Developers and US officials weigh the implications of the XZ Utils near-miss as CISA says tech companies should do more to back the open-source ecosystem (Raphael Satter/Reuters)

Raphael Satter / Reuters:

Developers and US officials weigh the implications of the XZ Utils near-miss as CISA says tech companies should do more to back the open-source ecosystem  —  German software developer Andres Freund was running some detailed performance tests last month when he noticed odd behavior in a little known program.