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OSV-Scanner: vulnerabilities with a source of truth

OSV-Scanner se ha convertido en una referencia silenciosa para escanear dependencias open source. Su valor no está en el escaneo en sí, que muchas herramientas ofrecen, sino en su conexión directa con OSV.dev como fuente de verdad. Un análisis de por qué esto importa más de lo que parece.

Technology

Terraform’s License Change and Its Implications

On 10 August 2023, HashiCorp changed Terraform from MPL 2.0 to Business Source License v1.1, which prohibits building competing products. For 95% of teams using Terraform internally, the practical impact is nil. Teams building SaaS products on top of Terraform need to review their situation or consider OpenTofu.

Artificial Intelligence

LLaMA 2 and the New Wave of Open Language Models

Meta released LLaMA 2 on July 18, 2023 with a royalty-free commercial licence, in three sizes (7B, 13B, 70B parameters). The 70B model matches or beats GPT-3.5 on standard benchmarks. For 99.9% of organisations the licence allows download, modification, and production use with full data privacy and no fine-tuning restrictions.