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Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Arduino, maker of open-source microcontrollers for hardware developers, raised a $32M Series B from Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Arm, Renesas, and Anzu — Best known for its open source microcontrollers that have been wildly embraced by the developer community, Arduino now has its sights firmly set on the enterprise world. Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Arduino, maker of open-source microcontrollers for hardware developers, raised a $32M Series B from Robert Bosch Venture…

Delta Lake is an open-source storage layer that brings reliability to data lakes. Debates are fun to watch until they get out of hand. Recently, open-source debate over Delta Lake and Iceberg is receiving heat as contenders instead of mentioning right and wrong, are using sarcasm and emojis to express their views. This brawl started earlier this year when James Malone, senior manager of Product Management at Snowflake, introduced Snowflake’s support for Iceberg, an open-source database architecture, he emphasized…

Open-source AI software is in huge demand in AI companies to boost productivity in 2022 AI companies are growing exponentially across the world by leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and many more. Open-source AI software is in high demand in these AI companies to help in training models with algorithms and sufficient relevant data. Multiple AI software is known for offering developers and AI companies the to build intelligent applications. AI companies use…

Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: Developers suspect that China has forced Gitee, the Chinese equivalent to GitHub, to censor open-source code, a move that harms trust and the quality of code — Many suspect the Chinese state has forced Gitee, the Chinese competitor to GitHub, to censor open-source code in a move developers worry could obstruct innovation. Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: Developers suspect that China has forced Gitee, the Chinese equivalent to GitHub, to censor open-source…

The impact For now, there’s little clue as to what prompted the change, but censorship of certain types of language—profanity, pornography, and politically sensitive words—has been creeping up on the platform for a while. On Gitee’s official and public feedback page, there are multiple user complaints about how projects were censored for unclear reasons, possibly because technical language was mistaken for a sensitive word. The immediate result of Gitee’s May 18 change was that public projects hosted on the platform…

At a time when cyberattacks happen with increasing frequency, Google announced a new security tool with the aim of increasing the safety of open-source software. Assured Open Source Software (OSS) will enable users to incorporate Google’s own security packages into their own workflows. piranka/Getty Images Open-source software continues to be a popular target for security attacks, and as Google notes in its announcement, there has been a massive 650% year-over-year increase in the number of cyberattacks aimed at…

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Simple Mobile Tools will soon be launching its very own phone. That’s based on recent reports centered around an apparent announcement from a Simple Mobile Tools developer under the handle “Tibbbi” via Reddit.As of this writing, there aren’t any specifications to speak of and no clear branding has been identified either. The design language for the gadget hasn’t been discussed either. What is certain is that the focal point of the company isn’t going to be on delivering just another smartphone.Instead, Simple Mobile…

Google announced a new initiative Tuesday aimed at securing the open-source software supply chain by curating and distributing a security-vetted collection of open-source packages to Google Cloud customers. The new service, branded Assured Open Source Software, was introduced in a blog post from the company. In the post, Andy Chang, group product manager for security and privacy at Google Cloud, pointed to some of the challenges of securing open-source software and stressed Google’s commitment to open source. “There…