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Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects

The Verge

A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “ faker.js ” and “ colors.js ” — that thousands of users depend on, rendering any project that contains these libraries useless, as reported by Bleeping Computer. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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David Bray of FCC @FCC_CIO Discusses Public Service and Data Analytics at 2014 Analyst Forum 

CTOvision

To illustrate his point, Mr. Bray shared the story of an application for smartphones created by the FCC. To support this assertion, he related a story of the development of an algorithm that outperformed its human counterparts in grading essays. — Trajectory Magazine (@TrajectoryMag) July 30, 2014. Ah, bureaucracy.

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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

The main reason for the limited functionality of most IVIs is that car manufacturers use proprietary software developed by third-party suppliers to power their infotainment systems, meaning car-based apps are also proprietary. By developing an open-source platform, carmakers can share upgrades as they arrive.

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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

CTOvision

– 24 Feb 2014: IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Boston, MA-based Cloudant, Inc., a privately held database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider that enables developers to easily and quickly create next generation mobile and web apps. . Cloudant could not have found a better home than IBM.”

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NGA joins GitHub, offers code to help disaster response

CTOvision

April 11, 2014. The network allows developers to modify, distribute and perform work on the code – either to improve NGA’s product, or for their own use. Participating on GitHub will make it possible for other organizations to benefit from the agency’s development efforts. If they can do open source, any agency can.

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9 common myths about low-code development platforms

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Since the term was first coined by Forrester back in 2014, Low-Code Software has exploded. In other words, software tools that built web applications with a minimum of hand-coding. For instance, an enterprise web application development tool can be ‘low-code’, but so can a website builder. But, it doesn’t stop there.

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Enterprise software developers continue to use flawed code in apps

Network World

Companies that develop enterprise applications download over 200,000 open-source components on average every year and one in every 16 of those components has security vulnerabilities.