Google announced that it will be bringing Privacy Sandbox to Android with the goal of introducing new, more private advertising solutions. Privacy Sandbox is an existing initiative by Google to better protect users’ private data. These solutions will limit sharing of user data with third parties and operate without cross-app identifiers, including advertising ID. Google … continue reading
Last year, Google announced Google Identity Services (GIS), which is a set of APIs that consolidated several identity offerings from the company. Included in the GIS development kit are the Sign in with Google button and the authentication prompt One Tap. Now, Google is adding an authorization feature to GIS to bolster the offerings of … continue reading
Microsoft recently announced that the first preview release of Windows Terminal of 2022 is here. Interested users can install Windows Terminal and Windows Terminal Preview from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub repository. With this release, the minimum supported version of Windows 10 for Windows Terminal 1.13+ is now 19041 (20H1). The new features … continue reading
In honor of Data Privacy Day, today Google shared updates on its effort to create free tools geared towards helping the developer community build and launch new applications for differential privacy. In partnership with OpenMinded, an organization of open-source developers, Google achieved a new milestone with its differential privacy framework. This product enables any Python … continue reading
The team at Google recently announced the availability of the Firebase extension for Google Pay. Firebase extensions are open-source pre-packaged bundles of code that developers can build into their applications. The extension is intended to increase productivity as well as provide extended functionality to apps. With this extension installed, users can pass a payment token … continue reading
Organizations such as the Linux Foundation, OpenSSF, Google, Akamai, and Red Hat attended a White House Summit meant to address supply chain security challenges following the recent log4j crisis. “The open-source ecosystem will need to work together to further cybersecurity research, training, analysis, and remediation of defects found in critical open-source software projects. These plans … continue reading
The team at Google recently announced a new Prediction Framework in order to help users implement and accelerate first-party data prediction projects by providing the backbone elements of the predictive process. The framework is a customizable pipeline that simplifies the implementation of prediction projects. Users only need to have the input data source, the logic … continue reading
Google announced that it is broadening the scope of Google Summer of Code (GSoC) by opening the program to all newcomers of open source that are 18 years and older. Previously, the program was focused only on university students or recent graduates. The goal of the 17-year-old program is to have these new contributors stay … continue reading
Microsoft recently announced that they are accepting community contributions to the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit. To help facilitate these community contributions, Microsoft has improved the workflow for adding new features. Microsoft also created a GitHub Project Board in order to keep track of the new workflow where interested users can follow along. The new feature … continue reading
The .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) Preview 9 is now available with .NET 6 RC2 and in the preview channel of Visual Studio 2022 Preview 5. Preview 9 adds support for borders, corners, and shadows across most controls and layouts. In addition, Preview 9 also focuses on performance improvements to help Android apps start instantly. … continue reading
BlackBerry and Deloitte announced that they will be teaming up to assist OEMs and those building mission-critical applications in securing their software supply chains. This will allow Deloitte to leverage BlackBerry’s flagship software composition analysis tool, BlackBerry Jarvis. This tool empowers OEMs to inspect the provenance of their code and each software asset that comes … continue reading
VMware recently announced the release of Tanzu Community Edition (TCE), a freely available distribution of VMware Tanzu. Tanzu Community Edition is an easy to manage Kubernetes platform that can be installed and configured in minutes across multiple environments. Environments compatible with TCE include local workstations as well as public clouds. The platform automates end-to-end application … continue reading
