2026 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis Report – Software Governance in the AI Era – Black Duck Software, Inc.

https://www.blackduck.com/content/dam/black-duck/en-us/reports/rep-ossra.pdf

The “Open Source Security and Risk Analysis” (OSSRA) report has been the industry’s definitive look at the state of open source code for a decade. Each year, we analyze anonymized findings from commercial codebases audited by the Black Duck Audit Services team, and this provides an unmatched, real-world view of how open source is used—and sometimes misused—across every major industry. [...]

https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/588

A quotation from Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (1913-1995) English writer, translator [pseud. of Edith Mary Pargeter]
Brother Cadfael’s Penance, ch. 16 (1994)

More about this quote: wist.info/peters-ellis/75756/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ellispeters #cadfael #brothercadfael #consequences #cost #costbenefit #decision #decisionmaking #must #necessity #riskanalysis #simplicity

“(...) One day, while I was at work, I started a conversation with one of the customers who eventually started telling me about a degree in mathematics she was doing. I was so intrigued by the things she said that a few days later we ended up talking about ring theory over ramen.” - Aleksandra Brodowy

➡️ https://hermathsstory.eu/aleksandra-brodowy

#Academia #Industry #Mathematics #RingTheory #AbstractAlgebra #Uncertainty #RiskAnalysis #Student #AccountManager #WomenInMaths #WomenInSTEM #HerMathsStory

HIPAA Fines Hit $1.7 Million for Risk Analysis Failures

The consequences of neglecting HIPAA risk analysis are steep: four entities recently paid a total of $1.7 million in fines for failing to conduct accurate, timely, and thorough assessments, exposing sensitive health information of nearly 427,000 individuals to hacking and ransomware threats.

https://osintsights.com/hipaa-fines-hit-17-million-for-risk-analysis-failures?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Hipaa #RiskAnalysis #Healthcare #Ransomware #Ocr

The new handshake for analysis is a binary choice: Shape vs. Explicit.

​🔷 The Shape (Free): Surface-level telemetry for those with the expertise to interpret the diagnostic from the architecture alone.

​🔶 The Explicit (1 Token): Deep-stack data injection. No ambiguity. For those requiring the "Great Spear" of concurrency and definitive validation.

​#SystemsArchitecture #RiskAnalysis #TechUpdate #Data

5 things that could break the tech growth thesis:

1. AI bubble burst if ROI disappoints
2. Power grid cannot keep pace (most likely)
3. US-China chip war escalation
4. Regulatory backlash against AI/data
5. Sustained high interest rates

I assessed probability for each. Number 2 is already happening in Northern Virginia, Dublin, and Singapore.

Full counter-argument analysis:
https://resistancezero.com/geopolitics-2.html

#AIBubble #TechInvestment #Geopolitics #SemiconductorWar #EnergyConstraints #RiskAnalysis

#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review #satellite #collision #cascade #space #CarringtonEvent #RiskAnalysis #CRASHclock

Apocalypse bingo 16. February 2026... Who has the satellites?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuVOM067OOo