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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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EA releases source code for four Command & Conquer games

Engadget

Video game preservation scored a win today with EA's decision to make four Command & Conquer games open source. The company has released the source code for Command & Conquer , Command & Conquer: Red Alert , Command & Conquer: Renegade and Command & Conquer: Generals through a GPL license.

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An open-source gymnasium for machine learning assisted computer architecture design

Google Research AI blog

Posted by Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Research Scientist, and Vijay Janapa Reddi, Visiting Researcher, Google Research Computer Architecture research has a long history of developing simulators and tools to evaluate and shape the design of computer systems. ML - based proxy models ).

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Students of color are getting flagged to their teachers because testing software can’t see them

The Verge

Proctorio, a piece of exam surveillance software designed to keep students from cheating while taking tests, relies on open-source software that has a history of racial bias issues, according to a report by Motherboard. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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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.

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Fraunhofer’s new H.266 codec promises to cut the cost of streaming 4K video in half

The Verge

With VVC, Fraunhofer says you can get something far better than AVC and HEVC without any of the licensing headaches. So the research organization certainty has a storied and successful history working in data compression. VVC promises to use half the data as HEVC to stream a 90-minute 4K video.

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