AI
Pssssst, CTOs: Free, open source ChatGPT alternatives are landing
A complete RLHF pipeline that includes supervised data collection, supervised and reinforcement learning fine-tuning
Enterprise IT
LinkedIn slashes data processing time 94% by unifying batch and stream jobs with Apache Beam
Data "backfilling" jobs cut from seven hours to 25 minutes
Cloud
What IS this new open source S3 file client from Amazon?
Amazon has open-sourced a new file client for S3 called Mountpoint for Amazon S3 that makes it “easy” for Linux-based applications to connect directly to Amazon S3 buckets and access objects using file APIs – not something that has always been easy or indeed possible for Linux-based large-scale analytics applications. Mountpoint
Enterprise IT
Deutsche Bank's Peter Thomas: Execs recognising value of OSS ‘mutualisation’
"Take this Waltz..."
Enterprise IT
Bloomberg, Man Group team up to develop open source "ArcticDB" database
"Build it or buy it?" That's been answered here...
Financial Services
The Big Interview: How Goldman Sachs built a cloud for financial data
Lots of modular serverless AWS, lots of open source... We sat down with the team.
Enterprise IT
This JavaScript library is EVERYWHERE. Its maintainer is broke
Denis Pushkarev may make core-js closed source...
Cybersecurity
22,600+ emails = 599 vulnerabilities. Security disclosure triage is HARD
Security researchers regularly chafe at the deafening silence when they report a critical vulnerability in software: White Hats simply wanting to help organisations fix their cybersecurity all too often still find themselves being ignored – or worse, threatened with legal action when trying to help publicly exposed organisations that have not
Enterprise IT
Ubuntu Pro is GA: 10 years' support for OS, optional support for 23k packages
Welcome stability for users and a canny move by Canonical
Enterprise IT
As CIO budgets tighten, Apache Superset looks like a Big Data winner
Free data exploration and visualisation tool continues to gain traction
Cybersecurity
Peach and OSV-Scanner give fresh, free, food for thought on security
Two new cybersecurity tools “OSV-Scanner” and “Peach” that landed this week deserve attention – whether you are a CISO, Blue Team, or just trying to tighten up your application development or cloud practices. OSV-Scanner was released under an Apache 2.0 licence by Google. Peach is an open framework from Wiz
Cybersecurity
Log4J at 1: A third of downloads still vulnerable to RCE
A year after a critical vulnerability in a ubiquitous piece of open source software, Log4J, set off what The Stack described at the time as an “internet cluster bomb”, nearly 40% of downloads of the popular open source java logging library are still of the vulnerable version – despite the high