IBM, Google, and Lyft have worked together to produce Istio, an open source microservices platform built for developers. The release of this project is part of an effort from these three companies to develop better software to connect, secure, manage, and monitor microservices platforms between platforms, sources, and vendors. From the announcement: We continue to […]
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Microsoft has released Draft, an open source program that makes it simple to run applications in Docker or Kubernetes with little to no knowledge of either. The team that built this tool for Microsoft is a part of the Azure Container Group and joined Microsoft as part of their acquisition of Deis. The goal of […]
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A partnership between Intel and the Broad Institue of MIT and Harvard will soon result in the release of the Genome Analysis ToolKit (GATK) under and open source license. Version 4 of the software will include a large number of improvements in addition to being open source. More than 45,000 researchers use GATK worldwide. Read […]
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Aleph Objects, the maker of Lulzbot 3D printers, and IC3D Industries have partnered to produce what they claim is the first ever open source 3D printing filament. There is a lot of open source 3D printing technology available after the expiration of patents related to Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), but most of the open source […]
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Toyota has announced that the infotainment system in their new Camry sedans to be sold in the US will run Automotive Grade Linux (AGL). Toyota has been working on this platform along with 10 other automakers because it makes it much easier to customize infotainment systems that have well-developed features. The Camry models that run […]
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On April 25, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued an opinion in Artifex Software, Inc. v. Hancom, Inc. confirming that copyright owners who distribute their software under an open source software license may be able to enforce violations of the terms and conditions of the license both as a breach […]
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After 4 years of research, Sprint has released C3PO, an open source platform to improve NFV/SDN efficiency. From the announcement: C3PO is an open source NFV- and SDN-based mobile core reference solution designed to significantly improve performance of the network core by providing a streamlined, high-performance data plane for the packet core, tightly coupled to […]
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OSVehicle is the group behind the open source car hardware platform named the Tabby Evo. The company has now released EDIT: an open source platform for customizing the Tabby Evo for specific purposes. The company looks to solve a number of problems associated with the traditional car manufacturing industry: For most the time to market […]
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Teradata has released Kylo, a platform for managing data lakes, under the Apache 2.0 license. Kylo evolved from software the company developed over eight years, and it’s built upon Apache Hadoop, Spark, and NiFi. The goal with Kylo is to reduce the amount of time and expertise it takes to build data lakes by simplifying […]
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The Java “Apache Commons Collections Deserialization Vulnerability” CVE 2015-6420 was first identified in 2015, but it received very little attention in the months after it was announced. Since then, it has been the source of a handful of high profile attacks, including the 2016 ransomware attacks on Baltimore’s Union Memorial Hospital and the San Francisco Municipal network. […]
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The Death of Patent Law
The debate over intellectual property law has consistently shifted throughout the history of the United States with people on both sides of the argument providing extensive justification for why the concept of intellectual property should or shouldn’t exist. To add to the confusion, there are numerous people who stand somewhere in the middle and provide […]
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