Am Institut für Information Security forschen derzeit rund 80 Personen in vier Forschungsbereichen, darunter IT-Sicherheit, Kryptografie, sichere Anwendungen, Systemdesigns und die Sicherheit von und durch künstliche Intelligenz (KI). Geleitet wird das Institut von Stefan Mangard: „Wir haben in diesem Gebäude acht Forschungsgruppen. Diese beschäftigen sich beispielsweise mit Kryptografie. Da geht es darum, Daten zu verschlüsseln. Dann gibt es auch Bereiche, wo es darum geht, sichere Systeme wie Handys oder Computer zu bauen.“

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“Workslop” is a term that defines bad, “AI” generated work product that someone produces to fulfill their work duties on a surface level that their coworkers will have to clean up: I generate a bunch of code that kinda works and someone else realizes that it’s a hot mess when trying to run it and has to clean up the mess. In that example I would have produced workslop (but might have been very efficient!).

The experience of workslop (whether it’s real or mostly perceived as I showed in my short story) directly erodes social connection, erodes trust in one another and in the end erodes solidarity. Because why would you stand with a person who does not do their job and offloads their work on you?

The Document Foundation expelled over 30 LibreOffice core developers from membership this week—including seven of the project’s top 10 all-time committers. The ejected developers, all employed by Collabora Productivity, contribute approximately 80% of LibreOffice’s codebase. TDF cited vague “legal disputes” and conflict-of-interest bylaws but provided no specifics. Collabora responded by announcing plans to fork the project.

A.I. is helping attackers in other ways. Some have used chatbots to draft phishing emails and ransom notes, cybersecurity experts said. Others have used A.I. to parse large quantities of stolen data and determine what information might be valuable. Without help from A.I., attackers could sometimes break into computer networks within minutes, Mr. deSouza said, but with the help of A.I., breaches can take just seconds.

Some hackers specialize in breaking into systems and then selling off their access to other attackers. Those handoffs used to take as much as eight hours, as hackers negotiated the sales and passed along the compromised entry points, Mr. deSouza said. Now that process has accelerated to about 20 seconds, he said, with hackers sometimes using A.I. agents to speed up the process.

In der letzten Woche wurde bekannt, dass ein Konsortium (Nextcloud, Ionos und weitere) unter dem Namen Euro-Office das lettische ONLYOFFICE forkt. Darauf reagierte die ONLYOFFICE-Firma Ascensio System SIA am 30. März 2026 mit einem Blogpost, in dem Euro-Office ein Bruch der Lizenzbedingungen vorgeworfen wird. ONLYOFFICE steht unter der AGPL v3 Lizenz, die durch weitere Klauseln ergänzt wurde, was zulässig ist. Doch gerade um diese Zusätze dreht es sich bei den Streitigkeiten.

Beim zweiten Fall sind sich die Document Foundation (TDF) und das Unternehmen Collabora Productivity in die Haare geraten. Dabei geht es im Wesentlichen um meritokratisches Hierarchie-Geplänkel, wie es in FLOSS-Projekten häufig vorkommt:

Wer bezahlt, bestimmt.
Wer das Produkt baut, bestimmt.