OSS: Startups, Tesla, Hortonworks and Amazon Openwashing
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Open-source tech has gained significance in powering startup tech infrastructure
In the last decade or so, there has been an explosion in the number of mobile applications with the total number of apps available on the App Store reaching 2.2 million in January 2017. Mobile experience reached the next level after the launch of the first iPhone in 2007. Since then, there have been a lot of companies creating excellent smartphones enabling users to seamlessly use these applications. A majority of these mobile applications are B2C in nature, i.e they target consumers and not businesses. There is a distinctive characteristic of these consumer-facing apps—SCALE.
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Tesla Will Open Up Vehicle Security Software To All Automakers
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Elon Musk says Tesla will open part of its self-driving software to the public as a safety measure
Tesla CEO Elon Musk told a hacker conference in Las Vegas he plans to "open source" the software Tesla uses to secure autonomous-driving features from hacks or takeovers, eventually allowing other carmakers to use it.
It's a bid to make autonomous vehicle software safer by opening the software to more scrutiny, he told a private audience of around 100 people on Friday at DEFCON, an annual cybersecurity defense conference held in Las Vegas.
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Elon Musk plans to open source Tesla's self-driving software
The Tesla code, once licenced to manufacturers, could turn out to be the beginning of an open standard which would drive down costs. Plus of course every firm that licenced the tech would be adding its expertise to locking it down securely, such is the beauty of the open source.
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Tesla's Open Source Security Could Protect Against an Autonomous Car Hack
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Hortonworks Supports JIDO Effort to Adopt Open Source for Capability Dev’t; Shaun Bierweiler Comments
Hortonworks has helped the Defense Department‘s Joint Improvised Threat Defeat Organization deploy an enterprise information technology platform built on the Hadoop data management software and other open source technologies, ExecutiveBiz reported July 30.
Federal News Radio reported July 27 that the open source project is in line with JIDO’s effort to deliver capabilities to warfighters and provide updates more quickly amid emerging threats.
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Amazon Releases Open Source Alexa Auto SDK [Ed: Amazon is openwashing malicious surveillance trap that records the conversations or activities of maybe a billion people]
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