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After ‘protestware’ attacks, a Russian bank has advised clients to stop updating software

The Verge

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine draws on, consequences are being felt by many parts of the technology sector, including open-source software development. Since open-source libraries are fundamental to software development, a general loss of trust in their integrity could have knock-on effects for users in Russia and elsewhere.

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Digital identity startup Evernym sells to Avast, looks to bring trust to a decentralized internet

GeekWire

. “With Evernym’s underlying technology and the deep expertise that the team brings to Avast, we can accelerate our mission to reimagine how trust is established online through decentralized identity solutions,” Avast wrote in a blog post announcing the deal. Evernym describes itself as a leader in “self-sovereign identity.”

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What is a Blockchain, and why is it here to stay?

Galido

Bitcoin in a nutshell is a global peer to peer payments networking that is open to all with a computer or smartphone, open source, decentralized from banks, have no middle men, no issuers or acquirers. International buyers are subject to fees, setup bank accounts, etc.

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Why Companies Accepting Bitcoin as a Payment Method

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Why Companies Accepting Bitcoin as a Payment Method - Information Technology Blog. The currency is not regulated by banks and can be used to purchase goods from anywhere in the world. They are transferred from person to person via the web without going through a bank. What is Blockchain?

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I’m joining the Go team at Google

SPF13

My passion has always been building great products, ecosystems and experiences through open source. I had been part of a successful fast-growth open source startup that fundamentally changed the way software was written by demonstrating that alternatives to relational databases were viable. I love open source.

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Analyst One Announces Top Analytical Technologies List

CTOvision

H2O is the open source math & machine learning platform for speed and scale. DataRPM delivers industry’s first natural language and search-based Business Intelligence platform for Big Data that can be embedded into Data of Everything including software, streaming data, websites, blogs, intranets etc.

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The Roles of SAST and DAST and Fuzzing in Application Security

ForAllSecure

From banking to shopping, nearly all daily tasks these days can be completed on a computer or smartphone. In this blog post, we'll cover the roles DAST and SAST play in Application Security Testing and discuss how fuzzing fits into it all. Similarly, Software Composition Analysis (SCA) looks at open source code.