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Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife To fill the growing number of quantum jobs expected in the next two decades, major tech companies, including IBM, are addressing the current gap in quantum skills, reports Nancy Liu. For example, “one of IBM’s main goals is to educate 30 million people in tech...

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Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife ODF was created as an alternative: The data was structured in an open and standardized way, built on XML, so that files saved in OpenOffice could easily be opened and understood by other programs as well. Users who save their work in ODF format...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife If you prefer not to commit your data to cloud services controlled by a corporation, open source Nextcloud offers a personal and private cloud application suite, says Heike Jurzik. Nextcloud is easy to install and use, Jurzik says. “The real trick is getting your data...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a free and open source tool, called Decider, to help defenders map attacker behavior to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. The Decider web application, which is available on GitHub, aims to simplify use of the framework...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Sysdig has announced the creation of a new foundation for the Wireshark open source project. Wireshark, “the world’s foremost traffic protocol analyzer,” has grown to more than 2,000 contributors and over 60 million downloads in the past five years, reports Sean Michael Kerner. “The Wireshark...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Google has added client-side encryption support to more products in its Workspace suite, reports Alessandro Mascellino. The security feature, which was already available on Google Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Meet, is now supported in Gmail and Calendar, too. The move “will facilitate compliance procedures for...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Domino Data Lab has developed Domino Code Assist (DCA) to make it easier to build machine learning workflows, reports Sean Michael Kerner. “DCA is a low-code tool that provides a visual interface to help non-technical users within an organization generate sophisticated Python and R code for...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife In a move sure to complicate the lives of admins and developers everywhere, the European Space Agency (ESA) says the moon needs its own time zone. “Space organizations have started considering how to keep time on the Moon,” states a recent ESA article, and “the...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife The European Commission (EC) has outlined plans for making “gigabit connectivity available to all European Union (EU) citizens and businesses by 2030,” reports Joe O’Halloran. The proposed Gigabit Infrastructure Act includes regulation “to put forward new rules to enable a faster, cheaper, and more effective roll-out of...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife The average tech salary was again above the six-figure mark in 2022 (at $111,348), according to the 2023 Dice Tech Salary Report, with cloud- and data-related skills commanding higher-than-average compensation. This continued growth in salaries “for a wide range of different tech-focused roles and...