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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. million weekly downloads on npm, and color.js

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NGA and DigitalGlobe Release Powerful Application To Community Under Open Source License

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From NGA''s Press Release: NGA, DigitalGlobe application a boon to raster data storage, processing. Sharing the application with the open source community helps accelerate its potential to become the standard for storing, enriching and analyzing massive amounts of raster data in a distributed cloud environment.

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Google’s VR painting app is getting the axe, but it will live on as an open-source project

The Verge

Google is ending development on the virtual reality painting app Tilt Brush — one of the most well-known VR applications — and making it open source. Tilt Brush’s code can be accessed on GitHub now , but Google says some features had to be removed from the open-source release because of licensing restrictions.

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Google is releasing an open source harassment filter for journalists

The Verge

Google’s Jigsaw unit is releasing the code for an open source anti-harassment tool called Harassment Manager. It’s debuting as source code for developers to build on, then being launched as a functional application for Thomson Reuters Foundation journalists in June. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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How and Where to Find and Download R

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For those who are interested in starting a project in R, the steps to download a copy of your own are quick and easy: Simply go to www.r-project.org. To download R, click on the link labeled CRAN on the left side, under the words "Download, Packages". I will continue this with an example of how to download on a Mac.

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Looking Back: 6 Things ForAllSecure Accomplished in 2022

ForAllSecure

In January of 2022, we launched a free version of Mayhem to help individuals and small teams deliver safer, more reliable applications and APIs. The power of Mayhem was on full display in 2022 as our customers ran over 300 billion—that’s right, billion with a ‘b’—tests of their applications and APIs.

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO Business Intelligence

NLP applications Machine translation is a powerful NLP application, but search is the most used. Transformer models take applications such as language translation and chatbots to a new level. SpaCy , an open-source library for advanced natural language processing explicitly designed for production use rather than research.

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