zondag 24 november, 2024
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Porsche is expanding its open source initiative and has published the Porsche FOSS Movement guide outlining the company’s goals relating to free and open source software. “With the Porsche FOSS Movement, we are continuing our open source journey and creating a common understanding of values,...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Open source is playing an increasingly important role in addressing environmental challenges, says the 2023 "Open Source Sustainability Ecosystem" report, and many community-driven projects exist to help us achieve our goals. Survey the Landscape The report, released by LF Energy in partnership with Protontypes, surveys the landscape of...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Most of the vulnerabilities routinely exploited last year were disclosed in 2021 or earlier, says Dennis Fisher, according to a recent joint advisory from several cybersecurity agencies. “Many of the vulnerabilities in the list will come as no surprise to defenders: the Log4Shell flaw from...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Project Jupyter is now offering Jupyter AI, which brings generative AI to Jupyter notebooks, says Jason Weill. Jupyter AI gives users “the power to explain and generate code, fix errors, summarize content, ask questions about their local files, and generate entire notebooks from a natural language...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Idempotency is “a property of API design that ensures that making the same request multiple times produces the same result as making it once,” explains Karishma Shukla. Enforcing idempotency ensures the predictability and reliability of the API and “allows clients to safely retry requests without...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife IBM has made its geospatial AI foundation model — built from NASA's satellite data — openly available on Hugging Face.  The watsonx.ai model is the largest geospatial model hosted on Hugging Face, and it "can analyze geospatial data up to four times faster than state-of-the-art deep-learning models,” IBM...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife AI is having a huge impact on our world, and the related tools and technology are affecting software development in particular. A recent GitHub survey, for example, says 92 percent of US-based developers are already using AI coding tools both inside and outside work,...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife People, rather than technology, are the primary attack vector for cyber threats around the world, says the 2023 SANS Security Awareness Report.  The top category of human risk, says the report, involves “-ishing” — which refers to the three most common social engineering attacks: email-based...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Stack Overflow has announced OverflowAI, featuring “new generative AI capabilities on both the public Stack Overflow site as well as Stack Overflow for Teams,” reports  Sean Michael Kerner. “OverflowAI is not a single product,” Kerner says, “rather, it is a series of initiatives,” such as...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Happy Sys Admin Appreciation Day! To celebrate this day and honor the tireless work of IT professionals around the world, ADMIN Network & Security is offering a free 2023 edition of 10 Terrific Tools for the Busy Admin.  This collection of articles covering useful tools for IT...