Open Source
Equinix Triples Investment In Cloud Native Computing Foundation To Fuel Open Source Innovation
Equinix, Inc., the world’s digital infrastructure company, announced it has tripled its investment in the cloud native community with an expanded commitment to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Community Infrastructure Lab (CIL). Innovators from throughout the CNCF community can now access up to USD$1 Million of powerful on-demand infrastructure resources per year across Equinix’s global …
Open Source Web Engine Servo To Be Hosted At Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced it will host the Servo web engine. Servo is an open source, high-performance browser engine designed for both application and embedded use and is written in the Rust programming language, bringing lightning-fast performance and memory safety to browser internals. Industry support for …
Red Hat Drives Hybrid Cloud Ubiquity With OpenShift Innovation Across Architectures, Applications And Infrastructure
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced new capabilities and features for Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform. From updates to OpenShift Serverless for enhanced developer efficiency to extended support across architectures, Red Hat OpenShift helps fuel enterprise innovation across the hybrid cloud backed by Red Hat’s …
FINOS Launches Open Regtech Initiative As It Receives Record High Number Of Open Source Contributions
At its annual, flagship Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF) held virtually in conjunction with the Linux Foundation, FINOS (the Fintech Open Source Foundation), announced the launch of its Open RegTech initiative, which aims to expand the successful open collaboration model built between financial institutions, fintech and technology firms to regulators and regtech companies. Additionally, FINOS announced …
Open Source Security Foundation Announces Education Courses And Participation Initiatives To Advance Its Commitment To Securing The World’s Software Infrastructure
OpenSSF, a cross-industry collaboration to secure the open source ecosystem, announced free training for developing secure software, a new OpenSSF professional certificate program called Secure Software Development Fundamentals and additional program and technical initiatives. It is also announcing new contributors to the Foundation and newly elected advisory council and governing board members. Open source software …
Red Hat Pairs Innovation with Stability In Latest Version Of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Further Extends Linux as Foundation For Digital Transformation
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3, the latest version of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform. Generally available in the coming weeks, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 fuses the stability required by IT operations teams with cloud-native innovation, providing a more stable platform for …
Swift System Is Now Open Source
In June, Apple introduced Swift System, a new library for Apple platforms that provides idiomatic interfaces to system calls and low-level currency types. I’m excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing System and adding Linux support! Our vision is for System to eventually act as the single home for low-level system interfaces for all supported Swift platforms. …
Sonatype And NeuVector Partner To Centralize Container And Open Source Security
Sonatype, the company that scales DevOps through open source governance and software supply chain automation, and NeuVector, the leader in full lifecycle container security, announced a new integration that provides a comprehensive view of all Kubernetes and Container open source risk in one place. The use of Kubernetes and Containers has skyrocketed in recent years. According …
Introducing Opacus: A High-speed Library For Training PyTorch Models With Differential Privacy
We are releasing Opacus, a new high-speed library for training PyTorch models with differential privacy (DP) that’s more scalable than existing state-of-the-art methods. Differential privacy is a mathematically rigorous framework for quantifying the anonymization of sensitive data. It’s often used in analytics, with growing interest in the machine learning (ML) community. With the release of Opacus, …
New LF Climate Finance Foundation To Host Open Source Initiative To Address Climate Risk And Opportunity In Financial Sector
The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced the intent to form the LF Climate Finance Foundation (LFCF), a new initiative with the goal of empowering investors, banks, insurers, companies, governments, NGOs and academia with AI-enhanced open source analytics and open data to address climate risk and opportunity. Allianz, …