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Linux and open source: The biggest issue in 2020

Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

This year was rough for all involved--even Linux and open source didn't come through unscathed. See what Jack Wallen considers to be the biggest issue for Linux in 2020.

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What is SONiC and how can enterprises try the open-source NOS?

Network World

JULY 17, 2024

Interest in the open-source network operating system SONiC is rising as major networking vendors and start-ups look to offer resources to help enterprises give SONiC a try. The Linux-based NOS was created by Microsoft for its Azure data centers and then open-sourced by Microsoft in 2017. What is SONiC? Who created SONiC?

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At long last, OpenStack (now known as OpenInfra Foundation) joins Linux Foundation

Network World

MARCH 12, 2025

After more than a decade as an independent open-source foundation, the OpenStack project is joining theLinux Foundation in a move aimed at accelerating collaboration across the open infrastructure ecosystem. Fifteen years ago, Rackspace got together with NASA and created the open-source OpenStack project.

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Meta creates ‘Business AI’ group led by ex-Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

From the start, Meta has made the Llama models available to other enterprises under a license it describes as “open source,” but the creation of the new business group makes clear that Meta’s interest is commercial, not philanthropic.

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‘Open source will win’: Allen Institute for AI CEO Ali Farhadi on the new era of artificial intelligence

GeekWire

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

With the DeepSeek advances in particular, there’s now a much greater focus on what it takes to train AI models, and the importance of open-source AI. Similarly, Ai2 is now learning from DeepSeek’s open-source project. “If the U.S. A computer vision specialist, Farhadi founded and led Ai2 spinout Xnor.ai

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BlackBerry launches free tool for reverse engineering to fight cybersecurity attacks

Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

One of the first announcements at BlackHat USA 2020 is an open-source tool to fight malware that BlackBerry first used internally and is now making available to everyone.

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State-sponsored hackers and ransomware gangs are diversifying tactics to inflict more harm

Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The groups have been using off-the-shelf tooling and open source penetration testing tools at unprecedented scale, according to Accenture's 2020 Cyber Threatscape Report.

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Los Angeles IT secures the vote with open source and the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2023

Aman Bhullar, CIO of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, has heeded the call, having led a widespread overhaul of antiquated voting infrastructure just in time for the contentious 2020 presidential election — a transformation rich in open source software to ensure other counties can benefit from his team’s work.

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Identity Relationship Management Market to Exceed $50 Billion by 2020

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

By Bob Gourley Identity Relationship Management Market to Exceed $50 Billion by 2020. the fastest-growing identity platform vendor, announced today that the identity relationship management (IRM) market, focused on managing customer interactions across any device or environment, will exceed $50 billion by 2020.

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Open source in 2020: The future looks bright

Tech Republic Cloud

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Jack Wallen offers up predictions on open source, Linux, docker engines, automation, and more for the coming year.

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How the pandemic is accelerating enterprise open source adoption

Venture Beat

JANUARY 26, 2021

Enterprise IT teams increasingly shifted to open source software solutions in 2020 as they adapted to the pandemic's disruptions. Read More.

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Some Good News About Application Security

Forrester IT

MAY 4, 2020

In my new report, “The State Of Application Security, 2020,” some of the trends are. Applications remain the most popular attack vector, open source continues to infect everything, and too many industries are not investing in the application security controls they need. kind of discouraging.

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Synopsys: 84% of codebases contain an open source vulnerability

Venture Beat

APRIL 13, 2021

Vulnerabilities in open source codebases increased by nine percentage points in 2020, according to a new report from Synopsys and Black Duck. Read More.

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Google’s VR painting app is getting the axe, but it will live on as an open-source project

The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Google is ending development on the virtual reality painting app Tilt Brush — one of the most well-known VR applications — and making it open source. Tilt Brush’s code can be accessed on GitHub now , but Google says some features had to be removed from the open-source release because of licensing restrictions.

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CIOs are (still) closer than ever to their dream data lakehouse

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

And open-source Apache Iceberg has won. Whatever the reason, Databricks is saying all the right things about the openness and portability the acquisition will bring – albeit in terms just vague enough to keep the speculation alive. “I You know, it’s open source,” Spitzer said, “But it’s really a Databricks product.”

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Have I Been Pwned — which tells you if passwords were breached — is going open source

The Verge

AUGUST 7, 2020

But nearly all of those password checkup tools owe something to Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned , which was kind of a novel idea when it first launched 7 years ago — and Hunt is now open-sourcing his website codebase so the idea can spread even further. link] — Junade Ali (@IcyApril) August 5, 2020.

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Free Courses at Linux Academy- January 2020

Linux Academy

JANUARY 1, 2020

Jenkins is an automation server, and as an open-source platform, it has an immense amount of integration benefits when it comes down to engaging in software development and projects that require rigorous testing. This course explains the history of Linux, the open-source movement, and how this software is used today.

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Salesforce IT injects generative AI to ease its massive datacenter migration

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Upgrading the fleet Salesforce’s RHEL migration is part of “Hyperforce,” a rearchitecting of the company’s infrastructure that began in 2020, Lutz says. In the gold rush race to the cloud, many SaaS vendors have built their offerings on widely available open-source platforms such as CentOS but not all give commercial support anymore.

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Free Courses at Linux Academy- February 2020

Linux Academy

JANUARY 30, 2020

Jenkins is an automation server, and as an open-source platform, it has an immense amount of integration benefits when it comes down to engaging in software development and projects that require rigorous testing. This course explains the history of Linux, the open-source movement, and how this software is used today.

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Ai2’s new Tulu 3 model rivals tech giants in breakthrough for open-source AI post-training

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is releasing a new set of open-source AI models and related resources in an effort to shine a light on a critical but previously mysterious corner of the artificial intelligence world. Ai2 was founded in 2014 by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

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Quickwit takes on Elasticsearch with an open source search engine for large datasets

Venture Beat

MARCH 10, 2022

Founded in 2020, Quickwit is an open source, cloud-native search and analytics engine built for large datasets. Read More.

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GeekWire Awards: CEO of the Year finalists share tips on leading startups

GeekWire

MARCH 12, 2025

as CEO, and sold the AI startup to Apple in 2020. Ali’s leadership tip: “Do not spend critical resources to reinvent the wheel think about what open-source models, tools, and software you can build on. Being active in the open-source AI community will help you build better and faster.”

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Red Hat Summit 2020 virtual conference introduces advanced OpenShift capabilities

Tech Republic Cloud

APRIL 28, 2020

The enterprise open source provider announced OpenShift 4.4, Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, and OpenShift virtualization to accelerate open hybrid cloud tech.

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How Modernizing your DevOps Solutions Can Help Close the Skills Gap

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 9, 2022

Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates the demand for computer and information technology jobs will grow 13% from 2020 to 2030, adding 667,000 more tech jobs in that timeframe. As more organizations look to digitally transform, the need for technical talent has increased. In fact, the U.S.

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Hottest tech skills to hire for in 2020

Hacker Earth

JANUARY 22, 2020

Here are some of the hottest tech skills (a mix of programming languages, tools, and frameworks; in random order) to hire for in 2020, which will help you thrive in the workplace of tomorrow. Hence, JavaScript will remain one of the hottest tech skills in 2020 and it is unlikely that it will go off the grid in the near future.

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Why IoT developers need open source framework

Dataconomy

MAY 20, 2016

Billions of new devices will go online and connect to the cloud by 2020, from simple sensors to smart light bulbs, connected machinery and the gateways managing all those connections. The post Why IoT developers need open source framework appeared first on Dataconomy. Developers are responsible for equipping each.

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Top 24 RPA tools available today

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Major features: Document editing and signature tracking Major use cases: Contract and agreement processing Appian Appian acquired Jidoka in 2020 and changed the product’s name to Appian RPA while integrating it with its Digital Process Automation suite. It offers migration from desktop to a cloud solution, and an open-source edition.

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The biggest announcements from Microsoft Build 2020

The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Microsoft has really pulled off the WFH keynote stream today pic.twitter.com/iSzguPsF0j — Tom Warren (@tomwarren) May 19, 2020. The company that once crusaded against open source has fully embraced it. ? A funny exchange between @panos_panay and @shanselman. But Microsoft did make impactful news yesterday.

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Windows 10 May 2020 Update now available with built-in Linux kernel and Cortana updates

The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

Microsoft is releasing its Windows 10 May 2020 Update today. Microsoft released a final version of the update to testers last month , and everyone on Windows 10 can get access to the May 2020 Update through Windows Update today. The May 2020 Update also includes some big Cortana improvements.

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Making the most of MLOps

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 26, 2022

They can be open source or proprietary. There are general principles, dozens of vendors, and even more open-source tool sets. The MLOps market is expected to grow to around $700 million by 2025 , up from about $185 million in 2020, says IDC’s Subramanian. Communication with the DevOps and with the larger IT team.”.

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Making the most of MLOps

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

They can be open source or proprietary. There are general principles, dozens of vendors, and even more open-source tool sets. The MLOps market is expected to grow to around $700 million by 2025 , up from about $185 million in 2020, says IDC’s Subramanian. Communication with the DevOps and with the larger IT team.”.

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Prepping Your Data Center for the Internet of Things

Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 13, 2015

Open source-based solutions have the functionality, scalability and reliability to enable businesses to successfully cope with the explosion of data associated with the IoT - predicted to grow to 44 zettabyes by 2020. Read More.

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AWS, Microsoft, Uber engineering vets raise $20M from top VCs for Seattle startup Temporal

GeekWire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Founded a year ago by former Uber engineers who previously worked at Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, Temporal has built an open-source microservices orchestration platform that can replace ad-hoc systems currently used by developers. The reception to that idea sparked them to launch Temporal.

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Online romance scammers stole more hearts (and money) in 2020 than 2019

Vox

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In 2020, the amount of money people in the US lost to romance scams, which usually start online, surged 50 percent from the year before, jumping from just over $200 million in 2019 to more than $300 million, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Uncommon Thinkers: Hanna Hajishirzi’s open approach to AI challenges the industry’s norms

GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Hajishirzi specializes in natural language processing, with a focus on open-source AI models. as CEO, and sold the AI startup to Apple in 2020. But it was also hard, her mom said, because she never settled she always challenged herself to learn more. Allen School of Computer Science in Seattle.

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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2022

The UK-based accounting and tax consulting firm was one of few accountants in the UK that weathered the 2020 tax season without a hitch, thanks to its early bet on SaaS, Microsoft Azure, and software-defined networking. Enterprises that pushed in early to the cloud fared far better than their competition, Grant Thornton chief among them.

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LexisNexis rises to the generative AI challenge

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Since its origins in the early 1970s, LexisNexis and its portfolio of legal and business data and analytics services have faced competitive threats heralded by the rise of the Internet, Google Search, and open source software — and now perhaps its most formidable adversary yet: generative AI, Reihl notes.

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Adobe just released the last Flash update ever

The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Adobe will stop supporting Flash on December 31st, 2020, and it will block Flash content from running on January 12th, 2021. An open-source emulator called Ruffle will enable old Flash files through a desktop app or web browser. Adobe offered a brief farewell in its release notes. “We

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Telegram launches one-on-one video calls on iOS and Android

The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Secure messaging app Telegram has launched an alpha version of one-on-one video calls on both its Android and iOS apps, the company announced , saying 2020 had “highlighted the need for face-to-face communication.”. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. In April, Telegram announced it would launch group video calls later this year.

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Twitter is looking into why its photo preview appears to favor white faces over Black faces

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

pic.twitter.com/bR1GRyCkia — Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri (@bascule) September 19, 2020. pic.twitter.com/9aIZY4rSCX — Colin Madland (@colinmadland) September 19, 2020. Lenny Carl pic.twitter.com/fmJMWkkYEf — Jordan Simonovski (@_jsimonovski) September 20, 2020. We’ll open source our work so others can review and replicate.”.

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Twitter engineers pushed to replace ‘master’ and ‘slave’ programming terms

The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

It’s part of a larger effort among open-source developers who have been working to remove references to slavery from the programming community. link] — Regynald (@negroprogrammer) July 2, 2020. WordsMatter [link] — Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) July 2, 2020. We want to change that.

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The Rise of Insider Threat Automation: When Employees Weaponize AI

SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2025

Widespread AI accessibility: Open-source AI tools and frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and GPT-based models are readily available. There are 300% more remote opportunities now compared to 2020 , and many organizations are still unable to deal with this.

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The Internet of (Secure) Things – Embedding Security in the IoT

CTOvision

JUNE 7, 2014

Last year, there were over 10 billion connected devices, and estimates predict this number to climb to anywhere from 30 to 50 billion by 2020. There’s even an Android app that leverages M2M communication to a scope to enable a sniper rifle to hit the target every time, regardless of the shooter’s expertise.

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Microsoft debuts WhiteNoise, an AI toolkit for differential privacy

Venture Beat

MAY 19, 2020

During Build 2020, Microsoft debuted a number of privacy- and fairness-focused enhancements to Azure Machine Learning, including the WhiteNoise toolkit. Read More.

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Linux and open source: The biggest issue in 2020

What is SONiC and how can enterprises try the open-source NOS?

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At long last, OpenStack (now known as OpenInfra Foundation) joins Linux Foundation

Webinars

Meta creates ‘Business AI’ group led by ex-Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih

‘Open source will win’: Allen Institute for AI CEO Ali Farhadi on the new era of artificial intelligence

BlackBerry launches free tool for reverse engineering to fight cybersecurity attacks

State-sponsored hackers and ransomware gangs are diversifying tactics to inflict more harm

Los Angeles IT secures the vote with open source and the cloud

Identity Relationship Management Market to Exceed $50 Billion by 2020

Open source in 2020: The future looks bright

How the pandemic is accelerating enterprise open source adoption

Some Good News About Application Security

Synopsys: 84% of codebases contain an open source vulnerability

Google’s VR painting app is getting the axe, but it will live on as an open-source project

CIOs are (still) closer than ever to their dream data lakehouse

Have I Been Pwned — which tells you if passwords were breached — is going open source

Free Courses at Linux Academy- January 2020

Salesforce IT injects generative AI to ease its massive datacenter migration

Free Courses at Linux Academy- February 2020

Ai2’s new Tulu 3 model rivals tech giants in breakthrough for open-source AI post-training

Quickwit takes on Elasticsearch with an open source search engine for large datasets

GeekWire Awards: CEO of the Year finalists share tips on leading startups

Red Hat Summit 2020 virtual conference introduces advanced OpenShift capabilities

How Modernizing your DevOps Solutions Can Help Close the Skills Gap

Hottest tech skills to hire for in 2020

Why IoT developers need open source framework

Top 24 RPA tools available today

The biggest announcements from Microsoft Build 2020

Windows 10 May 2020 Update now available with built-in Linux kernel and Cortana updates

Making the most of MLOps

Making the most of MLOps

Prepping Your Data Center for the Internet of Things

AWS, Microsoft, Uber engineering vets raise $20M from top VCs for Seattle startup Temporal

Online romance scammers stole more hearts (and money) in 2020 than 2019

Uncommon Thinkers: Hanna Hajishirzi’s open approach to AI challenges the industry’s norms

Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

LexisNexis rises to the generative AI challenge

Adobe just released the last Flash update ever

Telegram launches one-on-one video calls on iOS and Android

Twitter is looking into why its photo preview appears to favor white faces over Black faces

Twitter engineers pushed to replace ‘master’ and ‘slave’ programming terms

The Rise of Insider Threat Automation: When Employees Weaponize AI

The Internet of (Secure) Things – Embedding Security in the IoT

Microsoft debuts WhiteNoise, an AI toolkit for differential privacy

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