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December 16, 2020 / Last updated : December 16, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Found via Reddit: LinkAce

Found via Reddit: LinkAce. From the front page: “LinkAce is a self hosted archive to store and organize links of your favorite websites. Search through them with the help of tags and lists. The content stays available with the help of automated backups and monitoring.” Note that it is a self-hosted Web app, so you’ll […]

December 14, 2020 / Last updated : December 14, 2020 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

Geospatial World: Mapbox, once an open-source competitor to Google Maps, is no longer free

Geospatial World: Mapbox, once an open-source competitor to Google Maps, is no longer free. “Mapbox GL JS, a JavaScript library for vector maps on the web, is no longer free. Mapbox announced on December 8th, 2020, that they are moving their Mapbox GL JS library from a BSD license to a new more commercial license.”

December 1, 2020 / Last updated : December 1, 2020 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

ZDNet: Linux Mint introduces its own take on the Chromium web browser

ZDNet: Linux Mint introduces its own take on the Chromium web browser. “Linux Mint is a very popular Linux desktop distribution. I use the latest version, Mint 20, on my production desktops. That’s partly because, while it’s based on Debian Linux and Ubuntu, it takes its own path. The best example of that is Mint’s […]

November 25, 2020 / Last updated : November 25, 2020 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

FOSS wins again: Free and Open Source Communities comes through on 19th Century Newspapers (and Books and Periodicals…) (Internet Archive Blog)

Internet Archive Blog: FOSS wins again: Free and Open Source Communities comes through on 19th Century Newspapers (and Books and Periodicals…). “I have never been more encouraged and thankful to Free and Open Source communities. Three months ago I posted a request for help with OCR’ing and processing 19th Century Newspapers and we got soooo […]

November 9, 2020 / Last updated : November 9, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Columbia University: New Tool Detects Unsafe Security Practices in Android Apps

Columbia University: New Tool Detects Unsafe Security Practices in Android Apps. “Computer scientists at Columbia Engineering have shown for the first time that it is possible to analyze how thousands of Android apps use cryptography without needing to have the apps’ actual codes. The team’s new tool, CRYLOGGER, can tell when an Android app uses […]

November 5, 2020 / Last updated : November 5, 2020 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

ZDNet: Linux Mint introduces its own take on the Chromium web browser

ZDNet: Linux Mint introduces its own take on the Chromium web browser. “Linux Mint is a very popular Linux desktop distribution. I use the latest version, Mint 20, on my production desktops. That’s partly because, while it’s based on Debian Linux and Ubuntu, it takes its own path. The best example of that is Mint’s […]

November 5, 2020 / Last updated : November 5, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

ReliefWeb: Better data, better schools, better education

ReliefWeb: Better data, better schools, better education. “Together with the Congolese government, Cordaid is building an open-source database of more than 60.000 schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ‘This data-driven innovation allows to improve the country’s educational system more efficiently’, says Cordaid’s data management advisor Julie Oliene. Girls are probably the first to benefit.”

October 29, 2020 / Last updated : October 29, 2020 ResearchBuzz Useful Stuff

FreedomFI: Do-it-yourself open-source 5G networking (ZDNet)

ZDNet: FreedomFI: Do-it-yourself open-source 5G networking. “Anyone can run their own Wi-Fi network. Cellular networks have been another matter entirely, until now. With Facebook’s Magma open-source distributed mobile packet software project, FreedomFi enables anyone to build low cost, private, long-range, reliable, and secure 4G LTE and 5G networks. This is done using its its beta […]

October 26, 2020 / Last updated : October 26, 2020 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

Analytics India: Google Open-Sources Kartta Labs That Virtually Reconstructs Historical Maps

Analytics India: Google Open-Sources Kartta Labs That Virtually Reconstructs Historical Maps. “Recently, Google Research has open-sourced a platform that can reconstruct historical cities in 3D visualisation, known as Kartta Labs. The platform is a modular and scalable designed scalable system for virtually reconstructing cities from historical maps and photos.”

October 26, 2020 / Last updated : October 26, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

ZDNet: Open-source use goes up while the economy goes down

ZDNet: Open-source use goes up while the economy goes down. “This is pretty simple really. Open source works, and it’s cheap. And when the Main Street economy is going rotten, smart businesses turn to open source. Tidelift, a major commercial support, and maintenance company for community-led open-source, found the proof for this idea in its […]

August 23, 2020 / Last updated : August 23, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

BetaNews: Quickly manage Windows 10’s privacy and security settings with the open source Privatezilla

BetaNews: Quickly manage Windows 10’s privacy and security settings with the open source Privatezilla . “We’ve covered Spydish on BetaNews before. The tool is great if you want to boost your privacy and security in Windows 10. Today Belim, the program’s developer, announces that Spydish has undergone a name change, becoming Privatezilla, and that’s not […]

August 23, 2020 / Last updated : August 23, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Data Center Knowledge: New Foundation Aims to Tighten Security Across the Open Source Ecosystem

Data Center Knowledge: New Foundation Aims to Tighten Security Across the Open Source Ecosystem. “While proprietary software vendors and security companies still often sow FUD around open source security, the ‘many eyeballs’ theory — formulated by the open source pioneer Eric S. Raymond as, ‘Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow’ — remains true. Open […]

July 30, 2020 / Last updated : July 30, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Phys .org: High time to open up ecological research

Phys .org: High time to open up ecological research. “Share the code and data behind the research please. It’s easy, but it will have a major positive impact on progress and trust in science. That is the clear message from a new paper in PLOS Biology. An international team of ecologists found that currently, only […]

July 29, 2020 / Last updated : July 29, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

BetaNews: New Chrome extension provides security check on open source code

BetaNews: New Chrome extension provides security check on open source code. “Developers frequently make use of open source components in order to speed up projects and save them having to reinvent tasks. But this can lead to the introduction of hidden security risks. Now though open source marketplace xs:code is launching a new, free Chrome […]

July 28, 2020 / Last updated : July 28, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Technology Networks: Database Offers Access to 200 Million Immune Sequences From COVID-19 Patients

Technology Networks: Database Offers Access to 200 Million Immune Sequences From COVID-19 Patients. “Across the world, many laboratories are conducting research relating to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, whether it be to understand the pathophysiology of COVID-19, or to develop robust diagnostics and efficacious therapeutics for the disease. As such, the pandemic has highlighted the critical importance […]

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