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Getting the most out of open source without sacrificing security

CIO Business Intelligence

Open source has seen a great deal of momentum among mainframers, making collaboration easier and providing greater transparency. But for all of its benefits, open source is not without risks. By its very nature, open-source code is accessible to whoever wants to see it—including potential attackers.

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Developers: This is Google's new idea for keeping your open-source projects secure

Tech Republic Security

Scorecards provides an assessment of open-source packages, which developers can use to judge whether they are safe to introduce into their projects or systems.

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Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects

The Verge

A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “ faker.js ” and “ colors.js ” — that thousands of users depend on, rendering any project that contains these libraries useless, as reported by Bleeping Computer. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

To become a software-powered organisation, companies must first identify and address the concerns of its developers in areas such as developer experience, developer velocity and software security. For example, close to 60% of respondents are using OSS for Database and 53% for Operating Systems.

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Uber open-sources Plato for developing and testing conversational AI

CTOvision

Tools like Google’s Dialogflow, Microsoft’s Bot Framework, and Amazon’s Lex make it easier than it used to be, and the folks at Uber hope to eliminate any remaining barriers with a development platform all their own. It’s called Plato Research Dialog System, and it was released […].

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AI is boosting drug discovery and development — and sparking questions about proprietary data

GeekWire

The IPD generates open-source AI tools to craft protein-based therapeutics, vaccines, materials and biosensors, and its Seattle-area spinouts and affiliated companies interact with each other and partner with larger biopharma companies. The use of AI in biopharma also goes beyond protein design.

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MLCommons releases open source datasets for speech recognition

Venture Beast

The nonprofit consortium MLCommons has released a massive, license-free dataset for speech recognition system development and testing. Read More.