{"slug": "oracle-promises-to-open-up-mysql-governance-but-the-community-wants-guarantees", "title": "Oracle promises to open up MySQL governance, but the community wants guarantees", "summary": "Oracle promised to open up MySQL governance but the community demands guarantees, highlighting ongoing tensions over control of the open-source database.", "body_md": "### MOST POPULAR\n\n[AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n-\nsecurity\n\n#### Amazon Q flaw let booby-trapped Git repos execute code, swipe cloud creds\n\nResearchers warn many AI coding assistants now execute commands from project configurations\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### AI giants back non-profit to retrain workers left behind by AI\n\nSorry we spent your wages on datacenters, but call us when you're AI-ready\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### OpenAI says 97.9 percent of its employees are now using agents\n\nCodex, it's not just for developers, really\n\n-\npersonal tech\n\n#### Apple passes RAMpocalypse costs on to consumers\n\nFondleslab and Mac prices rise by hundreds; phones safe ... for now\n\n-\nPAAS AND IAAS\n\n#### Amazon pours another $13B into India's AI and cloud infrastructure\n\nMumbai and Hyderabad datacenter expansion forms part of broader $48B five-year investment pledge\n\n[Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks\n\nPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack\n\nPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n\n-\nBlack Hat and DEF CON\n\n#### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure\n\nVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis\n\nWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n\n-\nMalware Month\n\n#### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight\n\nOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n[FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n-\n#### Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up\n\nNow with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default\n\n-\n#### Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form\n\nRetro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK\n\n-\n#### Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'\n\nMore Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too\n\n-\n#### France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well\n\nNextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another\n\n-\n#### History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system\n\nWhen a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'\n\n-\n#### Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it\n\nProject Headroom could save you big money, too", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/oracle-promises-to-open-up-mysql-governance-but-the-community-wants-guarantees", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/06/26/oracle-promises-to-open-up-mysql-governance-but-the-community-wants-guarantees/5263106", "published_at": "2026-06-26 15:45:39+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-26 16:05:17.159057+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy"], "entities": ["Oracle", "MySQL"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/oracle-promises-to-open-up-mysql-governance-but-the-community-wants-guarantees", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/oracle-promises-to-open-up-mysql-governance-but-the-community-wants-guarantees.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/oracle-promises-to-open-up-mysql-governance-but-the-community-wants-guarantees.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/oracle-promises-to-open-up-mysql-governance-but-the-community-wants-guarantees.jsonld"}}