Want a truly secure operating system kernel? The Linux Foundation is partnering with Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, to roll out the seL4 microkernel …read more Source:: Linux
Month: April 2020
Docker’s Compose specification is now an open standard
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Docker Compose, the system created by Docker to define multi-container applications, is now to be developed as an open standard. The Compose Specification, as the new …read more Source:: OpenSource
Engineered virus might be able to block coronavirus infections, mouse study shows
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•No vaccines exist that protect people against infections by coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, or the ones that cause SARS and MERS. As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc, many …read more Source:: Science
Microsoft: This Windows 10 PowerShell script lets you securely fight coronavirus with Folding@home
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•Microsoft’s new PowerShell script runs Folding@home in Windows 10’s Sandbox secure virtual-machine container. …read more Source:: Linux
Microsoft announces IPE, a new code integrity feature for Linux
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•Microsoft says IPE (Integrity Policy Enforcement) was designed for immutable and embedded systems (e.g. network firewall device in a data center). …read more Source:: Linux
Why not the best? Red Hat vet Paul Cormier takes over as CEO
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•As former Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst moves over to reforming IBM, one of his right-hand people, Paul Cormer, takes over as Red Hat’s CEO and President. …read more Source:: Linux
Huawei changes its patent story
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•By opening up its massive patent portfolio to Linux and open-source companies via the Open Invention Network, Huawei shows just how important open patents are to software development. It’s also …read more Source:: Linux
Lucy had an ape-like brain
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•A new study led by paleoanthropologists reveals that Lucy’s species Australopithecus afarensis had an ape-like brain. However, the protracted brain growth suggests that — as is the case in humans …read more Source:: Science
When three species of human ancestor walked the Earth
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•Scientists share details of the most ancient fossil of Homo erectus known and discuss how these new findings are forcing us to rewrite a part of our species’ evolutionary history. …read more Source:: Science
Postman lends its API power to the COVID-19 fight
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Postman, the company behind the collaborative API development platform, is offering a resource of its own in the fight against COVID-19: a collection of API endpoints for tapping …read more Source:: OpenSource