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GitHub (Microsoft), Microsoft, and OpenAI (Microsoft) Give Money to 'Linux' Foundation for Public Relations After Attacking Free Software With Plagiarism
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Linux Foundation kicks off effort to shield FOSS maintainers from AI slop bug reports [Ed: GAFAM Foundation is part of the problem; Judging by who sponsors this, it's the very companies that spam the bug reporting systems, so this is PR piggybacking the name "Linux"; "$1.25T invested in slop generation, 1 milli-percent on ameliorating the damage," as someone has put it]
Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects to cope with AI slop bug reports.
“As the security landscape grows more complex, advances in AI are dramatically increasing the speed and scale of vulnerability discovery in open source software,” explains a Linux Foundation announcement about the initiative. “Maintainers are now facing an unprecedented influx of security findings, many of which are generated by automated systems, without the resources or tooling needed to triage and remediate them effectively.”
That statement there (Microsoft front group in 'Linux' clothing) is pure PR for slop, it is marketing!
Linux Foundation reputation laundering for Microsoft et al:
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Big tech companies step in to support the open source security ecosystem [Ed: Nope, they do the opposite]
The funding will be directed through the foundation’s Alpha-Omega Project and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF).
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Linux Foundation: $12.5 Million Raised For Open Source Security Initiative [Ed: Misleads about the real purpose and root cause]
The Linux Foundation announced $12.5 million in grant funding from a coalition of major technology companies to strengthen the security of the open source software ecosystem, as artificial intelligence accelerates both software development and vulnerability discovery.
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Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Defence Against AI Bug Surge [Ed: Taking bribes from the culprits to shift attention (PR)]
Big Tech backs a Linux Foundation-led push to help FOSS maintainers tackle AI-generated bug floods, aiming to restore balance in open-source security workflows.
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Linux Foundation Receives $12.5 Million for Open Source Security
The Linux Foundation has announced that it is receiving a total of $12.5 million in grants from a group of technology companies to strengthen the security of open source software.
Contributors include Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, GitHub, Google, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and OpenAI. The funds will be managed by Alpha-Omega and the Open Source Security Foundation, two initiatives within the Linux Foundation focused on structural improvements to open source security.