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The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has announced the creation of the Open Policy Alliance (OPA), which aims to “bring non-profit organizations together to participate in educating and informing US public policy decisions related to Open Source software, content, research, and education.”
The program, led...
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A 120-Day Cybersecurity Apprenticeship Sprint was announced at the recent National Cyber Workforce and Education Summit at the White House as part of new efforts to train “a skilled and diverse cybersecurity workforce.”
“With approximately 700,000 cybersecurity positions open, America faces a national security challenge...
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The Frontier exascale system at Oak Ridge National Labs leads the list of global high-performance computing systems with an HPL score of 1.194 EFlop/s, according to the latest TOP500 list released at SC23.
However, the new Aurora system at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility has...
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The Rust programming language has topped Stack Overflow’s most-loved language category for six consecutive years and nearly tripled in size in the past two years.
What makes Rust so popular? Rust Foundation Executive Director Rebecca Rumbul attributes the rapid adoption to a few things:
Its security...
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Canonical has released Landscape 23.03 with “broader CPU architecture compatibility, and improved management and monitoring capabilities for Ubuntu.” According to the announcement, “Landscape 23.03 manages all Ubuntu versions and derivatives from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS onwards, in addition to Debian Bullseye.”
Out-of-the-box support for Landscape is...
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has open-sourced its online, text-based Code Editor, reports Julian Horsey.
The recently introduced Code Editor, which is designed to aid young learners, “simplifies the process of learning text-based coding.” It currently supports Python as the first programming language; however, “the Foundation...
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The Debian Project has announced that RISC-V 64 is now an official Debian architecture.
Previously, if you wanted to run Debian on RISC-V, “you had to rely on a Debian port for 64-bit little-endian RISC-V hardware running the Linux kernel," explains Marius Nestor.
That’s no longer...
Ericsson’s decision came the day GSMA released its health and safety plan for MWC21. (Getty Images)
In what feels somewhat like a repeat of 2020, Ericsson has confirmed it’s pulling out of participation at the mobile industry MWC...
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Adobe has announced that it will acquire the open source Figma design platform for $20 billion in cash and stock.
Figma’s product strengths, says Ingrid Lunden at TechCrunch, lie in “design and prototyping, for individuals and teams, executed in a very streamlined and modern, cloud-based...
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Passwords typically suffer from one or more of the following problems: They are not complex enough, they are difficult to remember, or they are saved in a far too insecure way. Although admins are supposed to use a separate, strong password for each IT...
