• SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Codidact [Ed: "In order to get involved, users can jump onto the forum, head to GitHub or use Discord to discuss ideas." So to  participate in 'open' you must adopt malicious software that is proprietary.]

• Tencent Open-Sources High-Performance Graph Computing Framework ‘Plato’ [Ed: Tencent puts its code in proprietary software of Microsoft as if it  doesn't know how unwise that is]

• Alibaba Cloud opens source code for machine-learning platform Alink [Ed: This only makes sense if one considers Microsoft's collaboration with the Chinese government spying on a lot of people]

• Alibaba Makes Its Artificial Intelligence Platform Open Source [Ed: Alibaba gives its code to proprietary software of Microsoft where developers are censored and spied on]

  The move to GitHub will make lives easier for big data specialists in the machine learning sector, and no doubt provide some useful ecosystem links to the Chinese giant.

  Alibaba Cloud has made the core codes of its Alink data processing platform open-source to help widen the development opportunities for artificial intelligence and machine learning.

  The algorithm platform has been made available on Microsoft-owned GitHub, the world’s largest developer community. The platform offers a broad range of algorithm libraries that support both batch and stream processing, which is critical for machine learning tasks.

  Data analysts and software developers can access the codes on GitHub to build their own software, facilitating tasks such as statistics analysis, machine learning, real-time prediction, personalised recommendation and abnormality detection.

• Duke University Introduces an Open Source Tool as an Alternative to a Monolithic LMS

  Developed by Duke’s Learning Innovation and the Office of Information Technology, Kits – now released as an alpha version – evolved from a home-grown group management solution and it was developed outside the LMS. “It brings together the centralized student access points of the LMS with the flexibility and power of an app-based system.”

  Currently, eight applications are included on Kits, and three more are expected to arrive this year. Learning analytics are in the roadmap, too. The integration was done via LTI standard or API. In addition, Kits comes with a “custom link” option that allows both instructors and students to add any share-by-link application.

• Altibase Celebrates Its 20th Birthday as an Enterprise Grade Open Source Database [Ed: Seems unclear if it's open at all or just a trap]

  "We have built that client base, in part, by competing head-to-head with such juggernauts as Oracle, IBM and MS – and winning. Simply put, Altibase is a viable alternative to mega legacy database," he adds.

  "But being just an attractive alternative no longer suffices. To continue our success, we are adapting to two major changes currently taking place in the database market," Paul says.

• Microsoft Teams spurs open source in Aussie channel [Ed: Gross case of openwashing. How on Earth did Microsoft manage to have proprietary software that's mass surveillance inside businesses framed as "open source"?

  Qbot is the brainchild of UNSW senior lecturer David Kellermann. Antares helped bring Qbot to life and, as it is the bot's primary developer, supports the code.

• US Air Force says they are developing an Open Source Jet Engine

  The Responsive Open Source Engine (ROSE) is designed to be cheap enough that it can be disposable, which has obvious military applications for the Air Force such as small jet-powered drones or even missiles. But even for the pacifists in the audience, it’s hard not to get excited about the idea of a low-cost open source turbine. Obviously an engine this small would have limited use to commercial aviation, but hackers and makers have always been obsessed with small jet engines, and getting one fired up and self-sustaining has traditionally been something of a badge of honor.

  The economies of scale generally dictate that anything produced in large enough numbers will eventually become cheap. But despite the fact that a few thousand of them are tearing across the sky above our heads at any given moment, turbine jet engines are still expensive to produce compared to other forms of propulsion. The United States Air Force Research Laboratory is hoping to change that by developing their own in-house, open source turbine engine that they believe could reduce costs by as much as 75%.

Microsoft says it first addressed the issue at about 8:15 p.m. ET. As of 9:30 p.m. ET, the company said it identified access issues with the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business, and Yammer.

The company said in a tweet that it "identified and reverted a networking build that caused user traffic from the internet to Microsoft 365 services to intermittently fail."

• GitHub launches Security Lab to protect open source code [Ed: Too much of the news portrays more proprietary software from Microsoft's GitHub as "open source" something. Misreporting.]

• GitHub launches 'Security Lab' to help secure open source ecosystem

• GitHub launches Security Lab to spot vulnerabilities in open-source code

• GitHub makes CodeQL free for research and open source [Ed: Openwashing of code from Semmle is now used to seduce developers into a proprietary trap of Microsoft which does surveillance and censorship of FOSS]

• GitHub Finally Has Its Own iOS and Android Apps [Ed: Of course the Microsoft GitHub 'apps' are proprietary software just like everything at GitHub.]

• Open Source Has Won Says GitHub CEO, Amid ICE Controversy [Ed: GitHub is proprietary software and this CEO is a mole who worked for Microsoft and then crossed over to attack FOSS from within, then came back to Microsoft. When he says "won" he means "Microsoft controls it".]

• GitHub: We're storing your open-source code in the frozen Arctic for 1,000 years [Ed: CBS tabloid ZDNet spreads Microsoft propaganda because Microsoft won't exist for 1000 years and human kind too might not last this long. Journalism these days is PR and lies.]

• GitHub launches Arctic Code Vault to preserve open source software for 1,000 years [Ed: People deserve mocking for writing this "Arctic Code Vault" nonsense, right from Microsoft's script. Microsoft won't last 1,000 years (no company does) and it's just a distraction from GitHub's help to ICE buildups.]

• GitHub will store all of its public open source code in an Arctic vault [Ed: GitHub's "Arctic vault" nonsense is so laughable for a lot of reasons]

• Open Source Code Will Survive the Apocalypse in an Arctic Cave

• Microsoft Is Hiding Source Code in an Apocalypse-Proof Cave

• Microsoft Is Hiding Open Source Code in an Apocalypse-Proof Storage Facility

• Microsoft is investing in apocalypse-proofing the world's code

• At Universe, GitHub rolls out Actions, Packages and more open-source goodies [Ed: GitHub staff is fleeing (for many reasons), so Microsoft does anything it can to distract from the evil it made GitHub become to appease Donald Trump and the Pentagon]

• Sonatype Delivers Premium Open Source Controls to GitHub Users [Ed: Sonatype works for Microsoft's proprietary software surveillance network. Everyone knows GitHub is proprietary software, right? Just like CommunityBridge -- the thing Microsoft pays the Linux Foundation to run for the benefit of Microsoft lock-in.]

• Sonatype Delivers Premium Open Source Controls to GitHub Users [Ed: Sonatype works serve you unless you're a slave of Microsoft (giving all the code to them while censored and spies on)]

• Top 10 Fastest-Growing Open Source Projects By Github Contributors [Ed: Analytics India Magazine thinks FOSS projects that are not 100% controlled by Microsoft do not exist, do not count, should be ignored]

• GitHub State of the Octoverse 2019 - Python popular, data science apps on the rise [Ed: Microsofttries hard to come across as 'the' spokesperson of FOSS]

• Q&A: Inside Microsoft’s embrace of GitHub’s strong open-source community [Ed: This 'article' is 100% Microsoft ad complete with all the 'right' Microsoft lies. How much does Microsoft pay this site?]

• Allianz & Microsoft partner on open-source insurance platform [Ed: This has nothing to do with "open source". It's 100% Microsoft openwashing.]

• Marvell ThunderX2 chosen for Microsoft’s open-source cloud design [Ed: Openwashing of Microsoft surveillance 'cloud']