SD Times news digest: Anaconda begins funding Pyston project, Google commits $10 billion to advance cybersecurity, Apache weekly update
Anaconda announced that it would begin funding the Pyston project by hiring its lead developers Kevin Modzelewski and Marius Wachtler.
Pyston’s core developers will focus on building an open-source community of users, contributors, and maintainers to ensure the Pyston project’s long-term sustainability, according to the company.
The project is an open-source implementation of the Python language that executes programs on average 20% to 50% faster than standard Python.
Additional details are available here.
Google commits $10 billion to advance cybersecurity
Google announced that it will commit $10 million over the next five years to strengthen cybersecurity, including expanding zero-trust programs, helping secure the software supply chain, and enhancing open-source security.
The company also stated that it is pledging to train 100,000 Americans in fields like IT Support and Data Analytics, learning in-demand skills including data privacy and security through the Google Career Certification program.
“Today’s meeting at the White House was both an acknowledgment of the threats we face and a call to action to address them. It emphasized cybersecurity as a global imperative and encouraged new ways of thinking and partnering across government, industry and academia. We look forward to working with the Administration and others to define and drive a new era in cybersecurity. Our collective safety, economic growth, and future innovation depend on it,” the SVP of Global Affairs at Google wrote in a blog post.
Apache weekly update
Last week at the Apache Software Foundation saw the release of Geometry 1.0, a general-purpose Java library for geometric processing.
Other new releases included Apache Qpid Dispatch 1.17.0 and Teaclave (incubating) 0.3.0.
A vulnerability was found in Apache NiFi – MiNiFi C++ in which arbitrary script execution is possible on the agent’s host machine through the c2 protocol and a regression of an issue with the out-of-bounds array read in the apr_time_exp*() functions in Apache Portable Runtime 1.7.
Additional details on all of the latest news from Apache is available here.
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