By InfoWorld staff 2017 Technology of the Year AwardsImage by Jane Van Ginkel Did you notice that Google is giving away its magic sauce? Google engineers used to merely write papers about their creations, …read more Source:: OpenSource
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Google ventures into public key encryption
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid Google announced an early prototype of Key Transparency, its latest open source effort to ensure simpler, safer, and secure communications for everyone. The project’s goal is to make it easier …read more Source:: OpenSource
Nim language draws from best of Python, Rust, Go, and Lisp
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•By Serdar Yegulalp New languages emerge to fill niches that the existing ones don’t satisfy. Google’s Go combined the speed of C with the rapid development cycles of interpreted languages like Python. …read more Source:: OpenSource
Yahoo adds Screwdriver to devops toolbelt
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•By Serdar Yegulalp It’s become a tradition for big names in IT to open-source bits of their infrastructure: Google with Kubernetes, Facebook with React and RocksDB, and many others. Now it’s Yahoo’s turn. …read more Source:: OpenSource
Git Hound, Truffle Hog root out GitHub leaks
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid It’s App Dev 101: Don’t hard-code API tokens, encryption keys, and user credentials. But if you do, make sure to get them out of your code before committing to GitHub …read more Source:: OpenSource
5 lessons from a Chromebook deployment
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•By Galen Gruman Microsoft has been making major strides in allowing management of devices, users, and information across the Exchange and Office 365 ecosystem, with an emphasis on eventual shift to Office …read more Source:: OpenSource
Open source challenger takes on Google Translate
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Researchers have released an open source neural network system for performing language translations that could be an alternative to proprietary, black-box translation services. Open Source Neural Machine Translation (OpenNMT) …read more Source:: OpenSource
Google open-sources test suite to find crypto bugs
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid Working with cryptographic libraries is hard, and a single implementation mistake can result in serious security problems. To help developers check their code for implementation errors and find weaknesses …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Privacy Badger 2.0 released for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera
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•By Jim Lynch Privacy Badger 2.0 released Privacy is a major issue for many people these days. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been in the vanguard of the fight for privacy rights on the …read more Source:: OpenSource
Kubernetes 1.5 comes to Windows Server 2016
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Over the last couple of years, Docker’s been one of the fastest-moving projects in IT. But Kubernetes, Google’s system for orchestrating containers running at scale, stands to share Docker’s “move …read more Source:: OpenSource