Tag: open source

OpenAI Hires 1,000 Low Wage Coders to Retrain Copilot | Netflix Blocks Password Sharing
In this week’s #TheLongView: ChatGPT darling OpenAI wants people to write code in English, and the unintended consequences of blocking shared accounts ...

Massive Number of Transitive Dependencies Traced to Open Source Code
An analysis of nearly 2,000 software packages published by Endor Labs found 95% of all application vulnerabilities can be traced back to a transitive dependency created when a developer used an open ...

How Devs Can Improve Open Source Security in the Enterprise
Modern applications are dynamic. They’re distributed and they’re often born in the cloud. These applications can be developed on the fly, spun up and scaled quickly to meet evolving user and market ...

Why SaaS Vendors Need to Give Back to Open Source
There aren't many tech organizations that don’t leverage open source technology. Companies that refuse to import software will rely on a freely available library tool or codebase. Open source is one of ...

Securing Open Source Components in a World of Mixed Committer Motivations
Our world runs on software that contains open source components. This places an increased burden on developers, as the primary consumers and deployers of those components, to use code that is fully ...

Critical Vulnerability Discovered in Open Source Backstage Platform
Oxeye today disclosed that it has discovered a critical vulnerability in the open source Backstage software used to build developer portals. Backstage was originally created by Spotify. A 1.5.1 update to the ...

Building Higher-Quality Software With Open Source CD
Business is accelerating, and experience– for customers, partners and employees–is everything. This means nearly all applications need to be enhanced with new features, security updates and bug fixes on ever-shorter cycles. But ...

Cisco Adds Open Source Tool to Validate Serverless Functions
Cisco has launched an open source project, dubbed FunctionClarity, that makes it possible to verify signatures before code is deployed in a serverless computing environment. Vijoy Pandey, vice president of emerging technologies ...

Sonatype Report Surfaces Scope of Known Vulnerability Challenge
Sonatype this week published a State of the Software Supply Chain Report that found a 633% year-over-year increase in malicious attacks aimed at open source software residing in public repositories. In addition, ...

Linux 6.0 is Faster, Cooler | Debian Goes Proprietary | Google Africa Region
In this week’s The Long View: Linux 6.0 promoted to Stable, Debian 12 will include closed-source binaries, and Google Cloud opens its first Africa region ...

Optimizing Prometheus Implementations With Managed Services
Prometheus is a leading metrics-based open source monitoring solution and time series database used across the IT community to collect metrics from systems, applications and services. According to the 2021 Cloud Native ...

Linus Torvalds Signals Support for Memory-Safe Rust Language
Linus Torvalds told attendees of the Open Source Summit Europe conference today that he is hopeful the foundational work needed to add support for the Rust programming language will be laid in ...