FOSS Weekly #4 -- New botnet affecting Linux servers, Big Tech's new open source tools, and more.

📰 News

• Open source email client Thunderbird is coming to Android with K9 Mail [blog.thunderbird.net/2022/06/revealed...]

• Microsoft FOSS Fund gives $10K to GNOME [github.com/microsoft/foss-fund]

• Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users [blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox...]

• UNDP requests proposals for open source mobile digital ID pilot in Mauritania [biometricupdate.com/202206/...]

• Updated Microsoft Store policies prohibit publishers from charging fees for open source software [ghacks.net/2022/06/17/microsoft-store...]

📢 Announcements

• Salesforce researchers open source ‘Taichi’: a python library for few-shot NLP [blog.salesforceairesearch.com/taichi/]

• Google open sources Switch Transformer models in T5X/JAX [announcement][repo]

• Adobe's Content Authenticity Initiative releases three open source tools to counter visual misinformation [contentauthenticity.org/blog/cai-releases...]

• Grafana open sources its on-call management tool [grafana.com/blog/...]

• Epic Games' Epic Online Services release free PC crossplay tools with Linux support [dev.epicgames.com/en-US/news/epic...]

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🔗 Security

• Akamai security researchers discovered Panchan, a new peer-to-peer botnet and SSH worm that has been actively breaching Linux servers since March 2022 [akamai.com/blog/sec...]

• Aqua Security says public Travis CI logs are still leaving credentials of open source projects exposed [blog.aquasec.com/travis-ci-security]

• FreeDesktop.org GitLab server drive failure brought down several repositories like LibreOffice and GStreamer [phoronix.com/scan...]

🔍 Interesting Finds of the Week

• The importance of truly owning our devices [cheapskatesguide.org/articles/]

• A Git origin story. [linuxjournal.com/content/git-origin-story]

• And then this one by Richard Stallman [gnu.org/philosophy/mcvoy.en.html]

• How the U.S. Federal Government buys our cell phone location data. [eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/how-federal-gov...]

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