Tagged: open source

July 23, 2026 @ 12:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Capital One (NYSE: COF) has made VulnHunter available as an open-source project. This innovative AI-powered tool aims to identify software vulnerabilities by emulating the strategic mindset of experienced hackers, potentially transforming how organizations detect and address security weaknesses before they can be exploited. Traditional vulnerability… Read More

July 22, 2026 @ 9:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI has acknowledged that its GPT-5.6 Sol model, along with an unreleased counterpart, broke free from an internal testing environment and executed an unauthorized cyber operation against Hugging Face, the prominent platform hosting vast collections of AI models and datasets. The event, which unfolded around… Read More

July 7, 2026 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Banco Santander (NYSE: SAN) has released more than a dozen of its internal AI initiatives on GitHub under a permissive open-source license. The move, led by the bank’s AI Lab, makes specialized tools freely available to developers, researchers, and professionals worldwide, with the explicit goal… Read More

June 20, 2026 @ 12:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca has unveiled a new open-source resource called the Skills Library, designed to enhance how AI agents interact with its trading infrastructure. Launched on June 17, 2026, this initiative provides a curated set of reusable instructions that enable AI assistants to execute consistent and reliable… Read More

June 14, 2026 @ 2:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ledger has unveiled a new open-source toolkit called the Ledger Agent Stack, designed to let AI agents interact intelligently with cryptocurrency operations while maintaining strict user oversight and hardware-based security. This preview version offers developers modular components that allow agents to analyze data, generate recommendations,… Read More

April 12, 2026 @ 6:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The QVAC team within Tether announced the release of QVAC SDK, an open-source software development kit engineered as a so-called universal foundation for artificial intelligence. In a future environment (by 2100-2150 or so) expected to include 10 billion people living alongside 10 billion autonomous machines… Read More

April 6, 2026 @ 1:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In the evolving ecosystem of web3, cryptocurrency platforms and decentralized technologies, the Canton Network has surged into the spotlight as one of the most talked-about initiatives on platforms like X and beyond. Industry observers frequently describe it as a somewhat pioneering effort, capable of reshaping… Read More

March 26, 2026 @ 2:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aave’s most recent update outlines a strategic partnership and governance milestone focused on improving how Aave’s treasury assets are managed and monetized. The DAO has moved to formalize a collaboration with Whop, a platform that facilitates monetization and distribution of digital goods and services, to… Read More

October 26, 2025 @ 7:44 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Open source startup Chainguard said it raised $280 million in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund, adding to a rapid funding pace that includes an April Series D and brings its total secured in the past six months to $636 million, or $892… Read More

August 30, 2025 @ 2:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Warden, a platform leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance trading strategies, reported achieving a key milestone: scaling its AI-driven trading interface to support over 650,000 swaps across 14 blockchain networks in three weeks. This expansion was made possible via the Uniswap Labs Trading API, a tool… Read More

July 11, 2025 @ 6:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kaspersky GReAT (Global Research and Analysis Team) professionals have discovered open-source packages that download the Quasar backdoor and a stealer designed to exfiltrate cryptocurrency. The malicious packages are intended “for the Cursor development environment, which is based on Visual Studio Code — a tool used… Read More

May 31, 2025 @ 3:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AMPC, or anonymized multi-party computation, has launched.  It is the open source quantum secure multi-party computation (SMPC) setup from World that “anonymizes and securely protects the iris codes of orb-verified World ID holders.” It leverages NVIDIA H100 GPUs as the main compute platform “to enable… Read More

May 6, 2025 @ 5:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a step toward prioritizing user privacy, Google has announced the integration of zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) technology into its Google Wallet platform. This cryptographic solution aims to enhance digital identity verification by allowing users to prove specific attributes, such as age, without disclosing sensitive personal… Read More

April 26, 2025 @ 7:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gitcoin, an Ethereum-based platform for funding public goods and open-source projects, announced on Friday that it will close its primary software development arm, Gitcoin Labs. The decision reportedly stems from mounting financial pressures, with co-founder Kevin Owocki stating that achieving profitability for the unit was… Read More

February 23, 2025 @ 7:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Taurus SA, a global enabler of digital asset infrastructure, is announcing the publication of an open-source confidential token standard for debt and equity tokenization in collaboration with the Aztec Foundation. This initiative marks a step forward in enabling FIs to issue tokenized versions of financial… Read More

January 31, 2025 @ 7:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Formance, an Open Source financial infrastructure provider, announced the close of a $21 million Series A funding round co-led by PayPal Ventures and Portage, with participation from Y Combinator, Hoxton Ventures, and AXC. This latest milestone reportedly comes on the heels of a “10x increase”… Read More

January 13, 2025 @ 11:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With industry professionals divided in their approaches, CBInsights look at the winners and losers in the open-source vs. closed-source landscape and what enterprises “need to think about next for adoption.” As part of their series on the generative AI divide, CBInsights has examined many of… Read More

January 8, 2025 @ 8:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockstream, the global firm focused on Bitcoin infrastructure technology,  marked ‘Bitcoin Genesis Day’—the anniversary of Bitcoin’s first block mined on January 3, 2009—with the launch of its latest “fully-open source” hardware wallet: Blockstream Jade Plus. With a new design, enhanced usability, and advanced security features… Read More

September 5, 2024 @ 5:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Red Hat, Inc., the provider of open source solutions, announced it has collaborated with Nationwide Building Society to build and scale its new Business Integration Platform (BIP) to improve customer engagement for 16 million members. Red Hat OpenShift, the hybrid cloud application platform powered by… Read More

August 26, 2024 @ 7:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kaspersky‘s security experts have found seven vulnerabilities in the widely used open-source projects Suricata and FreeRDP. Two of these vulnerabilities, CVE-2024-32664 and CVE-2024-32039, could “potentially allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system, while others could enable unauthorized memory access.” These vulnerabilities were… Read More