By Serdar Yegulalp New languages emerge to fill niches that the existing ones don’t satisfy. Google’s Go combined the speed of C with the rapid development cycles of interpreted languages like Python. …read more Source:: OpenSource
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Yahoo adds Screwdriver to devops toolbelt
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•By Serdar Yegulalp It’s become a tradition for big names in IT to open-source bits of their infrastructure: Google with Kubernetes, Facebook with React and RocksDB, and many others. Now it’s Yahoo’s turn. …read more Source:: OpenSource
5 lessons from a Chromebook deployment
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•By Galen Gruman Microsoft has been making major strides in allowing management of devices, users, and information across the Exchange and Office 365 ecosystem, with an emphasis on eventual shift to Office …read more Source:: OpenSource
Open source challenger takes on Google Translate
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Researchers have released an open source neural network system for performing language translations that could be an alternative to proprietary, black-box translation services. Open Source Neural Machine Translation (OpenNMT) …read more Source:: OpenSource
Google open-sources test suite to find crypto bugs
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid Working with cryptographic libraries is hard, and a single implementation mistake can result in serious security problems. To help developers check their code for implementation errors and find weaknesses …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Privacy Badger 2.0 released for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera
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•By Jim Lynch Privacy Badger 2.0 released Privacy is a major issue for many people these days. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been in the vanguard of the fight for privacy rights on the …read more Source:: OpenSource
Kubernetes 1.5 comes to Windows Server 2016
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Over the last couple of years, Docker’s been one of the fastest-moving projects in IT. But Kubernetes, Google’s system for orchestrating containers running at scale, stands to share Docker’s “move …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Why is stock Android so popular?
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•By Jim Lynch Why is stock Android so popular? There have been various attempts to “skin” Android (such as Touchwiz by Samsung) but many people still prefer Google’s stock version of Android. Why is …read more Source:: OpenSource
Google goes ‘fuzzy’ to combat insecure software
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•By Serdar Yegulalp It may sound like something you do to a sweater, but “fuzzing”—testing applications against random input to detect potentially fatal errors—has become a major weapon in the arsenal against insecure …read more Source:: OpenSource
Why a cross-platform Microsoft is good for your business
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•By Mary Branscombe Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation as a Platinum member. Google is joining not just the .Net foundation but the steering committee, alongside RedHat and Samsung, which is …read more Source:: OpenSource