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Open Source Under Attack: Your Source Is Ajar

Forrester IT

The open source world has seen high-profile projects with unusual terms. They call themselves “open source” and “free for research and commercial use.” Whether a project is open source does matter. It could be not-quite-closed source masquerading as truly open - it could be ajar source.

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The Significance of Open Source Software in the Digital-First Future Enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

As per the recent IDC InfoBrief “The Significance of Open Source Software in the Digital-First Future Enterprise”, open source software (OSS) is an important driver of enterprise digital innovation and provides greater agility, performance and security compared to proprietary software.

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NSA Releases A New Technology to Open Source Community

CTOvision

Here is their press release : NSA Releases First in Series of Software Products to Open Source Community. The software is “open source,” which means its code is available to the public – in this case, through the Apache Software Foundation. New technology automates high-volume data flows. economic growth.”

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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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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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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. Torch enables fast and efficient GPU support, focusing on improving flexibility and speed when building complex algorithms.

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10 essential Linux tools for network and security pros

Network World

Picking just 10 Linux open source security tools isn’t easy, especially when network professionals and security experts have dozens if not several hundred tools available to them. And for every environment— Wi-Fi networks , Web applications, database servers. To read this article in full, please click here

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