#open-source-software

#open-source-software

We live in an astonishing technology-based world, fueled by and dependent on software. That software provides our networks, our security, our financial transactions, our supply chain management, and, of course, the generative AI systems that are top of mind for just about everyone. But where does that digital infrastructure come from? Nearly all of it is based on free and open source software, what the industry calls FOSS.

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Ross Kukulinski, vice president of product management for Kong, said OpenMeter will enable Kong to embed the usage-based metering and billing capabilities into Kong Konnect, a platform for managing application programming interfaces (APIs), early next year. In the meantime, Kong will continue to make the OpenMeter software available both as open source software and via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application service that OpenMeter provides.

The AI agent Big Sleep, developed by DeepMind and Project Zero, reported its first vulnerabilities in popular open-source software, finding 20 flaws.

Open-source software is foundational to economies and societies, yet its maintenance is underfunded. The public sector must find better ways to support its upkeep.

Voxtral bridges the gap between high error open-source models and costly proprietary models, offering state-of-the-art accuracy and semantic understanding at competitive pricing.

To those who know, he led the digital world out from the imperial serfdom that had seemed its inexorable fate.