A hacker has gained access to a Microsoft employee’s GitHub account and has downloaded some of the company’s private GitHub repositories. The intrusion is believed to have taken place in March. However, the hacker did not gain access to the source code of any major Microsoft core projects.
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If you want to run a command on a Linux system until it succeeds, there are some really easy ways to do it that don’t require you to retype the command repeatedly or sit in front of your screen pressing !! Let’s look at the two options available with bash.
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What if you wanted to build a modern electrical grid like, say, Tesla? You’d probably want to rely on open source innovation to handle electrical grid levels of complexity at unimaginable scales. Open source for resilience, in other words — an insight that clever Tesla engineers recently revealed at a conference.
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ScyllaDB has announced Scylla Open Source 4.0, the latest major release of its NoSQL database for real-time big data workloads. The release builds on Scylla’s close-to-the-hardware design, enabling optimal use of modern server infrastructure. Written from the ground-up in C++, Scylla delivers performance of millions of OPS on a single node.
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Open source software has the potential to be very secure. Now, code repository GitHub is rolling out new tools for its GitHub Advanced Security suite that will make it easier to root out vulnerabilities in the open source projects managed on its platform.
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Mozilla has revealed the first set of open source projects that will receive funding for developing innovative technology for use during the coronavirus pandemic. The scheme, launched under Mozilla Open Source Support awards program, offers applicants up to $50,000 each to develop open source technology that tackles issues caused by COVID-19.
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Looking to sync directories on two Linux servers in your data center and want to do it on the cheap? Unison might be just the tool you need. Unison is a tool similar to rsync–the only difference being that it can track and synchronize both directories, not just one.
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Firefox 76.0 is out today as the newest feature release to Mozilla’s web browser. On the Linux front one of the notable changes with Firefox 76 is enabling VA-API Wayland acceleration for all video codecs, building off the Wayland/VA-API work found in last month’s Firefox 75.
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As a steward of open source software, Red Hat has been doing its part for organisations across Asia-Pacific looking to contribute their source codes to the open source community. One such organisation is Singapore’s GovTech, which has open sourced the contact-tracing protocol to help other authorities stem the Covid-19 pandemic.
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