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Pandio Announces Launch of Its Best-in-Class Presto as a Service Platform

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Friday, July 30, 2021
Articles, Education, Open content, Learning, Free culture movement, Hadoop, Presto, SQL, Machine learning, Extract, transform, load, Open source, Educational technology

Pandio's Presto as a Service offering helps large-scale enterprises significantly improve data access challenges and solve data problems to help drive growth and new product development.

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  • Pandio's Presto as a Service offering helps large-scale enterprises significantly improve data access challenges and solve data problems to help drive growth and new product development.
  • Any engineer, data scientist, or enthusiast can start experimenting with the platform in less than five minutes by setting up a Pandio free trial .
  • Pandio also offers Pulsar as a service (for data movement), and an open-source adaptive machine learning project called PandioML (for ML pipeline creation and deployment).
  • Pandio provides a managed Presto as a service solution that comes with all the benefits of open source without the administrative complexity.

IAB Tech Lab Launches Open Source Initiative to Increase Cross-Industry Transparency and Collaboration

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Thursday, July 29, 2021
Articles, Open content, Collaboration, Academic publishing, Collaborative software, Intellectual property law, Open science, Open source, Open-source movement, Open standard, Tapad, Interactive Advertising Bureau

NEW YORK, July 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IAB Tech Lab announced today the launch of its Open Source Initiative with the aim to increase transparency and collaboration across the advertising community.

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  • NEW YORK, July 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IAB Tech Lab announced today the launch of its Open Source Initiative with the aim to increase transparency and collaboration across the advertising community.
  • The initiative will be governed by the IAB Tech Lab Architecture Group composed of Extreme Reach, GroupM, GumGum, Oracle, Tapad, and The Trade Desk.
  • "The Open Source Initiative aims to support the growth of open standards, drive adoption, and share skills and applications to ensure that technology works for everyone."
  • "The Open Source Initiative provides an opportunity to enhance collaboration and increase more adoption of standards and software solutions to help support the advertising industry needs."

Open Source Ecosystem Gains New Support for Securing the World's Most Critical and Pervasive Software

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Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Computing, Open content, Articles, Free software, Business models, Software licenses, Open-source software, Open source, Computer security, Data center

Open source software (OSS) has become pervasive in data centers, consumer devices and services, representing its value among technologists and businesses alike.

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  • Open source software (OSS) has become pervasive in data centers, consumer devices and services, representing its value among technologists and businesses alike.
  • The Scorecard is gaining adoption for automating analysis and trust decisions on the security posture of open source projects.
  • "Like many of our customers, ShiftLeft has benefited greatly from leveraging open source software to build our differentiated products and features.
  • The OpenSSF is committed to collaboration and working both upstream and with existing communities to advance open source security for all.

"Open Source, Contribution, and Inspiration" -- The 2nd Anniversary of TDengine Open Source Community

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Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Open content, Collaboration, Articles, Computer law, Intellectual property law, Free culture movement, Collaborative software, Open science, Open source, Open-source-software movement

BEIJING, July 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 12, TAOS Data celebrated the second birthday of TDengine Open Source Community.

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  • BEIJING, July 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 12, TAOS Data celebrated the second birthday of TDengine Open Source Community.
  • Driven by the power of the open source community, TDengine currently serves hundreds of thousands of users across over 50 cities around the world.
  • He mentioned that it was not only the development team but also the users and contributors in the TDengine open source community that spurred TDengine to go further and stronger.
  • Stimulated by Jeff's inspiring entrepreneurship, TDengine grew to be such an innovative and energetic open source community.

Glaring Gap in Open Source Security: Veracode Finds 80 percent of Libraries Used in Software Are Never Updated

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Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Software, Technology, Data management, Security, Open content, Articles, Software licenses, Computing, Free software, Business models, Computer law, Intellectual property law, Veracode, Open-source software, Software, Open source

Open source libraries constantly evolve so what appears secure today may no longer be so tomorrow, potentially creating a significant security risk for software vendors and users.

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  • Open source libraries constantly evolve so what appears secure today may no longer be so tomorrow, potentially creating a significant security risk for software vendors and users.
  • Chris Eng, Chief Research Officer at Veracode, explains, The vast majority of todays applications use open source code.
  • Despite the dynamic nature of the software landscape, developers are often not updating open source libraries after including them in software applications.
  • The growing popularity of open source software, combined with increasingly demanding development cycles, results in a higher propensity to software vulnerabilities.

CloudLinux Joins FINOS to Bring Open Source Software and Technology Standards to the Financial Services Industry

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Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Software, Networks, Internet, Finance, Data management, Professional services, Technology, Security, Articles, Open content, Collaboration, Business models, Standards, Computer law, Intellectual property law, Free culture movement, Open-source-software movement, Open standard, Open source, FINOS, CloudLinux, FINOS, CLOUDLINUX

CloudLinux today announced that it joins FINOS (the Fintech Open Source Foundation) as a silver member to contribute projects within its financial open source community, from its TuxCare security services.

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  • CloudLinux today announced that it joins FINOS (the Fintech Open Source Foundation) as a silver member to contribute projects within its financial open source community, from its TuxCare security services.
  • FINOS is a nonprofit whose mission is to foster adoption of open source, open standards, and collaborative software development practices in financial services.
  • FINOS (The Fintech Open Source Foundation) is a nonprofit whose mission is to foster the adoption of open source, open standards and collaborative software development practices in financial services.
  • It is the center for open source developers and the financial services industry to build new technology projects that have a lasting impact on business operations.

Reblaze Organizes First Virtual CNCF Community Meeting to Discuss Open Source Project Curiefense

Open content, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Cloud infrastructure, Collaboration, Articles, CNCF, Cloud computing, Open source, Dan Kohn

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reblaze , a leading cloud native, fully managed application security solution provider, today announced that it will be hosting its first virtual Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Community Meeting to discuss upcoming features for its open source project Curiefense (a CNCF Sandbox Project) 1.4.0, highlight community contributions, and more.

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  • SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reblaze , a leading cloud native, fully managed application security solution provider, today announced that it will be hosting its first virtual Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Community Meeting to discuss upcoming features for its open source project Curiefense (a CNCF Sandbox Project) 1.4.0, highlight community contributions, and more.
  • Curiefense is Reblazes cloud native, open source platform, which protects and mitigates threats, while upholding user privacy.
  • The virtual event, happening on Wednesday, June 9 at 10 a.m. PT, will be hosted by:
    The event is organized by Justin Dorfman, Open Source Program Manager at Reblaze, and Tzury Bar Yochay, Co-founder and CTO of Reblaze.
  • More information, including details for attending the event, can be found at the following link: https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-curiefense-presents-virtua...

ShiftLeft Brings Developer-First Security to the Open Source Security Foundation

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Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Software, Technology, Other Technology, Security, Articles, Open content, Computing, Free software, Free culture movement, Business models, Software licenses, Intellectual property law, Linux Foundation, Open-source software, Open source, Open-source hardware, ShiftLeft, the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), the Linux Foundation, SHIFTLEFT, THE OPEN SOURCE SECURITY FOUNDATION (OPENSSF), THE LINUX FOUNDATION

ShiftLeft, Inc. , a leader in application security, today announced it has been accepted into the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) , a cross-industry collaboration that brings together technology leaders to improve the security of OSS.

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  • ShiftLeft, Inc. , a leader in application security, today announced it has been accepted into the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) , a cross-industry collaboration that brings together technology leaders to improve the security of OSS.
  • ShiftLeft joins the OpenSSF to further its commitment to advance supply chain security for open source software and the entire technology and business ecosystem.
  • Developers rely on open source and open source libraries as valuable tools in building modern, scalable applications.
  • Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the worlds leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware.

Open Source Maintainers Take Center Stage, Joined by Leaders from GitHub, Red Hat, Google, and JFrog at Tidelift Upstream Event

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Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Open content, Articles, Collaboration, Business models, Academic publishing, Data publishing, Open access, Computer law, Open source

Upstream aims to change that," said Joshua Simmons, ecosystem strategy lead, Tidelift.

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  • Upstream aims to change that," said Joshua Simmons, ecosystem strategy lead, Tidelift.
  • "We\'re honored to have the opportunity to bring together some of the greatest minds in open source and celebrate all of the things that make open source and the people who work on it amazing.
  • Through the Tidelift Subscription, the company delivers a comprehensive management solution, including the tools to create customizable catalogs of known-good, proactively maintained components backed by Tidelift and its open source maintainer partners.
  • Tidelift enables organizations to accelerate development and reduce risk when building applications with open source, so they can create even more incredible software, even faster.

Spectral joins the Open Source Security Foundation to help improve the security of open source software

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Monday, April 26, 2021
Open content, Articles, Collaboration, Free software, Business models, Computer network security, Open-source software, Open source, Security, Computer security, Open Source Security Foundation

b'TEL AVIV, Israel, April 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Spectral , the developer-first cybersecurity company, announced they have become contributors to the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF).

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  • b'TEL AVIV, Israel, April 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Spectral , the developer-first cybersecurity company, announced they have become contributors to the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF).
  • Spectral is now a member of OpenSSF\'s growing international community aiming to improve security of open source software.\nOpenSSF is a cross-industry collaboration focused on metrics, tooling, vulnerability disclosures, security tooling, best practices and more, to secure the open source ecosystem and improve the security of open source software (OSS).
  • We feel that the OpenSSF initiative is the perfect venue to discuss and improve open source security and is a natural platform that empowers developers.
  • Spectral employs the first hybrid scanning engine, combining AI and hundreds of detectors, ensuring developers can code with confidence while protecting companies from high-cost mistakes.\n'