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Google stakes new Secure Open Source rewards program for developers with $1M seed money

Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The SOS program, run by the Linux Foundation, will reward developers with potentially more than $10,000 for enhancing the security of critical open source software.

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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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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

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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Open source software: Ways for CISOs to quell the fear

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2024

For many stakeholders, there is plenty to love about open source software. Developers tend to enjoy the ability to speed application development by borrowing open source code. CFOs like the fact that open source is often free or low in cost. The age-old question: How secure is open source software?

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AI coding agents come with legal risk

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

“Is that getting all borrowed from one source; are there multiple sources? While human-written code can also infringe on copyright or violate open-source licenses, the risk with AI-generated code is related to the data the AI is trained on, says Ilia Badeev, head of data science at Trevolution Group, a travel technology company.

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What Is Open Source Software? Meaning, Working, Importance, and Examples

IT Toolbox

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Open source software are programs whose source code is freely available for anyone to view, modify, and distribute. Read on to learn more about open source software, how it works, and a few examples of such software. The post What Is Open Source Software?

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NSA Releases A New Technology to Open Source Community

CTOvision

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Here is their press release : NSA Releases First in Series of Software Products to Open Source Community. The software is “open source,” which means its code is available to the public – in this case, through the Apache Software Foundation. New technology automates high-volume data flows. economic growth.”

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NGA Continues To Engage With Open Source Community Via GitHub

CTOvision

MAY 7, 2014

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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5 reasons why 2025 will be the year of OpenTelemetry

Network World

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Some open-source projects are spectacularly successful and become standard components of the IT infrastructure. OpenTelemetry, a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is building momentum and is on track to become another open-source success story. Take Linux or Kubernetes, for example.

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10 most in-demand enterprise IT skills

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Indeeds 2024 Insights report analyzed the technology platforms most frequently listed in job ads on its site to uncover which tools, software, and programming languages are the most in-demand for job openings today. Indeed also examined resumes posted on its platform to see how many active candidates list these skills.

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Inside Microsoft’s open source program office

Venture Beat

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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Linux Foundation’s L3AF brings zero-downtime updates to eBPF network management

Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

L3AF is an open-source project aimed at simplifying monitoring and control networks of large-scale cloud applications, Ranny Haiby, CTO of networking, edge and access at the Linux Foundation, told Network World.Some of the main use cases for L3AF are in traffic rate limiting, DDoS mitigation, traffic quality monitoring and network observability.

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IBM wins UK lawsuit against LzLabs for mainframe intellectual property theft

Network World

MARCH 10, 2025

The aim of the SDM is to migrate existing applications which have been written to run on a mainframe and enable such programs to be run on the x86 runtime environment without recompilation, the judgement reads.

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Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty

Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Ideally, organizations moving VMware VMs to the public cloud would do so as part of an overall cloud transformation program, where the applications are modernized and VMs rendered unnecessary, Delory adds. The open-source KubeVirt project wraps each VM in a lightweight container.

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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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Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 expands cloud-native networking

Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The open-source Kubernetes technology in recent years has become the de facto standard for cloud-native deployments, running on all major cloud hyperscalers and supported by a long list of vendors, including Red Hat. OpenShift is Red Hats commercially supported Kubernetes distribution.

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Why eBPF is critical and how it’s getting better

Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The open-source eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology has become one of the most critical foundational elements of networking with Linux over the last decade. The open-source eBFP technology enables users to run code safely in the Linux kernel. At the eBPF Summit on Sept. At the eBPF Summit on Sept.

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Uber releases Ludwig, an open source AI ‘toolbox’ built on top of TensorFlow

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Want to dive earnestly into artificial intelligence (AI) development, but find the programming piece of it intimidating? The ride-hailing giant today debuted Ludwig, an open source “toolbox” built on top of Google’s TensorFlow framework that allows users to train and test AI models without having to write […].

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Google Introduces Open Source Bug Bounty Program

SecureWorld News

AUGUST 30, 2022

Google has announced a new bug bounty program called the Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program (OSS VRP) , which will pay security researchers for finding flaws in Google's open source projects. The OSS VRP can certainly be a huge help to open source as a whole.

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Map an AI strategy that’s yours, not SAP’s

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

But many features — for example, the Joule AI copilot — are included only with the latest cloud solutions such as SAP S/4HANA Cloud and the RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP programs. You want to keep your options open to achieve innovation faster.” Don’t count on a single vendor to deliver the AI capabilities you need.

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How to incubate a winning innovation program

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2023

This is why innovation programs have become so critical to sustaining the success of enterprises. In 1994 , his open-source Netscape Navigator browser transformed the difficult-to-navigate world wide web with a user-friendly point-and-click interface. Innovation programs spur change – even to an organization’s own values.

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OpenTelemetry certification launches

Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A new certification program from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Linux Foundation is aimed at validating the skills needed to utilize OpenTelemetry to gain visibility across distributed systems. OpenTelemetry is the second most active open-source project of the CNCF, following Kubernetes.

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5 ways for CIOs to deal with AI proliferation

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

For responsible AI innovation to work well, youll need your corporate innovation program to function flawlessly. To future-proof your IT stack, youll also want to consider the role open source will play within the stack, as well as emerging technologies such as quantum computing.

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Mastering technology modernization: 6 steps for building your road map

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

However, it is possible to run the database and application on an open source operating system and commodity hardware. Niel Nickolaisen is an adjunct research advisor for IDC’s IT Executive Programs (IEP). The application leverages functionality in the database so it is difficult to decouple the application and database.

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Critical flaws found in open-source encryption software VeraCrypt

Network World

OCTOBER 18, 2016

A new security audit has found critical vulnerabilities in VeraCrypt, an open-source, full-disk encryption program that's the direct successor of the widely popular, but now defunct, TrueCrypt. Users are encouraged to upgrade to VeraCrypt 1.19, which was released Monday and includes patches for most of the flaws.

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NGA joins GitHub, offers code to help disaster response

CTOvision

APRIL 11, 2014

NGA hopes to reap benefits in innovation, creativity, and the power of a far-reaching community of programmers who approach the development of the program from different perspectives. If they can do open source, any agency can. Analysis Big Data Cloud Computing CTO Government Open Source GitHub NGA Programming Source code'

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10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2024

Average salary: $170,939 Torch Torch is a scientific computing framework, scripting language, and open-source machine learning library based on the Lua programming language — and it’s often used to build and train deep neural networks.

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LinkedIn open-sources Dagli, a machine learning library for Java

Venture Beat

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

LinkedIn's Dagli, which is available in open source, is a machine learning library for Java and other JVM languages. Read More.

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What Log4Shell teaches us about open source security

Venture Beat

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Who is minding the gates when it comes to securing 'older' foundational open-source programs like Log4j? Read More.

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HackerOne CEO: The tech industry has some 'catching up to do' on software security

Tech Republic Security

APRIL 6, 2017

Despite open source's promise of better security, bug bounty programs are catching fire as a way to plug security holes.

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GitLab’s open source Package Hunter detects malicious code in dependencies

Venture Beat

AUGUST 2, 2021

GitLab's Package Hunter is an open source tool that helps developers detect malicious code in open source software components. Read More.

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Microsoft angers the.NET open source community with a controversial decision

The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Microsoft has spent the past 10 years embracing open-source software and, at several points, even admitting it loves Linux and the open source community. The Linux Foundation even praised Microsoft for working with the open source community after the company joined the foundation nearly five years ago.

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Open source API management platform Gravitee raises $11M

Venture Beat

JULY 21, 2021

Open source API and identity access management platform Gravitee has raised $11 million in its first round of funding. Read More.

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Instaclustr aims to build open source data infrastructure ecosystem

Venture Beat

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Instaclustr, a managed open source data and tech provider, announced a new tool for customers to monitor, optimize, and scale data infrastructure. Read More.

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LinkedIn open-sources GDMix, a framework for training AI personalization models

Venture Beat

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

LinkedIn recently open-sourced GDMix, a framework for training the sort of AI personalization models used in search engines and ecommerce websites. Read More.

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GitHub's open-source CodeQL tool looks for security holes in real-time

TechSpot

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On Thursday, GitHub announced that after extensive testing, it launched a native code scanner that can detect security flaws in posted programs or code as it is being entered. The tool is powered by CodeQL—an open-source semantic code analyzer.

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Microsoft open-sources SynapseML for developing AI pipelines

Venture Beat

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Microsoft has released SynapseML, a new open source project designed to make it easier to create AI model pipelines. Read More.

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AtomicJar wants to bring open source integration testing to the enterprise

Venture Beat

JUNE 28, 2021

AtomicJar wants to commercialize a popular open source integration testing framework used by major companies including Oracle and Uber. Read More.

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Microsoft’s open source Dapr hits prime time to help developers embrace microservices

Venture Beat

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Microsoft has announced that its open source, platform-agnostic Dapr project is now production ready, with v1.0 available on GitHub. Read More.

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Navigating the future of national tech independence with sovereign AI

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 31, 2025

Instead, they leverage open source models fine-tuned with their custom data, which can often be run on a very small number of GPUs. This infrastructure is virtualized to intelligently pool and share AI capacity, which in turn reduces overall power requirements and the total cost of ownership (TCO). healthcare, agriculture).

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Facebook open-sources Winterfell, a computational integrity library

Venture Beat

AUGUST 4, 2021

Facebook has open-sourced a new library, Winterfell, that aims to bring computational integrity techniques to a wider audience. Read More.

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Intel open-sources AI-powered tool to spot bugs in code

Venture Beat

OCTOBER 20, 2021

ControlFlag, an AI-powered tool developed by Intel to spot potential issues in software code, has been released in open source. Read More.

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Open source API gateway KrakenD lands at the Linux Foundation

Venture Beat

MAY 11, 2021

The Linux Foundation has added open source API gateway KrakenD to its arsenal of projects, where it will now be known as the Lura Project. Read More.

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Google Offers Bug Bounties for Generative AI Security Vulnerabilities

Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Google's Vulnerability Reward Program offers up to $31,337 for discovering potential hazards. Google joins OpenAI and Microsoft in rewarding AI bug hunts.

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Google stakes new Secure Open Source rewards program for developers with $1M seed money

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

Webinars

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

Webinars

Open source software: Ways for CISOs to quell the fear

AI coding agents come with legal risk

What Is Open Source Software? Meaning, Working, Importance, and Examples

NSA Releases A New Technology to Open Source Community

NGA Continues To Engage With Open Source Community Via GitHub

5 reasons why 2025 will be the year of OpenTelemetry

10 most in-demand enterprise IT skills

Inside Microsoft’s open source program office

Linux Foundation’s L3AF brings zero-downtime updates to eBPF network management

IBM wins UK lawsuit against LzLabs for mainframe intellectual property theft

Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty

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

Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 expands cloud-native networking

Why eBPF is critical and how it’s getting better

Uber releases Ludwig, an open source AI ‘toolbox’ built on top of TensorFlow

Google Introduces Open Source Bug Bounty Program

Map an AI strategy that’s yours, not SAP’s

How to incubate a winning innovation program

OpenTelemetry certification launches

5 ways for CIOs to deal with AI proliferation

Mastering technology modernization: 6 steps for building your road map

Critical flaws found in open-source encryption software VeraCrypt

NGA joins GitHub, offers code to help disaster response

10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024

LinkedIn open-sources Dagli, a machine learning library for Java

What Log4Shell teaches us about open source security

HackerOne CEO: The tech industry has some 'catching up to do' on software security

GitLab’s open source Package Hunter detects malicious code in dependencies

Microsoft angers the.NET open source community with a controversial decision

Open source API management platform Gravitee raises $11M

Instaclustr aims to build open source data infrastructure ecosystem

LinkedIn open-sources GDMix, a framework for training AI personalization models

GitHub's open-source CodeQL tool looks for security holes in real-time

Microsoft open-sources SynapseML for developing AI pipelines

AtomicJar wants to bring open source integration testing to the enterprise

Microsoft’s open source Dapr hits prime time to help developers embrace microservices

Navigating the future of national tech independence with sovereign AI

Facebook open-sources Winterfell, a computational integrity library

Intel open-sources AI-powered tool to spot bugs in code

Open source API gateway KrakenD lands at the Linux Foundation

Google Offers Bug Bounties for Generative AI Security Vulnerabilities

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