With fresh funding from the Linux Foundation’s Alpha Omega initiative, FreeBSD is turning to AI tools and paid security staff to hunt vulnerabilities across its codebase.
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Arch has evidently stopped new AUR registrations for the time being while maintainers scrub malware and users debate how to harden the popular community repository.
Earmarked donations let GNOME fund two fellows to modernize Files (Nautilus), improve tooling, and bolster project-level governance.
Just hours after Arch sounded the all‑clear on a massive AUR malware purge, a new, stealthier campaign is slipping malicious code back into user packages.
Arch says it's scrubbed all known malicious commits, but the 1,500‑plus affected AUR packages are a fresh reminder to "trust but verify."
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Arch User Repository hit by a large-scale malware campaign, with maintainers racing to roll back malicious commits and lock out bad actors.
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