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Built on Borrowed Code: Why AI Runs on Open Source with Abby Kearns

A Join host Nick Schutt and Abby Kearns (CEO of ActiveState, former CTO at Puppet & AI startup, ex-CEO Cloud Foundry Foundation) as they unpack the invisible foundation of today’s AI revolution: open source software. Abby shares insights on package supply chain attacks, agentic workflows, the maintainer crisis, and how companies can responsibly adopt AI without compromising security.

BleepingComputer

The GitHub Actions Attack Pattern Your CI Security Scanners Miss

A green pipeline is not a governed one, and agentic coding is widening the gap faster than review can close it. By Shane Warden, Principal Architect, ActiveState In June 2026, researchers at Novee Security disclosed a class of CI/CD weakness they named Cordyceps.

Forbes

Dev Team KPIs That Matter More As AI Speeds Delivery

AI coding tools are helping development teams write and ship software faster, but faster output doesn’t automatically translate into better outcomes..

FastForward

Why Abby Kearns thinks AI has changed the rules for the open source software supply chain

Abby Kearns has spent more than a decade in the open source world, starting at Pivotal before going on to lead the Cloud Foundry Foundation and later serving as CTO at Puppet. Today she is CEO at ActiveState, a company that focuses on keeping the open source software library supply chain safe.

The Stack

OSS security finally gets a Magic Quadrant

Open source malware is a “nation-state business model”, Sonatype said pithily in its “State of the Software Supply Chain” report for 2026. Per that report: “Attackers are exploiting high-trust open source ecosystems.