Here you will find all the articles with the tag: open-source.
The backdoor in the Linux compression tool xz may not have been an isolated incident, say the Open Source Security Foundation and the OpenJS Foundation in a joint statement. They or their members recently intercepted multiple attempts to infiltrate open-source software projects. The organization... Read more
2 days ago
Hugging Face recently introduced its open-source Hugging Chat Assistants that allow users to build and customize their own AI chatbots. This is intended to be an alternative to OpenAI's GPT Store. According to the AI provider, Hugging Chat Assistants allows users to create an AI chatbot in just ... Read more
2 months ago
Cisco has acquired Isovalent. The company is thus expanding its offerings in the direction of open-source networking and security. It hopes to protect public cloud environments even better than it has before. With this acquisition, of which no financial details were disclosed, Cisco ultimately w... Read more
4 months ago
Meta and IBM's newly formed AI Alliance immediately starts with big names already on board: Intel, Dell and Red Hat. However, the initiative has less appeal in the pool of influential AI developers. What can the AI Alliance accomplish without support from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic? Arguing t... Read more
4 months ago
New obligations must protect laptops, mobile applications and smart devices from online threats. A revision of the act holds the manufacturers accountable for the cybersecurity of their products. On the financial side, manufacturers also seem to be losing out. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is ... Read more
5 months ago
Meta sees no commercial problems in sharing its AI technology. This was stated by Meta's AI scientist, Yann LeCun, at a meeting recently. Meta has been busy in recent months releasing open-source versions of its LLMs, including Llama 2. According to Meta AI scientist Yann LeCun, the tech giant d... Read more
5 months ago
Rocky Linux version 9.3 is generally available. The RHEL alternative thus quickly succeeds version 9.3 of the official RHEL. Rocky Linux will be available immediately for x86-64, aarch64, ppc64le and s390x architectures. That announced the organization, CIQ, of the free alternative to Red Hat E... Read more
5 months ago
Every year, Sonatype takes a good look at the software supply chain. In this year's State of the Software Supply Chain report, researchers report that many more malicious packages have been discovered than before. At the same time, a version with a fix is almost always available. Sonatype also foun... Read more
6 months ago
Tidelift has added new capabilities to its Tidelift Subscription. The newly expanded package allows organizations to assess the security of open-source software. Thanks to thousands of collaborations with open-source projects, the company contributes to the reliability of IT environments. Tideli... Read more
6 months ago
The open-source operating system GNU, which once formed the basis for Linux, is 40 years old. The "copy left" license for the OS, the GNU General Public License (GPL), has become one of the most popular open-source licenses. In 1983, Richard Stallman developed the GNU operating system. In recent... Read more
7 months ago
