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Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects

The Verge

A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “ faker.js ” and “ colors.js ” — that thousands of users depend on, rendering any project that contains these libraries useless, as reported by Bleeping Computer. million weekly downloads on npm, and color.js

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Report Sees Rise in Open Source Vulnerabilities, Supply Chain Attacks

SecureWorld News

A new report reveals a significant rise in risk related to open source vulnerabilities and software supply chain attacks. A link to download the full copy of the report is included in the release. Open source vulnerabilities are slow to remediate for a few reasons," said Travis Smith, VP of the Threat Research Unit at Qualys.

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NGA and DigitalGlobe Release Powerful Application To Community Under Open Source License

CTOvision

From NGA''s Press Release: NGA, DigitalGlobe application a boon to raster data storage, processing. Sharing the application with the open source community helps accelerate its potential to become the standard for storing, enriching and analyzing massive amounts of raster data in a distributed cloud environment.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

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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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success.

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NGA Continues To Engage With Open Source Community Via GitHub

CTOvision

They are: geoevents: The GeoEvents project is a dynamic and customizable open source web presence that provides a common operational picture to consolidate activities, manage content, and provides a single point of discovery. The main GitHub page for NGA is at: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. In the News.

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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

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.