Linux Foundation debuts division to investigate impact open source
The Linux Foundation has announced the Linux Foundation Research Division. The division will investigate the extent to which open source contributes to solving important problems in the world.
Areas that the division will specifically focus on are open source projects, ecosystem dynamics and the...
Google wants to add Rust programming language to Linux kernel
Google has made its first moves to add support for Rust to the Linux kernel. The company sees the programming language as an opportunity to write better and more secure code for the kernel.
Kernels have been written primarily in C for almost half a century. This programming language provides the...
2020 saw a surge in cybersecurity startup funding
Investments in cybersecurity startups hit a record high of $7.8 billion last year, according to new data from Crunchbase. The increase was led by US investments in the sector, which rose by 22% in 2020 over 2019. This growth is 15% higher than the overall venture capital investments made over the s...
Rackspace’s managed service takes an “Elastic Engineering” approach
Rackspace announced a new service model for delivering managed cloud services on Wednesday, to help its clients build and operate their cloud infrastructure with an extensive and scalable approach, aligned with DevOps’ best practices.
This new offering is a type of “elastic engineering,” w...
AWS Aqua generally available: speeds up Redshift queries
Amazon Web Services announced on Wednesday that Aqua, a technology that uses custom chips designed by the cloud service, is now generally available. The tech is used by organizations to run analytic queries faster on Amazon Redshift.
AWS says that Aqua will help customers perform data operations...
Azure lets developers search for prices in different currencies
Microsoft has released a change to its Retail Prices API. Users can now more easily search for all prices for Azure services, including those in foreign currencies.
According to Microsoft, many Azure customers were looking for ways to collect retail prices for all Azure services in different cur...
Stream Analytics to make second season SailGP even more interesting
In the first season of SailGP, participating teams broke the barrier of 50 knots (over 92 km/h) with their foil catamarans. The second season starts on April 24. This year it should all get even better, thanks to the use of Oracle technology, if we are to believe Oracle at least.
You can think o...
Irish privacy watchdog starts investigation into Facebook incident
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) in Ireland will investigate the Facebook incident from earlier this month. In the the incident, data from more than half a billion users was posted online.
According to the privacy watchdog, one or more provisions of the GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 ...
New OpenStack version improves security and integrations
The OpenStack Foundation has announced the 23rd release of OpenStack. This release, named Wallaby, introduces new security features, integrations and UEFI capabilities.
New security features include fallback permissions and improvements to role-based access control (RBAC) in Ironic, Glance and M...
Europe plans strict rules for artificial intelligence
Companies that violate the new regulations could face fines up to €20 million or 4% of their turnover.
The European Commission, the executive branch of the EU, has leaked to POLITICO a draft of its new AI rules. The Commission plans to make the rules public on April 21.
Under the draft pr...
Twitter will examine its algorithms for potentially causing harm
The social network's platform may be unintentionally foregrounding white people over those of colour.
This week Twitter announced that it will begin an extensive study its machine learning algorithms. The purpose of the study is to determine whether they cause unintentional harm. Specifically, t...
FBI hacks into Exchange servers to protect them
The FBI has shared information about an operation in which it hacks into leaky Exchange servers. The intelligence service removes any web shells that attackers have placed to create a backdoor.
In the announcement of the operation, the FBI said that many owners of infected systems had already su...