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1. Cybersecurity · Operating systems · Open source

   Critical SSH flaw hits musl-based Linux systems

   OpenSSH 10.6p2 closes a critical password authentication bypass. On musl-based systems with PAM disabled, such as Alpine Linux, anyone who can reach the SSH port can log in without a password.

   Full story at blog.checkpoint.com ↗
2. New AI models · Open source

   Nvidia releases new open Cosmos 3 models

   Nvidia introduced Cosmos 3 as open AI models for interactive world simulation. No further details were provided.

   Full story at huggingface.co ↗
3. New AI models · Open source · Artificial intelligence

   Baidu opens up its ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base model

   Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base, a 280-billion-parameter MoE model pre-trained on 33.5 trillion tokens. It ships deliberately without fine-tuning so developers can adapt it as they like.

   Full story at The Decoder ↗
4. Programming & dev tools · Open source

   GitHub gives accessibility statements a visible place

   An ACCESSIBILITY.md file is now visible on repository overview pages. It gathers a project's accessibility goals, contributor expectations, supported environments, known limitations and process for reporting barriers.

   Full story at github.blog ↗

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