힘들고 가난하다··· '오픈소스 자금 확보'라는 난제 풀어내기

힘들고 가난하다··· '오픈소스 자금 확보'라는 난제 풀어내기

많은 오픈소스 유지관리자가 열정을 갖고, 대의를 위해 자발적으로 기여하는 것은 사실이지만 혹사 또는 이용당한다고 느끼는 개발자도 있다. 깃허브의 오픈소스 펀딩 책임자인 케빈 크로스비는 “오픈소스에서 유지관리자에 대한 불공정이 계속 발생하고 있다”면서 상황을 개선하려면 기술에 대한 더 폭넓은 접근성, 더 나은 교육, 오픈소스에 기여할 시간을 벌기 위한 기업 펀딩과 지속적인 커뮤니티 투자가 필요하다고 말했다. 오픈소스는 꽤 오래 전부터 기로에 서 있다. 문제는 기업이 패키지를 사용하면서 그 부분에 대한 기여를 돌려주지 않는다는 점이다. 퍼코나(Percona) CEO 앤 슐레머는 “현재…

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Microsoft: Ransomware Attacks Growing More Dangerous, Complex

Microsoft: Ransomware Attacks Growing More Dangerous, Complex

The number of attempted ransomware attacks on Microsoft customers globally have grown dramatically in the last year, according to Microsoft’s Digital Defense report, released on Oct. 15. However, advancements in automatic attack disruption technologies have led to fewer of these attacks reaching the encryption stage. Microsoft reported 600 million cybercriminal and nation-state attacks occurring daily. While ransomware attempts increased by 2.75 times, successful attacks involving data encryption and ransom demands dropped by three-fold. The inverse…

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The ChatGPT app is finally available to Windows users, but there's a catch

The ChatGPT app is finally available to Windows users, but there's a catch

Maria Diaz/ZDNET If you are a ChatGPT superuser, downloading the app on your desktop can make interacting with the chatbot and incorporating it into your everyday workflow much more seamless. However, the app has been limited to MacOS users — until now.  Also: I’m a ChatGPT power user – and this new feature instantly made me more productive On Thursday, OpenAI announced via an X post that Windows users can now start testing an early…

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Acumatica tweaks its cloud ERP for professional services firms

Acumatica tweaks its cloud ERP for professional services firms

Four customers have already gone public about their adoption of Acumatica’s Professional Services Edition. Two South African digital services providers, Digital Planet and Incubeta, and New York non-profit Mozaic replaced Sage with Acumatica Professional Services Edition, while Envent, a Canadian manufacturer of oil and gas analyzers, chose it to replace a hodge-podge of spreadsheets, databases, and accounting packages, according to Acumatica. For its other ERP editions, Acumatica claims customer wins against the likes of enterprise…

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HPE, Dell launch another round of AI servers

HPE, Dell launch another round of AI servers

First up is a series of new PowerEdge servers. The PowerEdge XE9712 offers high-performance, dense acceleration for LLM training and real-time inferencing of large-scale AI deployments. It uses Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72, with up to 36 NVIDIA Grace CPUs with 72 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in a rack-scale design. The 72 GPUs are connected via NVLink domain, which acts as a single GPU for up to 30x faster real-time, trillion-parameter LLM inferencing. The Dell PowerEdge M7725 is…

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The top 5 iPhone 16 Pro features power users will love

The top 5 iPhone 16 Pro features power users will love

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Apple announced four new iPhones (among other things) at the “It’s Glowtime” event last month. Designed from the ground up for Apple Intelligence — Apple’s bespoke AI, set to roll out via iOS 18.1 on Oct. 28 — the series ranges from the base model to the most souped-up. The four models are the iPhone 16, the iPhone 16 Plus, the iPhone 16 Pro, and the iPhone 16 Pro Max.  Also: The iPad…

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One of the most portable power stations I've tested is $200 off right now

One of the most portable power stations I've tested is 0 off right now

ZDNET’s key takeaways A very transportable power station now $399 on Amazon Decent 512Wh capacity and 600W output (1,200W surge) Designed to fit into an (included) backpack built to carry heavy loads Power stations are all the rage and finding their way into homes, RVs, cars, trucks, and even tents. They are the perfect way to transport AC power to places where there isn’t a convenient power socket.  Until now, however, transporting them has meant…

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These bone-conducting headphones deliver the best sound – and a cool trick for swimmers

These bone-conducting headphones deliver the best sound – and a cool trick for swimmers

H20 Tri 2 bone-conducting headphones ZDNET’s key takeaways The H20 Tri 2 headphones are available now on Amazon for $179 With sound superior to other bone-conducting headphones, the Tri 2 make exercising a treat The controls of these headphones can be a bit awkward and the Memory mode does have a bit of a learning curve. more buying choices If you’re looking for one of the best-sounding bone-conducting headphones available, look no further than the…

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I replaced my Pixel 9 Pro with Google's $1,800 foldable for a week – and now I'm hooked

I replaced my Pixel 9 Pro with Google's ,800 foldable for a week – and now I'm hooked

Kerry Wan/ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways The Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold starts at $1,799, with 256GB of storage and 16GB of RAM. It features a slimmer and taller design, a massive eight-inch internal display, and a more capable Tensor G4 chip. Despite the price and branding, the camera system doesn’t match the other Pixel 9 Pro phones.  If my week of testing the new Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold has taught me anything, it’s that…

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Gluware expands network automation platform with AI copilots, GitHub integration

Gluware expands network automation platform with AI copilots, GitHub integration

The developer-focused AI copilot assists in writing code, generating JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) structures for configuration modeling and audits. Lefner explained that Gluware has a wrapper around JSON called “J types and jnibs” that allows developers to construct tasks and integrate with other parts of the Gluware platform. The JSON-based wrapper enables developers to leverage standard JSON-based interfaces, rather than having to use Gluware’s GUI exclusively. Gluware gets into GitOps with GitHub integration Infrastructure as…

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