The Rust Foundation, the nonprofit organization for the Rust programming language, today announced that it will be establishing a dedicated security team, underwritten by the OpenSSF’s Alpha-Omega Initiative as well as the foundation’s newest platinum member, JFrog. “There’s often a misperception that because Rust ensures memory safety that it’s one hundred percent secure, but Rust … continue reading
Tidelift, a provider of solutions for improving open source software supply chain resilience, today announced investments from AEI HorizonX, AE Industrial Partners’ venture capital investment platform formed in partnership with The Boeing Company, and Cisco Investments, extending the company’s Series C financing to $33.5M alongside existing investors Dorilton Ventures, Kaiser Permanente, Atlassian Ventures, General Catalyst, … continue reading
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit, open-source organization, today unveiled that PyTorch is transitioning away from Meta and joining the foundation where it will exist under the newly-formed PyTorch Foundation. According to the PyTorch maintainers, since its inception back in 2016, the PyTorch machine learning framework has been adopted by over 2,400 contributors and 18,000 organizations … continue reading
Microsoft has announced the latest release of the Surface Duo Design Kit, which is a collection of design patterns, guidelines, components, and more for developing dual screen apps. Version 2.2 of the kit includes an update to the device frame dimension and new component variations. According to Microsoft, device frames are useful for prototyping and … continue reading
In today’s business landscape, it seems like every company has undergone or is in the process of a digital transformation (DX), and that every leader throws the term around casually. While the term may be overused, DX is a necessity for enterprises as they look to remain competitive in the software-first environment. To keep up … continue reading
Umami was built as an open source, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics that lets users gather the data they need while respecting user privacy. Because it doesn’t collect any personal information, doesn’t use cookies, and doesn’t track users across websites, it doesn’t require users to display a cookie notice. All data is anonymized and makes … continue reading
The feature flag management company LaunchDarkly today released its summer 2022 release roundup that highlights the key updates the company has made in the last few months. Among these is an improved way to run experiments, new templates for repeatable Workflows, new integrations, and quicker approvals. Back in June, LaunchDarkly released the new LaunchDarkly Experimentation, … continue reading
Android today announced that it is releasing Privacy Sandbox on Android Developer Preview 5, which includes modifications to the SDK Runtime design to allow reflection API usage and additional published design proposals on FLEDGE services, mediation, and app-to-web measurement. In the SDK Runtime, apps get additional control on runtime-enabled SDK lifecycle events such as when … continue reading
In order to facilitate the development of standards for sharing data across different platforms within the value stream, a new technical committee has sprung up from within OASIS Open, which is an open source and standards consortium. According to the committee, organizations typically employ a number of different tools to measure software performance in order … continue reading
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has announced a settlement with the beauty brand Sephora over allegations that the company has violated California’s landmark privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). According to Bonta, it was determined after an enforcement sweep that Sephora failed to disclose to customers that the company was selling their personal … continue reading
Our company didn’t start out as a company. We started by building an app for the Broadway show “Hamilton” – the first commercial Flutter app built outside of Google. It was a feature-rich, multi-platform, shoot-the-moon, very fast effort, and its success put us on the map. So our DNA isn’t “Let’s start a business to … continue reading
Lightbend announced that it is switching the license for Akka, a set of open-source libraries for designing scalable, resilient systems that span cores and networks. The project ran on the Apache 2.0 license which has become increasingly risky when a small company solely carries the maintenance effort even though it is still the de facto … continue reading
