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2025 State of Open Source in Financial Services Survey

Welcome to the 2025 State of Open Source in Financial Services Survey!

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"These aren’t hobbyist projects. They are critical infrastructure." openinfra.org/blog/openinf...

"For now, we’re waiting to see if more unicorns make it to exit. With the tech IPO market mostly frozen at the moment, public markets likely won’t be providing returns in the near term." news.crunchbase.com/ma/exits-uni...

The 30-Year Unicorn Backlog

If the current pace of exits persists, it would take 30 years for every U.S. company on The Crunchbase Unicorn Board to go public or be acquired. While it may sound disheartening, it’s actually an imp...

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5G was supposed to be better than LTE, but ~6 years in, coverage remains spotty, bandwidth remains limited, and connection quality remains intermittent. Why?

"Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source: CNCF’s commitment to the community" www.cncf.io/blog/2025/04... github.com/cncf/toc/iss...

Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source: CNCF’s commitment to the community

When a company contributes a project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), it’s not just sharing code—it’s making a commitment to the open source community. It’s a pledge to uphold open…

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When I hear someone saying they're a vibe programmer.

There's bad open source behavior, and then there's this: www.cncf.io/blog/2025/04...

Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source: CNCF’s commitment to the community

When a company contributes a project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), it’s not just sharing code—it’s making a commitment to the open source community. It’s a pledge to uphold open…

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OpenAI makes AWS look like branding experts.

Thinking maybe this is what vibe government looks like.

"Serena study shows Open Source beats proprietary in funding speed, valuation, and exit success" tech.eu/2025/04/10/s...

Serena study shows Open Source beats proprietary in funding speed, valuation, and exit success

The Serena VC Commercial Open Source Report, based on 25 years of venture data and 800+ VC-backed Open Source startups, reveals key financial insights driving the model.

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Mark Collier taking AI, open infrastructure, and joining forces with the @linuxfoundation.org on @techstronggroup.bsky.social at #kubecon.

@cra.dev thanks the #kubernetes and cloud native community of 1500 maintainers at #kubecon.

Massive crowd at #KubeCon keynotes

@shar1z.com kicking off Ask the Devs. Join us at OpenTofu Day! colocatedeventseu2025.sched.com/event/1uBAg/...

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025: Panel: Ask the Devs! - Sharone Zitzman,...

View more about this event at CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025

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What’s this all about? arstechnica.com/security/202...

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.

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I know what the extended Berkeley packet filter is and why it matters. This must be some kind of mark that will get PR folk into heaven. Right? Right.

Let’s go! #kubecon

Just arrived in London a few hours ago for #kubecon and I've already learned that imperialism had nothing to do with being a world-class imp. Who knew? #jetlag

Seems quantum computing has been five years away from a big breakthrough for the past 30 years. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/25/g...

Google quantum exec says tech is '5 years out from a real breakout'

Julian Kelly, Google Quantum AI's director of hardware, told CNBC quantum computers may only be about five years from a breakthrough.

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Also, why do some security analysts recommend using a VPN, then block VPN packets when you go to their website?

Rule #16 of analyst relations: The data you want is not included in your subscription tier.

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

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I'm looking for my next thing, and I need to move fast. I have several years of experience in developer relations from startups to the enterprise, and I'm particularly skilled at distilling complex topics into something easily understood by newbies and non-technical folks alike, on stage or off. 1/3

My forthcoming book on the history of open source will be titled, "Hope, euphoria, recrimination and bitterness"

Grateful that our only impacts from the storm were torrential rain, inconvenience, and multiple flight rebookings.

OpenStack comes to the Linux Foundation

OpenStack comes to the Linux Foundation

Back in 2010, Rackspace and NASA launched a project called OpenStack, which was meant to become an open-source option for running an AWS-style cloud inside of private data centers. The two companies then moved OpenStack to the OpenStack Foundation, which…

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Just arrived today! @acroll.bsky.social

A significant point not to be lost in the market rally - it’s just autos that’re getting relief. And only for a month. All the rest of the tariffs are still on. (Standard Trump Tariff Disclaimer - hereinafter STTD: all of the above is subject to change without notice)

The horse is still loose in the hospital.

Watching 1923 and gotta say, I’m happy for Timothy Dalton.