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...
Amazon announces its own Elasticsearch fork
Amazon has announced that it will be working on its own open-source fork of Elasticsearch, called OpenSearch. The company is doing this after Elasticsearch itself abandoned its Apache licensing model.
Amazon informed us that they started a new search engine project called OpenSearch. Besides Ope...
Google’s Lyra delivers high quality calls with low bandwidth
The new open sources codec from Google leverages AI to deliver superior quality voice communications with low bandwidth.
Google LLC said today it has open-sourced a codec called Lyra that relies on machine learning to enable high-quality voice calls in low bandwidth situations.
Lyra, which is...
Multiple board members of Free Softare Foundation resign
Three board members of the Free Software Foundation have announced their resignation. This is in response to the uproar surrounding Richard Stallman's return to the board.
The three departing board members are executive director John Sullivan, deputy director John Hsieh and CTO Ruben Rodriguez. ...
Red Hat introduces Free RHEL
When CentOS Linux parent company Red Hat announced that it was shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, CentOS users were not happy. To appease them and to keep the promise it made to Open-Source organizations, Red Hat is introducing a new,...
Okta launches new open-source design system
The architecture of the new system stresses Okta's core values of accessibility and inclusion, according to the company.
This week Okta launched its new design system, both for its own corporate and brand use, but also as an open-source project under the Apache 2.0 license. The new platform, Ody...
AWS announces a new UI project based on open source
The AWS UI heralds a more general move towards open source and away from Windows.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced the first release of what they are calling AWS UI, what they call a first step in creating a new open source design system.
Industry observers have noted that AWS has rec...
GitHub to ban passwords starting in 2021
The platform will move to token based authentication next August
Microsoft's GitHub has announced that it plans to stop accepting account passwords as a way to authenticate Git operations. Starting August 13, 2021, the platform will accept only token based authentication. They will run a two wee...
GitHub announces new features plus sponsors for companies
New offerings include a long-awaited "Dark Mode".
GitHub this week announced a number of new features and products at its virtual developer conference GitHub Universe 2020. GitHub is a leading provider of hosting for software development code version control and claims that over 50 million devel...
GitHub: open source security vulnerabilities take years to detect
Research also shows that once detected, bugs are fixed quickly.
GitHub this week released its 2020 State of the Octoverse report. In it, they highlighted the increased important of open source tools and their growing role in software development.
The organisation spent 2020 following over 56 ...
SUSE acquires Rancher Labs to compete with Red Hat OpenShift
The SUSE Group is one of the largest open-source enterprises, and it completed the acquisition of Rancher Labs, a Kubernetes management startup. The deal will allow SUSE to compete with its rival, IBM's Red Hat, in the ever-growing Kubernetes market.
SUSE also has a plan to double its revenue in...
AWS releases CloudFormation Guard compliance tool
AWS had launched its new CloudFormation Guard compliance tool. The new service helps enterprises keep their AWS infrastructure and application resources in compliance.
Amazon Web Services has released CloudFormation Guard, an open-source command line interface (CLI) designed to help AWS admins m...