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Sarah Conway

Just announced: #SnowflakeDB to acquire #CrunchyData, a PostgreSQL startup, in order to help Snowflake "to win over customers seeking to build their own artificial intelligence agents. The deal is valued at roughly $250 million, according to a person familiar with the matter."

wsj.com/articles/snowflake-to-

This development closely follows Databricks' acquisition of Neon earlier in May:

wsj.com/articles/databricks-to

#Tech#techstartup#business
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Data Bene

Southern California #Linux Expo is a long-running conference established in #Pasadena in the greater #LosAngeles area, known for being the largest community-run #OpenSource and #FreeSoftware conference in North America.

This year, Sarah Conway dropped by to enjoy the event. Learn a little about this fun and engaging #developer conference (and find the link to the recordings from 22x, too) in our latest blog:

data-bene.io/en/blog/scale-22x

#foss#oss#dev
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Isaac Levin

From the Coffee & OSS Archives, I chatted with Josh Goldberg about all sorts of great #tech and #oss topics. Access the stream or listen to the podcast below. Be sure to like/subscribe. Thanks for tuning in!
coffeeandopensource.com/guest/

www.coffeeandopensource.comJosh GoldbergJosh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer. He works on projects in the TypeScript ecosystem, most notably typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh is also the author of the O’Reilly Learning TypeScript book, a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, and an active conference speaker. His personal projects range from static analysis to meta-languages to recreating retro games in the browser. Also cats.
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🔗 David Sommerseth

The #TrumpRegime is pulling #USA back towards the 60s ...

Austin Fowler was fired from #Google for working on a #quantumcomputing topics (#TQEC) and made a related #compiler being #opensource.

Google was concerned this open source work involves «people from certain countries». This is #scaremongering.

linkedin.com/posts/austin-fowl

www.linkedin.comGitHub - tqec/tqec: Design automation software tools for Topological… | Austin Fowler | 59 commentsWhy I got fired from Google on Tuesday May 27. Dear all, I've had a few days to process this, and to be clear moving forward I'll just be focusing on the business I started building over two decades ago (https://lnkd.in/gHn4sYhD), so I'm fine, but I'd like to explain how a 10+ year position at Google came to a sudden end. The beginning of the story was my desire to work on an open source quantum compiler based on the surface code (https://lnkd.in/gdyiGsnW). The associated Google group discussing topological quantum error correction (TQEC) has attracted nearly a thousand participants (https://lnkd.in/gY62gBJr), and this is fed by a free Coursera course on quantum error correction that has attracted over 14,000 participants (https://lnkd.in/gyWRdeZZ). So what's the problem? The problem is that apparently it is not okay anymore to work at Google and be associated with a project that involves people from certain countries. The whole point of the project is of course to involve people from every country, and this was seen as an unacceptable security risk. My desire to try to find a way to keep doing this while at Google made them see my continued employment there an unacceptable security risk. So what now? Right now my involvement in all things quantum is on a pause since I do not know if, while residing in the US, it is legal for me to be associated with the TQEC project. I'm on a green card, and we are in the process of renewing those green cards, so the last thing I desire is to be in trouble with the federal government. The laws on export control seem to extend to quantum software these days. If you work at an institution in the US that has an opinion on how to conduct an open source project involving people from all over the world working on a quantum compiler in a safe and legally compliant manner, please reach out to me. Without a US institution and lawyers to defend the activity, at the moment I cannot safely participate in quantum computing research. Best, Austin. | 59 comments on LinkedIn
#uspol#foss#oss
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🔗 David Sommerseth

Linus has merged the net-next changes for the 6.16 #Linux kernel version.

This is huge for #OpenVPN, as the Data Channel Offload kernel module is now officially merged and will appear as the ovpn kernel module.

git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/k

The OpenVPN community project has also released the 2.7_alpha1 release, which is required to make use of this new upstreamed ovpn kernel module.

community.openvpn.net/Download

There is also a parallel kernel module project running, to be able to test this new ovpn kernel module on older Linux kernels

github.com/OpenVPN/ovpn-backpo

FYI: @corbet @jzb @sjvn

#ovpn-dco #DCO #foss #oss

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