GeekWire

MARCH 26, 2024

And the finalists for Next Tech Titan are … MotherDuck , a serverless data analytics platform built on the open-source platform DuckDB, an in-process online analytical processing database, or OLAP. last big funding round was in 2021, when it r aised $145 million at a valuation of $3.5

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2022

The program enables customers to pay only for what they use of Z system hardware and software. Z upgrades and open source. IBM announced its eight-core Telum processor, which includes an on-chip AI accelerator, in August 2021. By continuing to invest in its Z system, IBM is mapping a path to the future for its customers.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The app, which offered educational VR tours, will be removed from iOS and Android app stores on June 30th, 2021. We’ve heard and recognize that immersive experiences with VR headsets are not always accessible to all learners,” writes Jennifer Holland, Google’s director of education program management. “As

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The Verge

MAY 25, 2021

Google’s work on Fuchsia OS first emerged in 2016 , and the open-source operating system is notable for not being based on a Linux kernel, instead using a microkernel called Zircon. It’ll come to users in the Preview Program first, before slowly releasing more broadly. Petr Hosek (@petrh) May 25, 2021.

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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.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Home Assistant Amber is a smart home hub for the free, open source home automation platform. Nabu Casa, the company behind the free, open-source software, has launched Home Assistant Amber, its first ready-to-use hub that can run Home Assistant software out of the box. Image: Nabu Casa.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Specific areas of research include improving how robots manipulate objects and how robots and humans work together, said Smith, who was recently elected to the 2021 class of Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. The new program is the latest in Amazon’s expanding list of university partnerships.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

Multinational data infrastructure company Equinix has been capitalizing on machine learning (ML) since 2018, thanks to an initiative that uses ML probabilistic modeling to predict prospective customers’ likelihood of buying Equinix offerings — a program that has contributed millions of dollars in revenue since its inception.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Flipper Zero has no shortage of wireless inputs and outputs Kickstarter sensation Flipper Zero is described as "a cyber dolphin who really loves to hack" but is actually an open source multi-tool device that was designed for hacking and pen testing research.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

An application programming interface (API) allows various computer programs to work together by sharing data. An API specification details what data the original program will share and how the recipient program will receive it. What do APIs do? The sensitive data shared via APIs makes API security vital.

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Dataconomy

JULY 17, 2023

SlashNext has reported that the developer of WormGPT is selling the program on an online forum. The developer claims to have utilized the open-source GPT-J from the 2021 big language model, which is an earlier large language model. It presents ethical questions and legal hazards for any use.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 11, 2021

BlackDuck Software uncovered that 67% of the applications they analyzed contained open source security vulnerabilities. The breach was made possible due to a zero-day vulnerability in a popular open source server framework, Apache Struts. Security is a top risk of using third-party code.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 11, 2021

BlackDuck Software uncovered that 67% of the applications they analyzed contained open source security vulnerabilities. The breach was made possible due to a zero-day vulnerability in a popular open source server framework, Apache Struts. Security is a top risk of using third-party code.

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GeekWire

APRIL 26, 2021

Silicon Valley-based YC accepted a record 350 new companies for its winter program, which participated in a virtual Demo Day March 23. Half of the companies that took part in the winter 2021 cohort were based outside the U.S. What was it like going through the Y Combinator program virtually? across 41 countries.

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

I’ve spent the past week digging into this world — the players, the jargon, the university’s turbulent history with open-source software, the devoted and principled Linux kernel community. Lu’s research, per his website , concerns “the intersection of security, operating systems, program analysis, and compilers.” Well, “anyone.”

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

marks the first release of the open source container orchestration platform that is signed using Sigstore (more details here ). Programming. John Breen’s article on patterns with promises and asynchronous programming in JavaScript provides some practical advice on understanding these concepts. Kubernetes 1.24

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2022

According to Gartner analyst Svetlana Sicular, by 2024, 60% of the data used for the development of AI and analytics solutions will be synthetically generated, up from 1% in 2021. A number of tools are currently available to organizations interested in generating their own synthetic data, most of which are open source.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Demand has increased so much that IT job postings in manufacturing doubled between May 2021 and 2022, according to Dice.com, with increased demand for skills such as agile development, Python, software development, automation, C++, SQL, and Java, among others.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 10, 2023

A new report reveals a significant rise in risk related to open source vulnerabilities and software supply chain attacks. With open source code used in 70 to 90 percent of applications today, more companies are finding themselves vulnerable to attacks as threat actors take advantage of the remediation gap.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This is a slightly older post (dates from 2021), but still useful, I think. And, while we are talking about “another take,” here’s another take on OpenTF (the proposed “truly open source” Terraform fork). In it, Christopher Lenard discusses the benefits of moving from Terraform to Pulumi.

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GeekWire

MARCH 4, 2024

Both won Science magazine’s 2021 Breakthrough of the Year award. They’re pretty much the industry standard,” said Baker of the new open-source tools. The IPD has a translational investigator program where you stay on for a year or two after you finish your Ph.D., “Tech companies are really good at what they do.

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2023

Related coverage: Seattle biotech startup born out of a Roche buyout lands $93M to advance therapies Roche to acquire Good Therapeutics’ lead drug program for $250M, plus milestone payments Cyrus Biotechnology Experimentally-determined structure of a bacterial protein, compared with structures produced by AlphaFold2 and OpenFold software tools.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In it, r0ml argues that Postgres as a programming environment feels like a Smalltalk image (at least that's the part that's germane to this post). Although I didn’t make the connection until I watched r0ml’s talk, this setup hearkens back to the 1980s when Smalltalk (and Lisp, and APL) were programming environments with built-in persistence.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 25, 2023

has known vulnerability PYSEC-2021-19. The scanner checks your python programs dependencies by reading requirements.txt and seeing if libxml version 4.6.0 The main security concern is the third-party code has a known vulnerability. For example, the database may contain an entry that python library lxml version 4.6.0 is included.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 13, 2023

While many of these attack trends are troubling, there are a number of things organizations can do to reduce their risk, such as investing in security awareness programs, updating security protocols, working with trusted partners to address vulnerabilities, and partnering with an MDR vendor."

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 11, 2022

In mid-2021, the UNCE released new vehicle cybersecurity regulations in an effort to keep up with the rapid reliance of digitization within the automotive industry. These new standards, UN R155 and UN R156, take similar stances to the ISO SAE 21434 and ISO 26262 standards. What are the UN R155 and UN R156 regulations?

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Jonathan Knudsen from Synopsys joins The Hacker Mind to discuss his presentation at SecTor 2021 on fuzzing message brokers such as RabbitMQ and VerneMQ, both written in Erlang, demonstrating that any type of software in any environment can still be vulnerable. Vamosi: The idea behind Open Source is great.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). Anders Eknert shows how to do—or at least provides a framework on getting started with—dynamic policy composition with Open Policy Agent (OPA) in this blog post from April 2021.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 19, 2023

43% of sec team members admitted to full ownership of security (a 12% jump from 2021), but a resounding majority (53%) said everyone was responsible, a 25% increase from 2021. Implementing security training and awareness programs can help build a culture of security within the development team.

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2022

Its promise was to develop an open-source smart home standard that would make every connected home device work together, simply and securely, regardless of who made them. As Mitch Klein of the Z-Wave Alliance told me late last year, “We can’t leave devices behind, or this whole program won’t work.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 15, 2021

On February 12, 2021, ForAllSecure CEO Dr. David Brumley joined Cloudflare’s Head of Product Security, Evan Johnson, to discuss all things software security, fuzz testing, capture-the-flags (CTFs), and cybersecurity certifications. Uncovering Vulnerabilities in Open Source Libraries. Missed the episode? Why Fuzzing Works.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 15, 2021

On February 12, 2021, ForAllSecure CEO Dr. David Brumley joined Cloudflare’s Head of Product Security, Evan Johnson, to discuss all things software security, fuzz testing, capture-the-flags (CTFs), and cybersecurity certifications. Uncovering Vulnerabilities in Open Source Libraries. Missed the episode? Why Fuzzing Works.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2022

IT executives see talent shortage as the most significant adoption barrier to 64% of emerging technologies, ahead of implementation cost (29%) or security risk (7%), according to a September 2021 Gartner survey. Identifying which emerging technologies will prove most useful is a challenge, though. Mindset over skillset.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 3, 2019

The application attack surface is growing by 111 billion new lines of software code every year, with newly reported zero-day exploits rising from one-per-week in 2015 to one-per-day by 2021, according to the Application Security Report from Cybersecurity Ventures. Most tools today require source code and are built with developers in mind.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Last week we looked back on 2021, and this week, we’re looking forward to 2022. There is one thing that binds the many products under the Automattic umbrella together: a bet on and belief in the open web and open-source software,” writes David Pierce. But the way Mullenweg sees it, open is still going to win.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Vamosi: That's why Megan is a champion of online self learning programs such as pico CTF, Kearns: You shouldn't think this isn't for me because I like a different subject, you should just try it anyway, we're just trying to spark curiosity we just want you to have the opportunity to gain a little experience in this area.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 3, 2019

The application attack surface is growing by 111 billion new lines of software code every year, with newly reported zero-day exploits rising from one-per-week in 2015 to one-per-day by 2021, according to the Application Security Report from Cybersecurity Ventures. Most tools today require source code and are built with developers in mind.

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