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In response to HashiCorp’s change to use of the Business Source License for their core products, OpenTF has created a fork of Terraform, an infrastructure-as-code software tool.
“In an attempt to keep Terraform open source, we published the OpenTF manifesto,” Open TF says, which called on HashiCorp...
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Earlier in 2023, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) dismantled Genesis, “one of the biggest illegal markets on the Internet, known for stealing and selling data from more than 1.5 million computers and over 80 million online accounts, reports Esther Shein.”
This effort, Shein...
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The Allen Institute for AI has launched Satlas, a new tool that maps renewable energy projects and tree coverage around the world, reports Justine Calma.
Satlas uses satellite imagery from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellites but offers a “Super-Resolution” feature to enhance the images. “Basically,...
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Star Labs has reconfigured its StarLite tablet into a laptop similar to the Microsoft Surface, reports Jack Wallen.
The StarLite device, which is now available for $498.00, can be configured with Ubuntu, elementary OS, Linux Mint, Manjaro, Zorin OS, MX Linux, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, and more.
Additionally,...
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Linux systems can be compromised by the installation of hidden processes visible only from the kernel. Unhide is a generic name for a series of related commands designed to detect such processes through a toolkit of over 30 tests, most of which involve examining...
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“We are responsible for the open source we use, how we consume it, and how we manage the risk associated with that consumption,” states the new Open Source Consumption Manifesto (OSCM) drafted by the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF).
The OpenSSF has released the manifesto...
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Meta has announced Code Llama, a large language model (LLM) that can use text prompts to generate code. Released under the same license as Llama 2, Code Llama is free for research and commercial use.
According to the announcement, the model “can generate code, and natural...
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Microsoft has released the public preview of Python in Excel, which allows users to “natively combine Python and Excel analytics within the same workbook.”
With the new Python in Excel capabilities, “you can type Python directly into a cell, the Python calculations run in the Microsoft...
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G20 Digital Economy Ministers have proposed a framework for digital public infrastructure (DPI) and recognized DPI as a key element in achieving sustainable development goals, according to an announcement from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
At a recent meeting, the group described DPI “as a...
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The snap daemon (snapd) is the defined tool for retrieving snaps and all associated metadata from Canonical's servers. In addition, snaps have functional drawbacks that the company has been slow to eliminate. Flatpak, on the other hand, was well received by proponents of alternative...
