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VSCodium Strips Microsoft Telemetry from VS Code with FOSS License

A new open-source build of the popular Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor stripped of Microsoft customizations and released under a "real" open-source license is now available.

Fourth Annual Call for Code Challenges Developers to Tackle 'Existential Threat of Climate Change'

The 4th annual Call for Code Global Challenge, which invites software developers from around the world to create open-source solutions to combat climate change, got underway this week.

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Netflix Open Sources GraphQL for Spring Boot

Netflix has open sourced its Domain Graph Service (DGS) framework for standalone and federated GraphQL services.

Rust Foundation Founded to Steward Popular Mozilla-born Language

The up-and-coming programming language, Rust, gained a kind of official status this week with the formation of the Rust Foundation, an independent non-profit steward of the open-source language and ecosystem.

Bonita 2021.1 Adds 'Unprecedented Number' of Open-Source of Features

Business process automation and optimization tools provider Bonitasoft announces milestone release of the Bonita Platform with new open-source features.

Developers Get New Features via Atlassian's Jira Software Cloud

Software development and collaboration tools provider Atlassian has announced four new features in its Jira Software Cloud designed to allow developers to visualize and measure progress "from idea through to production" across Atlassian and third-party tools.

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Payara and Azul Secure Java Builds of OpenJDK for Payara Enterprise

Azul Systems and Payara have extended their agreement to ship Azul's Zulu Enterprise builds of OpenJDK with Payara Platform Enterprise.

SmartBear Releases SwaggerHub Extension for Visual Studio Code

SmartBear releases the SwaggerHub extension for Visual Studio Code.

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AWS 'Investing to Deliver Rust Engineering at Amazon Scale'

With Rust becoming a bigger part of its development backbone, AWS is seeking to bring more Rust engineers into its ranks.

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Linux 5.10 Released: Bigger Kernel Release Than Expected

Linus Torvalds this week announced the first release candidate of version 5.10 of the Linux kernel (Linux 5.10-rcl), a release that also marks the end of the feature merge window for this EOY 2020 kernel.

GrammaTech Tool Uncovers Third-Party Code 'Blind Spots'

New security solution surfaces vulnerabilities in third-party code used in the development of custom applications.

Pluralsight Live Announcements: A Partnership, an Acquisition, and Lots of Platform Enhancements

Online course provider Pluralsight made numerous announcements at its Pluralsight LIVE virtual event last week around its technology skills and engineering management platform, unveiled a new strategic partnership, and announced a key acquisition.

GitHub's New Command Line Tool Goes GA

GitHub announced the general availability of its new command-line tool, GitHub CLI, which edges Hub to become the official CLI tool.

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Microsoft's Security Group Open Sources Fuzzing Framework for Azure

Microsoft enables continuous developer-driven "fuzzing" with newly open sourced tool.

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Terrascan Update Leverages Cloud Native Computing Foundation's OPA Engine

Cloud security provider Accurics announced a major update of its free and open-source Terrascan static code analyzer for devs building Infrastructure as Code.