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In September last year, Sophos made Sandboxie free, while also announcing that it was transitioning the tool to open source. "Sophos is proud to announce the release of the Sandboxie source code to the community, meaning we are finally an open source tool! We're excited to give the code to the community," the company announced on its forums.
CSIRO's Data61, the digital specialist arm of Australia's national science agency, announced the creation of the seL4 Foundation, a not-for-profit organization, to accelerate the development of the seL4 microkernel and related technologies. The seL4 Foundation will provide a global, independent and neutral organization for funding and steering the future evolution of seL4.
Have you come up with hardware or software that can help solve a problem that arose from COVID-19 and its worldwide spread? Mozilla is offering up to $50,000 to open source technology projects that are responding to the pandemic in some way. Online "Hackatons" - launched/sponsored by governments and various organizations in Poland, Estonia, China, the UK, Switzerland, India, Malaysia, and so on - are gathering participants from different sectors and with different skills to collaborate and come up with IT-based open source solutions to COVID-19-related medical, social and other problems.
DataStax released code for an Apache Cassandra Kubernetes operator to help enterprises and users succeed with scale-out, cloud-native data. This Kubernetes Operator for Apache Cassandra, cass-operator, is now available and ready for use by the community as we work together on a common operator.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced the Open Distributed Infrastructure Management initiative, a new open source program that will simplify the management of large-scale geographically distributed physical infrastructure deployments. HPE will introduce an enterprise offering, the HPE Open Distributed Infrastructure Management Resource Aggregator that is aligned with the initiative.
San Francisco-based cloud security startup Panther Labs has launched the first stable version of its open-source security information and event management solution, Panther. Advertised as "a powerful alternative to traditional SIEMs like Splunk," Panther is self-hosted and it uses Python to analyze logs from popular security tools, and also includes support for analyzing cloud resources with policies to help discover vulnerable infrastructure and establish security best practices.
AI, whose artificial intelligence software is purpose-built for engineers, scientists, and researchers and enables them to innovate and make discoveries faster, announced that it had completed contributions to TensorFlow, the world's most popular open-source framework for deep learning created by Google. "Part of Noble's mission is building AI that's accessible to engineers, scientists and researchers, anytime and anywhere, without needing to learn or re-skill into computer science or AI theory," said Dr. Matthew C. Levy, Founder and CEO of Noble.
The leader in purpose-built and performance-optimized data center appliances, announced the availability of the HyperSwitch, its next-generation top-of-rack switch built to maximize the performance and flexibility of SONiC, an open source network operating system built by Microsoft for scale-out performance networking. HyperSwitch units add power and extensibility by including an AMD EPYC Embedded 3000 Processor that can be used flexibly by network operators for network security applications such as firewalls, or for dedicated storage managers, and virtually any other software desired for custom networking operations.
Open source bugs have skyrocketed in the last year, according to a report from open source licence management and security software vendor WhiteSource. The number of open source bugs sat steady at just over 4,000 in 2017 and 2018, the report said, having more than doubled the number of bugs from pre-2017 figures that had never before broken the 2,000 mark.
The number of disclosed open source software vulnerabilities in 2019 reached over 6000, up from just over 4,000 in 2018, a new WhiteSource report says. "This can be attributed to the rise in awareness to open source security following the widespread adoption of open source components and the massive growth of the open source community over the past few years, along with the media attention directed at recent data breaches," the company noted.