Google Cloud Trumpets New Security Capabilities At Next ’19 UK

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November 20, 2019

Google Cloud took the wraps off new data encryption, network security, security analytics and user protection capabilities today in London for the kickoff of its Next ’19 UK conference expected to draw 7,000 attendees as its largest customer event in Europe.

The cloud provider’s announcements come on the heels of the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a law regulating data protection and privacy in the Europe Union that was implemented last year. Google Cloud also announced the general availability of Migrate for Anthos, Apigee hybrid and Cloud Code.

[Source: CRN]

CloudFactory raises $65 million to prep and process data sets

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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November 20, 2019

CloudFactory is the brainchild of serial entrepreneur Mark Sears, who in nine years grew it from a small-time data prep solutions company to an international conglomerate with offices in the U.K., U.S., Nepal, and Kenya. (CloudFactory is headquartered in Reading.) Today the company announced that it has raised $65 million in a growth equity round that brings its total raised to $78 million.

To date, CloudFactory has completed over 150 projects, and it now processes “millions” of tasks a day.

[Source: VentureBeat]

Codefresh Targets 2020 For $100M Open Source Fund Launch

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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November 20, 2019

Codefresh has established a $100 million open source fund offering grants up to $1 million. The move is expected to foster the growth and expediency of open source projects from development and deployment to ongoing maintenance. The fund is set to launch in 2020 with a focus on CI/CD.

The fund will provide grants to open source projects specifically to improve their DevOps, systems, and processes for increasing contributions and improving the quality of code delivered, Codefresh said.

[Source: TFiR]

UNSW to open source its Microsoft classroom platform on GitHub

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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November 20, 2019

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has announced that it will begin open sourcing its cloud-based classroom platform built on Office Education, and releasing it on GitHub this December, starting with its artificial intelligence-driven chatbot, called Question. According to Dr David Kellerman, a senior lecturer at UNSW school of mechanical and manufacturing engineering, Question was developed on Microsoft’s bot framework to help ensure the thousands of online posts received from students were never missed.

[Source: ZDNet]

Google wants to unfork Android back to the Linux kernel

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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November 20, 2019

GOOGLE HAS SAID it wants to bring Android into line with the main Linux kernel. Although Android already works on a Linux kernel, it’s been so heavily modified over the years, it’s almost unrecognisable, and certainly no longer compatible with the main Linux operating system. Now, however, Google has expressed its desire to right that wrong and bring Android back into line with the regular fork of Linux.

The advantages are manifest. For a start, it would save thousands of hours of work to maintain a separate fork for years at a time.

[Source: The Inquirer]

HPE launches container platform, aims to be 100% open source Kubernetes

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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November 18, 2019

Hewlett Packard Enterprise launched its HPE Container Platform, a Kubernetes container system designed to run both cloud and on-premises applications. On the surface, HPE Container Platform will face an uphill climb as all the top cloud providers have Kubernetes management tools and instances and IBM with Red Hat has a big foothold for hybrid cloud deployments and the container management that goes with it.

HPE, which recently outlined a plan to make everything a service, is betting that the HPE Container Platform can differentiate itself based on two themes.

[Source: ZDNet]

Debian GNU/Linux 10.2 “Buster” Live & Installable ISOs Now Available to Download

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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November 18, 2019

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Just one day after announcing the availability of the Debian GNU/Linux 10.2 “Buster” maintenance update, the Debian Project now published live and installable ISO images for all supported architectures and flavors. Debian GNU/Linux 10.2 “Buster” consists of over two months of updates release through the official software repositories. It includes a total of 115 security updates and bug fixes, offering the community the most up-to-date install mediums for the latest Debian GNU/Linux 10 “Buster” operating system series.

[Source: Softpedia]

GCC Might Finally Have A Static Analysis Framework Thanks To Red Hat

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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November 18, 2019

Clang’s static analyzer has become quite popular with developers for C/C++ static analysis of code while now the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) might finally see a mainline option thanks to Red Hat. Red Hat’s David Malcolm has proposed a set of 49 patches that appear to be fairly robust and the most we have seen out of GCC static analysis capabilities to date.

This GCC static analysis framework can easily report use after free errors, double frees, and other common C coding issues that are detectable via static analysis. The implementation is quite interesting and opens the doors for GCC a lot but in using this –analyzer pass roughly doubles the compile times.

[Source: Phoronix]

US court to hear long-running Google vs. Oracle case

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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November 18, 2019

With potentially billions of dollars on the line, the US Supreme Court said Friday it will hear arguments in a long-running copyright case between tech giants Google and Oracle involving the Android mobile operating system. The complex case pitting two Silicon Valley giants against each other has raged on since 2010, and already saw many twists and turns before a jury found in favor of Google only to have that decision reversed by a circuit court. That prompted Google’s appeal to the nation’s highest court this past March.

[Source: CRN Australia]

Chrome OS 80 will start using Debian 10 Buster on new Linux installations

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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November 16, 2019

After months of testing and bug fixing, Google is ready to enable Debian 10 “Buster” as the default Linux container in Chrome OS. According to a recently merged commit we spotted in the Chromium Gerrit, new Crostini (the code-name for Linux apps on Chrome OS) installations will get Debian 10 by default. The commit doesn’t mention how Chromebooks with existing Debian 9 “Stretch” installations will be migrated to the newer version, but users can easily upgrade the container themselves by running a few commands.

Upgrading to the newer version of Debian enables new features and should also bring greater application support. For the truly enterprising, it’s even possible to replace the Debian container with Arch Linux.

[Source: XDA Developers]