TechSpot

JANUARY 28, 2025

Google has announced that PebbleOS is now available for download under an open-source license, signaling its support for volunteers who continue to maintain Pebble devices. In a surprising twist, Pebble Technology's original founder has also confirmed his interest in re-entering the "Pebble game" sooner rather than later.

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ITPro Today

MARCH 28, 2025

Open source software may be free to use, but creating and maintaining it often incurs significant costs. Here are four approaches to paying for open source software development.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 31, 2023

In a post-open-source world, Bruce Perens, one of the co-founders of the Open Source movement, envisions a simple compliance process that companies must go through every year in exchange for all the rights necessary to use open-source software. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

APRIL 26, 2024

Ten years after releasing the source code of MS-DOS 1.25 Microsoft is making yet another contribution to the world of open-source software preservation. Working in partnership with IBM and "in the spirit of open innovation," the company has released the source code of MS-DOS 4.00 under an MIT license.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A new report shines a light on the world of commercial open source software (COSS) startups, including which ones are growing fastest, which are raising cash and even which universities are most popular among COSS founders. The top 50 fastest-growing open source startups in 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Open source code is integral to tech stacks at many large companies, but its authors rarely get recognized — let alone compensated — for their work. . Max Howell claims the package manager software he created, Homebrew, is the most contributed-to open source software program in the world.

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TechSpot

JULY 25, 2024

Switzerland has started requiring all its public organizations to use open-source software. The new measure, known as EMBAG or the Federal Law on the Use of Electronic Means for the Performance of Government Tasks, was approved in 2023 after years of debate. As highlighted by ZDNet, EMBAG is now forcing. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

JANUARY 14, 2021

If you’ve ever wanted to be like Steve Wozniak and have your own custom-made, geeky watch, Squarofumi (stylized SQFMI) may have the product for you: an open-source, Arduino-powered smartwatch with a 1.54-inch It’s called the Watchy , and both the hardware and software are completely customizable. Image: SQFMI.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

The answer might be through projects employing open source software, Mudit Gupta, chief information security officer at layer-2 blockchain Polygon, told TechCrunch. But if it was built on open source software it would have been caught almost immediately and the product would have been much safer.”.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Developers interested in fine-tuning Evo 2 on their proprietary datasets can download the model through the open-source NVIDIA BioNeMo Framework , a collection of accelerated computing tools for biomolecular research. See notice regarding software product information. Read more about Evo 2 in Arc’s technical report.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Securing the software supply chain is admittedly somewhat of a dry topic, but knowing which components and code go into your everyday devices and appliances is a critical part of the software development process that billions of people rely on every day. But the consequences of a software compromise can be dire and widespread.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Streamlabs has promised to remove “OBS” from the name of its livestreaming software, Streamlabs OBS, following backlash from streamers and the open-source livestreaming platform OBS Studio. Streamlabs has also been accused of copying the website of another broadcasting software, with all the drama hashed out on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In a step toward solving it, OpenAI today open-sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system that the company claims enables “robust” transcription in multiple languages as well as translation from those languages into English.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Tracking the growth and frequency of open source startups has been a long-running project at TechCrunch. This column joined the fun in the last few years , noting what seemed to be a rising wave of startups building open source projects that they later monetized. Confluent was one. Hashicorp was another.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Victoria Melnikova Contributor Share on Twitter Alongside fellow Evil Martians , Victoria Melnikova builds devtools and commercial open source products and writes about her journey in tech. But is it possible for a smaller open source project to find its way into this land of commercial opportunity?

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InfoWorld

MARCH 14, 2024

Frank Crane wasn’t talking about open source when he famously said, “You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.” Every study I see suggests that between 90% and 98% of the world’s software is open source. To read this article in full, please click here

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Companies producing software are becoming ever more reliant on open source databases to build their programs, but it’s complex working with all these different products. Instaclustr , a California startup, wanted to change that by offering popular open source databases delivered as a service.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. ” The open source factor. . ” The open source factor.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Now, a Spanish startup called Penpot — which is taking a new approach to design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers into the mix simultaneously — says that it’s been seeing a huge amount of adoption since the Figma deal. “Developers care about that.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Companies on the hunt for comprehensive project management and issue tracking tooling aren’t exactly short of options, with the likes of Atlassian’s Jira serving software development teams well for more than two decades.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

So despite the broader downturn , it seems that 2022 may have been relatively kind to startups operating in the no- and low-code sphere, something that fledgling Northern Irish startup Budibase is capitalizing on with the announcement of a fresh $7 million tranche of funding to further develop an open source web app builder.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Google introduced OSV-Scanner this week, a free tool that lets developers making open-source software scan for known vulnerabilities in the dependencies they use. The scanner checks their projects against Google's Open Source Vulnerability (OSV) schema and the OSV.dev service.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Founded out of Berlin in 2021, Qdrant is targeting AI software developers with an open source vector search engine and database for unstructured data, which is an integral part of AI application development particularly as it relates to using real-time data that hasn’t been categorized or labeled.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 22, 2024

If you follow open source topics on X/Twitter, you can be forgiven for believing the biggest issue in open source today is companies relicensing their open source code under different licenses. Yes, with plenty of open source buried inside and effectively “relicensed.”) Sounds terrible, right?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Richard North developed an open source solution called Testcontainers in 2015 to help ease this problem for developers. Today, the open source project is used by companies like Uber, Netflix, Spotify and Capital One. Testcontainers changed that by testing against real versions of the dependent software pieces. “If

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TechSpot

AUGUST 28, 2023

The outspoken Finnish software engineer who brought the Free Open Source kernel to the world said that he did not find any valid excuse to delay the new release, which has been going smoothly because programmers. Linus Torvalds announced on Sunday that the work on Linux 6.5 is now complete. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

MARCH 3, 2025

Last week, DeepSeek released five of its most advanced software repositories during its "Open Source Week" event. The Chinese AI firm unveiled a Linux-based file system it.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

MLOps platform Iterative , which announced a $20 million Series A round almost exactly a year ago, today launched MLEM, an open-source git-based machine learning model management and deployment tool. “Having a machine learning model registry is becoming an essential part of the machine learning technology stack.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Tea , an open source unified package manager for software developers, today announced it has added another $8.9 million in seed funding to its coffer as it builds on recent momentum that has seen some 16,000 developers authenticate their software packages with Tea. From the creator of Homebrew, Tea raises $8.9M

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Posted by Xingyou (Richard) Song, Research Scientist, and Chansoo Lee, Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Google Vizier is the de-facto system for blackbox optimization over objective functions and hyperparameters across Google, having serviced some of Google’s largest research efforts and optimized a wide range of products (e.g.,

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InfoWorld

MARCH 4, 2024

Folks, we have an open source problem. You’ll hear people rail against corporations that falsely describing their code as open source. You’ll hear others bemoan the influx of venture-backed companies diluting the meaning of open source to fuel corporate gains. And, no, it’s not the problem some think.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

Plus, the open-source NVIDIA RTX Remix modding platform has now been released, and NVIDIA ACE technology enhancements are bringing to life next-generation digital humans and AI agents for games. See notice regarding software product information. Developers can start building with ACE today. Join NVIDIA at GDC.

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TechSpot

MARCH 28, 2024

Over the last fourteen years of his career in the game industry, Barrie primarily focused on the software side of graphics rendering. Dylan Barrie is a game developer and hardware hobbyist. However, he started developing a custom, full-stack GPU four years ago in his spare time. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

When it comes to building databases and other backend software development, different organizations and developers do not always speak the same language. Its open-source-based Prisma ORM, launched last year, now has more than 150,000 developers using it for Node.js

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

ARMO , the Tel Aviv-based company behind Kubescape , the popular open source Kubernetes security platform, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global. New investor Hyperwise Ventures as well as existing investors Pitango First and Peled Ventures also participated in this round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. I have worked remotely in technology for over a decade, and I’ll share my tips for how fast-paced technical startups can take good care of their software development talent.

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VentureBeat

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

OctoTools plans, executes, and verifies LLM tool use, surpassing competitors with its unique modular architecture. Read More

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