Log4j, Open Source Maintenance, And Why SBOMs Are Critical Now
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Over the weekend, security pros took to social media to understand and dissect the Log4j vulnerability. The fact of the […].
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Forrester IT
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Over the weekend, security pros took to social media to understand and dissect the Log4j vulnerability. The fact of the […].
SecureWorld News
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
In the interconnected digital landscape, vast amounts of valuable intelligence can be gleaned from publicly available open sources on the internet. Enter open-source intelligence (OSINT), the practice of legally collecting, analyzing, and making decisions based on public data.
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CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 11, 2023
Aman Bhullar, CIO of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, has heeded the call, having led a widespread overhaul of antiquated voting infrastructure just in time for the contentious 2020 presidential election — a transformation rich in open source software to ensure other counties can benefit from his team’s work.
CTOvision
MAY 7, 2014
They are: geoevents: The GeoEvents project is a dynamic and customizable open source web presence that provides a common operational picture to consolidate activities, manage content, and provides a single point of discovery. It is also designed for social codeing, helping developers collaborate around projects. In the News.
Venture Beast
MARCH 30, 2021
Pinterest recently open-sourced Querybook, a tool for performing big data analytics at enterprise scale. Read More.
Venture Beast
JUNE 18, 2021
VentureBeat looks at some open source Slack alternatives, including Mattermost, Rocket.Chat, Zulip, and Element/Matrix. Read More.
SecureWorld News
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Security researchers at Checkmarx and Illustria recently discovered a campaign in which a threat actor(s) managed to post over 144,000 phishing packages to popular open source platforms, including NPM, PyPi, and NuGet. The descriptions for these packages contained links to phishing campaigns.
Venture Beast
AUGUST 25, 2020
LinkedIn has made available LiFT, an open source toolkit to measure and mitigate bias in AI and machine learning pipelines. Read More.
Dataconomy
MAY 10, 2023
Open source business intelligence software is a game-changer in the world of data analysis and decision-making. With open source BI software, businesses no longer need to rely on expensive proprietary software solutions that can be inflexible and difficult to integrate with existing systems.
Venture Beast
JUNE 18, 2021
OSS Enterprise is a newsletter from VentureBeat that shines a light on the world of open source software. This is the first edition. Read More.
Computer Weekly
OCTOBER 31, 2017
NHS Digital plans on launching an API lab before the end of the year, with the goal accelerating development of interoperability in health and social care
Venture Beast
AUGUST 6, 2020
Salesforce today open-sourced the AI Economist, a research environment that leverages AI to arrive at optimal tax policies. Read More.
Dataconomy
MAY 6, 2022
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ambitions toward making it open-source. Social media platforms are being heavily criticized for their content ranking algorithms. There’s a controversy going on all over the internet regarding the Twitter algorithm. What would be the advantages and disadvantages from a user perspective?
Venture Beast
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Now it is adding 3D to its open-source Cocos Creator 3.0. Cocos has had great success with PC and mobile games with its 2D game engine. Read More.
Venture Beast
JUNE 16, 2020
Amazons Distance Assistant is an open source tool that taps AI and augmented reality to enforce social distancing among workers. Read More.
Venture Beast
APRIL 11, 2022
Cocos Technology has raised $50 million to fuel growth for its open source game engine in global markets. Read More.
The Verge
MARCH 8, 2022
Google’s Jigsaw unit is releasing the code for an open source anti-harassment tool called Harassment Manager. The tool, intended for journalists and other public figures, employs Jigsaw’s Perspective API to let users sort through potentially abusive comments on social media platforms starting with Twitter.
Network World
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University say they have developed an open source algorithm that can help spot social media frauds trying to sway valuable community influence.
Data Center Knowledge
APRIL 28, 2016
Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking giant is the world’s biggest open source hardware design factory Read More.
The Verge
OCTOBER 22, 2021
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump’s new social network violated a free and open-source software licensing agreement by ripping off decentralized social network Mastodon. Its only product so far is a social network called Truth Social that appears strongly to be forked from Mastodon.
Dataconomy
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
What is Pixelfed social media? It is a decentralized platform that runs on the ActivityPub protocol, a shared protocol that enables users to communicate with other users inside the protocol, like Mastodon social media, and does not store. The people that looking for an Instagram alternative ask this question frequently.
The Verge
JANUARY 7, 2022
Former President Donald Trump’s new social network, Truth Social, will launch on iOS on February 21st, according to a listing on the App Store. Truth Social looks very much like a Twitter clone, based on screenshots in the App Store listing. Truth Social describes each individual post as a “truth” in the app’s description.
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 29, 2015
Virtual machine HHVM among social network’s five most popular open source projects Read More.
SecureWorld News
OCTOBER 3, 2023
And one of the most successful and increasingly prevalent ways of attack has come from social engineering, which is when criminals manipulate humans directly to gain access to confidential information. Social engineering is more sophisticated than ever, and its most advanced iteration is the topic of today's discussion: deepfakes.
Vox
MARCH 25, 2021
Peter Welch asked if they’d be open to a new federal agency focused on social media platforms. At a House Energy and Commerce committee hearing on social media, extremism, and misinformation on Thursday, Rep. & - social media has perpetuated misinformation loops. During a hearing with tech CEOs, Rep. In the race for
The Verge
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Truth Social’s listing in the App Store. Truth Social, a social media network developed by former president Donald Trump’s new media company, is now live on the iOS App Store in the US. The service appears to be closely modeled on Twitter, which was previously Trump’s preferred social media platform.
SecureWorld News
JUNE 5, 2023
Specifically, the advisory highlights the utilization of social engineering techniques by DPRK state-sponsored cyber actors, with a focus on their hacking activities targeting think tanks, academia, and media organizations worldwide. At the forefront of these cyber threats is a group known as Kimusky.
CTOvision
JULY 14, 2015
HumanGeo is a unique technology company with a focus on Data, Services and Products positioned at the intersection of Big Data applications, social media analytics, and geospatial visualization. The post The Radiant Group Acquires HumanGeo to Advance Data Analytics and Open Source Capabilities appeared first on CTOvision.com.
Gizmodo
OCTOBER 21, 2021
The most recent former president’s new social media platform—goofily called The Truth Social —would appear to be sourced from derivative code that could potentially get him sued. Read more.
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.
Vox
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
Social media seems to be making a bad situation worse. Some of the political lessons we learned recently include that conspiracy theories have real currency — fake news can spread faster than real facts on social media — and that if we don’t agree on a shared reality, more mundane things like political compromise will remain out of reach.
TechSpot
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Bluesky Social, the open-source and decentralized alternative to X (formerly Twitter), has officially transitioned from its closed beta period and is now open for signups to the general public. Read Entire Article
Data Center Knowledge
FEBRUARY 18, 2016
NetNORAD system detects and localizes device failure in social network’s global data center infrastructure within seconds Read More.
Vox
JANUARY 7, 2021
The largely unmoderated and right-wing social network was also involved in the planning of the insurrection , leading some to worry that Parler is a new hotbed of misinformation and extremist activity. If Parler is looking to become a real competitor to the social media giants it criticizes, the company still has a very long way to go.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Today, let’s talk about some of the less obvious ways that conservative social networks keep slipping up — and whether Truth Social, which has the backing of President Trump, can manage to avoid their fate. First, the news: Truth Social is live in the App Store, and hit No. What else is there to say about Truth Social?
Dataconomy
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Mistral, a French AI startup, has made waves in the AI community with the release of Mixtral 8x7B, its latest open-source AI model. The company adopted a unique approach by releasing its latest large language model unceremoniously via a torrent link on social media. and Meta’s Llama 2 in performance.
Vox
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
This is tremendous news — and misinformation about it is already circulating on social media. Much of that disarray could play out on social media. In preparation for a vaccine, social media platforms are fine-tuning their rules. Still, some potentially worrisome content is already on social media.
The Verge
MAY 26, 2021
WebRTC is an open-source project that lets developers add real-time communication (RTC) features to applications, and it works on modern browsers and is supported within many native apps. The fact that Discord can instantly drop you into a voice chat in a browser?
The Verge
DECEMBER 6, 2021
to merge with Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) and start trading on the Nasdaq, so what’s next for the would-be social media/regular media giant? Truth Social recently admitted it uses open source technology. America is ready for TRUTH Social and the end to censorship and political discrimination.”.
TechSpot
MAY 1, 2022
Musk made the statement only a few days after entering into the agreement to buy the popular social media platform. new features, making algorithms open-source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all.
Vox
DECEMBER 19, 2020
Social media companies like Facebook and YouTube have ramped up their policies against coronavirus misinformation and banned false claims about Covid-19 vaccines. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists.
CTOvision
MARCH 12, 2015
Good Government includes preventing fraud, waste, and abuse; delivering timely and accurate public reporting; analyzing citizen engagement with social media. With its efficient use of commodity hardware and its ability to scale linearly, open-source Apache Hadoop is an ideal platform upon which to offload many data processing workloads.
CTOvision
OCTOBER 28, 2014
These days, there’s a spectrum of choices: software code you can download, customize, and use for free (open source) at one end of the spectrum; pre-built software you can buy on perpetual license and install on-premises and customize at the other end of the spectrum; and, in the middle, software you can rent with a recurring subscription (SaaS).
Vox
APRIL 17, 2020
For years, Timothy Mackey has been researching the sale of opioids and illicit drugs online , tracking how dealers have used social media to push controlled substances. There’s no proven treatment for Covid-19, but plenty of social media accounts are nevertheless illegally pushing so-called cures or treatments.
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