Inside Microsoft’s open source program office
Venture Beast
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Stormy Peters, director of Microsoft's open source programs office, gives the lowdown on the evolution and role of Microsoft's OSPO. Read More.
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Venture Beast
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Stormy Peters, director of Microsoft's open source programs office, gives the lowdown on the evolution and role of Microsoft's OSPO. Read More.
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.
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The Verge
MAY 25, 2021
Google’s work on Fuchsia OS first emerged in 2016 , and the open-source operating system is notable for not being based on a Linux kernel, instead using a microkernel called Zircon. It’ll come to users in the Preview Program first, before slowly releasing more broadly. Petr Hosek (@petrh) May 25, 2021.
Galido
OCTOBER 18, 2018
Information Technology Blog - - Top 8 Highly Paid and in-demand Programming Languages in 2018 - Information Technology Blog. “Everyone should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think”…Steve Jobs. If you are reading this article, it means that you want to start studying programming.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 17, 2013
By Prayson Pate Openness is one of the most-cited advantages of cloud-based applications, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). In this context, what does open really mean? A Beginning of Openness – Documented and Supported. A Milestone – Open Source.
GeekWire
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Microsoft says groups connected to governments in China, Iran, North Korea and Turkey have begun exploiting vulnerabilities in the Apache Software Foundation’s widely used open-source Log4j software library. Hackers can use the software flaws to gain control of compromised computers and systems.
TM Forum
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
I am an Enterprise Architect at CGI, leading transformation programs to deliver core business and operational systems for Communication Service Providers. We use most of TM Forum’s Open APIs in our engagements, the most frequent ones being: TMF 622 - Product Order. Tell us about yourself and your job.
TM Forum
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
I am an Enterprise Architect at CGI, leading transformation programs to deliver core business and operational systems for Communication Service Providers. We use most of TM Forum’s Open APIs in our engagements, the most frequent ones being: TMF 622 - Product Order. Tell us about yourself and your job.
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 19, 2024
A set of vulnerabilities in the open source reference implementation of the UEFI specification has been uncovered. I think I’ve linked to Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source newsletter” before; it’s such a useful resource. pertaining to administrative credentials. This looks interesting.
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Networking The good folks over at Packet Pushers have compiled a list of open source networking projects. Operating Systems/Applications Google has open sourced Magicka, an AI-powered file type identification library. I hope you find something useful here! More details are available in this blog post.
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 24, 2022
He’s doing just that on the bank’s IBM Z system mainframes, for which the bank has written some 10 million lines of code over the years. Each houses an IBM z15 system. According to IDC, IBM sold more than 4,300 IBM Z systems in 2020, for approximately $3.5 IBM LinuxONE III systems run only Linux at prices starting at $135,000.
Galido
JANUARY 12, 2017
Each computer system may have a malware or viruses, including Linux. It is recommended that users install these antivirus softwares on the Linux operating system that can be downloaded via Internet. In order to better understand antivirus programs, it may be beneficial to firstly understand the malware itself.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 4, 2023
By: Scott Sellers , Co-Founder and CEO, Azul After almost 30 years, Java remains the programming language of choice for large-scale enterprise applications in the cloud, on-prem, or hybrid. Its versatility, reliability, stability, and open-source and third-party libraries and frameworks make developing and running applications very efficient.
The Verge
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
By the federal government’s Digital Analytics Program (DAP) count in October 2020, 3.2 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. You can run many native Windows programs on Linux using Wine.
CTOvision
JANUARY 28, 2015
This is a second in a series of posts about the program R. The first choice you must make is to determine what operating system your computer is running. Clicking on the link desired from that page will download a package of their program, starting another installation process. By May Gourley. project.org. .
ForAllSecure
APRIL 19, 2023
It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. It’s a radical rethinking of how we even view our current choices of UNIX-derived operating systems.
The Verge
APRIL 30, 2021
I’ve spent the past week digging into this world — the players, the jargon, the university’s turbulent history with open-source software, the devoted and principled Linux kernel community. The story begins in 2017, when a systems-security researcher named Kangjie Lu became an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota.
Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 28, 2022
The open source ko project has applied to become a CNCF Sandbox project. Operating Systems/Applications. Programming. Mike McQuaid talks about entitlement in open source. I think some of the lessons in this article could apply to a lot of different scenarios, not just open source usage.
Network World
APRIL 13, 2017
Samsung has had enough struggles with Tizen , the open-source operating system it is positioning as an alternative to Android. But now Tizen is being blasted by a security expert for being full of egregious security flaws and sloppy programming.
Vox
OCTOBER 2, 2020
This gives us the potential for a nationwide digital contact tracing system. They’re using the national server, and the four apps are all very similar, from their name (“COVID Alert [state]”) to their source code: The apps were built using an open source codebase called COVID Green, which was initially developed for Ireland’s app.
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Now if Denis’ site just had a discoverable RSS feed… Security Aeva Black and Gil Yehuda tackle the conundrum of open source security. Soumaya Mauthoor shows how to use Pulumi’s configuration system to create feature flags for Pulumi infrastructure-as-code programs. As fate (luck?)
Kitaboo
APRIL 1, 2024
Those who want to read ePUB eBooks on their Kindle devices can do it with ease by using conversion tools or third-party programs. KITABOO KITABOO is a cloud-based digital textbook platform that offers a powerful and simple ePUB reader for a large range of operating systems and devices.
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.
Scott Lowe
JULY 22, 2022
The Kubewarden project—which aims to enable policy authors to write Kubernetes policies in any programming language that can compile down to WebAssembly—just achieved two different milestones. Operating Systems/Applications. Programming. David Anderson’s post on how NAT Traversal works should help.
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 27, 2023
I’ve got another collection of links to articles on networking, security, cloud, programming, and career development—hopefully you find something useful! Cool to see Koyeb release a Pulumi provider, so that you can use Pulumi programs to interact with Koyeb. Welcome to Technology Short Take #164!
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 6, 2021
I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Servers/Hardware.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 28, 2015
AI capabilities are also being programmed into robotic solutions including self driving cars. This part of the market is very likely going to take off, since open source platforms and open cloud API's and services like Prediction.io is a service with easy to use, open templates for a variety of advanced AI workloads.
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Engin Diri’s article on continuous cluster audit scanning with Trivy is a “two-for-one” article: you get to see some Pulumi YAML to create a Kubernetes cluster on Civo, and you get to see writing policies for the Trivy Operator. Ricardo Sueiras captured some great links on open source at AWS in this newsletter.
GeekWire
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Aerojet Rocketdyne’s operation in Redmond, Wash., The 20 collaborative projects are part of a program managed by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. Northrop Grumman Space Systems) of Dulles, Va., Kent, Wash.-based AI SpaceFactory of Secaucus, N.J.,
Vox
APRIL 21, 2021
On Tuesday, Apple announced the release of AirTag , a small, electronic tracker people can attach to keys, a piece of luggage, or anything, really, and then use Apple’s Find My system to find that item. Rumors emerged back in 2019 that Apple was working on a tracker system that would compete with Tile’s products.
Linux Academy
JUNE 3, 2019
You have to launch the virtual servers, which means you need to: Choose an operating system. Coder Radio — 7 Languages : Wes is back, and Mike’s got a few surprises in store, including a new view on Electron, a hot take on titles, and a programming challenge for the both of them. Install software packages.
Linux Academy
JUNE 4, 2019
The Serverless Framework is an open-source project that replaces traditional platforms (hardware, operating systems) with a platform that can run in a cloud environment. Your programming language and backend database are similar examples, proving you’re never going to be completely free from some sort of commitment.
Vox
AUGUST 6, 2020
It’s a somewhat disappointing showing for what seemed to be a promising technical solution from two of the biggest tech companies in the world whose mobile operating systems power nearly all of the world’s mobile phones. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. Even Apple and Google can’t fix that.
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
A new zero-click, zero-day exploit was announced and Apple has released an update for all affected systems. And, while we are talking about “another take,” here’s another take on OpenTF (the proposed “truly open source” Terraform fork). Grafana recently had to rotate their GPG signing key.
Vox
APRIL 13, 2020
Those are the broad strokes of what’s sure to be a very complex public-health-focused surveillance system. An important thing to understand about this system is that Apple and Google aren’t doing this by themselves. The whole system is opt-in. So it’s safe to say that the more sensitive aspects of the system are opt-in.
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 6, 2021
I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Servers/Hardware.
SecureWorld News
JUNE 13, 2023
While many of these attack trends are troubling, there are a number of things organizations can do to reduce their risk, such as investing in security awareness programs, updating security protocols, working with trusted partners to address vulnerabilities, and partnering with an MDR vendor."
Linux Academy
APRIL 30, 2019
That viruses and malware are Windows problems is a misnomer that is often propagated through the Linux community and it’s an easy one to believe until you start noticing strange behavior on your system. LPI Linux Essentials — This course teaches the basic concepts of processes, programs, and the components of the Linux operating system.
Galido
MARCH 19, 2019
These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Operating System & Software Blogs. TechWorld – Operating Systems. CIO Dashboard. The Next Web.
Scott Lowe
MAY 27, 2022
marks the first release of the open source container orchestration platform that is signed using Sigstore (more details here ). Operating Systems/Applications. Programming. Fortunately, it looks like these vulnerabilities have been patched, so be sure to update your Zoom client. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.
Galido
JUNE 29, 2018
You need to go through a comprehensive training program to even be considered a decent one as we explain below. A programmer is basically a person who uses their skills and knowledge to write code, or rather specific set of instructions which directs the performance of a computer or mobile program. But first things first.
Vox
APRIL 16, 2020
Apple and Google are a month away from launching a series of updates to their smartphone operating systems that will use Bluetooth signals to track potential coronavirus cases. That it involved changes to mobile operating systems actually made it seem more likely that it would be a permanent fixture. But that’s about it.
Scott Lowe
JUNE 24, 2022
Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. Operating Systems/Applications. Programming. It’s beyond my current skill level in programming, but I did read Tim Bray’s recent article on making code faster in an effort to pick up some “tips and tricks.”
ForAllSecure
OCTOBER 13, 2020
And in between contracts, we like to do vulnerability research on open source software or major high-impact software targets. The most notable example I can think of would be like Windows, or maybe iOS, where large parts of the source code are not open source, but they impact billions of users.
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