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Codeberg, the open source code hosting platform, has moved to ban cryptocurrency projects from its platform — a decision that's drawing attention across developer communities. The move reflects a growing tension between open hosting principles and the reputational and resource costs that crypto projects increasingly bring with them.
Shifting to the world of AI, Simon Willison has published a sharp piece examining a fictional scenario where OpenAI accidentally launches a cyberattack against Hugging Face. Willison's point isn't that it happened — it didn't — but that the premise feels plausible enough to pass as science fiction, which says something uncomfortable about where we are with AI systems and institutional trust right now.
And on the security front, a developer with a background in penetration testing has released Sambaudit, an open source tool for scanning SMB network shares for exposed secrets. Anyone who's done enterprise security work knows these shared drives are where passwords go to be forgotten — buried in old PowerShell scripts and configuration files. Having a proper scanner with a web interface is a practical step toward making that problem harder to ignore.
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