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Rspamd: Open-source spam filtering system By | Help Net Security |

[...] "Rspamd is available for free on GitHub. It’s packaged for the major Linux distributions and is also available via FreeBSD ports, NetBSD pkgsrc, and OpenBSD ports." [...]

An Introduction to PyScript - Open Source For You By | Thangaselvi Arichandrapandian |

"An open source framework introduced by Anaconda, PyScript is built to run Python from a browser. Though it still has performance issues and a few bugs, it is important to get familiar with it as it promises to be popular in the future."

"We are aware that JavaScript client-side coding can be used for server-side coding. Let’s now discuss the reverse — using a server-side language from the browser with the help of Python. But why would one want to execute server-side programs in the browser? The answer is: for enhanced performance, features and convenience. In certain use cases running a code in C is much faster than using JavaScript — for example, for generating quick reports, dealing with heavy prime numbers, image processing or computer vision on-the-fly using the web page, and so on." [...]

Canonical and OpenAirInterface to collaborate on Open RAN By | Telecom TV |

[...] "Canonical is excited to announce that we are collaborating with OpenAirInterface (OAI)  to drive the development and promotion of open source software for open radio access networks (Open RAN)." [...]

[...] "Canonical’s role towards 5G Open RAN with open source With a mission to incubate a wider ecosystem for Open RAN and boost adoption of open source technologies in 5G RAN deployments, Canonical is involved in several tracks, focusing on different aspects of Open RAN networks running open source virtual RAN (vRAN) workloads. Some of these tracks will focus on: • Improving user experience with software orchestration for OAI RAN software stack • Harnessing the power of cloud-native development environments for a better developer journey • Ensuring security and transparency along the full delivery chain • Promoting software and hardware interoperability with lab tests on various architectures and interfaces in collaboration with hardware manufacturers • Performance optimizations for production-grade deployments based on strong partnerships with silicon vendors" [...]

IT gains open-source tools to manage iPhones, iPads, and Macs By | Computerworld |

"Open-source MDM company Fleet has introduced support for Apple devices."

"What’s new? The release supports automatic installation of software on hosts, self-service apps, and BYOD iPhones and iPads. Fleet’s support for Apple Business Manager (ABM) means admins can manage software installs, device settings, and compliance across employee-owned devices. And Volume Purchase Program (VPP) support makes it possible for admins to deploy corporate-purchased App Store apps across their devices. Fleet also supports automatic software installs to help maintain device and fleet compliance, though that feature isn’t yet iOS-compatible. Fleet’s solution lets larger users add multiple ABM and VPP tokens across a single Fleet instance. While most smaller enterprises won’t put much store in that feature, larger businesses, especially Managed Service Providers (MSPs), will see immediate benefit from being able to use one instance of Fleet to handle multiple customer needs." [...]

The Unitary Fund’s Quantum Open Source Survey is Seeking Your Input By | GQI | "The 2024 Quantum Open Source Software Survey being conducted by the Unitary Fund is now available and they are seeking your input. It will cover topics including demographics, experience, community, research, and tech stacks. This annual survey is a chance for everyone in quantum computing to add their voice to the development of our field to share feedback, state their needs, and take part in shaping the future of the quantum computing ecosystem. The survey will be taking inputs through the end of October. Later this year, the anonymized results will be shared publicly and provide everyone a better understand of the quantum computing community’s needs. Click HERE to start taking the survey." [...]

Manage open source licenses in financial services By | sonatype | [...] "As part of our FinServ: Open Source Optimization series, our recent webinar delved into the complexities of open source in financial services, offering critical insights on license management, compliance strategies, and the tools available to streamline the process. Key types of open source licenses Open source software licenses are not monolithic. Understanding the types of OSS licenses and their obligations is essential for organizations using OSS in their software supply chain." [...]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711024002656

Subgroups: An Open-Source Python Library for Efficient and Customizable Subgroup Discovery By | MarkTechPost |

"Check out the Paper and GitHub. All credit for this research goes to the researchers of this project." [...]

Introducing Bellingcat's Collaborative Open Source Toolkit By | Johanna Wild |

[...] "Two surveys from 2022 and 2023 show that open source researchers take several approaches to find tools for their research. It is important to note that the 2022 survey had 531 participants while the 2023 survey had 153. Respondents were allowed to select several options"

20 Years in Open Source: Resilience, Failure, Success By | The New Stack |

IBM and NASA Release Open-Source AI Model on Hugging Face for Weather and Climate Applications By | News Room IBM |

Void Text Editor: Open-Source Alternative to Cursor By | Joey Sneddon | [...] "Enter the Void Void positions itself as a free, open-source rival to Cursor, albeit with notable differences. While Void is AI-centric, it isn’t hardcoded to a specific set of cloud-based, proprietary LLMs like Cursor. It aims to work just as well with locally hosted LLMs through Ollama. For those who prefer cloud models like Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT, Void supports direct connections. The key here is “direct”: this editor won’t act as a middleman listening in on or logging queries and responses. All of the usual AI code editing features one might expect are said to be present in Void, including code auto-completion, inline auto-editing, and a sidebar from which to post questions and receive answers (correct, sloppy, or hallucination). Void’s development team, backed by Y Combinator, is encouraging developers to muck in and collaborate, help shape the roadmap, and start adding to the available AI integrations and so on. Users can test a selection of experimental AI features, including the significant one: code generation, as well as a selection of community-contributed features, like AI-powered code search." [...]

[...] "Download Void Editor Void is free, open-source software under active development. No binary builds have been released for Windows, macOS, or Linux as of writing, but there is a waitlist interested users can join to be notified once they’re available. Otherwise, those who are dab hands at compiling can fetch the source code from GitHub and build it to try it out. More details on the Void website." [...]

#Void #Text_Editor #Open_Source #AI_powered #Code #Search

Have you heard of the open source internet? The antidote to a capitalist web already exists By | Dana McKay | [...] "A right to repair the internet So, how different would the internet look if the open source movement had been even more dominant?

It is instructive to look at what happens when for-profit tech giants release code and documentation, either deliberately (like Twitter) or accidentally (like Google).

In both cases, analysis of the code or documents discovered quirks that benefit either the companies or their founders, which company representatives said or implied weren’t happening. In these cases, the openness has meant people could understand what was happening in a way that wasn’t possible before. Understanding is one thing. Even better would be if people could use what has been released to get their own data, so the cost of switching to an alternative service – be that a social media network, search engine or shopping provider – is lower. Imagine if you could write a post and choose which social media platform it went to, or have a single app to keep up with all your friends. Open-source code and such behaviour being allowed would almost certainly mean this was a reality. And that reality is still possible.

The recent antitrust judgement against Google has shown tech giants that the consolidation required to enshittify user and seller experience – and enrich tech company owners – is on notice. Without consolidation, tech companies have to compete for users by providing better services, and that’s good for everyone.

The right-to-repair movement is taking off, too. Perhaps one day, we will have the right to understand – and repair – the technology we use on the internet. That would be a future worth fighting for." [...] #Right_to_Repair #Movement #Open #Source #Internet #Antidote #Capitalist #Web

World's Leading Open Source Mobile Packet Core, free5GC, Moves Under Linux Foundation to Provide Open Source Alternatives Across 5G Deployments By | The Linux Foundation |

free5GC joins the Linux Foundation with the support of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Chunghwa Telecom, Pegatron Corporation, Zero One Tech, and Saviah Technologies. The world's first open source 5G core network software,

free5GC was developed in 2019 by a team of researchers at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) in Taiwan led by Professor Jyh-Cheng Chen. The original intent was to offer resources to the academic community for communications network-related research. Given the open source software's compatibility with any mobile phone or base station developed following the international 5G standard, it has since been utilized in product testing and proof-of-concept (POC) tests across the industry globally.''

[...] ''free5GC welcomes individuals and organizations passionate about open source to get involved.

For more information about participating in working groups or contributing to code, please visit https://free5gc.org/ and GitHub.'' #Open_Source #Mobile_Packet_Core #free5GC #Linux_Foundation #Alternatives #FiveG

Estonian Patchstack raise $5M Series A for open-source cybersecurity tool By | Lucy Adams |

[...] ''On average, it takes over 200 days to patch a critical security vulnerability.

Patchstack helps developers to quickly identify, prioritize and auto-mitigate new vulnerabilities and provides the fastest vulnerability protection in real-time. By combining their vulnerability intelligence with application vPatching technology, Patchstack doesn’t require user interaction or code changes, thus preserving the application’s full integrity. The company now released their free tool co-funded by the EU for open-source software vendors that helps commercial projects to comply with the upcoming Cyber Resilience Act early on.'' [...] ''Today, over five million websites are scanned through Patchstack’s vulnerability intelligence, and millions of vulnerability attacks are prevented with the help of Patchstack’s vulnerability mitigation. Their current customers include GoDaddy, Digital Ocean, Plesk/cPanel, and many others.

While the company’s first solution was made for WordPress, the world’s largest open-source content management system which powers over 40% of all websites,

It is preparing to support other CMSs and plans to expand to the broader open-source software ecosystem.'' [...]

[...] ''“We are a small yet very effective team. With the data and technology we possess, we believe we could potentially hyper-automate the entire open-source software security process,” said co-founder and CEO Oliver Sild.''

#Estonian #Patchstack #Raise_Millions #Open_Source #Cybersecurity #Tool

gsplat: An Open-Source Python Library for Gaussian Splatting - By | MarkTechPost |

[...] "Currently, Gaussian Splatting methods like the original implementation and open-source projects such as GauStudio provide foundational tools for 3D reconstruction. However, this method also faces challenges in optimizing memory usage, training speed, and convergence times."

[...] "A team of researchers from UC Berkeley, Aalto University, ShanghaiTech University, SpectacularAI, Amazon, and Luma AI Addressed these limitations by developing gsplat, an open-source Python library that integrates tightly with PyTorch and features optimized CUDA kernels to improve memory efficiency and training time. Unlike other methods, gsplat is designed for modularity, allowing developers to easily implement the latest Gaussian Splatting research advancements. It also introduces features such as pose optimization, depth rendering, and N-dimensional rasterization, which are missing in previous implementations. The gsplat library includes several technological advancements and optimizations. For example, it implements advanced densification strategies such as Adaptive Density Control (ADC), the Absgrad method, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), which allow developers to control Gaussian pruning and densification more effectively. The library enables gradient flow to Gaussian parameters and camera view matrices for optimizing camera poses. This feature reduces the pose of uncertainty during 3D reconstruction.

gsplat also introduces anti-aliasing techniques to mitigate aliasing effects in 3D scenes, using MipSplatting for enhanced visual quality. The library’s back-end consists of highly optimized CUDA operations, resulting in faster training times and reduced memory consumption, as demonstrated in their experimental results." [...]

[...] "Check out the Paper and GitHub. All credit for this research goes to the researchers of this project." [...] #gsplat #Open_Source #Python_Library #Gaussian_Splatting

Andrea Battaglia: ‘Open source accelerates ecological transition by reducing costs’ Materia Rinnovabile By | Renewable Matter |

[...] "Open source technologies linked to sustainability are one of the main drivers for accelerating the digital and ecological transition. Ahead of the FIWARE Global Summit to be held in Naples on 18-19 September,

Renewable Matter interviewed Andrea Battaglia, CEO of FIWARE Foundation, an independent open source platform that has its origins in a European public-private partnership programme." [...] "What projects are you going to implement in the near future?

FIWARE Foundation is trying to approach complementary realities, trying to create new solutions or new use cases that have financial and business value. And that also benefits citizens.  We want to create an ecosystem of partnerships because the world needs new ideas.

For example, recently, FIWARE in partnership with Make-IT in Africa launched the project FIWARE4Africa that is focusing on strengthening digital innovation ecosystems on the African continent, Aiming at ensuring interoperability, data sharing, and portability, and promoting efficient and synergetic collaboration between various stakeholders for equally technology environment. We continue to actively work on creating a single European market of Data Spaces and Data Economy together with the representatives of Data Spaces Business Alliance. FIWARE is developing the global network of Innovation Hubs (iHubs), that aim to evolve local territories and make them smart, resilient and sustainable. For example, MEDIHub, founded by Meditech Competence Center, is the first Certified FIWARE IHub in Southern Italy." [...] #Open_Source #Accelerate #Ecological_Transition #Reducing #Costs_Materia #Rinnovabile #FIWARE

2 Open Source AI Tools That Reduce DevOps Friction - The New Stack By | Eran Bibi |

[...] "DevOps has been built upon taking everything infrastructure and transitioning it to code, aka Infrastructure as Code (IaC). This includes deployment pipelines, monitoring, repositories — anything that is built upon configurations can be represented in code. This is where AI tools like ChatGPT and AIaC come into play.

"AIaC, an open source command-line interface (CLI) tool, enables developers to generate IaC templates, shell scripts and more, directly from the terminal using natural language prompts. This eliminates the need to manually write and review code, making the process faster and less error-prone. For example, when creating a Dockerfile for a Node.js application with security best practices in mind, simply describing the requirements in natural language allows AIaC to generate a secure Dockerfile: 1 aiac dockerfile for nodejs with comments`` This approach extends to generating Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts and even policy configurations in Rego for OPA. With the growing number of config languages and domain-expertise DevOps teams are required to know, this can significantly reduce the learning curve and barrier to entry. The ability to reprompt and refine your output helps you get the precise configuration needed, tailored to a specific environment.

Because it isn’t always efficient to work directly with a GPT model via a browser, especially in a production environment, we developed AIaC as a CLI. We believe this makes it straightforward to integrate AI-driven code generation into existing workflows." [...]

#AlaC #Open_Source #AI_Tools #Reduce #DevOps #Friction

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