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GitHub acquires Semmle to secure open-source supply chain; attains CVE Numbering Authority status

Yesterday, GitHub announced that it has acquired Semmle, a code analysis platform provider and also that it is now a…

5 years ago

GQL (Graph Query Language) joins SQL as Global Standards Project and will be the international standard declarative query language for graphs

On Tuesday, the team at Neo4j, the graph database management system announced that the international committees behind the development of…

5 years ago

Introducing Microsoft’s AirSim, an open-source simulator for autonomous vehicles built on Unreal Engine

Back in 2017, the Microsoft Research team developed and open-sourced Aerial Informatics and Robotics Simulation (AirSim). On Monday, the team…

5 years ago

Media manipulation by Deepfakes and cheap fakes require both AI and social fixes, finds Data & Society report

A new report from Data and Society published by researchers Britt Paris and Joan Donovan argues that the violence of…

5 years ago

Percona announces Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL to support open source databases

Yesterday, the team at Percona, an open-source database software, and services provider announced Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL to offer expanded…

5 years ago

Keras 2.3.0, the first release of multi-backend Keras with TensorFlow 2.0 support is now out

Yesterday, the Keras team announced the release of Keras 2.3.0, which is the first release of multi-backend Keras with TensorFlow…

5 years ago

Open AI researchers advance multi-agent competition by training AI agents in simple hide and seek environment

Open AI researchers have built a simple hide and seek game environment for multi-agent competition where they observed that AI…

5 years ago

The House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee asks Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet, and Apple for details including private emails in the wake of antitrust investigations

On Friday last week, the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee sent out four separate requests for information letters to Amazon, Facebook,…

5 years ago

$100 million ‘Grant for the Web’ to promote innovation in web monetization jointly launched by Mozilla, Coil and Creative Commons

Coil, Mozilla and Creative Commons are launching a major $100 million ‘Grant for the Web’ to award people who help…

5 years ago

France and Germany reaffirm blocking Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency

Update Oct 14: After Paypal, Visa, Mastercard, eBay, Stripe, and Mercado Pago have also withdrawn from Facebook's Libra Association. These…

5 years ago