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Open source the secret sauce in secure, affordable voting tech

The Parallax

The company, which currently is hosted by another nonprofit Adida declined to name in a conversation after the event that eventually will become its own 501(c)3 , has one goal: to build a secure, affordable, open-source voting machine for use in general, public elections. The market would actually like to solve this, right?”

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Los Angeles IT secures the vote with open source and the cloud

CIO

Aman Bhullar, CIO of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, has heeded the call, having led a widespread overhaul of antiquated voting infrastructure just in time for the contentious 2020 presidential election — a transformation rich in open source software to ensure other counties can benefit from his team’s work.

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The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus

Erik Bernhardsson

Let’s look at a broader range of (somewhat randomly selected) open source projects: It looks like Git is somewhat of an outlier here. The aggregate model doesn’t necessarily have super strong predictive power – it’s hard to point to a arbitrary open source project and expect half of it to be gone 3.33 years later.

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Zededa lands a cash infusion to expand its edge device management software

TechCrunch

” Ouissal co-founded Zededa in 2016 alongside Erik Nordmark, Roman Shaposhnik and Vijay Tapaskar. It also guides users through the deployment steps, leveraging open source projects designed for Internet of Things orchestration and cyber defense. Image Credits: Zededa.

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Best Free and Open-Source Database Software

G2 Crowd Software

Free and open-source database tools are typically more appealing to the everyday small business and app creator, so we’ve outlined some of the best ones, according to user reviews on G2 Crowd. Oracle released the first fully functional one in 1979, but today there are hundreds of proprietary and open-source options available.

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The Good and the Bad of.NET Framework Programming

Altexsoft

In 2014, Microsoft announced a dramatic shift in the way.NET exists by presenting.NET Core, a new cross-platform, cloud-friendly, and open-source version of the framework.NET Core made it to a release in 2016, becoming the main technology to consider for new.NET projects. It’s a cross-platform re-build of.NET Framework.

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Hidden inside Dark Caracal’s espionage apps: Old tech

The Parallax

As developers of legitimate software around the world rely more and more on components shared through the open-source supply chain , developers of malicious apps are also increasingly recycling older malware components.

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