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Zilliz raises $43 million as investors rush to China’s open source software

TechCrunch

For years, founders and investors in China had little interest in open source software because it did not seem like the most viable business model. The three-year-old Chinese startup, which builds open source software for processing unstructured data, recently closed a Series B round of $43 million.

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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

TechCrunch

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. “The result is reduced development costs and more freedom to innovate,” Linietsky said.

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Open source software: Ways for CISOs to quell the fear

CIO

For many stakeholders, there is plenty to love about open source software. Developers tend to enjoy the ability to speed application development by borrowing open source code. CFOs like the fact that open source is often free or low in cost.

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO

Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source.

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Survey Uncovers Depth of Open Source Software Insecurity

DevOps.com

A survey from Snyk and the Linux Foundation published today found that less than half of respondents (49%) work for organizations that have security policies in place for the use or development of open source software.

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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. The truth is, very few software developers truly understand how Kubernetes works under the hood. For good reason.

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Octoverse: The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023

Github

First released in 2005, Git was still a new open source version control system when we founded GitHub. Today, Git is a foundational element of the modern developer experience—93% of developers use it to build and deploy software everywhere 1. 2 Developers are operating cloud-native applications at scale.