OSS Leftovers
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Open source software group for modernizing factory robots seeks SA industry partners
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Room for Improvement: Areas Where Open Source Can Get Even Better
Open source software delivers a huge amount of value. But it stands to offer even more. Here's a list of the ways open source can evolve to meet the needs of developers and organizations even better than it does today.
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What Lightning Will Look Like: Lightning Labs Has Announced Its User Interface Wallet
As part of the announcement, Lightning Labs also introduced Neutrino, the new open-source Bitcoin light client that powers the Lightning Desktop App. As a main benefit, Neutrino users don’t need to download the entire Bitcoin blockchain, which is currently over 140 gigabytes in size. This makes the desktop app much more accessible to regular users who transact small amounts, for which the lightning network is particularly suited. And because Neutrino uses a new method of transaction filtering (client side instead of bloom filters), it offers more privacy than most light clients, too.
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Suite of free, open-source tools to help even non-experts monitor large-scale land use change
Collect Earth is part of Open Foris, a set of free and open-source software tools developed by FAO with Google Earth, Bing Maps and GEE to facilitate flexible and efficient data collection, analysis and reporting. It is hosted on GitHub, a platform for collaborative software development.
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Wall Street likes databases, as MongoDB soars over 30 percent in its IPO
Shares of fast-growing cloud database provider MongoDB closed well above the initial asking price of $24, finishing the day at $32.07 after the company successfully raised $192 million in an initial public offering Thursday.
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Digital Impact Alliance Announces Formation of New Open Source Center and First Round of Catalytic Funding for ICT4D Projects
Today, the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) announced the formation of its new Open Source Center (OSC), and two partners - Digital Square and Software Freedom Conservancy - who will support the Center's work. The Center will act as a resource to open source software projects serving international development and humanitarian response, providing a variety of shared services, insights and mentorship from partners, as well as funding opportunities. The Center is currently offering its first round of catalytic grants to address a range of challenges including effectiveness and momentum. In this first round, four grants will be made, up to $25,000 each, to projects that foster a healthy, sustainable open source community and products. Applications for funding of new participating members is now available, with a November 8 deadline for initial letters of interest.
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AdaptiveScale Releases LXDUI as an Open Source Project.
As part of AdaptiveScale's newly released Custer Manager 1.3 software, we are proud to announce that we have released LXDUI as an open source project under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Facebook open-sources RacerD tool to prevent pesky programming problems
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RacerD detects hard-to-find race conditions in Java code
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Facebook tackles race hate problem head on with programming tool
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Facebook open sources RacerD: A tool that's already squashed 1,000 bugs in concurrent code
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Lamden Announces Open Source Blockchain Development Suite and Token Sale
Lamden, the Switzerland-based technology company behind a new innovative blockchain development suite for enterprise applications, has just announced the token sale of their Lamden Tau Token.
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Security updates for Friday
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Security Central: Open Source Risks Examined [Ed: Is Flexera pulling a Black Duck now? Badmouthing FOSS while ignoring worse issues with proprietary software?]
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