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.
Amazon's Lumberyard goes open source, it's now called Open 3D Engine, gets wider support
TechSpot
JULY 7, 2021
The Open 3D Foundation results from the collaboration of various developers, aiming to support open-source projects designed to improve the capabilities of 3D graphics, rendering, authoring, and development.
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Intel could be bringing its 56-core CPUs to workstations
TechSpot
JULY 23, 2022
Intel has been steadily updating the relevant enterprise software in preparation for Sapphire Rapids for over a year. Some of that software is open source and the source of small leaks. Last week, a trawler found a reference to an unknown processor in the boot log of a Linux kernel,
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Telefonica, Red Hat and Intel Partner on Open Source NFV for Telcos
Data Center Knowledge
JUNE 3, 2014
The solution will combine Intel Xeon chips, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a KVM hypervisor, Red Hat''s OpenStack distro and OpenFlow network switches. Intel Networking Technology cyan red hat telefonica'
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Intel, VMware, Linux Foundation & Others Form Open Platform for Enterprise AI
Tech Republic
APRIL 17, 2024
Organizations can contribute to the platform’s GitHub or receive a framework for creating enterprise-grade generative AI systems.
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China says “no thanks” to Intel and AMD on government devices
Dataconomy
MARCH 25, 2024
processors from its government computers and servers, effectively banning Intel and AMD chips. processors from government-operated computers and servers, thereby excluding chips manufactured by Intel and AMD, according to a report by the Financial Times. China has enacted new rules mandating the removal of U.S. and China.
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Amazon shifts Lumberyard to open source 3D game engine supported by 20 companies
Venture Beast
JULY 6, 2021
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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Technology Short Take 176
Scott Lowe
MARCH 15, 2024
Ivan Pepelnjak dives deep on DHCP relaying on a Linux host. Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. Rob McBryde shares his story of reviving a 2012 MacBook Pro with Linux. Security In early February a vulnerability was uncovered in a key component of the Linux boot process.
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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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Intel Innovation 2023: Attestation and Fully Homomorphic Encryption Coming to Intel Cloud Services
Tech Republic
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
The attestation service is designed to allow data in confidential computing environments to interact with AI safely, as well as provide policy enforcements and audits.
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Weekly Update 6-3-2019
Linux Academy
JUNE 3, 2019
This week, we’re talking all about serverless computing, what it is, why it’s relevant, and the release of a free course that can be enjoyed by everyone on the Linux Academy platform, including Community Edition account members. Plus Wes and Ell are back from KubeCon in Barcelona and return with some great news for open source.
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Open Security Controller Waiting for Developer Interest
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 14, 2017
Intel has contributed its Open Security Controller to the Linux Foundation. Read More.
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IDF 2013: Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
This is a liveblog of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 session EDCS003, titled “Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud.” ” The presenters are Girish Gopal and Malini Bhandaru, both with Intel. Intel has also done work on TCP plus Geo-Tagging.
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You ever think about how Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC”
The Verge
APRIL 16, 2021
It originally ran a custom Linux operating system that reviewers loved ( Laptop Mag ’s Mark Spoonauer said it was “ten times simpler to use than any Windows notebook”) and was generally heralded as a new kind of computer with tremendous mass appeal. The second, obviously more important product was the $399 Eee PC 701. Is this real ?
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Weekly Update 4/8/2019
Linux Academy
APRIL 8, 2019
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. A reminder that the Linux Academy Playground has Google Cloud Sandboxes!
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Linux Academy
APRIL 1, 2019
First, Windows Server for the Linux Academy Playground is waiting for you to jump in and spin up your own Windows Server to learn with. So, while looking through everything new this week, don’t forget to take a look at these awesome additions to Linux Academy. What’s New. We are starting the Tweet of the Week.
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IDF 2013: Enabling NFV/SDN with Intel ONP Server Reference Design
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
This is session COMS003, titled “Enabling Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Server Reference Architecture Design.” The speakers are Frank Schapfel, Senior Product Line Manager with Intel, and Brian Skerry, Open Networks System Architect with Intel.
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Technology Short Take 151
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 21, 2022
Losing to Apple—whose M-series chips are widely regarded as faster and more efficient than Intel’s chips—has apparently stung the chip giant into revving up the innovation engine. These details on their 12th-generation H processors shows that Intel appears to be intent to regain the lead. ” and “faker.js”
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Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts. You may have heard of eBPF, the Linux technology that is reshaping Linux applications (and in some ways reshaping Linux itself).
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SFTS012: Designing a Trusted Cloud with OpenStack
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
The speaker for the session is Vin Sharma, who helps lead open source software strategies at Intel. The focus of this session, as you can tell from the title, is on security and trust (presumably talking about how to leverage Intel TXT with OpenStack). So how does this open attestation service that Intel has created work?
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Some Recent OSS-Related Announcements
Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 30, 2013
Recently a couple of open source software (OSS)-related announcements have passed through my Inbox, so I thought I’d make brief mention of them here on the site. Ceph , the open source distributed software system, is now coming in a fully-supported version aimed at enterprise markets. Linux Storage OpenStack OSS'
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60 Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb
CTOvision
JANUARY 18, 2015
Chief Technologist, Intel Federal LLC, Intel Corporation. Before entering the land of Big Data, Alex spent the better part of ten years wrangling Linux server farms and writing Perl as a contractor to the Department of Defense and Department of Justice. Steve Orrin Chief Technologist, Intel Federal LLC, Intel Corporation.
Report Reveals Top Cyber Threats, Trends of 2023 First Half
SecureWorld News
JUNE 13, 2023
The Critical Start Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team analyzed a range of intelligence sources, such as customer data, open-source intelligence, vulnerability research, social media monitoring, and Dark Web monitoring to identify the most pressing cybersecurity threats of the first half of 2023.
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Technology Short Take 156
Scott Lowe
JUNE 24, 2022
BPFDoor, as it is known, is a passive backdoor that allows threat actors to remotely connect to a Linux shell. Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. Check out this write-up. Think PDF files are safe? Think again. Read more about it on the Isovalent blog. Ars Technica has more information here.
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CTOvision
FEBRUARY 4, 2015
Chief Technologist, Intel Federal LLC, Intel Corporation. Before entering the land of Big Data, Alex spent the better part of ten years wrangling Linux server farms and writing Perl as a contractor to the Department of Defense and Department of Justice. Steve Orrin Chief Technologist, Intel Federal LLC, Intel Corporation.
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what every open source project needs
SPF13
MARCH 20, 2015
In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. Open Source Companies • Redhat $13B • Cloudera $3B • MongoDB $1.6B • Docker $.5B
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A Leap into Learning Kubernetes
Virtualized Greek
JUNE 10, 2019
I opened my big mouth and put it out there that I’d do a video series installing Kubernetes (K8s) and OpenFaaS on 3-Node Intel NUC cluster. Oh, did I forget to mention, other than installing Linux, I really shouldn’t be left to my own devices with a Linux console.
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Installing Older Versions of Kumactl on an M1 Mac
Scott Lowe
JUNE 25, 2021
of the open source Kuma service mesh, and along with it a corresponding version of kumactl , the command-line utility for interacting with Kuma. The same goes for users of Linux distributions running on Intel-based hardware.) The Kuma community recently released version 1.2.0
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Technology Short Take #74
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 8, 2016
In case you’re interested, here’s more details on CVE-2016-5195 , aka “Dirty Cow,” and how it might be used to allow a user to escape from a Linux container (like a Docker container). Intel has a tutorial series on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). The inimitable “Cloud Opinion” says don’t build private clouds.
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Technology Short Take #44
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
To help resolve this issue, Cumulus Networks (and possibly Metacloud, I’m not sure of their involvement yet) has release an open source project called vxfld. Is Intel having second thoughts about software-defined infrastructure? Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs? Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. LTS server.
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CVE-2020-10029: Buffer overflow in GNU libc trigonometry functions?!?
ForAllSecure
AUGUST 18, 2020
The Intel FDIV bug that caused a recall on Intel processors. The GNU C Library (glibc) is the most common open source C library and is used on most Linux systems. Further reading: Glibc source that shows how long doubles are represented for various architectures. Want to Learn More About Zero-Days?
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CVE-2020-10029: Buffer overflow in GNU libc trigonometry functions?!?
ForAllSecure
AUGUST 18, 2020
The Intel FDIV bug that caused a recall on Intel processors. The GNU C Library (glibc) is the most common open source C library and is used on most Linux systems. Further reading: Glibc source that shows how long doubles are represented for various architectures. Floating Point Arithmetic.
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CVE-2020-10029: Buffer overflow in GNU libc trigonometry functions?!?
ForAllSecure
AUGUST 18, 2020
The Intel FDIV bug that caused a recall on Intel processors. The GNU C Library (glibc) is the most common open source C library and is used on most Linux systems. Further reading: Glibc source that shows how long doubles are represented for various architectures. Floating Point Arithmetic.
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Scott Lowe
MARCH 23, 2017
Acra is open source and available via GitHub. Here’s a post outlining some of VMware’s more prominent open source projects in the “cloud-native” space. VMware recently announced the open sourcing of some software development kits (SDKs) for the new REST APIs in vSphere 6.5. Operating Systems/Applications.
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Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 23, 2013
with the Floodlight open source controller. Intel announced the E5 2600 v2 series of CPUs back at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 (you can follow my IDF 2013 coverage by looking at posts with the IDF2013 tag ). He does a great job of explaining how OpenFlow works and why OpenFlow 1.3 Servers/Hardware.
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Scott Lowe
MAY 4, 2017
News in the OpenStack space hasn’t been so good recently (Intel pulling out of OSIC, various companies laying off folks, other “pure play” companies shifting focus away from OpenStack), but here’s one architect’s perspective on what you may still want to attend the OpenStack Summit. memory pressure but not CPU utilization, or vice versa).
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The battlefield for mobile platforms and mobile applications becomes clear: fragmentation, innovation, and dead-ends
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 16, 2010
The open-sourcing of Symbian earlier this month and the announcement this week of Symbian ^3 , which offers a very rich interactive platform. In addition Intel and Nokia are merging their Linux mobile platforms to create MeeGo , which will run across almost any kind of connected device.
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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT
ForAllSecure
APRIL 22, 2021
Calderon: And even when we wrote the book it got tricky because some of the cool findings that we had, couldn't be mentioned in the book so we had to you know work on open source boards and come up, use open source laboratories instead of doing real life examples. And it's not just stories from the authors themselves.
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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT
ForAllSecure
APRIL 22, 2021
Calderon: And even when we wrote the book it got tricky because some of the cool findings that we had, couldn't be mentioned in the book so we had to you know work on open source boards and come up, use open source laboratories instead of doing real life examples. And it's not just stories from the authors themselves.
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Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 23, 2020
I think a fair number of folks may not be aware that the Nginx ingress controller for Kubernetes—both the community version and the Nginx-maintained open source version—do suffer from timeouts and errors resulting from changes in the back-end application’s list of endpoints (think pods being added or removed).
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Exploring the most efficient blockchain technology
Dataconomy
MAY 24, 2023
Additionally, Ethereum has an active developer community, coordinated by the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, which boasts over 250 members including Intel, JPMorgan, and Microsoft. As an initiative championed by the Linux Foundation, it was purpose-built with a focus on enterprise distributed ledger use cases.
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Scott Lowe
MARCH 20, 2020
This blending of “traditional” network engineering with containers, Linux, and DevOps tooling is how Matt is setting new trends and directions for the networking industry. Mark Ermolov discusses a vulnerability in the ROM (read-only memory) of the Intel Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME). Good stuff here!
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Scott Lowe
APRIL 17, 2017
Shifting gears a bit, Golub talks a bit more about the changes over the last 3 years in regards to Docker (the open source project) itself. This led Docker to work with a number of other companies to build a secure, lean, portable Linux subsystem. LinuxKit is a lean, portable, and secure Linux subsystem. to the stage.
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Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
Intel has finally started shipping silicon photonics gear, according to this report from El Reg (news coming out of IDF16). I predicted a couple of years ago that Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions) was going to be HUGE (see here ). Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host (how’s that for a mouthful?) Servers/Hardware.
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