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Open-Source Software Community Rocked by a Sophisticated Backdoor in XZ Utils

IT Toolbox

Late last month, a Microsoft engineer who volunteers for RDBMS PostgreSQL caught what is described as one of “the best executed supply chain attack we’ve seen described in the open.” The post Open-Source Software Community Rocked by a Sophisticated Backdoor in XZ Utils appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Seattle-area startup Chainguard raises $61M to help companies secure open source software

GeekWire

The 2-year-old startup aims to help customers secure their “software supply chain,” a term used to describe a company’s software production line. Chainguard, which focuses on open source software, says its annual recurring revenue has tripled in the past six months.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

As companies shift their focus from the digital transformation of individual processes to the business outcomes enabled by a digitally transformed organisation, software engineering will become a core enterprise capability. 61% of respondents rated the performance of OSS as being superior compared to proprietary software.

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Amazon shifts Lumberyard to open source 3D game engine supported by 20 companies

Venture Beast

Amazon is contributing its Lumberyard game engine to open source, and it will be known as the Open 3D Engine. Read More.

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Former Microsoft engineers raise $3M for cybersecurity startup StepSecurity

GeekWire

Founded in 2022 by former Microsoft engineers and cybersecurity veterans Ashish Kurmi and Varun Sharma , StepSecurity focuses on CI/CD, an industry term known as continuous integration and continuous delivery that describes the process of automating the development and deployment of applications.

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Linux 6.5 is a smooth-sailing upgrade for the open-source kernel

TechSpot

The outspoken Finnish software engineer who brought the Free Open Source kernel to the world said that he did not find any valid excuse to delay the new release, which has been going smoothly because programmers. Linus Torvalds announced on Sunday that the work on Linux 6.5 is now complete. Read Entire Article

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Why Modernizing Mainframe Development Needs Secure Open Source

CIO Business Intelligence

By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software According to a recent Rocket Software survey , 80% of IT professionals categorize the mainframe as critical to their business. One technology that modern mainframes need is secure open-source software. Read on to learn more about why modern mainframes need secure open source.