Topic: open source
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cedar
AWS open-sourced a language called Cedar that enables users to easily create and enforce access control policies. It provides a unified framework for policy creation and management across multiple clouds, simplifies policy writing, and supports popular authorization models such as role-based and attribute-based access control. Additionally, AWS has adopted a verification-guided development process to ensure … continue reading
GitHub launches new code search and code view
GitHub released its new code search and code view to enable developers to quickly search, navigate and understand their code, and put critical information into context. The new code search engine has been remodeled to be two times faster than the old one and has more capabilities such as supporting substring queries, regular expressions, and … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Frappe
Frappe is a low-code full stack, batteries-included, web framework written in Python and JavaScript, using MariaDB as its database. It is designed to reduce the amount of time developers spend writing code. Frappe makes defining DocTypes easier without the need for code to be used everywhere, since everything in Frappe is a DocType. The framework … continue reading
SD Times Open Source Project of the Week: Animated Drawings
Animated Drawings is an open-source project from the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team at Mela AI. The goal of this project is to help creators and developers create their own drawing-to-animation experiences or products. At its inception in 2021, FAIR applied recent advancements in computer vision towards an intuitive pipeline in order to animate any … continue reading
InfluxDB 3.0 released with rebuilt database and storage engine for time series analytics
InfluxDB announced expanded time series capabilities across its product portfolio with the release of InfluxDB 3.0, the company’s rebuilt database and storage engine for time series analytics. “InfluxDB 3.0 is a major milestone for InfluxData, developed with cutting-edge technologies focused on scale and performance to deliver the future of time series,” said Evan Kaplan, CEO … continue reading
NVIDIA’s NeMo Guardrails adds security features to AI chatbots and generative AI
NVIDIA’s new open-source toolkit enables developers to add topical, safety, and security features to AI chatbots and other generative AI applications built with large language models. The software includes all the code, examples, and documentation businesses need to add safety to AI apps that generate text. NVIDIA said it’s releasing the project since many industries … continue reading
SD Times Open Source Project of the Week: Tython
Tython is an open-source Security as Code framework and SDK that is geared towards building security design patterns as-code. It takes an architectural approach to cloud security, supports the user’s choice of programming language, and removes vendor lock-in. With Tython, customers can design reusable security references architectures as-code with pre-built blueprints so that they don’t … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Analog
Analog is a full stack meta-framework for building both websites and applications with Angular. It is one of the projects in GitHub’s Accelerator program, a 10-week program where open-source maintainers receive a sponsorship of $20,000 to invest in their project as well as guidance from leaders in the open-source community. According to the company, this … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Buck2
Buck2 is Meta’s open-source large scale build system and it is now publicly available through both the Buck2 website and on GitHub. This open-source offering is a from-scratch rewrite of Buck, though it does share some commonalities with it and other build systems such as Bazel. Buck2 completely separates the core and language-specific rules. This … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OSC&R Software Supply Chain Attack Matrix
The OSC&R (Open Software Supply Chain Attack Reference) is an open source framework used for understanding and evaluating existing threats to entire software supply chain security. OSC&R was created to establish a standard language and structure for comprehending and evaluating the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) utilized by attackers to breach the security of software … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Semantic Kernel
Semantic Kernel (SK) is a lightweight SDK from Microsoft aimed at enabling integration of AI Large Language Models with conventional programming languages. According to the project’s GitHub page, the SK extensible programming model brings together natural language semantic functions, traditional code native functions, and embeddings-based memory in order to access new potential and add value … continue reading
Mozilla.ai hopes to build a trustworthy and independent open-source AI ecosystem
Mozilla announced Mozilla.ai, a startup aiming to make a trustworthy and independent open-source AI ecosystem, and pledged an initial $30 million investment in the company. “We’ve learned that this coming wave of AI (and also the last one) has tremendous potential to enrich people’s lives. But it will only do so if we design the … continue reading
