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FOSS Weekly - Issue #1
Sai Phanindra
May 28, 2022
📰 News TL;DR
Thanks to events like Build 2022, and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon this week, we have had some announcements from Big Tech companies partnering with open source companies, some that are open-sourcing tools, and others that are releasing newer versions. Read on to find out more!
💻 Software
Microsoft open sources two projects, AdaTest and ToxiGen at Build 2022 to make large language models more reliable [microsoft.com/en-us/research...][microsoft.com/en-us/research...]
Samsung Electronics and Red Hat announced a collaboration to focus on developing and validating open source software for existing and emerging memory and storage products. [news.samsung.com/us/samsung-red-hat...]
FairEmail, an open-source Gmail alternative that was recently banned from Play Store might return after developer updates privacy policy [forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-5-0-fairemail...]
Payload, a headless CMS platform goes open source [payloadcms.com/blog/open-source]
HP and System76 partner to release high-end Linux laptop called HP Dev One with Pop!_OS for $1,099 [hpdevone.com/]
🔗 Security
DrewDeVault, founder of SourceHut says Google has been DDoSing SourceHut for over a year [drewdevault.com/2022/05/25/Google...]
Python’s CTX and PHP’s phpass packages were hacked to harvest AWS credentials [techcentral.ie/open-source-pack...]
GitHub has published a postmortem analysis on last month's OAuth theft and its impact on npm [github.blog/2022-05-26-npm-security...]
The Linux Foundation and OpenSSF have laid out a 2-year $150 Million "The Open Source Software Security Mobilization Plan" to improve open source security [openssf.org/oss-security...]
📝 Releases
WordPress 6.0 “Arturo” [wordpress.org/news/2022/05/arturo/]
Linux Kernel 5.18 [lkml.org/lkml/2022/5/22/274]
OpenSearch 2.0 [opensearch.org/blog/releases/....]
AlmaLinux 9 [almalinux.org/blog/almalinux-9-now-available/]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 [developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/05...]
💡 Miscellaneous
State Department’s Intell Branch to form Open Source coordination office [executivegov.com/2022/05/brett-holmgren-state-dep...]
TikTok has announced a new integration with WooCommerce which enables merchants to sync their store catalog with their TikTok profile [tiktok.com/business/en-US/blog/grow...]
Wordpress completes 19 years since first release. [wp19.day]
Github sponsors launches in India [github.blog/2022-05-23-github-sponsor...]
China’s GitHub clone, Gitee making all repos private pending mysterious ‘review’ [theregister.com/2022/05/20/gitee_code_review/]
🔍 Rare Find of the Week
Amy, is a programmer and alumnus of MIT. She creates a series of zines that cover computer science concepts in an accessible way, targeted toward people who don't think computer science is for them.
BubbleSort Zines are zine series filled with stories and hand-drawn art and diagrams. They cover topics like circuits, sorting, memory, cryptography, image processing, and data structures. Though the intended audience is high school students there are also a surprising number of adults who are also subscribers! BubbleSort was funded by a Kickstarter campaign back in 2016. order yours here:
