TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The 10/10-rated Log4Shell flaw in Log4j, an open source logging software that’s found practically everywhere, from online games to enterprise software and cloud data centers, claimed numerous victims from Adobe and Cloudflare to Twitter and Minecraft due to its ubiquitous presence. Image Credits: AppMap.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The model aims to answer natural language questions about system status and performance based on telemetry data. Google is open-sourcing SynthID, a system for watermarking text so AI-generated documents can be traced to the LLM that generated them. Unlike many of Mistral’s previous small models, these are not open source.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The EU — those guys who ensured we ended up with cookie banners on every damn website you’ve ever visited — are back at it with a new initiative that could have some major-league unintended consequences on open source software, Kyle reports.

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Data architecture goals The goal of data architecture is to translate business needs into data and system requirements, and to manage data and its flow through the enterprise. AI and ML are used to automate systems for tasks such as data collection and labeling. The Open Group Architecture Framework. Data streaming.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Magic, a startup developing a code-generating platform similar to GitHub’s Copilot , today announced that it raised $23 million in a Series A funding round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG with participation from Elad Gil, Nat Friedman and Amplify Partners. So what’s its story? But absent a demo, we have only his word to go on.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Vercel , the company behind the popular open-source Next.js Given the open-source nature of the Next.js Rauch also noted that developers really like Vercel’s ability to generate a preview URL for a site’s front end every time a developer edits the code.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Check out a new framework for better securing open source projects. 1 - New cybersecurity framework for open source projects Heres the latest industry effort aimed at boosting open-source software security. While active, the version control system must not contain generated executable artifacts.

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Dzone - DevOps

JANUARY 21, 2025

GitHub is a widely used platform for version control and collaboration, enabling developers to store, manage, and share code repositories. It supports Git, a distributed version control system that allows multiple contributors to work on projects simultaneously. Introduction Howdy!

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Martin Fowler

JANUARY 28, 2021

Pull Requests are a mechanism popularized by github, used to help facilitate merging of work, particularly in the context of open-source projects. Tooling supports and encourages code review of the contribution before accepting the request. So that's how pull requests work, but should we use them, and if so how?

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Tenable

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Want to boost your software updates’ safety? And get the latest on the top “no-nos” for software security; the EU’s new cyber law; and CISOs’ communications with boards. The guide outlines key steps for a secure software development process, including planning; development and testing; internal rollout; and controlled rollout.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

But in many cases, the prospect of migrating to modern cloud native, open source languages 1 seems even worse. EXL Code Harbor is a GenAI-powered, multi-agent tool that enables the fast, accurate migration of legacy codebases while addressing these crucial concerns. Optimizes code.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Here is what you'll learn: Provide a prompt to a cloud-based microservice appliance, and you get a system with a running database, a web app, and an API. Download the created project, and customize it in your IDE to build out the system using Python and Rules — 40x more concise than code. All of this is open source.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The time when Hardvard Business Review posted the Data Scientist to be the “Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” is more than a decade ago [1]. Universities have been pumping out Data Science grades in rapid pace and the Open Source community made ML technology easy to use and widely available.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Tetrate , the company commercializing an open-source networking project that allows for easier data sharing across different applications, has raised $40 million. Platform One works with the most critical systems across the DoD. Founded in 2018, Tetrate formally launched in 2019 with a $12.5 Tetrate nets $12.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This is where fully open APIs based on open source software are a great help and the technology of the future. These closed systems are limited by their dependency on a particular platform, driving costs and other limitations on developers. How can enterprises get around this issue?

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Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Additionally, the cost of cyber disruption will increase next year as businesses experience downtime due to cyberattacks and scramble to implement defenses fit for the AI-enabled attacker era. This interdependence makes it difficult to track and mitigate risks, allowing a single flaw to potentially affect an entire software ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Happy weekend, folks, and welcome back to the TechCrunch Week in Review. Bypassing FB 2FA: Meta created a new centralized system so users could manage their logins for Facebook and Instagram, but a bug could have allowed malicious hackers to switch off 2FA just by knowing a user’s phone number.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Haje was mildly surprised and pretty excited after reading Paul ’s story about his favorite podcasting app Pocket Casts going open source. To wit: WordPress is among the top open source projects on the planet. Use code “DC” for a 15% discount on an annual subscription! Image Credits: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch.

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Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For every request that enters your system, you write logs, increment counters, and maybe trace spans; then you store telemetry in many places. Under the hood, these are stored in various metrics formats: unstructured logs (strings), structured logs, time-series databases, columnar databases , and other proprietary storage systems.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

QA Wolf , a cloud-based platform designed to detect bugs in software, today exited stealth and announced a $20 million funding round led by Inspired Capital with participation from Notation Capital, Operator Partners and Thiel Capital and several angel investors (among them Peter Thiel). Neither, obviously, are very desirable scenarios.

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The Parallax

APRIL 2, 2019

VANCOUVER—If coding and updating software is like building and maintaining a house, one might say software that leaks passcodes is like a home with a rotting foundation—but you don’t know it. “ [Memsad] is literally everywhere. If we can’t get it right, what hope is there for mere mortals?”—Ilja

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David Heinemeier Hansson

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. Before I get into the actual open source gifts we were able to share this year, though, I think it’s important to remark on the fact that 37signals is not an open-source software company.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 1, 2025

AI agents extend large language models (LLMs) by interacting with external systems, executing complex workflows, and maintaining contextual awareness across operations. This is a problem that you can solve by using Model Context Protocol (MCP) , which provides a standardized way for LLMs to connect to data sources and tools.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Outsourcing engineering has become more common in recent years, so we’re starting a new initiative to profile the software consultants who startups love to work with the most. ” The software development agency has worked on more than 350 digital products since its founding in 2009, for startups of all sizes.

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The Crazy Programmer

JULY 8, 2019

This language can fetch the developers a salary much closer to around six-figure due to the dependency of Apple on this language. Just because of its high rated reviews, Coursea and Dropbox have started showing interest in the Rust. The popularity of this language is going to grow in the coming future as well.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Shelley McKinley Contributor Share on Twitter Shelley McKinley is chief legal officer at GitHub, home to more than 100 million software developers. Supreme Court reviewed Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Their open source activity alone contributes more than $100 billion to the U.S. economy annually.

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CIO

MARCH 31, 2025

Sovereign AI refers to a national or regional effort to develop and control artificial intelligence (AI) systems, independent of the large non-EU foreign private tech platforms that currently dominate the field. Ensuring that AI systems are transparent, accountable, and aligned with national laws is a key priority.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Open-source business intelligence company Metabase announced Thursday a $30 million Series B round led by Insight Partners. Increasingly, open source is the way software and information wants to be consumed, especially for the person that just wants to pull the data themselves, he added.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 1, 2025

Open models running locally can compute with proprietary models in the cloud. Unlike other AI benchmarks, ARC-AGI-2 focuses on tasks that are easy for humans but difficult for AI systems. The price for an entry-level system will probably be around $3,000. Its open source. Its open for contributions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

” Friday said that he and CTO Filip Rakowski created the Vue Storefront technology as an open-source project while working at e-commerce agency Divante, before eventually spinning it out into a separate startup last year. We can quickly migrate the front end and write back-end agnostic code.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Our clients are often very focused on the hardware side, which requires us to be more diligent when working on the software/firmware side of the project to ensure everything will work together smoothly. Help TechCrunch find the best software consultants for startups. Who owns the source code once the project is complete?

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Tasked with securing your org’s new AI systems? Plus, open source security experts huddled at a conference this week – find out what they talked about. Check out a new Google paper with tips and best practices. Also, Uncle Sam says it’s time to prep for deepfake attacks. And much more!

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Amazon Q Business is a generative AI-powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. Principal needed a solution that could be rapidly deployed without extensive custom coding.

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OverOps

MAY 14, 2019

As more and more companies pivot to providing software as a service, end users have come to expect that ‘service’ to always be available, fast, responsive, error-free, and to be continuously updated with new features. Manually managing the entire system quickly becomes intractable, requiring sophisticated automation just to maintain it.

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OverOps

JUNE 11, 2019

Smaller code bases are easier to understand, and with clearly separated services the overall architecture is much “cleaner”. Higher frequency releases and increased collaboration between dev and ops is exciting, but it’s important to stay diligent. Their focus is not only on the individual microservices, but on the system as a whole.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Founded out of Tel Aviv, Daily.dev wants to help like-minded software developers connect, share knowledge and discuss all that’s happening across their ecosystems. “So far, we haven’t built a downvote feature, mostly due to that logic.” “So far, we haven’t built a downvote feature, mostly due to that logic.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Every branch of science is increasingly reliant on big data sets and analysis, which means a growing confusion of formats and platforms — more than inconvenient, this can hinder the process of peer review and replication of research. That, at least, is the pitch Code Ocean offers for its platform and “Compute Capsules.”

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