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After Log4j, Open-Source Software Is Now a National Security Issue

Gizmodo

For years, developers of free, open-source software have been telling anyone who will listen that their projects needs better financial assistance and more oversight. Now, after a number of disastrous incidents involving open-source code, the federal government and Silicon Valley may finally be listening.

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Open source Calendly rival Cal.com raises $25M

Venture Beast

Open source Calendly alternative Cal.com has raised $25 million in a series A round of funding and launched an "app store for time." Read More.

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Bosch And SAP Agree A Strategic Internet Of Things (IoT) Partnership To Facilitate Data Orchestration

Forrester IT

I recently attended an event at which Bosch and SAP announced a major partnership to more closely align their respective cloud and software expertise around the industrial internet of things. Bosch Software Innovation. Bosch Software Innovation. Open Source. open standards. data analytics.

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Texas Instruments Launches Internet of Things Ecosystem

Data Center Knowledge

Texas Instruments introduces an Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem for cloud providers and ARM and Sensor Platforms team to launch open source software for sensor hubs. Internet of Things arm texas instruments'

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A hack nearly gained access to millions of computers. Here’s what we should learn from this.

Vox

Getty Images The internet is far less secure than it ought to be. One of the most fascinating and frightening incidents in computer security history started in 2022 with a few pushy emails to the mailing list for a small, one-person open source project. There are no records of any person by that name outside the pushy emails.

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An Open-Source Developer Just Caused a Whole Lot of Chaos by Nuking Two of His Own Apps

Gizmodo

The eccentric developer behind two immensely popular open-source NPM coding libraries recently corrupted them both with a series of bizarre updates—a decision that has led to the bricking of droves of projects that relied upon them for support. Read more.

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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. In addition, various content and malicious code can be embedded in freely distributed libraries used for software development.

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