In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the first physical Raspberry Pi store, NVIDIA's hyper-realistic face generator, Microsoft joining the OpenChain project, and more.
Microsoft joins OpenChain project to support standardization in open source compliance
The OpenChain project makes open source licensing compliance consistent and simpler. Microsoft joins the project as a platinum member. In a release issued by OpenChain, the organization says, "Microsoft will help create best practices and define standards for open source software compliance, so that its customers have even greater choice and opportunity to bridge Microsoft and other technologies together in heterogeneous environments."
First physical Raspberry Pi store opens in Cambridge, UK
Raspberry Pi has opened a new store as part of an effort to introduce new audiences to the technology. The store will be a showroom meant to give visitors plenty of information on the types of projects suitable for the popular board. The city of Cambridge is said to be an ideal testing ground for the store.
Zowe 1.0 released for the modern mainframe
Modern mainframe management can now be done with the Zowe 1.0 open-souce mainframe framework. The framework provides interoperatibility and new web technologies. It was specially designed for developers already familiar with open source tools for mainfraime service operation.
NVIDIA open-sources StyleGAN, a hyper-realistic face generator
The StyleGAN face generator is so good that most people can't distinguish generated photos from real photos. Last week, NVIDIA announced it was releasing StyleGAN as an open source tool. StyleGAN is available on GitHub. If you're keen to try it, be sure you have plenty of compute power on hand (at least 8 GPUs).
In other news
- Over 16,000 bugs later, Google's fuzz tester is now open source
- Someone Made an Open-Source Body Cooler for Overheating Sony Cameras
- Google Fixes Critical PNG Security Bug, but Millions of Android Smartphones Still Vulnerable
- Open source project aims to make Ubuntu usable on Arm-powered Windows laptops
- Uber's Ludwig makes deep learning more understandable for amateurs and faster for experts
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