Transparency
Cloudflare has released its 2024 Transparency Reports with expanded content and a new format, influenced by EU's Digital Services Act requirements. The reports are now divided into two sections covering Legal Requests for Information and Abuse Processes, featuring new data points and machine-readable formats. The company maintains its decade-long commitment to transparency while adapting to regulatory changes and service growth.
Deepseek-ai announces plans to open-source five repositories over five consecutive days, sharing production-tested code from their AGI development efforts. The initiative aims to contribute transparently to collective progress in AI development while fostering community-driven innovation.
DOGE, led by Elon Musk, significantly misrepresented savings from a Social Security Administration IT contract, claiming $232 million in cuts while actually only reducing spending by $560,000. The reduction came from canceling a Gender X Marker project, raising concerns about both financial transparency and anti-trans policies under the Trump administration.
The U.S. government disclosed 39 zero-day software vulnerabilities in 2023, marking its first public report on the Vulnerabilities Equities Process (VEP). Ten of these vulnerabilities had been previously kept secret, highlighting the complex balance between national security interests and public safety. The Trump administration's commitment to increasing cyber offensive operations suggests potential shifts in vulnerability disclosure practices.