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Open source project Tea is brew2 for web3

TechCrunch

Open source code is integral to tech stacks at many large companies, but its authors rarely get recognized — let alone compensated — for their work. . Max Howell claims the package manager software he created, Homebrew, is the most contributed-to open source software program in the world.

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Oligo raises $28M to secure open-source libraries at runtime

TechCrunch

Oligo Security , a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on runtime application security and observability to detect and prevent open-source vulnerabilities, is coming out of stealth today and announcing that it has raised a total of $28 million in seed and Series A funding. This, ideally, cuts down on unnecessary alerts.

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NetApp acquires Instaclustr to deliver open source databases as a service

TechCrunch

Companies producing software are becoming ever more reliant on open source databases to build their programs, but it’s complex working with all these different products. Instaclustr , a California startup, wanted to change that by offering popular open source databases delivered as a service.

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8 Most in Demand Programming Languages of 2021

The Crazy Programmer

Programming languages are constantly and rapidly evolving in the current world of technology. In this article, we will explore the top programming languages, their scope, market demand, and the expected average income when using these languages. The TIOBE index measures the popularity of programming languages.

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Prisma raises $40M for its open source ‘Rosetta stone’ for database languages

TechCrunch

Its open-source-based Prisma ORM, launched last year, now has more than 150,000 developers using it for Node.js Schmidt said the plan is to increase investment in that open-source tool to bring on more users, with a view to building its first revenue-generating products.

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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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Hugging Face and ServiceNow launch BigCode, a project to open source code-generating AI systems

TechCrunch

Code-generating systems like DeepMind’s AlphaCode, Amazon’s CodeWhisperer and OpenAI’s Codex, which powers GitHub’s Copilot service, provide a tantalizing look at what’s possible with AI today within the realm of computer programming.