TechSpot

OCTOBER 4, 2021

On Monday, Google uploaded the source code for Android 12 to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Pixel devices will be the first to receive it sometime in the “next few weeks.” Other OEMs like Samsung and OnePlus will release the latest iteration for their devices later this year.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

We realized that our humanitarian free and open source software (HFOSS) partners had important roadmap projects with tremendous potential, but in many cases lacked the resources to design, prototype and develop them.

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TechSpot

MARCH 26, 2025

That's thanks to a collaborative effort between the Computer History Museum and Google. The source code, originally written by University of Toronto graduate student Alex Krizhevsky, has now been uploaded to GitHub. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Enter Airbyte , an early stage startup that is building an open source data integration platform to help solve that problem. The company is providing the open source platform and an SDK to build connectors, and inviting the community to add their own connectors, while building some too. million seed round.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A new open source startup is setting out to help software development teams glean deeper insights from their codebases, using SQL to query all the data sources they use in the software building process. ” Being open source, of course, is also a big part of MergeStat’s flexibility promise.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Pydantic , the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital (VC) firms. Pydantic Services Inc. emerges from stealth today with $4.7 and Europe. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2022

It is defined as open-source software that doesn’t require the support of a trusted intermediary and it has no governing body. Far too many times in history we see nonprofits struggling to keep up with the latest technologies due to limited resources and limited funds – but not with Web3!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution. This topic was especially relevant….

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Preparing for and delivering a webinar isn't something most librarians spend their days doing, so we are especially grateful to our speakers for this gift of sharing what they've learned about open-source software over the last 10 years. You can join in by posting additional questions or your own answers or comments.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

WP Engine is a major WordPress hosting provider that has been commercializing the open-source WordPress project since 2010. Over their 14-year history, they've raised nearly $300 million, with most of that – $250 million – coming from private equity firm Silver Lake in 2018. Read Entire Article

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 11, 2023

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. The impact of a diverse dataset and dataset size on the normalized RMSE.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

Users who are eligible to contribute to Community Notes, after meeting specific criteria such as having a verified account and a history of platform engagement, can apply to be a contributor and add context to posts they believe contain misinformation (200,000 have already done so in the U.S., Meta tells me).

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

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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TechSpot

JANUARY 24, 2024

OpenWrt One, the first 'fully upstream supported' hardware design in the history of the open-source project, is a hardware platform built around the OpenWrt firmware. OpenWrt is 20 years old, and its developers have decided to properly celebrate this important milestone with a new community-driven project. Read Entire Article

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. Qwiki :: qwiki.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

It is open source, after all. Yes, it is open source, and I applaud Google for releasing open source software. I won’t be downloading it, or trying it, even when they release Mac or Linux versions. Why so curmudgeonly you ask? And it has some cool features. I am going to have to stop using Chrome.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2021

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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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

Importantly, Amazon also says it will be open-sourcing the technology, allowing other companies to quickly replicate and deploy these devices in a range of locations. Amazon has a history of closely tracking workers’ activities. Amazon isn’t the only company using machine learning in this way.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

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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The Verge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The group’s for-profit motive has made it controversial in the modding and emulation communities, reports Ars Technica , because those communities tend to focus on open-source efforts and shy away from selling products that could draw the attention of both console makers and federal authorities.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Among its co-founders are Ville Aikas, Kim Lewandowski, Matt Moore (CTO) and Scott Nichol, who were all previously at Google and heavily involved in the open source community. The Chainguard team are the thought leaders in this space, and it is the right team at the right time in history to tackle this problem.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. Flipboard :: flipboard.com. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

The History and Evolution of Learning Management Systems GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - In the modern world of education and corporate training, the significance of LMS cannot be overstated. 2002: Moodle, the first open-source LMS, was introduced. These systems have become indispensable tools, catering to a remarkable 73.8

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

The History and Evolution of Learning Management Systems GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - In the modern world of education and corporate training, the significance of LMS cannot be overstated. 2002: Moodle, the first open-source LMS, was introduced. These systems have become indispensable tools, catering to a remarkable 73.8

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

The History and Evolution of Learning Management Systems Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems In the modern world of education and corporate training, the significance of LMS cannot be overstated. 2002: Moodle, the first open-source LMS, was introduced. million users worldwide. billion by 2030.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

Open source password management platform Bitwarden has made its first known acquisition, snapping up a fledgling Sweden-based startup called Passwordless.dev , which specializes in helping developers integrate passwordless authentication technology into their software.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Sim had a front row seat to every twist and turn in the company’s long and intricate history. They were actually considering simply packing it in, but they had developed a tiny open-source tool called analytics.js, which they used to get data into their failed analytics product.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A Brief History of Foundation Models We are in a time where simple methods like neural networks are giving us an explosion of new capabilities, said Ashish Vaswani, an entrepreneur and former senior staff research scientist at Google Brain who led work on the seminal 2017 paper on transformers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The company also says that its basic open source incarnation has been used by data scientists at companies such as Samsung and DocuSign. The state of play In truth, there are myriad similar platforms out there already, spanning the entire proprietary and open source landscapes. million ($2.9

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 2, 2009

You can export your donation history into a CSV file, and you can make your reports into PDFs. The online help for BlackbaudNow is powered by the open source software MediaWiki. Of course, proprietary software makers use open source software all the time, that’s not the problem. There are no APIs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

Dries ‘ keynote was fun, and it was great to hear a bit about the history, and also the ideas about where Drupal is going. Tags: opensource Open Source drupalcon CMS nptech drupal. One thing he said in particular stood out: “Start thinking of the internet as one big machine.&#

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Today we’re taking a look at AI startups, open source-focused companies, and, yes, more favorites. Open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter 2022. Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 open source founders have some interesting ideas up their sleeves.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions. We will fill the void.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

ProjectRSS for describing projects (part of the Open Philanthropy effort) – I've recently come across this project from John Brennan (@worldlyjohn on Twitter) and am interested in what you all think about it! "Open "Open source software exists in the computer industry. It features concept de?nitions

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

“History is Enough&#. When projects are small, involve people that haven’t yet “created something&# to get their name out there, a few thousand dollars is important, but so is your support. Just because some person created Facebook, doesn’t mean their next idea will be the “next Facebook.&#

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The Verge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Krishna took the reins of IBM in April 2020 after working on its $34 billion acquisition of open source software firm Red Hat from 2018 onwards. The split is just the latest divestment of unfavorable businesses in IBM’s long history. Red Hat’s software is key to IBM’s new hybrid cloud offerings.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

So the research organization certainty has a storied and successful history working in data compression. It also contributed heavily to the creation of J.264

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