article thumbnail

Socket lands $4.6M to audit and catch malicious open source code

TechCrunch

Securing the software supply chain is admittedly somewhat of a dry topic, but knowing which components and code go into your everyday devices and appliances is a critical part of the software development process that billions of people rely on every day. That also means a reliance on trusting that the developers will always act in good faith.

article thumbnail

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Heartex raises $25M for its AI-focused, open source data labeling platform

TechCrunch

Heartex, a startup that bills itself as an “open source” platform for data labeling, today announced that it landed $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures. ” Software developers Malyuk, Maxim Tkachenko, and Nikolay Lyubimov co-founded Heartex in 2019. Heartex’s dashboard.

article thumbnail

5 ways to improve mental health for software developers

TechCrunch

Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. I have worked remotely in technology for over a decade, and I’ll share my tips for how fast-paced technical startups can take good care of their software development talent.

article thumbnail

Webiny nabs $3.5M seed to build serverless development framework on top of serverless CMS

TechCrunch

Webiny , an early-stage startup that launched in 2019 with an open-source, serverless CMS, had also developed a framework to help build the CMS, and found that customers were also interested in that to help build their own serverless apps. million seed round to continue developing both pieces.

article thumbnail

The Business of Open Source

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

It was a fascinating discussion, with important implications for open source companies and their business models. The behavior of major cloud companies, such as Amazon, has increasingly stirred up angst and fear in open source companies. Hadoop is the “open core,” the island on which the company was built.

article thumbnail

The future of data: A 5-pillar approach to modern data management

CIO

This approach is repeatable, minimizes dependence on manual controls, harnesses technology and AI for data management and integrates seamlessly into the digital product development process. Poor-quality data is as detrimental as a pipeline outage, and perhaps more, as it can lead to bad decisions and provide harmful information to customers.

Data 167