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Inside Microsoft’s open source program office

Venture Beast

Stormy Peters, director of Microsoft's open source programs office, gives the lowdown on the evolution and role of Microsoft's OSPO. Read More.

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source.

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Microsoft angers the.NET open source community with a controversial decision

The Verge

Microsoft has spent the past 10 years embracing open-source software and, at several points, even admitting it loves Linux and the open source community. The Linux Foundation even praised Microsoft for working with the open source community after the company joined the foundation nearly five years ago.

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LinkedIn open-sources GDMix, a framework for training AI personalization models

Venture Beast

LinkedIn recently open-sourced GDMix, a framework for training the sort of AI personalization models used in search engines and ecommerce websites. Read More.

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Twitter engineers pushed to replace ‘master’ and ‘slave’ programming terms

The Verge

Twitter engineers have been working since January on an internal effort to replace problematic yet commonplace programming language like “master” and “slave,” CNET reported. It’s part of a larger effort among open-source developers who have been working to remove references to slavery from the programming community.

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350K Open Source Projects Vulnerable Due to 15-Year-Old Bug

SecureWorld News

A 15-year-old vulnerability in the Python programming language is making headlines again as new research shows that the vulnerability is estimated to be present in over 350,000 open source projects and some closed source projects, according to the Trellix Advanced Research Center.

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10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

These roles include data scientist, machine learning engineer, software engineer, research scientist, full-stack developer, deep learning engineer, software architect, and field programmable gate array (FPGA) engineer.