Rumors of the ongoing death of software development — that it’s being slain by AI — are greatly exaggerated. The work of a software developer is much more than just writing lines of code.

MIT Technology Review

The machines are rising — but developers still hold the keys

Increasing use of AI in software development will make developer decisions and judgment more important, not less.

Today, a nonprofit focused on bringing governance to open source projects announced the launch of a new security fund that will pay those who responsibly disclose security vulnerabilities that affect fediverse apps and services.

TechCrunch

A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse | TechCrunch

A new security fund aims to help apps in the fediverse — like Mastodon, Threads, and Pixelfed — to pay researchers for disclosing security bugs.

Mozilla will soon unveil a new set of "professional" services designed to enhance the basic email management features of its free, open-source email client, Thunderbird. https://www.techspot.com/news/107366-thunderbird-email-client-venturing-new-pro-tier-commercial.html

Today, unless you go totally off-grid, you'll never have the privacy people took for granted at the end of the 20th century.

Privacy died last century, the only way to go is off-grid

Opinion: From smartphones to surveillance cameras to security snafus, there's no escape