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As the WordPress saga continues, CIOs need to figure out what it might mean for all open source

CIO Business Intelligence

While lawyers argue in the WP Engine versus Automattic litigation whether the hyperbole should be believed, the continuing battle of words, almost all nasty ones, is starting to raise doubts how much an enterprise should rely on open source. And even if open source can be avoided at all in late 2024.

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source.

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Facebook open-sources RAG, an AI model that retrieves documents to answer questions

Venture Beast

Facebook has open-sourced RAG, an AI model that retrieves documents from databases to answer challenging natural language questions. Read More.

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Open Source APM Gains Momentum

Forrester IT

So it's no surprise that operations teams buy finished, complete, documented, supported tools from vendors they can hold accountable. The open source collaborative model has been very effective at creating the tools that support high frequency agile releases. Read more in my newest brief "DevOps Will Drive Open Source APM."

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Yugabyte raises $48M for open source SQL database alternative

Venture Beast

Yugabyte raises $48 million to advance adoption of its open source SQL database based on an extensible document archiecture. Read More.

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Charm embraces open source to make command line interfaces ‘glamorous’

Venture Beast

Charm has built an open source terminal-based markdown reader that enables developers to view documentation on the command line. Read More.

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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. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.