taken by those conspicuous Google cars you’ve probably seen out on the roads, to let you virtually visit locations all over the world, like landmarks and national parks. It’s really useful if you want to check

The government’s procurement agency, the Crown Commercial Service (CCS), has made a U-turn on plans for a £20m increase in the insurance cover required for suppliers in its flagship cloud computing framework. In a document published today (7 March) to update information provided in response to questions from prospective bidders for the G-Cloud 14 framework,

House Democrats opened an investigation of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, examining whether the company implemented adequate safeguards to prevent Russia from deploying its Starlink satellite internet service in its war against Ukraine. Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) sent a letter Wednesday night demanding that the company report complaints about potential illegal acquisitions of

As European Union regulators prepared to implement a Big Tech law that would broadside U.S. heavyweights such as Apple and Google, the letters poured into the White House. A group of industry associations wailed to President Biden that Europe had used “subterfuge” to “hobble U.S. companies.” A band of members of Congress bemoaned the E.U.