Openwashing Leftovers

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ProtonMail iOS app goes open source!
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The ProtonMail iOS App is Now Fully Open Source
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The ProtonMail app on iOS is now fully open source
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Google’s Network Congestion Algorithm Isn’t Fair, Researchers Say
But at least it’s open source and transparent, unlike efforts by countless other companies, those same data scientists say.
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“Lots of companies deploy new congestion control algorithms, but most of them are proprietary,” she said. For example, content delivery network and cloud service provider Akamai uses an algorithm dubbed FastTCP whose implementation is entirely secret. She also noted that Microsoft also uses its own non-transparent congestion control algorithm for Skype.
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MIT Halts Work on the Controversial Open Agriculture Initiative Food Project
MIT has closed down much of its Open Agriculture Initiative following allegations of academic dishonesty and improper dumping of wastewater, according to an article published in the NY Times.
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Most recently, the project is said to have exaggerated the results of its experiments. As the NYT reports, Harper “made exaggerated or false claims to the project’s corporate sponsors as well as in talks and interviews with the news media.”
Researchers on the project have also questioned the effectiveness of the food computers. For example, the food computers could not independently control conditions inside the boxes. One former special projects manager for Open Ag said she had to buy plants from the store for lab photo shoots and that some food computers sent to schools didn’t work.
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Tidelift adds Atlassian Bitbucket integration for application development and devops teams leveraging managed open source
Today at Atlassian Open 2019, Tidelift announced integration with the Bitbucket code collaboration platform. Application development and devops teams using Bitbucket to manage their software development and deployment lifecycle can now use the Tidelift managed open source subscription to help ensure the open source dependencies they rely on to build their applications are secure, well managed, and licensed in compliance with their organization's policies. Tidelift also has made the Tidelift Subscription free trial available through the Atlassian Marketplace, the curated collection of applications for the Atlassian ecosystem.
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South Korean MOIS Selects Altibase Open Source Database for Public-Safety Networks
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Open Source APM for an Event Management Web Application
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Top 10 Java stories of October: Open source, Microsoft contribution and a first glimpse of Jakarta EE 9
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Microsoft to participate in open source Java
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Sysdig Simplifies Log Management for Falco Users With AWS FireLens Integration
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Sonatype’s Nexus Repository Manager Expands OSS Coverage, Sees 40% YoY User Growth
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Ditch the nerd knobs: Converting data into dollars with open source
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Salt Edge releases an open source solution for SCA and dynamic linking under PSD2
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Salt Edge presents SCA software to open source community
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Salt Edge launches an open source solution to support SCA
Salt Edge has unveiled its new open-source solution ‘Salt Edge Authenticator’ to support strong customer authentication (SCA) and dynamic linking. The solution is developed to bring safety and innovation to the payments market and its end-users.
The company created the solution to make online commerce safer and increase customer protection in the open banking sector. The authenticator is developed to take care of all the activities that need SCA application including remote payment transactions, accessing payment accounts, and other types of authorization, according to a statement.
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Salt Edge is a financial API platform with PSD2 and open banking solutions. The company has two main sectors of activity including enabling third parties to get access to bank channels via a unified gateway and developing the technology necessary for banks to become compliant with the directive’s requirements. The company is integrated with 3700+ financial institutions in 70+ countries.
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Long-time Open Source Communications Advocate Joins SignalWire
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Security Scanner Doesn't Need Source-Code Access [Ed: Loaded and misleading headline because source code access does help in a lot of ways]
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Integumen launches Rinodrive open-source AI platform
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The Love for Windows Phone Is Real as More Devs Open Source Their Apps
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Movement to Open Source old Windows Phone apps gather steam
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D2iQ Previews Significant Expansion of its Ksphere Portfolio of Advanced Kubernetes Offerings for Smarter Day 2 Operations
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WSO2 API Manager 3.0 Brings a New Level of Ease to Monetizing, Productizing, Securing, and Managing APIs
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Two key signs enterprise open source adoption is maturing
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Tibco adds extra sauce to open source
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SmartBear Delivers BDD Support with Launch of Cucumber for Jira
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Netflix open sources Polynote, an IDE-like polyglot notebook with Scala support, Apache Spark integration, multi-language interoperability, and more
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AxiomSL Partners with Genpact to Deliver IntegratedModelView ― An Innovative Framework for Model Management
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AT&T finally donates DANOS white box operating system to open source
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Datameer announces $40M investment as it pivots away from Hadoop roots
Company CEO Christian Rodatus says the company’s original mission was about making Hadoop easier to use for data scientists, business analysts and engineers. In the last year, the three biggest commercial Hadoop vendors — Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR — fell on hard times. Cloudera and Hortonworks merged and MapR was sold to HPE in a fire sale.
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