Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund unveils a new program to fund maintainers of open source projects that's expected to be up and running by year's end.
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Christine Hall has been a journalist since 1971. In 2001, she began writing a weekly consumer computer column and started covering Linux and FOSS in 2002 after making the switch to GNU/Linux. Follow her on Twitter: @BrideOfLinux
One surprise in this year's Cost of a Data Breach Report is that generative AI is being successfully used not only to prevent data breaches, but to substantially lower the cost of a breach when one happens.
With Leaseweb Canada, its Montreal-based subsidiary, the Dutch company hopes to use Canada's data sovereignty laws to its advantage.
Despite grappling with staffing shortfalls for years, one in five data centers have no women on staff.
Alongside the notification that Polaris Catalog has been made open source, Dremio announced that it is sharing Project Nessie's capabilities with Polaris.
As Paris attracts crowds sports tourists for the 2024 games, mobile apps marketed to attendees are tracking them, collecting their private data, and then hawking it to advertisers and big tech.
According to a new survey, Oracle's been bleeding Java JDK customers since it got greedy with its pricing in 2023.
Does Wayland becoming the defacto standard display server for Linux serve to marginalize BSD?
We're probably not going to find a solution to mass data mining by advertisers and others, as long as privacy issues are handled in a siloed manner by the individual platforms.
Grrr: TechRepublic Headline References Fauxpen Licenses as ‘Open Source’
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An article in which our writer takes the competition to task for using the term "open source" in the headline to an article about "fauxpen source."