A programmer has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI for their GitHub Copilot tool, alleging that it basically allows Microsoft to profit off of the work of others, without consent.
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Google has revealed an expansion to its Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP). It is designed to encourage privately reporting security flaws in open source software in exchange for monetary rewards.
Following developer backlash after the latest Microsoft Store policy update, the company has reverted controversial changes and decided to allow selling apps based on open-source projects.
Microsoft has announced that it is open-sourcing its latest GODEL conversational AI, which enables goal-oriented interactions while still providing external information, just like a real conversation.
Microsoft has started work on XDP for Windows, which is based on a popular Linux project that enables low latency and high throughput for apps. The firm's implementation is open-source on GitHub.
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In this week's recap of everything that happened in the Microsoft-verse, we have some juicy news items related to Windows 3D Movie Maker from 1995, a leaked Outlook client, and some Defender woes.
How much do you know about the top open-source GitHub repositories developed and maintained by Microsoft? If you don't know a lot but would like to start with some basics, check out our new listicle!
Google has pledged support for OpenSSF's Package Analysis Project for open source packages uploaded to popular repositories. It has also published the results which paint a rather interesting picture.
Google and Microsoft have invested $5 million in OpenSSF's Alpha-Omega Project, where Alpha will work on the most critical OSS projects and Omega will focus on the long tail of OSS projects.
With the launch of TriggerMesh's open-source cloud-native Integration Platform, Kubernetes users can now effortlessly connect data and applications across multiple on-premises and clouds data centers.
The Fedora Project has released Fedora 29. The new upgrade comes with new software including GNOME 3.30. The project noted that the release comes almost 15 years after Fedora Core 1 was announced.
The City of Rome has begun the switch to LibreOffice as default for its workers. The switch begins with those who don't need to use office programs for more than one hour per month.
