This New Open Source Software Can Help Spot Cancerous Cells
A global team of researchers say they have open sourced new software designed to assess the proportion of cancerous cells in a tumour sample, among a range of other functions that could make it easier...
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Apache Lucene, the full-text search library, has operated and been maintained for more than 20 years and for many developers is an integral part of their website and application builds. Essentially...
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Vulnerabilities in the Core: Key Lessons from a Major Open Source Census
A major new Open Source census has identified the Top 20 most commonly used free and open source software (FOSS) components in production applications. The Linux Foundation/ Laboratory for Innovation...
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7 of the World’s Top 10 Open Source Packages Come with This Warning
Of the world’s top 10 most-used open source packages, seven are hosted on individual developer accounts, the Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative has warned, saying this could pose a...
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GitHub for Mobile Lands – While Owner Microsoft Eyes Tighter OSS Security
The timing, arguably, couldn’t be better. Developers floating about the house trying to avoid their children can now triage issues and merge code on their smartphones from the toilet or other bolthole...
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Canonical Joins Cloud Wars: Rolls Out Fully Managed Apache Kafka, Elastic,...
Canonical, the company best known for open source operating system Ubuntu (one of the most widely used OSs in the cloud) has made an unexpectedly aggressive gambit for a broader slice of the managed...
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Choosing an Open Source Stack – And Avoiding a False Economy
While more organisations are adopting open source software (over 95 percent according to Gartner), selecting and building an open source stack can be overwhelming, writes Justin Reock, Chief Architect...
View ArticleOpenChain ISO/IEC Submission Signals Fresh OSS Compliance Drive
The Linux Foundation’s “Joint Development Foundation” (JDF) has won formal approval to submit open source software (OSS) projects for recognition as international standards, in a landmark move — with...
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Apache Cassandra 4.0 Lands: Five Times Faster, Audit Logging and More
Apache Cassandra, the distributed NoSQL database, ranks highly in the “most dreaded” database category of Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey. That’s despite the open source database’s undeniable...
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Tech’s Big Beasts Team Up in Bid to Defend the Open Source Oasis: Will It Be...
Some of the biggest beasts of the tech world have teamed up to launch a new Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) — which will be hosted at the Linux Foundation and take over the work of the...
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