OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Astral Software Inc., a startup with a set of widely used Python development tools.  The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Astral’s development ...

OpenAI has acquired Astral, a startup whose essential Python development tools are used by millions. This strategic move aims ...

The GlassWorm supply-chain campaign has returned with a new, coordinated attack that targeted hundreds of packages, ...

Astral creates Python development tools such as uv, a package and project manager, and Ruff, a linter and formatter.

New private repository secures the AI-driven development boom by grounding LLMs in a library of 79 million vetted, rebuilt-from-source components VANCOUVER, BC, March 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

Chainguard is expanding beyond open-source security to protect open-core software, AI agent skills, and GitHub Actions.

Qualys reports the discovery by their threat research unit of vulnerabilities in the Linux AppArmor system used by SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, and ...

AI coding tools and autonomous agents are generating more code, pulling in more dependencies, and interacting with open source at a scale humans have never seen before," said Dan Lorenc, CEO and ...

At QCon London 2026, Suhail Patel, a principal engineer at Monzo who leads the bank’s platform group, described how the bank ...

A malicious Python package masquerading as a legitimate Telegram development tool has been identified as a vehicle for remote code execution attacks, raising concerns about supply chain security ...

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