Microsoft hires open-source veteran Stormy Peters to run its Open Source Programs Office

Stormy Peters, most recently a senior community manager with Red Hat, is now director of Microsoft's Open Source Programs Office.
Red Hat Launches OpenShift Service Mesh for hybrid cloud developers

To coordinate applications and services in Kubernetes-based hybrid clouds, you need a service mesh network, and Red Hat has blended together several technologies to provide one. ...
UK cybersecurity agency warns devs to drop Python 2 due to looming EOL & security risks

NCSC likens companies continuing to use Python 2 past its EOL to tempting another WannaCry or Equifax incident.

Intel, IBM, Google, Microsoft & others join new security-focused industry group

New Confidential Computing Consortium will promote the use of TEEs (trusted execution environments).
IBM joins Linux Foundation AI to promote open source trusted AI workflows

As AI spreads like wildfire through the enterprise, IBM is stepping up efforts to promote open source tools for building fair, robust and explainable AI systems. ...
Backdoor code found in 11 Ruby libraries

RubyGems staff have removed 18 malicious Ruby library versions that have been downloaded 3,584 times since July 8.

Raspberry Pi gets MIT's Scratch 3 programming language for Raspbian

MIT Media Lab's Scratch 3 programming language is now available to install on Raspberry Pi.
I installed five flavours of Linux on my new laptop: One month on, here's what I've learned

Using Linux on a laptop used to be so tricky and tedious: that's clearly no longer the case.
Backdoor found in Webmin, a popular web-based utility for managing Unix servers

Backdoored Webmin versions were available for download for more than a year through the official site.

Sun, NASA demo open-source 3D earth software

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