Google commits $1M to new Linux Foundation open source security rewards program
Venture Beast
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Google is sponsoring Secure Open Source (SOS) Rewards, a new open source security program hosted by the Linux Foundation. Read More.
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Venture Beast
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Google is sponsoring Secure Open Source (SOS) Rewards, a new open source security program hosted by the Linux Foundation. Read More.
Tech Republic Security
OCTOBER 1, 2021
The SOS program, run by the Linux Foundation, will reward developers with potentially more than $10,000 for enhancing the security of critical open source software.
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Dataconomy
MARCH 26, 2024
Runa Capital’s ROSS Index highlights the growing market for AI and open-source technologies, tracking the rapid expansion of this sector. These efforts showcase the diverse, evolving nature of AI and open-source ventures. It reflects an increasingly vibrant ecosystem fueled by technological advancements.
Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
Google is partnering with the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund to sponsor security reviews in critical open source software. Read More.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
Launch TODO program to address issues tech companies face when using open source Read More. Facebook Google Twitter'
Tech Republic Security
OCTOBER 31, 2023
Google's Vulnerability Reward Program offers up to $31,337 for discovering potential hazards. Google joins OpenAI and Microsoft in rewarding AI bug hunts.
CTOvision
JULY 21, 2015
The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software.
GeekWire
MAY 1, 2024
The weeks-long database search was conducted by the Asteroid Institute , a program of the nonprofit B612 Foundation , in partnership with UW’s DiRAC Institute and Google Cloud. The two institutes developed a program called THOR , which stands for “Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery.”
GeekWire
JULY 12, 2023
The homepage for the City of Seattle’s CiviForm website, a tool that makes it faster and easier for residents to apply to city-related benefit and discount programs. The tool works by easing some of the time, computer literacy and language barriers that can create roadblocks for residents seeking to access benefit programs.
SecureWorld News
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
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.
GeekWire
JUNE 27, 2023
Expanso provides managed services on top of Bacalhau, an open-source platform that enables efficient and secure distributed computation. He was previously the lead product manager for Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine at Google, and head of Open Source Machine Learning Strategy at Microsoft.
Tech Republic Cloud
APRIL 8, 2020
The Rapid Response Virtual Agent program includes open source templates for companies to add coronavirus content to their own chatbots.
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 12, 2024
Average salary: $170,939 Torch Torch is a scientific computing framework, scripting language, and open-source machine learning library based on the Lua programming language — and it’s often used to build and train deep neural networks.
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Google Gemma AI has arrived, offering developers powerful yet compact language models accessible for innovation and customization. Built upon the foundational research powering Google’s impressive Gemini models , Google Gemma AI is part of the company’s ongoing commitment to open-source AI development.
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 15, 2023
This is why innovation programs have become so critical to sustaining the success of enterprises. In 1994 , his open-source Netscape Navigator browser transformed the difficult-to-navigate world wide web with a user-friendly point-and-click interface. Innovation programs spur change – even to an organization’s own values.
SPF13
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
I’ve spent the last 27 years as a software, product, and advocacy leader specializing in open source and developer experiences. I also authored Google’s Open Source Strategy and led Google Cloud developer strategy.
SPF13
JULY 21, 2010
My take on open source licenses. Open Source licensing can be a confusing and daunting task. This is the most popular Open Source license. In doing so it ensures that Open Sourced items remain open source. s Quick Guide To Open Source Licenses. Open source.
Venture Beast
JULY 8, 2020
Google is partnering with the Ubuntu Desktop team at Canonical to bring Linux support to its open source UI framework Flutter. Read More.
The Verge
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
Google is ending support for its Expeditions virtual reality app. The majority” of its tours will be migrated to Google’s separate Arts & Culture app, letting users view them via web or mobile device. But Google has since retreated from VR. You can even view some Arts & Culture content in Cardboard.
The Verge
JUNE 4, 2020
Facebook’s Google Photos transfer tool, first announced for the US and Canada back in April, is now available globally, the company announced on Thursday. The new data transfer tool allows you to create copies of all of the photos or videos on your Facebook account and transfer them to a linked Google Photos one. Image: Facebook.
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 5, 2020
Google Magenta. A new Google Magenta project (created by an intern!) Magenta is designed to use Google’s machine learning systems for the creation of art and music, and the Lo-Fi Player is a fun example of what it can do.
Galido
OCTOBER 6, 2016
Having an open-source IVI operating system would create a reusable platform consisting of core services, middleware and open application layer interfaces that eliminate the redundant efforts to create separate proprietary systems. By developing an open-source platform, carmakers can share upgrades as they arrive.
SecureWorld News
AUGUST 30, 2022
Google has announced a new bug bounty program called the Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program (OSS VRP) , which will pay security researchers for finding flaws in Google's open source projects. It is because of instances like Log4j that Google has implemented its OSS VRP.
Galido
OCTOBER 18, 2018
Information Technology Blog - - Top 8 Highly Paid and in-demand Programming Languages in 2018 - Information Technology Blog. “Everyone should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think”…Steve Jobs. If you are reading this article, it means that you want to start studying programming.
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 11, 2023
Every time you look something up in Google or Bing, you’re helping to train the system. They integrate with Slack, Microsoft Messenger, and other chat programs where they read the language you use, then turn on when you type in a trigger phrase. Google Cloud Translation. Chatbots work the same way.
Vox
JULY 28, 2023
At a time when other leading AI companies like Google and OpenAI are closely guarding their secret sauce, Meta decided to give away , for free, the code that powers its innovative new AI large language model , Llama 2. But open-sourcing AI comes with major risks. But open-sourcing AI comes with major risks.
SPF13
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
I am honored to share that I have joined Google as a member of the Go team and will be primarily based in NYC. My passion has always been building great products, ecosystems and experiences through open source. Upon leaving MongoDB, I took notice of another small open source startup that started to gain some traction.
Vox
AUGUST 6, 2020
The Apple-Google coronavirus exposure notification tool , which the companies are offering to public health authorities to help build their Bluetooth-based Covid-19 contact tracing apps, was announced in April and debuted in May. The app is called Covidwise and is available now in Apple’s and Google ’s respective app stores.
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Networking The good folks over at Packet Pushers have compiled a list of open source networking projects. Operating Systems/Applications Google has open sourced Magicka, an AI-powered file type identification library. I hope you find something useful here! More details are available in this blog post.
The Verge
MAY 25, 2021
The Google Nest Hub. Google’s long-awaited Fuchsia OS is starting to quietly roll out on its first consumer device, the first-generation Nest Hub, 9to5Google reports. You don’t ship a new operating system every day, but today is that day,” tweeted a Google technical lead on the Fuchsia OS project, Petr Hosek.
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 3, 2023
Adjusting the parameters of LLM models and new languages such as Mojo and AI-programming frameworks like PyTorch significantly reduce the compute resources and time needed to run AI programs.
Venture Beast
MAY 18, 2021
Google has unveiled version 2.2 of Flutter, which sports a new payment plugin and support for adaptive banner ads. Read More.
Dataconomy
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
CVE-2023-5129 initially appeared as a blip on the security radar, but as Google dug deeper, it turned out to be a critical threat, a security flaw affecting the Libwebp library, versions 0.5.0 Developed by Google, Libwebp is an open-source library that plays a vital role in encoding and decoding images in the WebP format.
Vox
APRIL 13, 2020
The contact-tracing tool Apple and Google want to create would have your smartphone log when you’ve come into close contact with other people. Apple and Google say that the new contact-tracing tool will work between iPhones and Android phones.) The new contact-tracing tool, explained. The tool will start rolling out in May.
Vox
APRIL 16, 2020
Apple and Google’s contact-tracing tool has better privacy, but it isn’t perfect. Apple and Google are a month away from launching a series of updates to their smartphone operating systems that will use Bluetooth signals to track potential coronavirus cases. The tool could leave a dangerous door open. But that’s about it.
Kitaboo
APRIL 1, 2024
Software Solutions for ePUB Support KITABOO Calibre Adobe Digital Editions Sigil Google Play Books IV. Final Words Understanding the ePUB Format ePUB, short for electronic publication, refers to an open standard format for eBooks that works with a wide range of devices and screen sizes.
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 14, 2023
Certification of Professional Achievement in Data Sciences The Certification of Professional Achievement in Data Sciences is a nondegree program intended to develop facility with foundational data science skills. The online program includes an additional nonrefundable technology fee of US$395 per course.
The Accidental Successful CIO
JANUARY 12, 2022
Google’s self-driving car is using software that is closed source – they are not sharing it with anyone. Other companies that are building self-driving cars are using the Apollo software which is open source. Many different vehicle manufactures are participating in the Apollo program.
CTOvision
MAY 9, 2014
The hole existed in OpenSSL, an open-source program used by hundreds of thousands of websites. The bug affected some of the world’s most popular sites, including Facebook, Google, YouTube, and Wikipedia. CTO Cyber Security Facebook Google Internaut OpenSSL United States vulnerability Wikipedia YouTube'
GeekWire
JULY 29, 2021
The data collection, which is now publicly available online , was developed as part of the Machine Intelligence From Cortical Networks program, or MICrONS for short. What is the program?” “The final step is to interpret this network, at which point we may be able to say we can read the brain’s program.”
ForAllSecure
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
” As part of the Mayhem Heroes program , ForAllSecure visited various university campuses in the Spring of 2022. At the end of April, ForAllSecure hosted a day-long hackathon at Arizona State University where 181 students participated in the day-long in person training program followed by an online training held soon after.
The Verge
OCTOBER 25, 2021
You can check out some examples in the gallery below: Cleanup.pictures seems to be from the same team that made a fun augmented reality demo that lets you “copy and paste” the real world , and is open-source (you can find the underlying code here ). pic.twitter.com/6aGnPeZB4w — Sylvain Filoni (@fffiloni) October 24, 2021.
Vox
OCTOBER 2, 2020
New York and New Jersey are the latest states to use the Apple-Google exposure notification tool. While a contact tracing app doesn’t have to use the Apple-Google tool — in fact, some states and countries have elected to go their own way here — those apps have had technical and privacy issues, and can’t work with each other.
The Verge
AUGUST 10, 2021
In demos of Codex, OpenAI shows how the software can be used to build simple websites and rudimentary games using natural language, as well as translate between different programming languages and tackle data science queries. This is fine in our little demo, but it says a lot about the limitations of this sort of program.
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