You Can Now Auto-Update Your GitHub Repos to Avoid Code Vulnerabilities
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View ArticleMcKinsey Pops Its Open Source Cherry
Management consultancy releases free ETL tool The post McKinsey Pops Its Open Source Cherry appeared first on Computer Business Review.
View ArticleAmid Supply Chain Concerns, is Open Source Software Secure?
With a a 71 percent increase in open source-related breaches over the past five years, what do enterprises need to be considering? The post Amid Supply Chain Concerns, is Open Source Software Secure?...
View ArticleCloudera Bucks an Industry Trend, Doubles Down on Open Source
Hadoop wrangler Cloudera has bucked a trend to tighten control of open source code by protecting it under ever more restrictive licences, today announcing plans to go all-in on AGPL and Apache 2.0...
View ArticleThe Apache Software Foundation Gets a New Top Level Project: Here’s Why IBM’s...
Apache OpenWhisk, the open source project that IBM uses to provide serverless functions, has graduated as an Apache Software Foundation (ASF) top level project – a designation for projects with healthy...
View ArticleeBay Announces First “Graduate” of its Open Source Database Efforts
A lightweight C++ Raft core, with enhancements... The post eBay Announces First “Graduate” of its Open Source Database Efforts appeared first on Computer Business Review.
View ArticleOpen Source at the ASF: A Year in Numbers
332 active projects, 71 million lines of code changed, 7,000+ committers... The post Open Source at the ASF: A Year in Numbers appeared first on Computer Business Review.
View ArticleIBM’s Open Source POWER Play: A RISC-V Business?
IBM has open sourced its POWER ISA (Instruction Set Architecture), and opted to make the OpenPOWER consortium that it leads part of the Linux Foundation. The decision makes IBM the “only processor...
View ArticleIs the German Government Set to Kiss Goodbye to Microsoft, Amid “Digital...
Government will "review alternative programs to replace specific software" The post Is the German Government Set to Kiss Goodbye to Microsoft, Amid “Digital Sovereignty” Fears? appeared first on...
View ArticleDatabricks Gifts Its Data Lake Technology to the Linux Foundation
Machine learning unicorn Databricks has donated its Apache 2.0 licensed “Delta Lake” product to the Linux Foundation. Delta Lake is a “production-ready” open source tool designed to provide data lake...
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Canonical Aims for a Bigger Bite of the Telco Pie, with New Charmed OSM...
Canonical has rolled out a new upstream software distribution dubbed Charmed OSM – a set of open source tools pitched squarely at telcos aiming to shift from legacy networking services to cloud-native...
View ArticleRed Hat Warns Over Critical “Envoy” Vulnerability: Users Include a Who’s Who...
Red Hat is among the companies urging customers to patch urgently, after a critical vulnerability was identified in the open source software Envoy. Envoy, created by Lyft, is a tool that underpins...
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We Need to Talk About Apache Camel
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) oversaw 339 projects in 2019 — with a robust community of over 3,000 committers tweaking a huge 59,309,787 lines of code. The most active project, by commits, was...
View ArticleThis 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...
View ArticleWhat is Apache Lucene?
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...
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