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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups

CTOvision

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.

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How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel

The Verge

Fifteen days later, the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel. “I I suggest you find a different community to do experiments on,” wrote Linux Foundation fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman in a livid email. None of the University of Minnesota researchers would talk to me for this story.

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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

IBM LinuxONE III systems run only Linux at prices starting at $135,000. The program enables customers to pay only for what they use of Z system hardware and software. The program enables customers to pay only for what they use of Z system hardware and software. Z upgrades and open source.

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

CTOvision

Track sessions will focus on: Enabling Business Results with Big Data — How to enable agency programs that will yield enormous value through big data to deliver actionable information and measureable results. Prior to Cloudera Mike was CEO of Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB, the open source embedded database engine.

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Report Reveals Top Cyber Threats, Trends of 2023 First Half

SecureWorld News

"We are continuing to observe an unyielding surge in the volume of cyberthreats, including advanced malware, botnets, ransomware, cryptojacking, and more," said Callie Guenther, Senior Manager of Cyber Threat Research at Critical Start, in a press release.

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CVE-2020-15359: VDALabs Uses Mayhem To Find MP3Gain Stack Overflow

ForAllSecure

Researchers from VDA Labs used ForAllSecure Mayhem to discover a stack overflow ( CVE-2020-15359 ) in a popular open source sound utility, MP3Gain. Mayhem has a CLI available to download and that was used on a local Linux host. This is the actual Linux command Mayhem will execute and fuzz inside the Docker build.

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CVE-2020-15359: VDALabs Uses Mayhem To Find MP3Gain Stack Overflow

ForAllSecure

Researchers from VDA Labs used ForAllSecure Mayhem to discover a stack overflow ( CVE-2020-15359 ) in a popular open source sound utility, MP3Gain. Mayhem has a CLI available to download and that was used on a local Linux host. This is the actual Linux command Mayhem will execute and fuzz inside the Docker build.

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