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In a turn of events, Microsoft AI researchers unintentionally exposed tens of terabytes of sensitive data while publishing an open-source training data storage bucket on GitHub. This accidental exposure has raised significant concerns regarding data security within one of the world’s tech giants.

Discovery by Cloud Security Startup Wiz

Cloud security start-up Wiz uncovered this security lapse during their ongoing investigation into cloud-hosted data exposures. According to reports, Wiz stumbled upon a GitHub storage file belonging to Microsoft’s AI research division. What they found was deeply concerning.

The GitHub file was intended to provide open-source code and AI models for image recognition, and users were directed to download these models from an Azure…

Netlify is a web hosting platform and a comprehensive suite of tools for deploying and managing web applications in the cloud.

But its features extend far beyond this—its serverless functions let you run server-side code without a dedicated server.

Explore how to set up a CI/CD pipeline to deploy a Node.js REST API on Netlify using GitHub Actions.

CI/CD Pipelines With GitHub Actions: An Overview

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines are a series of sequential, automated processes that software applications undergo before being shipped to production.

Typically, CI/CD pipelines consist of several key phases, including the source, build, test, and deploy phases.

While it’s…

According to a Statista report, the open-source services market is expected to hit a market valuation of USD 30 billion this year. Today, GitHub is the go-to repository for the tech community to adopt, collaborate, create and discuss open-source code projects. GitHub caters to over 73 million users and hosts 200 million private and public repositories as of November 2021. In addition, the version control platform offers precision bug-tracking, real-time collaboration, documentation and web page hosting.

Below, we look at alternative hosting platforms gaining popularity in open source development.

GitLab

GitLab Inc offers DevOps software, GitLab, to an estimated 30 million registered users. Go, Ruby on Rails, and Vue.js power its tech stack. GitLab follows an open-core…