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Open Source

Microsoft: Hackers in China, Iran and elsewhere start exploiting widespread Apache Log4j flaws

Microsoft says groups connected to governments in China, Iran, North Korea and Turkey have begun exploiting vulnerabilities in the Apache… Read More

HackerOne CEO Mårten Mickos: COVID-19 is ‘the planet’s warning’ to accelerate digital civilization

Mårten Mickos is the CEO of HackerOne, a San Francisco-based venture that is hired by other companies to deploy squadrons… Read More

Tech company Chef won’t renew U.S. immigration contracts, changing course amid employee activism

Software engineers are powerful players in the technology industry. Typically, they exercise that power to negotiate sky-high salaries that companies… Read More

Cockroach Labs founders

Another open-source database company will tighten its licensing strategy, wary of Amazon Web Services

Cockroach Labs, the New York-based database company behind the open-source CockroachDB database, will change the terms of the license agreement… Read More

Google Cloud makes a big open-source move: Managed databases from Redis Labs, MongoDB, and Elastic coming soon

Google plans to raise the stakes Tuesday in the ongoing debate over open-source software in a cloudy world with the… Read More

Chef unveils new commercial product strategy, will now sell distributions of its open-source projects

Chef hopes to bring a little clarity to the future of its open-source and commercial software work Tuesday by taking… Read More

Why it might be time for Big Cloud to share the wealth with open-source startups

There’s no longer any point in ignoring the truth: during the age of open-source software, which was supposed to democratize… Read More

Working Geek: How this theater major became an engineering lead at Chef

Nell Shamrell-Harrington isn’t your typical software engineer. She studied theater at the University of Puget Sound and uses those skills… Read More

Spinnaker, an open-source project for continuous delivery, hits the 1.0 milestone

Spinnaker, an open-source project that lets companies improve the speed and stability of their application deployment processes, reached the 1.0… Read More

Microsoft acquires open-source software builder Deis to bolster container platforms

Microsoft said Monday that it has acquired Deis, a San Francisco company that builds open-source software to make the Kubernetes container platform… Read More

Open-source Lineage project rises from Cyanogen’s ashes as Android maker abruptly shuts down services

Android operating system company Cyanogen is shutting down services after a tumultuous year that saw layoffs as well as the departure of its… Read More

Microsoft joins Linux Foundation in another step toward greater openness

Microsoft is taking increasingly bolder steps toward the openness it has embraced under CEO Satya Nadella, announcing today that it’s joining the… Read More

Microsoft to share early-stage server hardware designs in ‘unprecedented’ open-source initiative

The phrase “open source” nearly always modifies “software,” but it doesn’t have to be that way. Cloud-related hardware, too, can… Read More

Microsoft supports popular FreeBSD open-source OS with new Azure virtual-machine image

FreeBSD, a popular open-source Unix operating system with roots stretching back to the 1970s, is now available through the Azure Marketplace as a… Read More

Microsoft makes ‘extensive commitment’ to Apache Spark in latest open-source move

Microsoft today announced what it called “an extensive commitment” to Apache Spark, an engine for large-scale data processing, bringing several offerings out… Read More

Geek of the Week: Timothy Crosley is a champion of open source technology

When Timothy Crosley isn’t working on security solutions for DomainTools, he devotes his time to open source projects. He runs… Read More

Amazon Box

Amazon goes open source with machine-learning tech, competing with Google’s TensorFlow

Amazon is making a bigger leap into open-source technology with the unveiling of its machine-learning software DSSTNE. The newly released program is competing… Read More

Interview: Xamarin co-founder Miguel de Icaza goes from outcast to insider at Microsoft

SAN FRANCISCO — There was a time when Miguel de Icaza couldn’t get Microsoft to give him the time of… Read More

Windows 95 architect launches open-source, media-rich document creation platform for mobile devices

PowerPoint is fine for your business presentation, but getting your message across with a few pictures and text alone may… Read More

Google engineers praise Microsoft open-source collaboration: ‘We share the same soul’

“It really became apparent that we share the same soul, and we’ve been able to work really well together because… Read More

Google open-sources ‘TensorFlow’ machine learning system, offering its neural network to outside developers

You’ve likely used products shaped by Google’s machine learning system. The neural network has helped Google understand the subject in each Google… Read More

Walmart plans to release OneOps cloud technology as open source, targeting AWS and Azure

Walmart announced this week that it’s open-sourcing its cloud platform, called OneOps, to let developers build in the cloud without being locked… Read More

Software Engineering Daily: How Facebook’s React project is reshaping app development

Facebook engineering has recently produced a powerful suite of loosely coupled tools for software development: React, GraphQL, Relay, React Native, and… Read More

LinuxCon: Zipcar’s Robin Chase believes open-source collaboration can solve the world’s biggest problems

Zipcar co-founder Robin Chase is worried about climate change. If countries don’t strictly follow climate-friendly initiatives, we could see the… Read More

Microsoft to buy Revolution Analytics, pushing further into big data

Microsoft this morning announced a deal to buy Revolution Analytics, the top commercial provider of software and services for the… Read More

With .NET turnaround, Microsoft wants to create ‘one big family’ with open-source community

Back in 2005, Miguel de Icaza was lucky not to get kicked out of Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Los… Read More

Chef pledges to better police open source community after engineer resigns following death threats

An engineer at Seattle-based Chef has resigned following hateful speech directed at him related to his work on the open… Read More

Know your Linux! New Linux Foundation certification aims to boost Linux job market

Linux has been expanding its reach — powering Google, Facebook and other major platforms — and hiring managers say they’re in need… Read More

Microsoft open-sources ‘Roslyn’ .NET compiler platform

SAN FRANCISCO – Open source fans, rejoice: Microsoft has released its new “Roslyn” .NET compiler platform preview as an open… Read More

Four tech terms to forget in ’14

It’s 2014, and time to ring in the new and throw out the old. Old tech terms, that is: those… Read More

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