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The Register: “Open source orgs strengthen alliance against patent trolls”
The Register: “Open source orgs strengthen alliance against patent trolls” September 18, 2024
Patent trolls are increasingly targeting cloud native open source projects, leading the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Linux Foundation to make efforts to extend their legal shields over such efforts. The polite term for patent trolls is “non-practicing...

Diginomica: “KubeCon China – at 33-and-a-third, Linux is a long player. So, why does Linus Torvalds hate AI?”
Diginomica: “KubeCon China – at 33-and-a-third, Linux is a long player. So, why does Linus Torvalds hate AI?” August 23, 2024
Friday morning, Hong Kong time, a packed hall of maintainers and developers did something unusual in Chinese culture – they whooped and roared their approval at the sight of an urbane Finnish American onstage.

ZDNet: “Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust adoption, and why the Linux kernel is ‘the only thing that matters'”
ZDNet: “Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust adoption, and why the Linux kernel is ‘the only thing that matters'” August 23, 2024
Hong Kong: At The Linux Foundation‘s KubeCon and Open Source Summit China conference, Linus Torvalds and his buddy Dirk Hohndel, Verizon’s Head of the Open Source Program Office, once more chatted about Linux development and related issues to the delight of their audience....

The Linux security team issues 60 CVEs a week, but don’t stress. Do this instead
The Linux security team issues 60 CVEs a week, but don’t stress. Do this instead August 22, 2024
Hong Kong: At KubeCon and Open Source Summit China, Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the Linux stable kernel, wants you to know that on an average week, the Linux security team issues sixty — 60 — Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) security bulletins....

ComputerWeekly: “The rise and rise of open source in China”
ComputerWeekly: “The rise and rise of open source in China” August 22, 2024
China’s embrace of open source software has evolved into a powerful force in the global technology landscape, driving innovations in cloud computing, AI and other areas

Diginomica: “KubeCon China – don’t say OpenAI, say ‘open AI’”
Diginomica: “KubeCon China – don’t say OpenAI, say ‘open AI’” August 22, 2024
While Western governments and proprietary tech companies have tended to regard China with suspicion in recent years, it is now the world’s second largest contributor to the open-source and cloud-native computing community worldwide. 

ComputerWeekly: “The rise and rise of open source in China”
ComputerWeekly: “The rise and rise of open source in China” August 22, 2024
China’s embrace of open-source software has evolved into a powerful force in the global technology landscape, driving innovations in cloud computing, AI and other areas

ZDNet: “How open source is steering AI down the high road”
ZDNet: “How open source is steering AI down the high road” August 21, 2024
HONG KONG — At the KubeCon and Open Source Summit China, Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation‘s executive director, said that everyone he’s been talking to in China wants to talk about artificial intelligence (AI). Why should China be different from anywhere...

ComputerWeekly: “How open source is shaping AI developments”
ComputerWeekly: “How open source is shaping AI developments” August 21, 2024
The Linux Foundation outlines efforts to bolster enterprise AI adoption through a framework for managing and deploying AI applications, standardised tooling and open data alternatives

Cloud Native Now: “Kubernetes 1.31 Streamlines Range of Functions and Tasks”
Cloud Native Now: “Kubernetes 1.31 Streamlines Range of Functions and Tasks” August 15, 2024
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) for Kubernetes this week released a 1.31 update that generally makes available a kube-proxy capability to better synchronize load balancing along with an ability to add timestamps to PersistentVolumes.