Mozilla has revealed the first set of open source projects that will receive funding for developing innovative technology for use during the coronavirus pandemic. The scheme, launched under Mozilla Open Source Support awards program, offers applicants up to $50,000 each to develop open source technology that tackles issues caused by COVID-19.
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Looking to sync directories on two Linux servers in your data center and want to do it on the cheap? Unison might be just the tool you need. Unison is a tool similar to rsync–the only difference being that it can track and synchronize both directories, not just one.
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Firefox 76.0 is out today as the newest feature release to Mozilla’s web browser. On the Linux front one of the notable changes with Firefox 76 is enabling VA-API Wayland acceleration for all video codecs, building off the Wayland/VA-API work found in last month’s Firefox 75.
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As a steward of open source software, Red Hat has been doing its part for organisations across Asia-Pacific looking to contribute their source codes to the open source community. One such organisation is Singapore’s GovTech, which has open sourced the contact-tracing protocol to help other authorities stem the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Open source embraces the probability that if your organization is facing a problem, then chances are someone else is facing the same thing and has come up with a solution. Here are five projects that answer universal problems that most IT teams encounter.
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In 2017, Jules Bashizi Irenge was a graduate of the Masters of Computer Science program at the University of Liverpool in the UK. A longtime Linux user, Jules dreamed of pursuing a Ph.D. program where he could use Linux for computer science research projects. While awaiting the results of his application for asylum in the UK, he heard about the Linux Foundation Training (LiFT) Scholarship program and decided to submit an application.
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The Linux Foundation will be hosting the Trust over IP Foundation (ToIP), which is a project with one goal—enable the trustworthy exchange and verification of data between any two parties on the internet. This standard is being developed with global pan-industry support.
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Google has open sourced TensorFlow RunTime (TFRT), a new TensorFlow runtime that aims to provide a unified, extensible infrastructure layer with best-in-class performance across a wide variety of domain-specific hardware. TFRT is responsible for the efficient execution of kernels – low-level device-specific primitives – on targeted hardware.
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OpenAI today announced it will begin tracking machine learning models that achieve state-of-the-art efficiency, an effort it believes will help identify candidates for scaling and achieving top overall performance. Beyond spotlighting top-performing AI models, OpenAI says that publicly measuring efficiency will paint a quantitative picture of algorithmic progress.
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