At its annual Security Summit, Google Cloud introduced the Assured Open Source Software (Assured OSS) service and other solutions focused on software supply chain security. Assured OSS will enter preview in Q3 of 2022. More: - Assured OSS will provide enterprise and public sector users access to open-source projects that Google uses for its own developer workflows.
- Packages made available through the service will be regularly scanned and analyzed for vulnerabilities, are distributed from an Artifact Registry protected by Google, and have corresponding enriched metadata.
- Google Cloud is partnering with Snyk to provide native integration into the latter's solution to benefit joint customers.
- Google Cloud also announced the launch of BeyondCorp Enterprise, a Zero Trust solution, and Security Foundation, an enterprise solution to adopt Google Cloud products and security capabilities easily.
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Apple announced new accessibility features that offer people with disabilities new tools for navigation, communication, and more. The new features will be made available later this year through updates to various platforms. More: - The door detection feature will help users with impaired vision locate a door and shares additional information like whether it is open or closed, how to open a door (push or pull), room number, etc.
- Apple Watch mirroring provides alternatives to tapping its display through iPhone's assistive Voice Control and Switch control features.
- iPhone, iPad, and Mac get real-time Live Captions for phone/FaceTime calls, video conferencing or social media apps, streaming media content, and talking to someone nearby.
- Apple is adding support for over 20 locales and languages to VoiceOver.
- Other additional features include Buddy Controller, Siri Pause Time, Voice Control Spelling Mode, and Sound Recognition.
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Digital asset custody platform Fireblocks launched Web3 Engine, an enterprise-grade platform for developers to build NFT, GameFi, and DeFi products. More: - Web3 Engine provides developers with access to develop applications over 30 different blockchain networks, including OpenSea, Cardano, Solana, Raible, Uniswap, etc.
- It also provides access to more than 35 protocols, 1,100 tokens, and all ERC20 tokens.
- The new offering is already powering web3 applications of Animoca Brands, Stardust, MoonPay, Xternity Games, Utopia Labs, and Wirex.
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Kubernetes application delivery platform Akuity raised a $20M Series A round. The funding round was led by Lead Edge Capital and saw participation from existing investor Decibel Partners. More: - Akuity's two offerings, Akuity Platform and Akuity Enterprise, provide a Kubernetes-native application delivery platform.
- The startup's co-founders were the founding engineers at Applatix, which open-sourced Argo, a project to streamline the process of running apps on Kubernetes.
- The founding team plans to use the recent funding to scale up its team and contribute more to the Argo Project community.
- Akuity's customer list includes GitHub, Intuit, EA Sports, PayPal, Peloton, Adobe, Tesla, and Google.
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New Tools and Updates: - Updates from Apple:
- Apple released iOS and iPadOS 15.5 with support for passkey technology preview, PKPaymentRequest for developers to express payment network preference, and more than 25 security fixes for WebKit, the kernel, WiFi, AppleAVD, etc.
- Apple issued an update to app subscriptions that will auto-renew users for subscription price increases under the conditions that it happens once in a year and does not exceed $5 and 50% of the subscription fee or $50 and 50% of the annual subscription fee. Users will be notified of the price change and provided with the options to view, manage, and cancel subscriptions.
- Chrome is postponing the restriction on SharedArrayBuffer on the desktop from Chrome 103 to Chrome 106 to secure more time to introduce ways to relax the requirement to enable cross-origin isolation.
- Percona announced the general availability of the Percona platform, which brings together Percona Portal, Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), and DBaaS technical preview under a single system.
- Infra is an open-source access management tool for Kubernetes built by the founders of Kitematic, which Docker acquired.
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- Google announced the creation of Open Source Maintenance Crew, a dedicated team of Google engineers to help upstream maintainers improve the security of critical open source projects.
- The European Union’s new directive for cybersecurity standards and reporting rules, NIS2 aims to improve the resilience and incident response reporting capabilities of both the public and private sectors.
- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) launched a free online course on Ethics in Open Source Development. The course is primarily for product managers and covers ethics, safeguards, evaluation, action planning, monitoring, and more.
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 |  | Sudarshan lives in Toronto, Canada, and is an engineering graduate. He is passionate about business, tech, entrepreneurship, and politics. FUN FACT: Sudarshan worked for the election campaign teams of two heads of state in India. When he is not busy with work, he enjoys hiking, playing cricket, and cooking. | | | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 Ford. | |
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