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Amid Twitter chaos, Mastodon grew donations 488% in 2022, reached 1.8M monthly active users

TechCrunch

Consumer interest in open source, decentralized social networking isn’t something that was only reflected in news headlines over the past year, it’s also apparent in the financials behind Mastodon.

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Arianee raises $21 million to deliver ownership NFTs with physical luxury goods

TechCrunch

For instance, a luxury and fashion brand can replace the authenticity card that you get with your new watch or handbag with a digital certificate. Customers include Printemps, Breitling, Groupe Casino, Vacheron Constantin, Paris Fashion Week, Panerai and IWC. Those tokens power the open source protocol behind Arianee’s NFTs.

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Common Fate wants to make it easier to manage privileged access for developers

TechCrunch

Common Fate, an Australian startup from a couple of former cyber security consultants, wants to help with an open source tool and an early access cloud service. And it’s about getting the correct level of access that they need to do their job when they need it and in a secure fashion,” he said. Today, the company announced a $3.1

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Oso announces $8.2M Series A to simplify authorization for developers

TechCrunch

This is related to what you can do once you are inside the application, and Oso , an early stage startup, has created an open source library for developers to make it easier to build authorization in their applications. Where top VCs are investing in open source and dev tools (Part 1 of 2).

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Best Free and Open-Source Database Software

G2 Crowd Software

Free and open-source database tools are typically more appealing to the everyday small business and app creator, so we’ve outlined some of the best ones, according to user reviews on G2 Crowd. Oracle released the first fully functional one in 1979, but today there are hundreds of proprietary and open-source options available.

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The Radiant Group Acquires HumanGeo to Advance Data Analytics and Open Source Capabilities

CTOvision

The HumanGeo formula combines the diverse experience of our interdisciplinary team of world class software engineers and analysts applying imagination and creativity to fashion innovative data solutions in complex data.

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Languages and DevOps: Mainframe

DevOps.com

In true DevOps fashion, I nearly forgot to cover the mainframe after saying it warranted its own blog! We’ve got Linux running on the mainframe, we’ve got cross-compiled open source capable of […]. The post Languages and DevOps: Mainframe appeared first on DevOps.com.

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