Remove Files Remove License Remove Open Source
article thumbnail

Hugging Face and ServiceNow launch BigCode, a project to open source code-generating AI systems

TechCrunch

But so far, only a handful of such AI systems have been made freely available to the public and open sourced — reflecting the commercial incentives of the companies building them. For their parts, GitHub and OpenAI continue to assert that Codex and Copilot don’t run afoul of any license terms.

article thumbnail

ForgeRock files for IPO as identity and access management business grows

TechCrunch

ForgeRock filed its form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this morning as the identity management provider takes the next step toward its IPO. ForgeRock was founded in 2010, but its roots go back even further to an open-source single sign-on project known as OpenSSO that was created by Sun Microsystems in 2005.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Google Summer of Code: 55 million lines of code released since 2005

The Next Web

Chris DiBona, the open source and public sector engineering manager at Google, was recently interviewed by Slashdot. ” I asked some friends in Open Source, “What if I gave you some students? To qualify, you must request for, and complete, a free and open-source software coding project during the summer.

Google 118
article thumbnail

The most innovative companies in artificial intelligence for 2025

Fast Company Tech

It even showed its work through research papers and by open-sourcing its models. DeepSeeks breakthroughs caused some angst, but its fresh thinking and openness will likely spur bigger and faster innovations from the worlds top AI companies by this time next year. People downloaded variants of the open-source Phi-3 more than 4.5

Companies 110
article thumbnail

OpenOffice.org to get a boost

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free? No administration fees, no license checking, no running out of licenses for larger organizations, nothin’ Download it and put it on every desktop and get rid of that license manager thingy.

article thumbnail

Protestware on the rise: Why developers are sabotaging their own code

TechCrunch

His areas of interest include open source software security, malware analysis, data breaches, and scam investigations. If combating attacks and hijackings of legitimate software on open source registries like npm weren’t challenging enough, app makers are increasingly experiencing the consequences of software self-sabotage.

Develop 112
article thumbnail

I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We rely on free licenses to proprietary content and software, and typically get a “Yes!” We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.