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Web framework Svelte delivers ‘most significant release’ yet

Ryan Daws — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 16:09:03 +0000

Svelte 5 has been released, marking what the team behind the web framework describes as the “most significant release in the project’s history” and follows 18 months of intensive development. The latest iteration of the web framework arrives as a ground-up rewrite, promising improved performance, reduced bundle sizes, and enhanced reliability. Despite these substantial changes,... Read more »

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Holistic’s open-source tools counter AI development risks

Ryan Daws — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 09:27:35 +0000

Holistic has unveiled an open-source library to help counter AI development risks and build fairer and more responsible systems. The library – dubbed Holistic AI OSL – arrives at a crucial moment when organisations are increasingly deploying AI systems across sensitive domains including recruitment, healthcare, and financial services. Recent studies suggest that 65% of AI... Read more »

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Entry points threaten multiple open-source ecosystems

Ryan Daws — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 13:58:48 +0000

While current tools have improved at detecting common tactics for exploiting open-source packages, a feature remains largely overlooked: entry points. Security researchers at Checkmarx uncovered how attackers can leverage entry points across multiple programming ecosystems, with a particular focus on PyPI, to trick victims into running malicious code. This method – while not allowing for... Read more »

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Open Source Pledge aims to fund software maintainers

Ryan Daws — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:39:24 +0000

Sentry has launched the Open Source Pledge—a programme designed to provide direct financial support to open-source software maintainers. The initiative stems from a long-standing aspiration to give back to the open-source community on behalf of every Sentry employee. The concept of the Open Source Pledge emerged years ago with two primary objectives: to compensate maintainers... Read more »

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PostgreSQL 17 delivers a leap forward for open-source databases

Ryan Daws — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:53:22 +0000

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has unveiled PostgreSQL 17, the latest iteration of what is widely-regarded as the world’s most advanced open-source database. This release marks a significant milestone in the database’s evolution, bringing substantial performance enhancements and new features that cater to both emerging and established data management needs. PostgreSQL 17 builds upon its... Read more »

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Bitwise will donate 10% of Ethereum ETF profits to developers

Ryan Daws — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 13:38:08 +0000

Bitwise Asset Management has announced the launch of its Bitwise Ethereum ETF (ticker: ETHW) on the New York Stock Exchange, marking a milestone in the US Web3 market. The spot Ethereum fund aims to provide investors with direct exposure to the second-largest Web3 ecosystem by market capitalisation. To support the Ethereum ecosystem, Bitwise has pledged... Read more »

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Arm’s new upscaler promises PC-quality graphics on mobile

Ryan Daws — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 16:09:35 +0000

Arm has introduced an open-source solution aimed at enhancing graphics upscaling on mobile devices. The solution promises to bring PC-quality gaming experiences to smartphones while optimising performance and power consumption. ‘Arm Accuracy Super Resolution’ (Arm ASR) is a temporal upscaler, which combines information from multiple frames to generate high-quality images from lower resolution targets. This... Read more »

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Linux community mourns loss of WiFi driver expert

Ryan Daws — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 16:41:14 +0000

The Linux kernel community is in mourning following the loss of Larry Finger, a longtime and prolific contributor to WiFi drivers. Finger, who began his contributions to the Linux kernel in 2005 and had over 1,500 kernel patches accepted into the mainline Linux kernel, passed away on 21 June 2024. The news of Finger’s passing... Read more »

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Use open-source digital twins to track live systems

Dr William Bain — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:08:07 +0000

Recent technology innovations have made real-time monitoring of live systems easier and more powerful. Digital twins are one of the latest game-changing technologies. The Digital Twin Consortium defines digital twins as virtual representations of real-world entities and processes, synchronised at a specified frequency and fidelity. They use real-time and historical data to represent the past... Read more »

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GitHub enables secret scanning push protection by default

Ryan Daws — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:50:27 +0000

In response to the alarming trend of API keys, tokens, and other confidential data being inadvertently exposed, GitHub has taken further steps to fortify its platform against potential breaches. Within the first two months of 2024, GitHub has uncovered one million leaked secrets across public repositories, averaging over a dozen incidents per minute. Such alarming... Read more »

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