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AWS Brings OpenSearch Under the Wings of the Linux Foundation
AWS announced today that it’s moving to a new edition Open searchits open source fork of the popular Elasticsearch search and evaluation engine to the Linux Foundation with the launch of the OpenSearch Foundation.
AWS first launched the OpenSearch project in 2021, after Elastic modified the license for its Elasticsearch and Kibana projects to its own proprietary license, the Elastic License. At the time, several open source vendors made similar changes, largely to stop large cloud providers—especially AWS—from offering hosted services based on their software.
Ironically, the move comes just weeks after Elastic announced it might be re-offering Elasticsearch and Kibana under an open source license, AGPL-ewhich requires users to publish the entire source code in the event that they make any changes. Interestingly, Elastic decided to make this selection available alongside its own, more restrictive license because, as the company said, “we have people who really like ELv2.”
When AWS created OpenSearch, there was loads of skepticism surrounding the project. After all, AWS had never managed a project of this size before. Mukul KarnikAWS general manager for search services, admitted as much.
“When we started OpenSearch at the time, Amazon and AWS were new to taking an open source project and developing it,” he told me in an interview before today’s announcement. “Our goal from the very beginning was to be community-driven and see how we could get more community members to participate and contribute to the project.”
Karnik noted that AWS has step by step opened up the project, encouraging each input and broader governance. “It’s become more organic, in a sense, where we’re taking these organic steps to figure out how to get more people to participate in the project.”
With today’s launch, many other major corporations have joined the Foundation, including SAP and Uber, who’ve change into premium members, while Aiven, Aryn, Atlassian, Canonical, Digital Ocean, Eliatra, Graylog, NetApp Instaclustr, and Portal26 have change into general members.
Karnik noted that AWS expects its contribution to OpenSearch to extend.
In 2021, the foundation wasn’t on the roadmap yet, but now moving the project into its own foundation looks like a natural next step, Karnik said. He also noted that the OpenSearch ecosystem has added quite just a few innovations of its own to the project, including moving it from a cluster-based system to a more cloud-native architecture. He also noted that the project has recently introduced updates like separating compute and storage, in addition to segment replication. With the advent of artificial intelligence, interest in OpenSearch as a vector database has also increased, Karnik said.
The recent Foundation will operate under the standard Linux Foundation governance model, with an oversight board and a technical steering committee.
“The Linux Foundation is excited to provide a neutral home for open and collaborative development around open source search and analytics,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. “Search is something we rely on every day, for both business and consumer use, and we look forward to supporting the OpenSearch community and helping them deliver powerful search and analytics tools to organizations and individuals around the world.”
Like many similar foundations, one of the reasons AWS has decided to contribute to the project now could be to achieve access to the Linux Foundation’s services and expertise in managing and developing open source projects. Additionally, the move helps OpenSearch shed its perception of being primarily an AWS-driven project, a key step for continued growth and broader adoption.
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US medical device giant Artivion says hackers stole files during a cybersecurity incident
Artivion, a medical device company that produces implantable tissue for heart and vascular transplants, says its services have been “disrupted” resulting from a cybersecurity incident.
In 8-K filing In an interview with the SEC on Monday, Georgia-based Artivion, formerly CryoLife, said it became aware of a “cybersecurity incident” that involved the “compromise and encryption” of information on November 21. This suggests that the corporate was attacked by ransomware, but Artivion has not yet confirmed the character of the incident and didn’t immediately reply to TechCrunch’s questions. No major ransomware group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
Artivion said it took some systems offline in response to the cyberattack, which the corporate said caused “disruptions to certain ordering and shipping processes.”
Artivion, which reported third-quarter revenue of $95.8 million, said it didn’t expect the incident to have a material impact on the corporate’s funds.
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It’s a Raspberry Pi 5 in a keyboard and it’s called Raspberry Pi 500
Manufacturer of single-board computers Raspberry Pi is updating its cute little computer keyboard device with higher specs. Named Raspberry Pi500This successor to the Raspberry Pi 400 is just as powerful as the present Raspberry Pi flagship, the Raspberry Pi 5. It is on the market for purchase now from Raspberry Pi resellers.
The Raspberry Pi 500 is the simplest method to start with the Raspberry Pi because it’s not as intimidating because the Raspberry Pi 5. When you take a look at the Raspberry Pi 500, you do not see any chipsets or PCBs (printed circuit boards). The Raspberry Pi is totally hidden in the familiar housing, the keyboard.
The idea with the Raspberry Pi 500 is you could connect a mouse and a display and you are able to go. If, for instance, you’ve got a relative who uses a very outdated computer with an outdated version of Windows, the Raspberry Pi 500 can easily replace the old PC tower for many computing tasks.
More importantly, this device brings us back to the roots of the Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi computers were originally intended for educational applications. Over time, technology enthusiasts and industrial customers began using single-board computers all over the place. (For example, when you’ve ever been to London Heathrow Airport, all of the departures and arrivals boards are there powered by Raspberry Pi.)
Raspberry Pi 500 draws inspiration from the roots of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a non-profit organization. It’s the right first computer for college. In some ways, it’s a lot better than a Chromebook or iPad because it’s low cost and highly customizable, which inspires creative pondering.
The Raspberry Pi 500 comes with a 32GB SD card that comes pre-installed with Raspberry Pi OS, a Debian-based Linux distribution. It costs $90, which is a slight ($20) price increase over the Raspberry Pi 400.
Only UK and US keyboard variants will probably be available at launch. But versions with French, German, Italian, Japanese, Nordic and Spanish keyboard layouts will probably be available soon. And when you’re in search of a bundle that features all the things you would like, Raspberry Pi also offers a $120 desktop kit that features the Raspberry Pi 500, a mouse, a 27W USB-C power adapter, and a micro-HDMI to HDMI cable.
In other news, Raspberry Pi has announced one other recent thing: the Raspberry Pi monitor. It is a 15.6-inch 1080p monitor that’s priced at $100. Since there are quite a few 1080p portable monitors available on the market, this launch is not as noteworthy because the Pi 500. However, for die-hard Pi fans, there’s now also a Raspberry Pi-branded monitor option available.
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Apple Vision Pro may add support for PlayStation VR controllers
According to Apple, Apple desires to make its Vision Pro mixed reality device more attractive for gamers and game developers latest report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
The Vision Pro was presented more as a productivity and media consumption device than a tool geared toward gamers, due partly to its reliance on visual and hand controls moderately than a separate controller.
However, Apple may need gamers if it desires to expand the Vision Pro’s audience, especially since Gurman reports that lower than half one million units have been sold to this point. As such, the corporate has reportedly been in talks with Sony about adding support for PlayStation VR2 handheld controllers, and has also talked to developers about whether they may support the controllers of their games.
Offering more precise control, Apple may also make other forms of software available in Vision Pro, reminiscent of Final Cut Pro or Adobe Photoshop.
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