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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. READ MORE ON ELECTION HACKING IN 2018. Adida said.

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The State of the Octoverse: new open source projects in 2018

Github

This article is part of a series based on our 2018 State of the Octoverse report —trends and insights into GitHub activity, the open source community, and more from the GitHub Data Science Team. In 2018 alone, we saw more new users than in our first six years combined, and we celebrated hosting over 100 million repositories.

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VCs are betting big on Kubernetes: Here are 5 reasons why

TechCrunch

But what was once solely an internal project at Google has since been open-sourced and has become one of the most talked about technologies in software development and operations. It’s my belief that Kubernetes is becoming the new Linux: 96.4% of the top million web servers’ operating systems are Linux.

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Akuity raises $20M to simplify Kubernetes container management

TechCrunch

Co-founder and CEO Hong Wang says that the funding will enable Akuity to expand the size of its workforce while contributing to the open source community. Kubernetes is open source software for deploying and managing these containers. Wang, Jesse Suen, and Alexander Matyushentsev believed there must be an easier way.

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Endor emerges from stealth with $25M to secure software supply chains

TechCrunch

An increasing percentage of the code that companies use to develop software is open source. In a 2018 survey by Tidelift, a software supply chain management platform, 92% of professional software developers said that their apps contained open source libraries.

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Another Open-Source IPO Shows the Market Power of “Free” Software

Battery Ventures

Last week brought more evidence that open-source software has gone mainstream—and that the IPO market for business-focused tech companies is back. As recently as a few years ago, many market and tech observers thought an open-source business model just wouldn’t work. 2 project Git, was acquired by Microsoft for $7.5

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Introducing SVT-AV1: a scalable open-source AV1 framework

Netflix Tech

Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies. In 2018, AOM has published a specification for the AV1 video codec. There exists at least one other alternative open-source AV1 encoder, rav1e.