Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Mike Dolan

@mdolan.bsky.social

"Just like they did two years ago, the UPTO has once again proposed new rules that would make it much harder to challenge bad patents through inter partes review (IPR). But this time the rule is much worse for developers and startups. And that’s a serious..."

github.blog/news-insight... #opensource

Developers still need the right to challenge junk patents

Calling on developers and organizations to advocate against patent rules that would make it harder to challenge bad patents by the December 2 deadline.

github.blog

November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM

Mike Dolan

@mdolan.bsky.social

This is an excellent explanation by Nico Rikken from Alliander about why traditional standards are failing in the #opensource world. IEC is just one example as Nico points out. The issues are avoidable, and fixable, but require attention.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsB0...

Challenges in Using IEC Standards in Open Source - Nico Rikken, Alliander

YouTube video by LF Energy

www.youtube.com

November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM

Reposted by Mike Dolan

Sean Michael Kerner

@techjournalist.bsky.social

StarlingX cranks open-source cloud network infrastructure to 11. www.networkworld.com/article/4090... @networkworld.bsky.social

StarlingX 11.0 addresses edge security, IPv4 exhaustion for massive deployments

StarlingX cranks open-source cloud network infrastructure to 11.

www.networkworld.com

November 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM

Reposted by Mike Dolan

OpenJS Foundation

@openjsf.org

With npm supply chain attacks on the rise, secure publishing practices are becoming a pressing concern for anyone maintaining npm packages. ⚠️

We've released updated guidance to help maintainers reduce exposure, strengthen release processes, and protect the ecosystem: openjsf.org/blog/publish...

Publishing More Securely on npm: Guidance from the OpenJS Security Collaboration Space | OpenJS Foundation

The OpenJS Security Collaboration Space has been working closely with GitHub’s npm team to understand how new security features affect projects and maintainers, especially as threats and tools keep ev...

openjsf.org

November 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Mike Dolan

@mdolan.bsky.social

Greg Kroah-Hartman explains the EU CRA to many thousands of #opensource developers at #KubeCon NA. Get involved in the #CRA standards work and comments with the OpenSSF CRA SIG here: lists.openssf.org/g/openssf-si...

November 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM

Mike Dolan

@mdolan.bsky.social

Congrats to our friends at Anyscale and Microsoft on a great #opensource Ray partnership announced today!

siliconangle.com/2025/11/04/a...

Anyscale and Microsoft team up to launch AI-native compute service on Azure - SiliconANGLE

siliconangle.com

November 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM

Mike Dolan

@mdolan.bsky.social

Welcome to our new project Fluxnova, a collaboration started in the financial services industry but relevant for anyone looking for an #opensource business process management (BPM) platform.

sdtimes.com/softwaredev/...

FINOS launches open source project Fluxnova to help with process automation

The project, Fluxnova, provides audit-ready workflows so that companies can visualize and automate their processes.

sdtimes.com

October 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM

Mike Dolan

@mdolan.bsky.social

"Open source and AI-assisted development: navigating the legal issues" by Chris Wright and Richard Fontana. They discuss the #opensource DCO questions people have been raising as well.

www.redhat.com/en/blog/ai-a...

AI-assisted development and open source: legal and cultural issues

Explore the legal and cultural issues surrounding AI-assisted development in open source communities. Learn about attribution, copyright, licensing, and the DCO in this comprehensive guide.

www.redhat.com

October 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM

Mike Dolan

@mdolan.bsky.social

"Valkey 9.0 features scalability improvements that can help achieve up to 40% more throughput...also features atomic slot migrations, hash field expiration, numbered databases in cluster mode, and a variety of other performance optimizations."

www.phoronix.com/news/Valkey-... #opensource

Valkey 9.0 Released With Ability To Achieve One Billion Requests / Second - Phoronix

Valkey as the popular, Linux Foundation backed fork of the Redis key-value database is out today with its big v9.0 release.

www.phoronix.com

October 23, 2025 at 5:39 AM

Mike Dolan

@mdolan.bsky.social

#Lodash is evolving — shifting from BDFL to shared stewardship. The focus now is maintenance: stability, security & sustainability over new features. A great reminder that mature open source projects thrive when we share responsibility. #OpenSource

blog.ulisesgascon.com/the-future-o...

The Future of Lodash

Lodash begins a new stage with a more collaborative and sustainable model. This post outlines the plan to simplify its maintenance, strengthen security, and ensure its key role in the JavaScript ecosy...

blog.ulisesgascon.com

October 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM

Mike Dolan

@mdolan.bsky.social

Look at this - #opensource Python.org now publishes new releases with sigstore and SPDX SBOM files! Check it out:

www.python.org/downloads/re...

#cybersecurity

October 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM

Mike Dolan

@mdolan.bsky.social

What is the return on investment (ROI) for your organization's financial, code, and community contributions to open source? Please take 10 minutes to share your insights in our latest survey: lnkd.in/gJ4c-tjZ

October 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM

Mike Dolan

@mdolan.bsky.social

Bianca Lewis, Exec Dir of the #OpenSearch Foundation, landed a highlight in Forbes. RAG is reshaping AI systems that retrieve, contextualize, and tailor outputs. OpenSearch provides the #opensource, vendor-neutral engine for search, analytics, and vector-powered AI.

www.forbes.com/sites/adrian...

How RAG Continues To ‘Tailor’ Well-Suited AI

As AI evolves from general-purpose tools to specialized copilots and assistants, the combination of RAG and vector search has, for many, seen it become foundational.

www.forbes.com

October 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM

Mike Dolan

@mdolan.bsky.social

Great talk by Jonathan Corbet from OSS EU - Three Decades in Kernelland - a great history showing the mistakes and threats to #Linux and #opensource - and the learnings and resiliency.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS2L...

Three Decades in Kernelland - Jonathan Corbet, LWN.net

YouTube video by The Linux Foundation

www.youtube.com

September 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM

Mike Dolan

@mdolan.bsky.social

What's new in #Valkey 9? Ridiculously fast innovation from the #opensource community incl Multiple DBs in clusters, atomic slot migration, and expiration on hash field items.

August 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM

Mike Dolan

@mdolan.bsky.social

Keyspace, the #valkey #opensource event

August 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM

Mike Dolan

@mdolan.bsky.social

CERN experiments generate 1PB/s of data! They filter that data using ML and AI and manage it all with #opensource software. You may recognize some of these logos.

August 28, 2025 at 7:34 AM

Mike Dolan

@mdolan.bsky.social

Patch, patch, patch even with #opensource. "CISA warns of actively exploited Git code execution flaw"
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

CISA warns of actively exploited Git code execution flaw

The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of hackers exploiting an arbitrary code execution flaw in the Git distributed version control system.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

August 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM

Mike Dolan

@mdolan.bsky.social

Today we announce DocumentDB has joined the LF with support from Microsoft, AWS and many more. Check it out.

www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

August 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM

Mike Dolan

@mdolan.bsky.social

In the midst of COVID I decided to fill my travel-free time by starting a Masters in #Cybersecurity at Harvard. I'm working on a final capstone project and my team is looking at building a risk scoring sytem for AI models. If you care about #AI model risk, please participate:

lnkd.in/gZYMeeDE

August 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM

Mike Dolan

@mdolan.bsky.social

The US really needs national data privacy regulation.

www.pcworld.com/article/2854...

A U.S. startup is selling your hacked, stolen data to anyone with $50 | PCWorld

An exposé details how anyone with a credit card can get easy access to a huge database of stolen personal information, sold in the open.

www.pcworld.com

July 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM

Mike Dolan

@mdolan.bsky.social

What is the #Linux -based client operating system market share? I was reading SJVN's write up on ZDNET and noticed that if you look beyond "desktop" in the US data at analytics.usa.gov, Linux-based operating sytems are actually over 25% of the clients accessing US federal websites.