Google commits $1M to new Linux Foundation open source security rewards program
Venture Beast
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Google is sponsoring Secure Open Source (SOS) Rewards, a new open source security program hosted by the Linux Foundation. Read More.
Google stakes new Secure Open Source rewards program for developers with $1M seed money
Tech Republic Security
OCTOBER 1, 2021
The SOS program, run by the Linux Foundation, will reward developers with potentially more than $10,000 for enhancing the security of critical open source software.
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The Linux Foundation announces collective to enhance open source software security
Tech Republic Security
AUGUST 3, 2020
The newly formed Open Source Security Foundation includes titans in technology such as Google, Intel, Microsoft, IBM, and more.
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Google invests in open source security by funding Linux kernel developers
Venture Beast
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Google announced today that it will underwrite the salaries for two developers to focus on Linux's fundamental security. Read More.
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Google and Canonical bring Flutter apps to Linux and the Snap Store
Venture Beast
JULY 8, 2020
Google is partnering with the Ubuntu Desktop team at Canonical to bring Linux support to its open source UI framework Flutter. Read More.
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Top Six Linux Distributions for Your Data Center
Tech Republic Data Center
JULY 5, 2023
Linux powers the enterprise. From the cloud to containers and to the backbone of your network, Linux is there working tirelessly to keep your business humming. Whether you use Linux in your AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or your on-premise data center, you use Linux. But what about distribution?
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Google: We're funding developers to work full-time on Linux security
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Two developers, sponsored by Google, will dedicate their time to addressing vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel as part of a wider effort to improve the security of open-source software.
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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups
CTOvision
JULY 21, 2015
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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Google-backed Scorecards bolsters open source security metrics with new checks
Venture Beast
JULY 1, 2021
Google and the OpenSSF have introduced a big update to its open source security Scorecards project, including a swathe of new checks. Read More.
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OpenSFF’s Allstar aims to fix vulnerabilities in open source projects
Venture Beast
AUGUST 11, 2021
Allstar, a new tool released by the Open Source Security Foundation, aims to automatically fix vulnerabilities in open source projects. Read More.
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Google launches Flutter 2.0 to target developers across all platforms
Venture Beast
MARCH 3, 2021
Google has unveiled Flutter 2.0, an open source UI development kit that helps app makers build cross-platform software from the same codebase. Read More.
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Google Fuchsia OS is now available as an update for first-gen Nest Hub devices
TechSpot
MAY 25, 2021
The first time we heard about Fuchsia OS was in 2016, when we learned it would be an open-source OS not based on Linux. Instead, it would use the Magenta kernel known to be used on IoT devices, but Google has since changed its name to Zircon. Meanwhile, we also.
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Google and Hortonworks Team Up: HDP Now Part of Google Cloud
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 20, 2015
Hortonworks'' Hadoop Data Platform (HDP) is now a supported feature on Google Cloud. This new feature will allow dynamic provisioning of HDP clusters on the Google Cloud Platform, providing scalability for enterprise-wide solutions employing HDP, as well as providing a means for rapidly setting up prototyping and development environments.
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What’s Free at Linux Academy — May 2019
Linux Academy
APRIL 30, 2019
By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.
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Amazon Luna runs on Windows — and yet it’s hiring Linux gaming engineers
The Verge
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Unlike Google Stadia, it wouldn’t necessarily need to convince developers to painstakingly port their games to an unproven platform. But it now appears that Amazon is considering a shift to Linux-based servers, too — the company is hiring three software engineers to bring Windows games to Linux (via Phoronix ).
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Tech giants unite to drive ‘transformational’ open source eBPF projects
Venture Beast
AUGUST 12, 2021
Facebook, Google, & Microsoft have formed the eBPF Foundation to redefine networking, security, tracing, and observability. Read More.
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Free Courses at Linux Academy – November 2019
Linux Academy
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we are always adding new, free courses and resources for developing Linux and Cloud skills. Members of the Linux Academy community come together and share their insights and questions. Microsoft SQL Server on Linux Quick Start. How to Get a Linux Job. AWS Concepts.
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Your car is about to go open source
Galido
OCTOBER 6, 2016
Automakers want to standardize on a Linux-based OS that would make vehicle infotainment systems act more like smartphones. Automakers are working to standardize on a Linux-based operating system for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems that would make it easier for cars to act more like smartphones. In Vehicle Infotainment.
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What’s Free At Linux Academy June 2019
Linux Academy
MAY 28, 2019
By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.
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How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux
The Verge
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
Photo: Linux Mint. If you have an older system but are worried that it won’t support Windows 10 — or if you simply don’t want to deal with Windows anymore — I have a suggestion: Switch to desktop Linux. Desktop Linux can run on your Windows 7 (and older) laptops and desktops. Teams now runs on Linux. Which Linux?
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Heptio founder leads Stacklok, a new software supply chain startup that just raised $17.5M
GeekWire
MAY 17, 2023
(Stacklok Photo) A pair of cloud computing vets are jumping back into entrepreneurship with a new startup that helps enterprises vet software supply chains amid a rise in cyber-breaches stemming from open-source code. ” It is used by Google, Cisco, HPE, and others. The company is led by Craig McLuckie and Luke Hinds.
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GeekWire Podcast: NY Times vs. Microsoft; Plus, Oren Etzioni on AI in 2023 and beyond
GeekWire
DECEMBER 30, 2023
… It’s almost the love child of a search engine, like Google, which you can talk to about anything, with the somewhat limited but very real intelligence of AI systems.” ” The need for strong open-source models: “The consolidation of power in AI is a huge risk.
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What’s Free at Linux Academy — March 2019
Linux Academy
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and cloud skills further. Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group, allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.
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Google is still making its mysterious Fuchsia OS, and now it wants your help
The Verge
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Image: Google. It’s been over four years since we first found out that Google is developing a new operating system called Fuchsia. It’s unique because it’s not based on a Linux kernel; instead, it uses a microkernel called Zircon. Fuchsia looks to be the same sort of thing.
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What’s Free at Linux Academy — May 2019
Linux Academy
APRIL 29, 2019
By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.
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Free Cloud Courses at Linux Academy — July 2019
Linux Academy
JUNE 25, 2019
By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students can develop their Linux and Cloud skills even further. Members of the Linux Academy community come together and share their insights and questions. Stay tuned to the Linux Academy blog for details! Linux Academy Free Courses in July. Ansible Quick Start.
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Deep Insights Into The Future of #Hadoop By @Cutting of @Cloudera
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 17, 2013
Regarding software, in the past decade we have seen remarkable transition towards open source software as platform technologies. Linux and Android are obvious examples of this. It is bad to have your business overly dependent on others in ways that increase risk and this translates to strong pushes for open source technologies.
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Big Data & AI News | Google Cloud Next 19 | Day Two Recap
Linux Academy
APRIL 10, 2019
Joe Lowery here, Google Cloud Training Architect, bringing you the news from the Day 2 Keynote at the Google Cloud Next ’19 conference in San Francisco. In fact, much of the big push in the first two days here was on the enterprise, with big name after big name showing up as Google Cloud partners. Greetings one and all!
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The Linux Migration: Wrap-Up
Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 25, 2017
As many readers are probably already aware, I embarked on a journey earlier this year to make Linux my primary laptop OS (see this update from April of this year). I think that my July 2017 update post probably sums it up best: for me, trying to use Linux as my primary laptop OS was like “death from a thousand cuts.”
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Google’s new Fuchsia OS arrives first on old Nest Hub
The Verge
MAY 25, 2021
The Google Nest Hub. Google’s long-awaited Fuchsia OS is starting to quietly roll out on its first consumer device, the first-generation Nest Hub, 9to5Google reports. You don’t ship a new operating system every day, but today is that day,” tweeted a Google technical lead on the Fuchsia OS project, Petr Hosek.
What’s Free At Linux Academy February 2019
Linux Academy
JANUARY 29, 2019
By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.
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Technology Short Take 175
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Networking The good folks over at Packet Pushers have compiled a list of open source networking projects. The Linux kernel project has become a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA); Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote a blog post that discusses this in more depth. More details are available in this blog post.
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IBM aims at hybrid cloud, enterprise security
Network World
NOVEMBER 20, 2019
IBM is addressing this challenge with its Cloud Pak for Security, which features open-source technology for hunting threats, automation capabilities to speed response to cyberattacks, and the ability integrate customers’ existing point-product security-system information for better operational safekeeping – all under one roof.
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Weekly Update 4/8/2019
Linux Academy
APRIL 8, 2019
This week is all about Google. The promotion gives users access to all of our Linux Academy content at a huge discount. Anyone can take advantage of this pricing, and as long as you continue to renew annually, it will stay $299 for the entire time you are a part of Linux Academy. Google It. That’s a lab a day!
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Network World
MARCH 30, 2020
Just over 50% of the Internet’s busiest websites – including Dropbox, Netflix, and WordPress.com – are served or proxied on NGNIX (Source: W3Techs ). But how can organizations secure this popular open-source web server? This pre-configured virtual image is available on a CIS Hardened Linux base image and container image.
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Google confirms: CVE-2023-5129 exposes WebP’s achilles’ heel
Dataconomy
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
CVE-2023-5129 initially appeared as a blip on the security radar, but as Google dug deeper, it turned out to be a critical threat, a security flaw affecting the Libwebp library, versions 0.5.0 Developed by Google, Libwebp is an open-source library that plays a vital role in encoding and decoding images in the WebP format.
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Android patches fix Drammer RAM attack, but not Dirty Cow exploit
Network World
NOVEMBER 8, 2016
Google released a new monthly batch of security patches for Android, fixing a dozen critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to compromise devices. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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Free Courses at Linux Academy- January 2020
Linux Academy
JANUARY 1, 2020
How to Get a Linux Job. This course helps prepare you for applying for and successfully obtaining a Linux Job. This course dives into LXC (Linux Containers) and its container manager, LXD. Additionally, we’ll use some common Linux tools, like grep and sed for some front-end regex use examples. Free Mastery Courses.
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Free Courses at Linux Academy- February 2020
Linux Academy
JANUARY 30, 2020
How to Get a Linux Job. This course helps prepare you for applying for and successfully obtaining a Linux Job. This course dives into LXC (Linux Containers) and its container manager, LXD. Additionally, we’ll use some common Linux tools, like grep and sed for some front-end regex use examples. Free Mastery Courses.
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Weekly Update 4/15/2019
Linux Academy
APRIL 10, 2019
Anyone can take advantage of this pricing, and as long as you continue to renew annually, your Linux Academy subscription will stay $299 a year for the entire time you are a part of Linux Academy. Not only that, but the Google Sandbox now has Instant labs. This offer ends May 1st ! Want to learn more?
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60 Weekly Update 5-20-2019
Linux Academy
MAY 15, 2019
Great news for all of our Linux Academy students; Red Hat Enterprise is already available to try out in Linux Academy’s Cloud Playground! We have more information on t he release in general and all the new features in our podcast Linux Action News and episode 105. Working with Dates and Times in MySQL.
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NVIDIA is elevating AI deployment to new efficiencies with NIM
Dataconomy
MARCH 19, 2024
Currently, NIM extends support to models originating from NVIDIA, A121, Adept, Cohere, Getty Images, and Shutterstock, in addition to open-source models by Google, Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Stability AI.
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Americans are one step closer to a national contact tracing app for Covid-19
Vox
OCTOBER 2, 2020
New York and New Jersey are the latest states to use the Apple-Google exposure notification tool. While a contact tracing app doesn’t have to use the Apple-Google tool — in fact, some states and countries have elected to go their own way here — those apps have had technical and privacy issues, and can’t work with each other.
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Free Courses at Linux Academy – December 2019
Linux Academy
DECEMBER 1, 2019
To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we are always adding new, free courses and resources for developing Linux and Cloud skills. Members of the Linux Academy community come together and share their insights and questions. Microsoft SQL Server on Linux Quick Start. How to Get a Linux Job. AWS Concepts.
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