A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architects. Facilitating the Spread of Knowledge and Innovation in Professional Software Development Git is a popular tool for version control in software development. It is not uncommon to use multiple Git accounts. Correctly configuring and switching Git accounts is challenging. In … Read more
There are many reasons that businesses may want to choose open-source over proprietary tools when getting started with generative AI. This could be because of cost, opportunities for customization and optimization, transparency or simply the support that’s offered by the community. There are disadvantages too, of course, and I cover the pros and cons of … Read more
Akshati Vaishnav ’25 (left to right), Thomas Figura ’24, Aidan McNay ’24, Adele Thompson ’25 and Abigail Varghese ’25 are members of the Cornell Custom Silicon Systems team, which uses emerging open-source hardware to design, test and fabricate microchips. Microchips drive so many essential electronics, from appliances to airplanes, it is easy to take them … Read more
RAIRprotocol offers tier 1 Alchemy and Web3Auth support, as well as native integrations with Filebase, Google Cloud, Hashicorp, MongoDB Atlas, Coingecko, and many more LOS ANGELES [Tokenize LA Conference], May 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — RAIR Technologies today announced the launch of RAIRprotocol, a fully open-source dApp protocol layer. RAIRprotocol enables the creation of scalable dApps through … Read more
BigCommerce has debuted an open-source version of its business-to-business (B2B) Buyer Portal platform. The new offering gives “enterprise manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, developers and agency partners creative control to build and customize the optimal B2B buyer experience with speed, at scale and at a lower total cost,” the software-as-a-service (SaaS) company said in a Tuesday (May 7) news release. According to … Read more
In March, a software bug threatened to derail large swaths of the web. XZ utils, an open-source compression tool embedded in myriad software products and operating systems, was found to have been implanted with a backdoor. The backdoor—a surreptitious entry point into the software—would have allowed a person with the requisite code to hijack the … Read more
ARD and ZDF want to put the code for their streaming media libraries on a common basis. Parts of it are also to be made freely available. ARD and ZDF are putting their streaming media libraries on a common technical foundation. The streaming media libraries of the public broadcasters ARD and ZDF are also growing … Read more
A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architects. Facilitating the Spread of Knowledge and Innovation in Professional Software Development Git is a popular tool for version control in software development. It is not uncommon to use multiple Git accounts. Correctly configuring and switching Git accounts is challenging. In … Read more