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Sylabs to end-of-life all Singularity products on Oct. 25, 2026

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Sylabs to end-of-life all Singularity products on Oct. 25, 2026

United States – October 12, 2026 -- Sylabs will end-of-life SingularityPRO, Singularity Enterprise and SingularityCE on October 25, 2026, the date its engineering work on the SingularityCE project and Singularity ecosystem stops. CIQ, which backs the competing Apptainer project, says it is already moving to absorb Singularity's user base.

Sylabs releases formerly commercial features as open source

Sylabs is closing out SingularityPRO and Singularity Enterprise by open-sourcing functionality previously reserved for those paid offerings. CIQ expects the Apptainer community to pick up and maintain those features.

Singularity's 2015 HPC origins lead to a split in 2021

Gregory Kurtzer started Singularity at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2015 for multi-user HPC clusters, where Docker's security model did not fit. He founded Sylabs in 2017 to develop it commercially.

94% of European Firms Call Digital Sovereignty Vital, Governance Gap Persists

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94% of European Firms Call Digital Sovereignty Vital, Governance Gap Persists

Prague – October 07, 2026 -- Ninety-four percent of European organizations now rank digital sovereignty as important to their technology strategy, with 61% calling it very important, according to the fifth annual State of Open Source in Europe report released by the Linux Foundation, LF Europe, LF Research and NeoNephos at Open Source Summit Europe. Organizations with advanced open source governance frameworks report an average return of more than 4x their investment, compared with 3.6x among those lacking formal governance structures.

xFusion Joins Linux Foundation as Silver Member, Backs SODA Foundation

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xFusion Joins Linux Foundation as Silver Member, Backs SODA Foundation

Prague – October 07, 2026 -- xFusion, a global provider of AI computing infrastructure, has joined the Linux Foundation as a Silver member, the company announced at Open Source Summit Europe.

xFusion enters SODA Foundation to shape AI infrastructure standards

As part of the membership, xFusion is participating in the SODA Foundation, the Linux Foundation community dedicated to data and AI infrastructure. The company plans to contribute technical expertise drawn from its computing systems and infrastructure efficiency work to open source projects focused on AI operations, observability and benchmarking.

Linux Foundation Unveils ONE Summit Japan 2026 Agenda in Tokyo

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Linux Foundation Unveils ONE Summit Japan 2026 Agenda in Tokyo

San Francisco – October 01, 2026 -- Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) has released the initial session lineup for ONE Summit Japan 2026, set for Dec. 10-11 in Tokyo alongside Open Source Summit Japan.

Tokyo event gathers global networking community to address agentic AI shift

The summit will bring together technologists, operators, researchers and open source contributors to examine how artificial intelligence is reshaping network architecture and how networks must evolve to support next-generation AI infrastructure. LFN frames this as one of networking's most significant architectural shifts in decades, with AI functioning simultaneously as a major network workload and as a tool for automating network operations.

Civil Infrastructure Platform Hits IEC 62443-4-1/4-2 Compliance

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Civil Infrastructure Platform Hits IEC 62443-4-1/4-2 Compliance

San Francisco – September 28, 2026 -- The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP), an open source project hosted by the Linux Foundation, has achieved compliance with IEC 62443-4-1 and IEC 62443-4-2, becoming one of the first open source initiatives to reach this level of industrial cybersecurity alignment.

CIP compliance cuts adopter security work by up to 70%

CIP estimates that manufacturers building on its security processes, technical capabilities and reusable artifacts can reduce their IEC 62443 compliance effort by up to 70%, while retaining responsibility for requirements specific to their own products and deployments.