#open source software
#open source software

1 month ago

Why open source may not survive the rise of generative AI

We live in an astonishing technology-based world, fueled by and dependent on software. That software provides our networks, our security, our financial transactions, our supply chain management, and, of course, the generative AI systems that are top of mind for just about everyone. But where does that digital infrastructure come from? Nearly all of it is based on free and open source software, what the industry calls FOSS.

Artificial intelligence

Venture

fromBitcoin Magazine

1 month ago

Unlock Bitcoin's Hidden Power: Join The $25K Global Hackathon Turning Everyday Apps Into Peer-to-Peer Money Machines

Time2Build challenges developers to integrate the Breez SDK into open-source projects to embed Bitcoin Lightning payments, offering Bitcoin prizes and residencies for production merges.

Miscellaneous

fromComputerworld

Austrian Armed Forces switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice

The Austrian Armed Forces will replace Microsoft Office with LibreOffice on about 16,000 workstations to achieve technical independence and secure on-premises data processing.

Environment

fromTechCrunch

Earthmover wants to become the Snowflake of weather and geospatial data | TechCrunch

Earthmover pivoted from long-term climate outputs to weather-focused, rapidly changing data using a scalable open-source data platform to attract paying customers.

fromPythonbytes

Suggestive Trove Classifiers

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Software development

fromDevOps.com

Kong Acquires OpenMeter for API Metering and Billing - DevOps.com

Ross Kukulinski, vice president of product management for Kong, said OpenMeter will enable Kong to embed the usage-based metering and billing capabilities into Kong Konnect, a platform for managing application programming interfaces (APIs), early next year. In the meantime, Kong will continue to make the OpenMeter software available both as open source software and via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application service that OpenMeter provides.

Startup companies

fromTechzine Global

Google's AI Big Sleep discovers twenty new security vulnerabilities in open source

AI-powered vulnerability detector Big Sleep identified twenty new vulnerabilities in open-source software, leveraging collaboration between Google DeepMind and Project Zero.

fromTechCrunch

Google says its AI-based bug hunter found 20 security vulnerabilities | TechCrunch

The AI agent Big Sleep, developed by DeepMind and Project Zero, reported its first vulnerabilities in popular open-source software, finding 20 flaws.

Artificial intelligence

#cybersecurity

fromNextgov.com

Information security

Foreign adversaries are trying to weaponize open-source software, report finds

Privacy professionals

Lazarus Group rises again, this time with fake FOSS

fromNextgov.com

Information security

Foreign adversaries are trying to weaponize open-source software, report finds

Privacy professionals

Lazarus Group rises again, this time with fake FOSS

Hacker slips malicious 'wiping' command into Amazon's Q AI coding assistant - and devs are worried

A hacker successfully implanted destructive commands into Amazon's Q AI coding agent, raising significant concerns in the tech industry.

Software development

4 months ago

Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop

Generative AI tools have led to an increase in low-quality bug reports for the curl utility.

4 months ago

Mistral launches Voxtral speech recognition model

Voxtral bridges the gap between high error open-source models and costly proprietary models, offering state-of-the-art accuracy and semantic understanding at competitive pricing.

Artificial intelligence

4 months ago

Fed up with AI scraping your content? This open-source bot blocker can help - here's how

Over half of web visits are from data scrapers, prompting the need for protective measures like Anubis.

Germany news

fromThe Local Germany

'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft

Schleswig-Holstein is abandoning Microsoft in favor of open-source software to regain control over data and enhance digital sovereignty.

Information security

fromIT Pro

Public sector organizations are drowning in security debt

Public sector struggles with security vulnerabilities, needing nearly a year to address software flaws, highlighting significant security debt.

Europe politics

Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux

Denmark is transitioning from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice to enhance digital sovereignty amid concerns over foreign tech dependence.

Tech industry

Cisco returns to the load balancing market using open source

Cisco re-enters load balancing market with an open-source solution leveraging proven eBPF technology.

fromElectronic Frontier Foundation

Podcast Episode: Why Three is Tor's Magic Number

Collaboration and community can drive innovation just as effectively as competition.

Data science

fromFlowingData

Survey microdata for free

The site Analyze Survey Data for Free simplifies the download of public datasets using R.

Digital life

6 months ago

Life after Pocket: How to set up your own self-hosted article archiving service

Transitioning from Pocket to self-hosted solutions is recommended due to Pocket's shutdown.

6 months ago

Torvalds' typing taste test touches tactile tragedy

To those who know, he led the digital world out from the imperial serfdom that had seemed its inexorable fate.

Apple

fromTechzine Global

6 months ago

Dropping the SBOM, why software supply chains are too flaky

Gartner estimates that by 2025, 45% of organizations globally will face attacks on their software supply chains, reflecting a three-fold increase since 2021.

Software development